Transnational Trailblazers of Early Cinema
Title | Transnational Trailblazers of Early Cinema PDF eBook |
Author | Prof. Victoria Duckett |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 2023-04-25 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0520382129 |
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. At the forefront of the entertainment industries of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were singular actors: Sarah Bernhardt, Gabrielle Réjane, and Mistinguett. Talented and formidable women with global ambitions, these performers forged connections with audiences across the world while pioneering the use of film and theatrics to gain international renown. Transnational Trailblazers of Early Cinema traces how these women emerged from the Parisian periphery to become world-famous stars. Building upon extensive archival research in France, England, and the United States, Victoria Duckett argues that, through intrepid business prowess and the use of early multimedia to cultivate their celebrity image, these three artists strengthened ties between countries, continents, and cultures during pivotal years of change.
Early Cinema in Asia
Title | Early Cinema in Asia PDF eBook |
Author | Nick Deocampo |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 406 |
Release | 2017-10-09 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0253034442 |
Early Cinema in Asia explores how cinema became a popular medium in the world's largest and most diverse continent. Beginning with the end of Asia's colonial period in the 19th century, contributors to this volume document the struggle by pioneering figures to introduce the medium of film to the vast continent, overcoming geographic, technological, and cultural difficulties. As an early form of globalization, film's arrival and phenomenal growth throughout various Asian countries penetrated not only colonial territories but also captivated collective states of imagination. With the coming of the 20th century, the medium that began as mere entertainment became a means for communicating many of the cultural identities of the region's ethnic nationalities, as they turned their favorite pastime into an expression of their cherished national cultures. Covering diverse locations, including China, India, Japan, Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, Iran, and the countries of the Pacific Islands, contributors to this volume reveal the story of early cinema in Asia, helping us to understand the first seeds of a medium that has since grown deep roots in the region.
Sessue Hayakawa
Title | Sessue Hayakawa PDF eBook |
Author | Daisuke Miyao |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 404 |
Release | 2007-03-28 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780822339694 |
DIVCritical biography of Sessue Hayakawa, a Japanese actor who became a popular silent film star in the U.S., that looks at how Hollywood treated issues of race and nationality in the early twentieth century./div
The Last Machine
Title | The Last Machine PDF eBook |
Author | Ian Christie |
Publisher | |
Pages | 160 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
Silent Serial Sensations
Title | Silent Serial Sensations PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara Tepa Lupack |
Publisher | |
Pages | 408 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Film serials |
ISBN | 9781501748189 |
"Filmmakers Ted and Leo Wharton, whose serials became popular in the 1910s, established a model for incremental storytelling and holdover suspense still employed by filmmakers and television producers more than a century later"--
Transatlantic Cinephilia
Title | Transatlantic Cinephilia PDF eBook |
Author | Rielle Navitski |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 333 |
Release | 2023 |
Genre | Motion pictures |
ISBN | 0520391411 |
"In the two decades after World War II, a vibrant cultural infrastructure of cineclubs, archives, festivals, and film schools took shape in Latin America through the labor of film enthusiasts who worked in concert with French and France-based organizations. In promoting the emerging concept and practice of art cinema, these film-related institutions advanced geopolitical and class interests simultaneously in a polarized Cold War climate. Seeking to sharpen viewers' critical faculties as a safeguard against ideological extremes in cinema, institutions of film culture lent prestige to Latin America's growing middle classes and capitalized on official and unofficial efforts to boost the circulation of French cinema, enhancing the nation's soft power in the wake of military defeat and occupation. As the first book-length, transnational analysis of postwar Latin American film culture, Transatlantic Cinephilia deepens our understanding of how institutional networks have nurtured alternative and nontheatrical cinemas"--
Importing Asta Nielsen
Title | Importing Asta Nielsen PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Loiperdinger |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Motion picture actors and actresses |
ISBN |
Danish silent film actress Asta Nielsen became a brand name in movie houses around the globe in the early 1900s. Known simply as 'The Asta, ' she exhibited both a subtle eroticism and a naturalistic style in her performances, which propelled her into international stardom. Nielsen's worldwide fame was made possible by film distributors adept at contracting long runs for films in cinemas around the world. This volume examines the role of these newly developed film distribution strategies and the resulting emergence of the international film star.