The Emergence of Cinema: The American Screen to 1907 (History of the American Cinema) 1st Paperback Edition Edition

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The origins of motion picture technologies are described and analyzed by Charles Musser in this lavishly illustrated volume. He considers social and economic as well as aesthetic aspects of the beginnings of movie making.

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"Massively detailed, scrupulously and exhaustively researched, copiously graphed and illustrated, heavily footnoted, examining each period from several critical and sociological perspectives, these three books are perfectly representative, in many ways, of the state of academic film research today."--Michael Wilmington, "Los Angeles Times Book Review

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From the beginnings of cinema through the first boom in the specialized moving-picture theaters known as nickelodeons, The Emergence of Cinema looks at the first twelve years of projected motion pictures and their aural accompaniment. Early American cinema is examined as an industry and as an influential cultural practice in the context of a centuries-long history of projected images.

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Series: History of the American Cinema (Book 1)
Paperback: 613 pages
Publisher: University of California Press; 1st Paperback Edition edition (May 4, 1994)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0520085337
ISBN-13: 978-0520085336
Product Dimensions: 7 x 1.3 x 10 inches
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Charles H. Harpole

One book in a set of ten

October 9, 2013

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This book, correction by Bowser only,is a part of the ten volume History of American Cinema series from Editor, Charles H. Harpole's Cinema History Project. The series is often listed in a bundle of ten separate books under Harpole's authorship. Some advertisements for one book imply the sale is for all ten books, beware, and some imply sale of all ten books as a set. Read carefully. The series contains ten individual books.
The paperback versions are exact reprints of the hardback books except for the paper binding.
The hardback paper is library grade. All illustrations or photographs are in black and white in the entire set.

The set remains as the standard history of American cinema from 1895 to 1990. Due to the virtual collapse of serious book publishing, this series will likely remain the last of its kind. In a way, it represents the end of several eras: end of the movie industry distinctive from its merge with TV and video games, end of this kind of book publishing*, and end of the writing of history that is basically chronological and not undercut by theoretical deconstructions of meaning. The research and documentation are scholarly and the text is synthetic in that it is a narrative of a period in time useful as a reference work and as an understanding of the interrelationships of factors, as well.

*2013: the current copyright holder, Centgage, is in bankruptcy proceedings, and the ownership of the series went through at least six publishing companies as one company closed/sold off assets after another as each tried to survive in the computer age.

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December 25, 2001

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This is an excellent, comprehensive and well-written analysis of the early cinema. It is written including views of the study of film history as well as numerous concrete examples of films for every point made by the author.
Even if you're not a film student, check out this book. It's so well written that one can easily fall into the interesting history of an emerging art form and industry. The origins of cinema reach far back into the 17th century and, considering the enormous impact that film has on everyone's life, the origins of this most important art form of the past century are vitally important to you.

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