Méliès Boots

Footwear and Film Manufacturing in Second Industrial Revolution Paris

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de Matthew Solomon

Type

Studies

Sujet

Director > Georges Méliès

Mots Clés

Georges Méliès, pioneer

Année d'édition

2022

Editeur

University of Michigan Press

Langue

anglais

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Format

Paperback • 240 pages
6 ¼ x 9 ½ inches (16 x 24 cm)

ISBN

978-0-472-05558-6

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Description de l'ouvrage:
Before he became an influential cinematic innovator, Georges Méliès (1861–1938) was a maker of deluxe French footwear, an illusionist, and a caricaturist. Proceeding from these beginnings, Méliès Boots traces how the full trajectory of Georges Méliès’ career during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, along with the larger cultural and historical contexts in which Méliès operated, shaped his cinematic œuvre. Solomon examines Méliès’ unpublished drawings and published caricatures, the role of laughter in his magic theater productions, and the constituent elements of what Méliès called "the new profession of the cinéaste." The book also reveals Méliès' connections to the Incohérents, a group of ephemeral artists from the 1880s, demonstrating the group’s relevance for Méliès, early cinema, and modernity. By positioning Méliès in relation to the material culture of his time, Solomon demonstrates that Méliès’ work was expressive of a distinctly modern, and modernist, sensibility that appeared in France during the 1880s in the wake of the Second Industrial Revolution.

À propos de l'auteur :
Matthew Solomon is Associate Professor in the Department of Film, Television, and Media at the University of Michigan.

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