{"product_id":"on-the-screen-9780231188845","title":"On the Screen","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAriel Rogers rethinks the history of moving images by exploring how experiments with screen technologies in and around the 1930s changed the way films were produced, exhibited, and experienced. She challenges conventional narratives about the novelty of the twenty-first-century multiscreen environment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere is no other book remotely like this. \u003ci\u003eOn the Screen\u003c\/i\u003e is original in the material it unearths and discusses, offering an innovative history of film and technology. It strikes an easy balance between big ideas and focused analysis, addressing unmapped screen dynamics as crucial elements of cinema. -- Haidee Wasson, author of \u003ci\u003eMuseum Movies: The Museum of Modern Art and the Birth of Art Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOffering an extensive and systematic exploration of screen practices in the 1930s, Ariel Rogers recharacterizes this seemingly solid, coherent era by analyzing its multiplicity and heterogeneity. The screen becomes a kaleidoscopic reality. -- Francesco Casetti, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Lumière Galaxy: Seven Key Words for the Cinema to Come\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFilm theory's classic question \"What is cinema?\" often gets a (stereo)typical answer around the idea that movies exist when projected on standard screens in theaters. With her well-known and lauded attention to archival research, Ariel Rogers revises this received account of cinema and essentially rewrites it from the ground up. This is a rich and rewarding study that combines sharp scholarship with compelling new interpretation to change the field. -- Dana Polan, New York University\u003cbr\u003eA thoroughly documented account of the broad culture of synchronicity in screen culture over the long 1930s. * Choice *\u003cbr\u003eOn the Screen is a major achievement that insists on screen technology as an integral component of film history. * Technology and Culture *\u003cbr\u003eRogers’s detailed and impressively supported account of how film screen technologies have proliferated is a timely and relevant study. * Film Criticism *\u003cbr\u003eRogers provides a vivid sense of the historical particularity of screens in the long 1930s. * Film Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1. Production Screens in the Long 1930s: Rear Projection and Special Effects\u003cbr\u003e2. Theatrical Screens, 1926–1931: Transforming the Screen\u003cbr\u003e3. Theatrical Screens, 1931–1940: Integrating the Screen\u003cbr\u003e4. Extratheatrical Screens in the Long 1930s: Film and Television at Home and in Transit\u003cbr\u003eCoda: Multiplicity, Immersion, and the New Screens\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400332878167,"sku":"9780231188845","price":83.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231188845.jpg?v=1730470416","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/on-the-screen-9780231188845","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}