Search results for ""Author Paolo Cherchi Usai""
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Griffith Project Volume 6 Films Produced in 1912 The Griffith Project Vols 112
Paolo Cherchi Usai is senior curator of the Motion Picture department at George Eastman House in Rochester, USA and Professor of Film at the University of Rochester, USA. He is co-founder of the Pordenone Silent Film Festival, Director of the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation and an adjunct member of the National Film Preservation Board at the Library of Congress. He is the author of Silent Cinema: An Introduction (BFI, 2000) and The Death of Cinema (BFI, 2001).
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Griffith Project Volume 2 Films Produced January June 1909 The Griffith Project Vols 112
Paolo Cherchi Usai is senior curator of the Motion Picture department at George Eastman House in Rochester, USA and Associate Professor of Film at the University of Rochester, USA. He is co-founder of the Pordenone Silent Film Festival and Domitor (Society of Early Cinema Studies), and Director of the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation. A revised and expanded version of his book Burning Passions: An Introduction to the Study of Silent Cinema (1994) is forthcoming from BFI Publishing.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Silent Cinema: A Guide to Study, Research and Curatorship
Paolo Cherchi Usai provides a comprehensive introduction to the study, research and preservation of silent cinema from its heyday in the early 20th century to its present day flourishing. He traces the history of the moving image in its formative years, from Edison’s and Lumière’s first experiments to the dawn of ‘talkies’; provides a clear guide to the basics of silent film technology; introduces the technical and creative roles involved in its production, and presents silent cinema as a performance event, rather than a passive viewing experience. This new, greatly expanded edition takes the reader on a new journey, exploring silent cinema in the broader context of technology, culture, and society, from the invention of celluloid film and its related machinery to film studios, laboratories, theatres and audiences. Among the people involved in the creation of a new art form were filmmakers, actors and writers, but also engineers, entrepreneurs, and projectionists. Their collective efforts, and the struggle to preserve their creative work by archives and museums, are interwoven in a compelling story covering three centuries of media history, from the magic lantern to the reinvention of silent cinema in digital form. The new edition also includes comprehensive resource information for the study, research, preservation and exhibition of silent cinema.
£120.00
George Eastman House,US The Art of Film Projection: A Beginner's Guide
The Art of Film Projection: A Beginner's Guide is a beautifully produced, comprehensive outline of the materials, equipment and knowledge needed to present the magic of cinema to an enthralled audience. Part manual and part manifesto, The Art of Film Projection compiles more than 50 years of expertise from the staff of the world-renowned George Eastman Museum and the students of the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation into the most complete and accessible guide to film projection ever produced. The product of more than ten years of painstaking work by renowned film preservation specialists, and featuring a foreword by Tacita Dean and Christopher Nolan, this volume addresses a changing film landscape. No film comes to life until it is shown on the big screen, but with the proliferation of digital movie theaters, the expertise of film projection has become increasingly rare. Written for both the casual enthusiast and the professional projectionist in training, this book demystifies the process of film projection and offers an in-depth understanding of the aesthetic, technical and historical features of motion pictures. Fully accessible for the layperson, student, technician or scholar, the book is designed to be used: richly illustrated with photographs and easy-to-read diagrams, it is printed at a size that is easy to carry, with a ribbon bookmark and pages for notes. The Art of Film Projection invites readers to help save the authentic experience of seeing motion pictures on film.
£27.00
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Silent Cinema: A Guide to Study, Research and Curatorship
Paolo Cherchi Usai provides a comprehensive introduction to the study, research and preservation of silent cinema from its heyday in the early 20th century to its present day flourishing. He traces the history of the moving image in its formative years, from Edison’s and Lumière’s first experiments to the dawn of ‘talkies’; provides a clear guide to the basics of silent film technology; introduces the technical and creative roles involved in its production, and presents silent cinema as a performance event, rather than a passive viewing experience. This new, greatly expanded edition takes the reader on a new journey, exploring silent cinema in the broader context of technology, culture, and society, from the invention of celluloid film and its related machinery to film studios, laboratories, theatres and audiences. Among the people involved in the creation of a new art form were filmmakers, actors and writers, but also engineers, entrepreneurs, and projectionists. Their collective efforts, and the struggle to preserve their creative work by archives and museums, are interwoven in a compelling story covering three centuries of media history, from the magic lantern to the reinvention of silent cinema in digital form. The new edition also includes comprehensive resource information for the study, research, preservation and exhibition of silent cinema.
£34.20
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Griffith Project Volume 4 Films Produced in 1910 Griffith at the Biograph Company in 1910 The Griffith Project Vols 112
Paolo Cherchi Usai is senior curator of the Motion Picture department at George Eastman House in Rochester, USA and Associate Professor of Film at the University of Rochester, USA. He is co-founder of the Pordenone Silent Film Festival and Domitor (Society of Early Cinema Studies), and Director of the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation. He is the author of Silent Cinema: An Introduction (BFI, 2000).
£89.52
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Griffith Project Volume 1 Films Produced 19071908 The Griffith Project Vols 112
Paolo Cherchi Usai is senior curator of the Motion Picture department at George Eastman House in Rochester, USA and Associate Professor of Film at the University of Rochester, USA. He is co-founder of the Pordenone Silent Film Festival and Domitor (Society of Early Cinema Studies), and Director of the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation. A revised and expanded version of his book Burning Passions: An Introduction to the Study of Silent Cinema (1994) is forthcoming from BFI Publishing.
£89.52
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Griffith Project Volume 12 Essays on DW Griffith The Griffith Project Vols 112
Paolo Cherchi Usai is Director of the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia. He is co-founder of the Pordenone Silent Film Festival and of the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation at George Eastman House in Rochester, New York, USA. He directed the experimental feature film Passio (2007). His latest book is David Wark Griffith (2008) and he is the author of Silent Cinema: An Introduction (BFI, 2000).
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Griffith Project Volume 10 Films Produced 19191946 The Griffith Project Vols 112
Paolo Cherchi Usai is Director of the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia. He is co-founder of the Pordenone Silent Film Festival, of the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation at George Eastman House in Rochester, USA, and of Domitor, the international society for the study of early film. His latest book is The Death of Cinema (2001) and he is the author of Silent Cinema: An Introduction (BFI, 2000). He recently completed Passio (2006), a feature silent film based on music by Arvo Pärt.
£89.52
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Griffith Project Volume 8 Films Produced in 1914 The Griffith Project Vols 112
Paolo Cherchi Usai is Senior Curator of the Motion Picture Department at George Eastman House and Director of the L. Jeffrey Seiznick School of Film Preservation. He is the author of Burning Passions (bfi, 1994) which was published in a revised edition by the bfi in 2000, entitled Silent Cinema: An Introduction.
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Indiana University Press Provenance and Early Cinema
Remnants of early films often have a story to tell. As material artifacts, these film fragments are central to cinema history, perhaps more than ever in our digital age of easy copying and sharing. If a digital copy is previewed before preservation or is shared with a researcher outside the purview of a film archive, knowledge about how the artifact was collected, circulated, and repurposed threatens to become obscured. When the question of origin is overlooked, the story can be lost. Concerned contributors in Provenance and Early Cinema challenge scholars digging through film archives to ask, "How did these moving images get here for me to see them?" This volume, which features the conference proceedings from Domitor, the International Society for the Study of Early Cinema, 2018, questions preservation, attribution, and patterns of reuse in order to explore singular artifacts with long and circuitous lives.
£40.50
