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The Cinema of Attractions Reloaded
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What have Lumiere in common with Wachowski? More than one hundred years separate these two pairs of brothers who astonished, quite similarly, the film spectator of their respective time with special effects of movement: a train rushing into the audience and a bullet flying in slow motion. Do they belong to the same family of "cinema of attractions"?Twenty years ago Tom Gunning introduced the phrase "cinema of attractions" to define the essence of the earliest films made between 1895 and 1906. His term scored an immediate success, even outside the field of early cinema. The present anthology questions the attractiveness and usefulness of the term for both pre-classical and post-classical cinema.With contributions by the most prominent scholars of this discipline (such as Tom Gunning, Andre Gaudreault, Thomas Elsaesser, Charles Musser, Scott Bukatman and Vivian Sobchack) this volume offers a kaleidoscopic overview of an important historiographical debate.
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- Authors
- Strauven, W.
- Corresponding author
- Strauven, Wanda
- ORCID
- Strauven, Wanda
- Venue
- Amsterdam University Press eBooks
- Publisher
- Amsterdam University Press
- Published
- 2006
- OpenAlex
- W1738574168
- Cited by
- 74
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2022: 1 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 7 · 2017: 6 · 2016: 11 · 2015: 6 · 2014: 11 · 2013: 5 · 2012: 5
- FWCI
- 6.04
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- Licence
- cc-by-nc-nd
- Locations
- Amsterdam University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion)
- UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam) (submittedVersion)
- BiblioBoard Library Catalog (Open Research Library) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Funders
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
- University of Notre Dame
- Universiteit van Amsterdam
- Université de Montréal
- Université de Paris
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Visual Arts and Performing Arts › Cinema History and Criticism
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Visual Arts and Performing Arts › Cinema and Media Studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Visual Arts and Performing Arts › Visual Culture and Art Theory
- Keywords
- cinema of attractions, Tom Gunning, early cinema, film spectatorship, special effects, cinema, film historiography, post-classical cinema, Lumière brothers, Wachowski brothers
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