How the Movies Got a Past: A Historiography of American Cinema, 1894-1930 - Latsis, Dimitrios (Assistant Professor in Digital and Audiovisual Preservation, Assistant Professor in Digital and Audiovisual Preservation, School of Library and Information Studies, University of Alabama) - Libros - Oxford University Press Inc - 9780197689271 - 22 de septiembre de 2023
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How the Movies Got a Past: A Historiography of American Cinema, 1894-1930

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How the Movies Got a Past presents a comprehensive survey of the rise of historiographical discourse on cinema in North America as it is reflected in publications, exhibitions, lectures, and films about the cinema as a technology, form of art, and source of entertainment, from its inception up to 1930. This pioneering historiography of American movies proposes a typology of genres of historical knowledge and examines the role that its articulation played inlegitimating the moving image as a form of cultural heritage and a field of study. How did early studios seek to understand and promote their own activities as part of a brand-new form of entertainment with its own traditions, "founding fathers," and ambitions? How did early writers modulate between retrospection and analysis, between nostalgia and ballyhoo, between journalism and research into the "relics" of the nascent film industry and what were their motivations and influence on subsequent historians? What rhetorical and material platforms were deployed to talk about andshow the history of cinema and for what audiences were they meant? In teasing out answers to these and other questions, this book makes an argument for early cinema historiography as an emergent genre with its own conventions and goals instead of a "primitive" version of today's historical writingon the movies.

With a wealth of case studies, and illustrations, How the Movies Got a Past will appeal to media historians, silent movie buffs, film archivists, and students alike.


416 pages, 50 b/w images

Medios de comunicación Libros     Hardcover Book   (Libro con lomo y cubierta duros)
Publicado 22 de septiembre de 2023
ISBN13 9780197689271
Editores Oxford University Press Inc
Páginas 408
Dimensiones 166 × 244 × 27 mm   ·   712 g
Lengua Inglés  

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