Early cinema and the "national" /edited by Richard Abel, Giorgio Bertellini and Rob King.
Early cinema and the "national" /edited by Richard Abel, Giorgio Bertellini and Rob King.
- New Barnet, Herts : John Libbey, (c)2008. Bloomington, IN : Distributed in North America by Indiana University Press
- 1 online resource (vi, 354 pages) : illustrations.
" ... the ninth International Domitor Conference, held at the University of Michigan (30 May-2 June 2006)"--Page 2.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Early cinema as global cinema : the encyclopedic ambition / Nationalizing attractions / Images of the 'National' in early non-fiction films / National and racial landscapes and the photographic form / Sound-on-disc cinema and electrification in pre-WWI Britain, France, Germany and the United States / Mind-reading, mind-speaking : dialogue in The birth of a nation (1915) and the emergence of speech in American silent cinema / Living Canada : selling the nation through images / Early cinema and 'the Polish question' / Our Navy and patriotic entertainment in Brighton at the start of the Boer War / 'An England of our dreams'? : early patriotic entertainments with film in Britain during the Anglo-Boer War / 'The transport of audiences' : making cinema 'national' / Enlisting early cinema in the service of 'la plus grande France' / Teaching citizenship via celluloid / Fights of nations and national fights / Japan on American screens, 1908-1915 / Nationalist film-going without Canadian-made films? / The cinema arrives in Italy : city, region and nation in early film discourse / Wondrous pictures in Istanbul : from cosmopolitanism to nationalism / The emergence of nationally specific film cultures in Europe, 1911-1914 / The Norwegian municipal cinema system and the development of a national cinema / Spanish lecturers and their relations with the national / Joseph Dumais and the language of French-Canadian silent cinema / Localizing serials : translating daily life in Les Mystères de New-York (1915) / Seeing the world while staying at home : slapstick, modernity and American-ness / 'A purely American product' : tramp comedy and white working-class formation in the 1910s / The 'Chinese' conjurer : orientalist magic in variety theater and the trick film / A note on the national character of early popular science films / European melodramas and World War I : narrated time and historical time as reflections of national identity / 'Cow-punchers, bull-whackers and tin horn gamblers' : generic formulae, sensational literature, and early American cinema / Early ethnographic film and the museum / Black hair, black eyes, black heart : Theda Bara and race suicide panic / Who is the 'right' star to adore? : nationality, masculinity and the female cinema audience in Germany during World War I / From Switzerland to Italy and all around the world : the Joseph Joye and Davide Turconi collections / The imagination of early Hollywood : movie-land and the magic cities, 1914-1916 / Tom Gunning -- Jonathan Auerbach -- Frank Kessler -- Giorgio Bertellini -- Charles O'Brien -- Torey Liepa -- Marta Braun and Charlie Keil -- Sheila Skaff -- Frank Gray -- Ian Christie -- Nico de Klerk -- Panivong Norindr -- Marina Dahlquist -- David Mayer -- Gregory A. Waller -- Paul S. Moore -- John Welle -- Canan Balan -- Joseph Garncarz -- Gunnar Iversen -- Daniel Sánchaz Salas -- Germain Lacasse -- Rudmer Canjels -- Amanda Keeler -- Rob King -- Matthew Solomon -- Oliver Gaycken -- Dominique Nasta and Muriel Andrin -- W.D. Phillips -- Wolfgang Fuhrmann -- Mark Hain -- Andrea Haller -- Joshua Yumibe -- Jennifer M. Bean.
9780861969159
National characteristics in motion pictures--Congresses.
Motion pictures--Political aspects--Congresses.
Nationalism in motion pictures--Congresses.
Electronic Books.
PN1995 / .E275 2008
" ... the ninth International Domitor Conference, held at the University of Michigan (30 May-2 June 2006)"--Page 2.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Early cinema as global cinema : the encyclopedic ambition / Nationalizing attractions / Images of the 'National' in early non-fiction films / National and racial landscapes and the photographic form / Sound-on-disc cinema and electrification in pre-WWI Britain, France, Germany and the United States / Mind-reading, mind-speaking : dialogue in The birth of a nation (1915) and the emergence of speech in American silent cinema / Living Canada : selling the nation through images / Early cinema and 'the Polish question' / Our Navy and patriotic entertainment in Brighton at the start of the Boer War / 'An England of our dreams'? : early patriotic entertainments with film in Britain during the Anglo-Boer War / 'The transport of audiences' : making cinema 'national' / Enlisting early cinema in the service of 'la plus grande France' / Teaching citizenship via celluloid / Fights of nations and national fights / Japan on American screens, 1908-1915 / Nationalist film-going without Canadian-made films? / The cinema arrives in Italy : city, region and nation in early film discourse / Wondrous pictures in Istanbul : from cosmopolitanism to nationalism / The emergence of nationally specific film cultures in Europe, 1911-1914 / The Norwegian municipal cinema system and the development of a national cinema / Spanish lecturers and their relations with the national / Joseph Dumais and the language of French-Canadian silent cinema / Localizing serials : translating daily life in Les Mystères de New-York (1915) / Seeing the world while staying at home : slapstick, modernity and American-ness / 'A purely American product' : tramp comedy and white working-class formation in the 1910s / The 'Chinese' conjurer : orientalist magic in variety theater and the trick film / A note on the national character of early popular science films / European melodramas and World War I : narrated time and historical time as reflections of national identity / 'Cow-punchers, bull-whackers and tin horn gamblers' : generic formulae, sensational literature, and early American cinema / Early ethnographic film and the museum / Black hair, black eyes, black heart : Theda Bara and race suicide panic / Who is the 'right' star to adore? : nationality, masculinity and the female cinema audience in Germany during World War I / From Switzerland to Italy and all around the world : the Joseph Joye and Davide Turconi collections / The imagination of early Hollywood : movie-land and the magic cities, 1914-1916 / Tom Gunning -- Jonathan Auerbach -- Frank Kessler -- Giorgio Bertellini -- Charles O'Brien -- Torey Liepa -- Marta Braun and Charlie Keil -- Sheila Skaff -- Frank Gray -- Ian Christie -- Nico de Klerk -- Panivong Norindr -- Marina Dahlquist -- David Mayer -- Gregory A. Waller -- Paul S. Moore -- John Welle -- Canan Balan -- Joseph Garncarz -- Gunnar Iversen -- Daniel Sánchaz Salas -- Germain Lacasse -- Rudmer Canjels -- Amanda Keeler -- Rob King -- Matthew Solomon -- Oliver Gaycken -- Dominique Nasta and Muriel Andrin -- W.D. Phillips -- Wolfgang Fuhrmann -- Mark Hain -- Andrea Haller -- Joshua Yumibe -- Jennifer M. Bean.
9780861969159
National characteristics in motion pictures--Congresses.
Motion pictures--Political aspects--Congresses.
Nationalism in motion pictures--Congresses.
Electronic Books.
PN1995 / .E275 2008