{"product_id":"american-cinema-18901909-themes-and-variations-screen-decades-9780813544434","title":"American Cinema 18901909 Themes and Variations","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIncludes essays that explore and define how the making of motion pictures flowered into an industry that would finally become the central entertainment institution of the world. Beginning with various early types of pictures that moved, this volume tells the story of invention and consolidation of the various processes that gave rise to 'cinema.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This impressive volume—all of it immensely readable, fascinating, and coherent—leads one to appreciate the breadth and scope of global cinema. Gaudreault and his talented contributors provided a fresh, lively, informative, engaging chronological survey of the first decades of American film. Highly recommended.\"— CHOICE\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e“There is nothing like this series. Screen Decades firmly situates American cinema in the realms of material culture, popular culture, cultural narrative, reception analysis, and industrial history.”\u003c\/p\u003e — American Quarterly\u003cbr\u003e \"This impressive volume—all of it immensely readable, fascinating, and coherent—leads one to appreciate the breadth and scope of global cinema. Gaudreault and his talented contributors provided a fresh, lively, informative, engaging chronological survey of the first decades of American film. Highly recommended.\"— CHOICE\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e“There is nothing like this series. Screen Decades firmly situates American cinema in the realms of material culture, popular culture, cultural narrative, reception analysis, and industrial history.”\u003c\/p\u003e — American Quarterly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmerican cinema emerges (1890-1909) \/ Andre Gaudreault, Tom Gunning\u003cbr\u003e 1890-1895: movies and the kinetoscope \/ Paul C. Spehr\u003cbr\u003e 1896-1897: movies and the beginnings of cinema \/ Charles Musser\u003cbr\u003e 1898-1899: movies and entrepreneurs \/ Patrick Loughney\u003cbr\u003e 1900-1901: movies, new imperialism, and the new century \/ Jean-Pierre Sirois-Trahan\u003cbr\u003e 1902-1903: movies, stories, and attractions \/ Tom Gunning\u003cbr\u003e 1904-1905: movies and chasing the missing link(s) \/ Andre Gaudreault\u003cbr\u003e 1906: movies and spectacle \/ Lauren Rabinovitz\u003cbr\u003e 1907: movies and the expansion of the audience \/ Eileen Bowser\u003cbr\u003e 1908: movies and other media \/ Matthew Solomon\u003cbr\u003e 1909: movies and progress \/ Jennifer M. Bean\u003cbr\u003e Sources for films","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405779411287,"sku":"9780813544434","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780813544434.jpg?v=1730493588","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/american-cinema-18901909-themes-and-variations-screen-decades-9780813544434","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}