Theatre to Cinema
Stage Pictorialism and the Early Feature Film
by Benjamin Robert Brewster and Lea Jacobs
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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
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