Early Cinema
From Factory Gate to Dream Factory
by Simon Popple and Joe Kember
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This book introduces the reader to the study of cinema as a series of aesthetic, technological, cultural, ideological and economic debates while exploring new and challenging approaches to the subject. It explores the period 1895 to 1914 when cinema established itself as the leading form of visual culture among rapidly expanding global media, emerging from a rich tradition of scientific, economic, entertainment and educational practices and quickly developing as a worldwide institution.
About the authors:
Simon Popple is Principal Lecturer in Media History at the University of Teesside, and is joint editor of Living Pictures: The Journal of the Popular and Projected Image Before 1914.Joe Kember is Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Teesside and specializes in the study of late nineteenth-century popular entertainment and visual culture.
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