TY - BOOK AU - Abel,Richard AU - Bertellini,Giorgio AU - King,Rob TI - Early cinema and the "national" /edited by Richard Abel, Giorgio Bertellini and Rob King SN - 9780861969159 AV - PN1995 .E275 2008 PY - 2008/// CY - New Barnet, Herts PB - John Libbey KW - National characteristics in motion pictures KW - Congresses KW - Motion pictures KW - Political aspects KW - Nationalism in motion pictures KW - Electronic Books N1 - " ... the ninth International Domitor Conference, held at the University of Michigan (30 May-2 June 2006)"--Page 2; 2; Early cinema as global cinema : the encyclopedic ambition; Tom Gunning --; Nationalizing attractions; Jonathan Auerbach --; Images of the 'National' in early non-fiction films; Frank Kessler --; National and racial landscapes and the photographic form; Giorgio Bertellini --; Sound-on-disc cinema and electrification in pre-WWI Britain, France, Germany and the United States; Charles O'Brien --; Mind-reading, mind-speaking : dialogue in The birth of a nation (1915) and the emergence of speech in American silent cinema; Torey Liepa --; Living Canada : selling the nation through images; Marta Braun and Charlie Keil --; Early cinema and 'the Polish question'; Sheila Skaff --; Our Navy and patriotic entertainment in Brighton at the start of the Boer War; Frank Gray --; 'An England of our dreams'? : early patriotic entertainments with film in Britain during the Anglo-Boer War; Ian Christie --; 'The transport of audiences' : making cinema 'national'; Nico de Klerk --; Enlisting early cinema in the service of 'la plus grande France'; Panivong Norindr --; Teaching citizenship via celluloid; Marina Dahlquist --; Fights of nations and national fights; David Mayer --; Japan on American screens, 1908-1915; Gregory A. Waller --; Nationalist film-going without Canadian-made films?; Paul S. Moore --; The cinema arrives in Italy : city, region and nation in early film discourse; John Welle --; Wondrous pictures in Istanbul : from cosmopolitanism to nationalism; Canan Balan --; The emergence of nationally specific film cultures in Europe, 1911-1914; Joseph Garncarz --; The Norwegian municipal cinema system and the development of a national cinema; Gunnar Iversen --; Spanish lecturers and their relations with the national; Daniel Sánchaz Salas --; Joseph Dumais and the language of French-Canadian silent cinema; Germain Lacasse --; Localizing serials : translating daily life in Les Mystères de New-York (1915); Rudmer Canjels --; Seeing the world while staying at home : slapstick, modernity and American-ness; Amanda Keeler --; 'A purely American product' : tramp comedy and white working-class formation in the 1910s; Rob King --; The 'Chinese' conjurer : orientalist magic in variety theater and the trick film; Matthew Solomon --; A note on the national character of early popular science films; Oliver Gaycken --; European melodramas and World War I : narrated time and historical time as reflections of national identity; Dominique Nasta and Muriel Andrin --; 'Cow-punchers, bull-whackers and tin horn gamblers' : generic formulae, sensational literature, and early American cinema; W.D. Phillips --; Early ethnographic film and the museum; Wolfgang Fuhrmann --; Black hair, black eyes, black heart : Theda Bara and race suicide panic; Mark Hain --; Who is the 'right' star to adore? : nationality, masculinity and the female cinema audience in Germany during World War I; Andrea Haller --; From Switzerland to Italy and all around the world : the Joseph Joye and Davide Turconi collections; Joshua Yumibe --; The imagination of early Hollywood : movie-land and the magic cities, 1914-1916; Jennifer M. Bean; 2; b UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1221079&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -