Performing Arts History & Criticism
Beyond the Screen
Institutions, Networks, and Publics of Early Cinema
- Publisher
- John Libbey Publishing
- Initial publish date
- Aug 2012
- Category
- History & Criticism
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780861967032
- Publish Date
- Aug 2012
- List Price
- $46.00
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Description
The visionaries of early motion pictures thought that movies could do more than just entertain. They imagined the medium had the potential to educate and motivate the audience. In national and local contexts from Europe, North America, and around the world, early filmmakers entered the domains of science and health education, social and religious uplift, labor organizing and political campaigning. Beyond the Screen captures this pioneering vision of the future of cinema.
About the authors
Marta Braun is an internationally known historian of locomotion photography and the beginning of motion pictures. She teaches at Ryerson University in Toronto.
