{"product_id":"readingthecinematograph-9780859898539","title":"readingthecinematograph","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe birth of cinema coincided with the heyday of the short story. This book studies the relationship between popular magazine short stories and the very early British films.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'As entertaining as it is edifying, Reading the Cinematograph showcases the transformative presence - and role - of cinema in British short fiction at the turn of the twentieth century. Andrew Shail has devised a marvelous format for the occasion; eight stories, reprinted in full and accompanied by their original illustration, followed by valuable critical commentary by eminent film scholars, and framed by Shail's indispensable historical\/ critical introduction and sure editorial hand. A work of impeccable and imaginative scholarship...'\u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eMaria DiBattista\u003c\/strong\u003e, Professor of English and Chair of the Film Studies Committee, Princeton University, and author of \u003cem\u003eFast Talking Dames\u003c\/em\u003e (Yale UP)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘… the volume sustains an unbroken fascination with the wider implications of emergent cinematic technologies and modes of representation. It accurately reflects the widely felt cultural significances that were attributed to moving pictures and therefore will be valuable reading for cultural historians of the period as well as historians of cinema.’\u003cstrong\u003e (Victorian Studies. Volume 54, No. 5, Summer 2012)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReading the Cinematograph: Introduction\u003cem\u003e, Andrew Shail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eStory 1: \u003cstrong\u003eOur Detective Story\u003c\/strong\u003e (24 January 1897)\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eby Dagonet [George R. Sims]\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eChapter 1: George R. Sims and the Film as Evidence,\u003cem\u003e Stephen Bottomore\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eStory 2: \u003cstrong\u003eThe Awful Story of Heley Croft\u003c\/strong\u003e (20 May 1899) by A.S. Appelbee\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eChapter 2: Cinema Re-Mystified: A.S. Appelbee's Technological Ghost Story, \u003cem\u003eDavid Trotter and Chris O'Rourke\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eStory 3: \u003cstrong\u003eColonel Rankin's Advertisement\u003c\/strong\u003e (December 1901) by Raymond Rayne\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eChapter 3: The Great American Kinetograph: News, Fakery and the Boer War, \u003cem\u003eAndrew Shail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eStory 4: \u003cstrong\u003eMrs Bathurst\u003c\/strong\u003e (September 1904) by Rudyard Kipling\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eChapter 4: \"The Very Thing\": Rudyard Kipling's 'Mrs Bathurst', \u003cem\u003eTom Gunning\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eStory 5: \u003cstrong\u003eThe Green Spider \u003c\/strong\u003e(October 1904) by A[rthur Henry] Sarsfield Ward, a.k.a. Sax Rohmer\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eChapter 5: 'Only from the Senses': Detection, Early Cinema and a Giant Green Spider, \u003cem\u003eStacy Gillis\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eStory 6: \u003cstrong\u003eRomantic Lucy\u003c\/strong\u003e (Summer 1911) by Alphonse Courlander\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eChapter 6: \"She Had So Many Appearances\": Alphonse Courlander and the Birth of the 'Moving Picture Girl, \u003cem\u003eJon Burrows\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eStory 7: \u003cstrong\u003eLove and the Bioscope: \u003c\/strong\u003eA Heart-Thrilling Story of a Deserted Bride (8 June 1912) by Mrs H.J. Bickle\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eChapter 7: Melodrama, Sensation and the Discourse of Modernity in 'Love and the Bioscope', \u003cem\u003eLise Shapiro Sanders\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eStory 8; \u003cstrong\u003eThe Sense of Touch\u003c\/strong\u003e (December 1912) by Ole Luk-Oie [Ernest Dunlop Swinton]\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eChapter 8: A visit to the cinema in 1912: 'The Sense of Touch', \u003cem\u003eAndrew Higson\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Exeter Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48884813300055,"sku":"9780859898539","price":71.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/readingthecinematograph-9780859898539","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}