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Islam, Consciousness and Early Cinema: Said Nursî and the Cinema of God [PDF]
The early 20th century works of Kurdish Islamic thinker Said Nursî explore how cinema can provide access to the divine. Yet, considering the periods of Nursî’s life that were spent in prison, or in exile in remote locations, it is likely that the cinema ...
Canan Balan
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This article is based on a presentation delivered at the 51st Ludmila Verbitskaya International Philological Conference. The study explores the phenomenon of audiovisualization of cabaret culture in silent films of the 1900s to 1920s, examining how it ...
MARTYNOVA DARIA O. / МАРТЫНОВА Д.О.
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A rebel on the comstock: The life and times of actress Lillie Edgington (1856-1917)
By 1880 the theater had become a potent force in American popular culture, a mechanism for social interaction within a community and one that drew actors from outside it.
Susan E. James
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Screening of Asta Nielsen Films in Istanbul
Audiences in Ottoman Istanbul first had the opportunity to watch films in 1896, after the first public film screenings circulated in the world.
Oya Kasap Ortaklan
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The past is always changing: An interview with Tom Gunning
Tom Gunning is one of the most influential and widely cited film historians in the world with over 150 essays and publications on early cinema, the avant-garde, and film genres.
Malte Hagener, Annie van den Oever
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The Displaced ‘Dispositif’ [PDF]
“Dispositif” is a term used in film studies since the 1970s to describe the entire system of mechanical and human factors which together bring about the cinema experience.
Guy Edmonds, Shaun Lewin
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Techniques Developed in Early Cinema to Edit and Choreograph Unscripted Footage
This article explores some of the editing and filming techniques developed in Early Cinema, and that are still valid when choreographing found footage today. The Lumière Brothers started revealing the choreographic nature of daily actions. Georges Méliès
Blas Payri
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Ana Grgić: Early Cinema, Modernity and Visual Culture. The Imaginary of the Balkans
In her new book Early Cinema, Modernity and Visual Culture. The Imaginary of the Balkans, Ana Grgić defines the region as a cultural entity captured at the turn of the twentieth century – a period marked by the culture of modernity sweeping Europe and ...
Delia Enyedi
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Early Cinema in Lithuania: The Emergence of a Cultural Tradition
Leaning on the notions of transnationalism of cinema or Cinema of Small States, this article sets out to evaluate early cinema in the Northwestern Krai of the late 1800s–early 1900s Russian Empire and the region’s largest city, Vilnius, thematically ...
Paškauskas Juozapas
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The marches of Gustave Cauvin – the first systematic and regular form on militant cinema
The role of Gustave Cauvin (1886-1951) in the demarcation of the first phase of militant cinema was, individually, the most striking. This paper aims to present to the Brazilian public, through police reports and militant newspapers and by the work of ...
Luiz Felipe Cezar Mundim
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