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The Mysteries of Cinema - Movies and Imagination (Hardcover)
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The Mysteries of Cinema - Movies and Imagination (Hardcover)
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People who saw the first moving pictures at the end of the
nineteenth century were delighted by a new art that communicated
without words – yet they were also alarmed to be witnessing
events in a strange, mute, spectral realm, where the laws of time
and space were suspended and magical transformations could occur.
Some early commentators hailed cinema as a blessing and praised it
for resurrecting the dead; others likened it to a hypnotic trance
or a hallucinogenic drug. The medium has always been excited by
speed, and it enjoys sending the body on furious kinetic chases; at
the same time, it stealthily probes our minds, invading our dreams
and titillating our desires. Although this is an art kindled by
light and inflamed by colour, it is nurtured by darkness and can
reduce life to an insubstantial shadow play. Either way, as Peter
Conrad argues in this brilliant book, the movie camera has given us
new eyes and changed forever our view of reality. The Mysteries of
Cinema sets out to map this ambiguous territory by taking readers
on a thematic roller-coaster ride through movie history. Directors
and critics speculate about the nature of cinematic vision, and
there are contributions to the debate from writers like Kafka,
Virginia Woolf and Joan Didion, artists including Salvador Dalí,
George Grosz and Fernand Léger, and the composers Arnold
Schoenberg and Dmitri Shostakovich. The book begins from the
audacious innovations of silent film, and examines the influence of
French surrealism and German expressionism; it accounts for the
appeal of Hollywood genres like the Western, the horror film and
the musical, and ends by considering the fate of the moving image
in our visually glutted society. Combining contagious enthusiasm
with an eye for the subjective quirks of filmmakers and the allure
of favourite performers, Conrad delivers an astonishing addition to
the literature on the seventh art. With 61 illustrations
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Imprint: |
Thames and Hudson
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
April 2021 |
Authors: |
Peter Conrad
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Dimensions: |
234 x 153 x 37mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
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Pages: |
344 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-500-02299-3 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
0-500-02299-2 |
Barcode: |
9780500022993 |
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