Establishing a new vision for film history, "Film and
Attraction: From Kinematography to Cinema" urges readers to
consider the importance of complex social and cultural forces in
early film. Andre Gaudreault argues that Edison and the Lumieres
did not invent cinema; they invented a device. Explaining how this
device, the kinematograph, gave rise to cinema is the challenge he
sets for himself in this volume. He highlights the forgotten role
of the film lecturer and examines film's relationship with other
visual spectacles in fin-de-siecle culture, from magic sketches to
fairy plays and photography to vaudeville. In reorienting the study
of film history, Film and Attraction offers a candid reassessment
of Georges Melies' rich oeuvre and includes a new, unabridged
translation of Melies' famous 1907 text "Kinematographic Views." A
foreword by Rick Altman stresses the relevance of Gaudreault's
concerns to Anglophone film scholarship.
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