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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Matthew SolomonPublisher: State University of New York Press Imprint: State University of New York Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.390kg ISBN: 9781438435800ISBN 10: 1438435800 Pages: 271 Publication Date: 01 May 2011 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. A Trip to the Movies: Georges Melies, Filmmaker and Magician (1861-1938) 2. Theatricality, Narrativity, and Trickality: Reevaluating the Cinema of Georges Melies 3. A Trip to the Moon: A Composite Film 4. First-Footing on the Moon: Melies's Debt to Verne and Wells and His Influence in Great Britain 5. ""Distance Does Not Exist"": Melies, le Cinema, and the Moon 6. Shooting into Outer Space: Reframing Modern Vision 7. A Trip to the Moon as Feerie 8. A Trip to the Moon as an American Phenomenon 9. A Trip to the Fair; or, Moon-Walking in Space 10. The Stars Might Be Smiling: A Feminist Forage into a Famous Film 11. Impossible Voyages and Extraordinary Adventures in Early Science Fiction Cinema: From Robida to Melies and Marcel Fabre 12. No One-Way Ticket to the Moon Appendix A Fantastical ... Trip to the Moon Georges Melies, ""Answer to Questionary [sic]"" Georges Melies, ""The Marvelous in the Cinema"" Georges Melies, ""The Importance of the Script"" List of Contributors Index"ReviewsMatthew Solomon ... deserves much credit for making the point that the study of an individual film by a range of scholars ought to find a larger place among the more traditional auteur and genre studies. - Film History This superbly conceived collection enhances understanding of a keystone film ... Excellent early-cinema scholars ... illuminate [Melies's] articulate artistic credo and his meticulous and inventive practice of the new art form ... A necessary addition to comprehensive film collections. - CHOICE This is a welcome addition to the field of early film history. It does that wonderful thing that the best film histories do-it points out the relevance of its subject to areas beyond cinema studies. In this case the focus on one filmmaker affords a deeper understanding of not only Melies and the context of his work, but also its impact on aesthetic and critical debates ranging from the avant-garde of the early twentieth century to those concerning technology and vision in the twenty-first century. - Michael Hammond, author of The Big Show: British Cinema Culture in the Great War, 1914-1918 While focusing on A Trip to the Moon, the book highlights such diverse issues as the film's artistic sources, its historical reception over time, its place within the career of Melies, and its relation to other works of cinema. - Lucy Fischer, author of Designing Women: Cinema, Art Deco, and the Female Form Author InformationMatthew Solomon is Associate Professor of Cinema Studies at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York. He is the author of Disappearing Tricks: Silent Films, Houdini, and the New Magic of the Twentieth Century. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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