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Robert Paul and the Origins of British Cinema
Engelsk Paperback
Robert Paul and the Origins of British Cinema
Engelsk Paperback

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The early years of film were dominated by competition between inventors in America and France, especially Thomas Edison and the Lumiere brothers . But while these have generally been considered the foremost pioneers of film, they were not the only crucial figures in its inception. Telling the story of the white-hot years of filmmaking in the 1890s, Robert Paul and the Origins of British Cinema seeks to restore Robert Paul, Britain's most important early innovator in film, to his rightful place. From improving upon Edison's Kinetoscope to cocreating the first movie camera in Britain to building England's first film studio and launching the country's motion-picture industry, Paul played a key part in the history of cinema worldwide. It's not only Paul's story, however, that historian Ian Christie tells here. Robert Paul and the Origins of British Cinema also details the race among inventors to develop lucrative technologies and the jumbled culture of patent-snatching, showmanship, and music halls that prevailed in the last decade of the nineteenth century. Both an in-depth biography and a magnificent look at early cinema and fin-de-siecle Britain, Robert Paul and the Origins of British Cinema is a first-rate cultural history of a fascinating era of global invention, and the revelation of one of its undervalued contributors.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
304
ISBN-13:
9780226105635
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0226105636
Udg. Dato:
9 dec 2019
Længde:
21mm
Bredde:
227mm
Højde:
153mm
Forlag:
The University of Chicago Press
Oplagsdato:
9 dec 2019
Forfatter(e):
Books from the same author
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