Velvet Curtains and Gilded Frames : : The Art of Early European Cinema / / Vito Adriaensens.
Analyzes the visual and cultural context of Europe's first feature films from 19th century painting to pictorial photographySheds new light on the late 19th and early 20th century's cultural contextInnovatively brings together different media, their artistic traditions, and their respectiv...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2023] 2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Edinburgh Studies in Film and Intermediality : ESFI
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 p.) :; 98 B/W illustrations 98 b&w illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: History, Intermediality, and Early European Cinema
- 1. The Birth of a Sixth Art: The Art Film and the Film-as-Art Discourse
- 2. Behind the Velvet Curtain: The Cultural Communion between Stage and Screen
- 3. An Actress for Our Age: Betty Nansen, Modern Media Icon
- 4. In Another Light: Academic Painting, Pictorial Photography, Bourgeois Cinema
- 5. Old Masters Endure: Victor Sjöström's Netherlandish Tableaux
- Conclusion: Towards a Cultural Poetics of Early European Cinema
- Bibliography
- Filmography
- About the Author
- Index