Cinematicity in media history, edited by Jeffrey Geiger and Karin Littau

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Cinematicity in media history, edited by Jeffrey Geiger and Karin Littau

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edited by Jeffrey Geiger and Karin Littau

Instantiates

• Cinematicity in media history

Publication

• Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2013

Note

"Chapters 1 to 3, Chapter 6 and Chapter 9 appeared in a special issue of Comparative critical studies 6.3 (October 2009), entitled 'Cinematicity' and a version of Chapter 4 appeared in a special issue of e-Comparative critical studies: special online supplement 9.3 (October 2012)"--Acknowledgements, unnumbered page viii

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-239) and index

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volume

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• nc

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rdacarrier.

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text

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• txt

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rdacontent.

Contents

Introduction : cinematicity and comparative media / Jeffrey Geiger and Karin Littau -- Part 1. Cinematicity before cinema -- 1. Dickensian 'dissolving views' : the magic lantern, visual storytelling and the Victorian technological imagination / Joss Marsh -- 2. 'Never has one seen reality enveloped in such a phantasmagoria' : watching spectacular transformations, 1860-89 / Kristian Moen -- 3. Moving-picture media and modernity : taking intermediate and ephemeral forms seriously / Ian Christie -- Part 2. Transitions : early cinema and cinematicity -- 4. Reading in the age of Edison : the cinematicity of 'The yellow wall-paper' / Karin Littau -- 5. Time and motion studies : Joycean cinematicity in A portrait of the artist as a young man / Keith B. Williams -- 6. Nature caught in the act : on the transformation of an idea of art in early cinema / Nico Baumbach -- Part 3. Cinematicity in the 'classic' cinema age -- 7. Cinematicity of speech and visibility of literature : the poetics of Soviet film scripts of the early sound film era / Anke Hennig -- 8. Making America global : cinematicity and the aerial view / Jeffrey Geiger -- 9. Invisible cities, visible cinema : illuminating shadows in late film noir / Tom Gunning -- Part 4. Digital cinematicity -- 10. Cinema, video, game : astonishing aesthetics and the cinematic 'future' of computer graphics' past / Leon Gurevitch -- 11. Miniature pleasures : on watching films on an iPhone / Martine Beugnet -- 12. Kino-eye in reverse : visualizing cinema / Lev Manovich

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850856318

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25 cm

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xi, 244 pages

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9780748676118

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unmediated

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rdamedia.

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• n

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illustrations

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.b102473766

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(OCoLC)850856318