Body Shots Early Cinema's Incarnations

This original and compelling book places the body at the center of cinema's first decade of emergence and challenges the idea that for early audiences, the new medium's fascination rested on visual spectacle for its own sake. Instead, as Jonathan Auerbach argues, it was the human form in motion that most profoundly shaped early cinema. Situating his discussion in a political and historical context, Auerbach begins his analysis with films that reveal striking anxieties and preoccupations about persons on public display-both exceptional figures, such as 1896 presidential candidate William McKinley, and ordinary people caught by the movie camera in their daily routines. The result is a sharp, unique, and groundbreaking way to consider the turn-of-the-twentieth-century American incarnation of cinema itself.

ISBN:	9780520252936
Publisher:	University of California Press
Imprint:	University of California Press
Published date:	09 Oct 2007
DEWEY:	791.43656109041
DEWEY edition:	22
Language:	English
Number of pages:	208
Weight:	302g
Height:	155mm
Width:	229mm
Spine width:	14mm

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