Theatre to Cinema: Stage Pictorialism and the Early Feature FilmThis is the first book-length study for nearly fifty years of the relations between early cinema and nineteenth-century theatre. Incorporating the results of recent reconsiderations of early cinema, Brewster explores what features of nineteenth-century theatre early film-makers borrowed or adapted, and the ways specific characteristics of cinema inflected these borrowings. Theatre to Cinema is a seminal work which will profoundly alter our understanding of early cinema. |
Contents
Situations | 30 |
The Stage Tableau in Uncle Toms Cabin | 37 |
The Fate of the Tableau in the Cinema | 48 |
Copyright | |
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Theatre to Cinema: Stage Pictorialism and the Early Feature Film Ben Brewster,Lea Jacobs Limited preview - 1997 |
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