The Last Machine
Early Cinema and the Birth of the Modern World
by Ian Christie
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About the Author:
Ian Christie is the author of Arrows of Desire: the Films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (1985, 1994) and has written and edited four other books about their work. He has organised many retrospectives and played a part in the films' restoration. He is currently Professor of Film and Media History at Birkbeck College, University of London, and a regular broadcaster.
> From the same author:
What Made Cinema? (2025)
Essays on Visual Culture and Early Film
by Ian Christie
Subject: Silent Cinema
Spaces (2024)
Exploring Spatial Experiences of Representation and Reception in Screen Media
Dir. Ian Christie
Subject: Theory
The Eisenstein Universe (2022)
Dir. Ian Christie and Julia Vassilieva
Subject: Director > Sergei Eisenstein
Robert Paul and the Origins of British Cinema (2019)
by Ian Christie
Subject: Countries > Great Britain
The Film Factory (2015)
Russian and Soviet Cinema in Documents 1896-1939
Dir. Richard Taylor and Ian Christie
Subject: Countries > Russia / USSR
Eisenstein Rediscovered (2014)
Dir. Ian Christie and Richard Taylor
Subject: Director > Sergei Eisenstein
Smith (2014)
by Ian Christie, Martin Herbert, Kathrin Meyer and Ethan de Seife
Subject: Director > John Smith
The Art of Film (2008)
John Box and Production Design
by Ian Christie
Subject: Others persons > John Box
The Cinema of Michael Powell (2005)
International perspectives on an English Filmmaker
Dir. Ian Christie and Andrew Moor
Subject: Director > Michael Powell
Inside the Film Factory (1994)
New Approaches to Russian and Soviet Cinema
Dir. Richard Taylor and Ian Christie
Subject: Countries > Russia / USSR
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A History of Early Film Volume 2 (2023)
An Established Industry
Dir. Stephen Herbert
Subject: Silent Cinema
The Image in Early Cinema (2018)
Form and Material
by Scott Curtis, Tom Gunning, Philippe Gauthier and Joshua Yumibe
Subject: Silent Cinema
Menus for Movieland (2015)
Newspapers and the Emergence of American Film Culture 1913-1916
by Richard Abel
Subject: Silent Cinema
Studios Before the System (2015)
Architecture, Technology, and the Emergence of Cinematic Space
Subject: Silent Cinema
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