Bryony Dixon: The Story of Victorian Film
The Story of Victorian Film
Buch
- Bloomsbury Academic, 09/2023
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert, Paperback
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781911239611
- Bestellnummer: 10721127
- Umfang: 190 Seiten
- Sonstiges: 100 colour illus
- Gewicht: 428 g
- Maße: 213 x 165 mm
- Stärke: 14 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 7.9.2023
- Serie: British Screen Stories
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Klappentext
In this vivid and accessible new account of the dawn of film in Britain, internationally respected film historian and curator Bryony Dixon introduces us to Britain's first cinematic pioneers - an eclectic mix of chemists, engineers, photography enthusiasts, fairground showmen and magicians - who in a few short years built a vibrant new industry. As she chronicles the emergence of the first embryonic film forms and genres, she reveals often surprising innovations, from cutting-edge science to ingeniously witty tricks and comedies, with filmmakers reflecting existing entertainment forms as well as advancing editing and cinematography in ways that shaped the art of film for many decades after.Dixon offers fresh insights by focusing on the films themselves - many of them only recently available to view - while building on the work of generations of scholars. In the process, Dixon makes a compelling case for the British filmmakers of the era as inventive and creative figures, every bit as influential as their more celebrated contemporaries in France and the US.
Biografie
BRYONY DIXON is Senior Curator, Silent Film, at the BFI National Library and Archive. §As Project Manager of the BFI Chaplin Research Project she organised the first international academic conference on Chaplin and designed and developed the BFI Chaplin website, a resource bringing together newly digitised materials from our collections with information, interpretation and new academic work as well as a focus on the BFI's own restoration work on the Chaplin Keystones.§In 1998 she co-founded with Laraine Porter and group of friends the British Silent Cinema Festival (a combined festival and conference) to concentrate research on British silent film. This is coming up for its 10th year in 2007.She contributes every year to a series of books arising out of the festival andis currently co-editing the current edition Picture Perfect: Landscape Place and Travel in British Film before 1930, to be published by the University of Exeter Press.![Bryony Dixon: The Story of Victorian Film, Buch](https://media1.jpc.de/image/w468/front/0/9781911239611.jpg)
Bryony Dixon
The Story of Victorian Film
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