City Of Cinema: Paris 1850 - 1907 - Hardcover

City Of Cinema: Paris 1850 - 1907 - HardcoverCity of Cinema traces films evolution from an obscure entertainment to the most powerful art form of the 20th century Placing cinema in the context of 19th century Parisian visual culture, this book brings together posters, paintings, studio and documentary photography, and film stills that evoke Paris as a site of consumption, demonstrate early cinemas relationship with technology and the fine arts, and highlight local and global spaces of film

• City of Cinema traces film’s evolution from an obscure entertainment to the most powerful art form of the 20th century
• Placing cinema in the context of 19th-century Parisian visual culture, this book brings together posters, paintings, studio and documentary photography, and film stills that evoke Paris as a site of consumption, demonstrate early cinema’s relationship with technology and the fine arts, and highlight local and global spaces of film production. It also examines the aspects of 19th-century visual culture that gave rise to cinema as a quintessentially modern medium with an eager audience
• Aligning with French beliefs that the nation’s culture would be democratized through consumption, cinema reinforced a set of assumptions about French cultural and political authority and disseminated these ideas to the rest of the world
• Edited with text by Leah Lehmbeck, Britt Salvesen, Vanessa R. Schwartz. Text by Brian R. Jacobson Designed by David Karwan

Pages: 192

Published: April 2022

Size (cm): 24.8 x 29.8 x 1.9

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