Joshua Yumibe

Tom Gunning

Scott Curtis

Philippe Gauthier

Form and Material

Image in Early Cinema

Patricia G. Berman

MaryClaire Pappas

The Photography of Edvard Munch

The Experimental Self

In The Image in Early Cinema, the contributors examine intersections between early cinematic form, technology, theory, practice, and broader modes of visual culture. They argue that early cinema emerged within a visual culture composed of a variety of traditions in art, science, education, and image making. Even as methods of motion picture production and distribution materialized, they drew from and challenged practices and conventions in other mediums. This rich visual culture produced a complicated, overlapping network of image-making traditions, innovations, and borrowing among painting, tableaux vivants, photography, and other pictorial and projection practices. Using a variety of concepts and theories, the contributors explore these crisscrossing traditions and work against an essentialist notion of media to conceptualize the dynamic interrelationship between images and their context.

The Image in Early Cinema

Jennifer Tucker

Maren Gröning

"Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Explores nineteenth-century photography's impact on science and popular culture. Includes reproductions of nearly 200 vintage photographs and scholarly essays by exhibition curator Corey Keller, cultural historian Jennifer Tucker, and film historian Tom Gunning" --Provided by Publisher.

Photography and the Invisible, 1840-1900

Brought to Light

The Early Years at Biograph

D.W. Griffith and the Origins of American Narrative Film

ln this volume Tom Gunning examines the films of Fritz Lang not only as a stylistically coherent body of work, but as an attempt to portray the modern world through cinema. The world of modernity in which systems replace individuals is conveyed by Lang's mastery of cinematic set design, composition and editing. Lang presents not only a decades-long vision of cinematic narrative which can be compared to that of Alfred Hitchcock or Jean Renoir, but a view of modernity that relates strongly to the ideas of Adorno, Brecht, Benjamin and Kracauer. From the sweeping allegorical films of the 20s to the chilly and abstract thrillers of the 50s, Lang's films, Gunning claims, are 'among the most precious records of the twentieth century'. The Films of Fritz Lang immeasurably enriches our understanding of a great artist and, in so doing, reimagines what a film arlist is: an author who fades away even in being recognised and interpreted, an enigmatic figure at the junction of aesthetics, history, biography and theory.

Allegories of Vision and Modernity

The Films of Fritz Lang

François Bovier

L' objectif de ce recueil d'essais inédits est de mettre en relation les constructions complexes du montage audio-visuel dans la série Is This What You Were Born for? avec la poésie expérimentale, la scène de la musique improvisée et les arts plastiques dans les années 1970-1980, aux Etats-Unis. Nous confrontons ainsi les points de vue d'un historien du cinéma (Tom Gunning), d'une spécialiste du son (Melissa Ragona), d'une poétesse et historienne de la littérature (Redell Olsen), et d'un artiste et théoricien de l'art (Tom Zummer). Abigail Child, à travers un long entretien, revient sur l'ensemble de son parcours. Ce livre apparaît ainsi comme l'indispensable pendant de This Is Called Moving (University of Alabama Press, 2005), une anthologie d'essais d'Abigail Child sur la poétique du cinéma.

Stratégies d'appropriation et collage audio-visuel dans les films d'Abigail Child

Is this what you were born for?

Giovanna Fossati

Jonathon Rosen

This book brings a treasure trove of early color film images into print form so viewers can enjoy, examine and dream over their forgotten splendor. Drawing on the richness of the early film archives of EYE Film Institute Netherlands, the authors have carefully selected and reproduced frames from the original films made before World War I, presenting their fascinating and often surprising images and hues. Digital reproduction allows the capture of these images in a full range of tone and colors.

Fantasia of Color in Early Cinema

Tom Gunning

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