Theatre to Cinema

Stage Pictorialism and the Early Feature Film

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by Benjamin Robert Brewster and Lea Jacobs

Type

Studies

Subject

Silent Cinema

Keywords

early cinema, theater

Publishing date

1998

Publisher

Oxford University Press

1st publishing

1997

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 256 pages
7 ½ x 9 ¾ inches (19 x 25 cm)

ISBN-10
ISBN-13

0-19-815950-1
978-0-19-815950-6

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Book Presentation:
This is the first book-length study for nearly fifty years of the relations between early cinema and nineteenth-century theatre. Incorporating the results of recent reconsiderations of early cinema, Brewster explores what features of nineteenth-century theatre early film-makers borrowed or adapted, and the ways specific characteristics of cinema inflected these borrowings. Theatre to Cinema is a seminal work which will profoundly alter our understanding of early cinema.

About the authors:
Benjamin Robert Brewster is Assistant Director of the Center for Film and Theater Research. Lea Jacobs is Associate Professor in Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Press Reviews:
`a revealing approach for actors, on stage and in the movies.' Bibliographic Selection, International Theatre Informatin No 60 1999`Well-researched and illustrated.' J. Belton, CHOICE

See the publisher website: Oxford University Press