Early Film Theories in Italy, 1896-1922 / edited by Francesco Casetti ; with Silvio Alovisio and Luca Mazzei.

• Author: Casetti, Francesco
• TeilnehmendeR: Mazzei, Luca,; Alovisio, Silvio, 1968-; Casetti, Francesco,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press,, 2017.; ©2017.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Film theory in media history.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (516 pages).
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; The Throb of the Cinematograph /; Section 1 --; Cinema and Modern Life /; Cinematography /; The Philosophy of Cinematograph /; Summertime Spectacles: The Cinema /; Why I Love the Cinema /; The Movie Theatre Audience /; The Art of Celluloid /; The Triumph of the Cinema /; The Death of the Word /; Section 2 --; Film in Transition /; The Museum of the Fleeting Moment /; The Woman and the Cinema /; Darkness and Intelligence /; A Spectatrix is Speaking to You /; Motion Pictures in Provincial Towns /; Cinematic Psychology /; The Cinematograph Doesn't Exist /; The Cinema: School of the Will and of Energy /; The Close-up /; The Soul of Titles /; Section 3 --; Cinema at War /; The War, from Up Close /; That Poor Cinema... /; Families of Soldiers /; War for the Profit of Industry /; The War and Cinematograph /; Max Linder Dies in The War /; Cinema of War /; Section 4 --; Politics, Morality, Education /; The Motion Pictures and Education /; The Intuitive Method in Religious Education /; The Cinema and Its Influence on the Education of the People /; The Cinematograph in the Schools /; Speech at the People's Theatre /; Cinema for the Cultivation of the Intellect /; Educational Cinema /; Section 5 --; Film, Body, Mind /; Collective Psychology /; About Some Psychological Observations Made During Film Screenings /; Concerning the Effects of Film Viewing on Neurotic Individuals /; The Ongoing Battle between Gesture and Word /; The Cinematograph in the Field of Mental Illness and Criminality: Notes /; Cinema and Juvenile Delinquency /; Section 6 --; The Aesthetic Side /; Problems of Art: Expression and Movement in Sculpture /; Scenic Impressionism /; The Aesthetics of Cinema /; The Poetics of Cinema /; Manifesto for a Cinematic Revolution /; Theatre and the Cinema /; The Futurist Cinematography /; In the Beginning Was Sex... /; Rectangle-Film (25 x 19) /; The Proscenium Arch of My Cinema /; My Views on the Cinematograph /; Meditations in the Dark /; Section 7 --; Theory in a Narrative Form /; Colour Film /; At the Cinema /; A Phantom Pursued /; Miopetti's Duel /; Pamela-Films /; Feature Film /; Me, Rirì, and Love in Slippers /; A Cinematic Performance /; Life, a Glass Theatre /; The Shears' Reflection /; Sources --; Author Biographies --; General Bibliography --; Acknowledgements --; About the Editors --; Index of Names --; Index of Concepts --; Index of Films
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 490-504) and indexes.
• ISBN: 9048527104
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Francesco Casetti ; with Silvio Alovisio and Luca Mazzei.

This collection for the first time brings together scholars to explore the ways that various people and groups in Italian society reacted to the advent of cinema. Looking at the responses of writers, scholars, clergymen, psychologists, philosophers, members of parliament, and more, the pieces collected here from that period show how Italians developed a common language to describe and discuss this invention that quickly exceeded all expectations and transcended existing categories of thought and artistic forms. The result is a close-up picture of a culture in transition, dealing with a "scandalous" new technology that appeared poised to thoroughly change everyday life.