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Performing New Media, 1890-1915

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Description

In the years before the First World War, showmen, entrepreneurs, educators, and scientists used magic lanterns and cinematographs in many contexts and many venues. To employ these silent screen technologies to deliver diverse and complex programs usually demanded audio accompaniment, creating a performance of both sound and image. These shows might include live music, song, lectures, narration, and synchronized sound effects provided by any available party-projectionist, local talent, accompanist or backstage crew-and would often borrow techniques from shadow plays and tableaux vivants. The performances were not immune to the influence of social and cultural forces, such as censorship or reform movements. This collection of essays considers the ways in which different visual practices carried out at the turn of the 20th century shaped performances on and beside the screen.

Author Biography:

Kaveh Askari is Associate Professor in the English Department at Western Washington University. Scott Curtis Associate Professor in the Department of Radio/Television/Film at Northwestern University. He is currently President of Domitor, the international society for the study of early cinema. Frank Gray is Director of Screen Archive South East at the University of Brighton. Louis Pelletier is a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow at Universite de Montreal and Concordia University where he is research coordinator of the Canadian Educational, Sponsored, and Industrial Film Archive project. Tami Williams is Associate Professor of Film Studies and English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Joshua Yumibe is Director and Assistant Professor of Film Studies at Michigan State University. He holds a joint appointment as Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of St. Andrews.
Release date Australia
May 29th, 2014
Collection
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Contributors
  • Edited by Frank Gray
  • Edited by Joshua Yumibe
  • Edited by Kaveh Askari
  • Edited by Louis Pelletier
  • Edited by Scott Curtis
  • Edited by Tami Williams
Illustrations
39 Illustrations, black and white
Pages
336
Dimensions
154x227x13
ISBN-13
9780861967148
Product ID
25200786

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