Widely regarded by historians of the early moving picture as the best work yet published on pre-cinema, The Great Art of Light and Shadow: Archaeology of the Cinema throws light on a fascinating range of optical media from the twelfth century to the turn of the twentieth.

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9780859896658 | Published: 2000

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9780859899185 | Published: 2015

This book combines film studies with environmental history and politics, aiming to establish a cultural criticism informed by 'green' thought. David Ingram argues that Hollywood cinema has largely perpetuated romantic attitudes to nature and has played an important ideological role in the 'greenwashing' of ecological discourses.

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9780859896092 | Published: 2004

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9780859896085 | Published: 2000

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9780859899192 | Published: 2015

For the first time, this book tells the 'lost' story of the 1930s Western. Written from a concern to understand Western films primarily as products of Hollywood's studio system, it recovers the context in which Westerns were produced, exhibited and viewed in the 1930s.

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9780859896948 | Published: 2001

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9780859896931 | Published: 2001

This is the first new book-length study of British cinema of the 1910s to be published for over fifty years, and it focuses on the close relationship between the British film industry and the Edwardian theatre.

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9780859897259 | Published: 2003

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9780859899253 | Published: 2015

Why has the Hollywood sound serial received so little scholarly attention? Here, the author presents a thorough analysis based on detailed historical research, focusing on the period between 1930 and 1946, when Universal stopped their production. 30 b&w illus.

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9780859898874 | Published: 2017

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9780859892711 | Published: 2019

In this study of early film exhibition, Joe Kember demonstrates that prior to the emergence of a specific discipline of screen acting and the arrival of picture personalities, the early cinema inherited its human dimensions from diverse earlier traditions of performance, from the magic lantern lecture to the fairground and variety theatre.

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9780859898010 | Published: 2009

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9780859899321 | Published: 2015

Multimedia Histories: From the Magic Lantern to the Internet is the first book to explore in detail the vital connections between today’s digital culture and an absorbing history of screen entertainments and technologies. Its range of coverage moves from the magic lantern, the stereoscope and early film to the DVD and the internet.

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9780859897730 | Published: 2007

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9780859897723 | Published: 2007

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9780859899352 | Published: 2015

This highly original work reveals the profound impact that the railroad and the cinema have had on Western society and modern urban industrial culture.

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9780859895309 | Published: 1997

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9780859895286 | Published: 1997

Paul Rotha was one of the major figures of the British Documentary Movement, second only to John Grierson. He was also a prolific writer. This volume brings together an edited collection of some of his most important writings and addresses a variety of topics.

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9780859896269 | Published: 1999

The fifth in a series of volumes from the annual British Silent Cinema Festival held in Nottingham (and the first to be published by Exeter), this collective study offers an original treatment of the relationship between pre-1930 cinema and landscape.

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9781905816019 | Published: 2007

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9781905816002 | Published: 2007

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9780859899383 | Published: 2015