The Titanic And Silent Cinema

Author : Stephen Bottomore
Publisher : The Projection Box
ISBN 13 : 9781903000007
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Titanic and Silent Cinema written by Stephen Bottomore and published by The Projection Box. This book was released on 2000 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Number nine in a series of monographs on pre-cinema and early film."

Author : Tim Bergfelder
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857717383
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Titanic in Myth and Memory written by Tim Bergfelder and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2004-08-27 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its maiden voyage and sinking in April 1912, Titanic has become a monumental icon of the 20th century and has inspired a wealth of interpretations across literature, art and media. This book offers a comprehensive discussion of the diverse representations of the connections and differences in the way generations of artists and audiences have approached and used the tragedy. In the final section is an in-depth study of James Cameron's blockbuster film "Titanic".

Author : Annette Förster
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 9048524512
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women in the Silent Cinema written by Annette Förster and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This magisterial book offers comprehensive accounts of the professional itineraries of three women in the silent film in the Netherlands, France and North America. Annette Förster presents a careful assessment of the long career of Dutch stage and film actress Adriënne Solser; an exploration of the stage and screen careers of French actress and filmmaker Musidora and Canadian-born actress and filmmaker Nell Shipman; an analysis of the interaction between the popular stage and the silent cinema from the perspective of women at work in both realms; fresh insights into Dutch stage and screen comedy, the French revue and the American Northwest drama of the 1910s; and much more, all grounded in a wealth of archival research.

Author : Frank T. Thompson
Publisher : Carol Publishing Corporation
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost Films written by Frank T. Thompson and published by Carol Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 1996 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Lost Films, Frank Thompson examines twenty-seven classic movies made between 1911 and the end of the silent era, including such works of genius as Ernst Lubitsch's The Patriot, Raoul Walsh's The Conquerer, Victor Seastrom's Garbo vehicle The Divine Woman, and F.W. Murnau's Four Devils.

Author : Linda Maria Koldau
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786490373
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Titanic on Film written by Linda Maria Koldau and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The narrative surrounding the Titanic's voyage, collision, and sinking in April 1912 seems tailor-made for film. With clear categories of gender, class, nationality, and religion, the dominating Titanic myth offers a wealth of motifs ripe for the silver screen-heroism, melodrama, love, despair, pleasure, pain, failure, triumph, memory and eternal guilt. This volume provides a detailed overview of Titanic films from 1912 to the present and analyzes the six major Titanic films, including the 1943 Nazi propaganda production, the 1953 Hollywood film, the 1958 British docudrama A Night to Remember, the 1979 TV production S.O.S. Titanic, the 1996 mini-series Titanic, and James Cameron's 1997 blockbuster. By showing how each film follows and builds on a pattern of fixed scenes, motifs and details defined as the "Titanic code," this work yields telling insights into why this specific disaster has maintained such great relevance into the 21st century.

Author : Bill Kovarik
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1628924780
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Revolutions in Communication written by Bill Kovarik and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revolutions in Communication offers a new approach to media history, presenting an encyclopedic look at the way technological change has linked social and ideological communities. Using key figures in history to benchmark the chronology of technical innovation, Kovarik's exhaustive scholarship narrates the story of revolutions in printing, electronic communication and digital information, while drawing parallels between the past and present. Updated to reflect new research that has surfaced these past few years, Revolutions in Communication continues to provide students and teachers with the most readable history of communications, while including enough international perspective to get the most accurate sense of the field. The supplemental reading materials on the companion website include slideshows, podcasts and video demonstration plans in order to facilitate further reading.

Author : Michael Wedel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110613557
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pictorial Affects, Senses of Rupture written by Michael Wedel and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-05-20 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: German film in the Wilhelmine and Weimar periods is regarded as marked by a strong sense of cultural conservatism and the aspiration to be recognized as an art form. This book takes an alternative approach to the history of German cinema from the emergence of the early feature film to the transition to sound by focusing on the poetics of popular genres such as the disaster film, melodrama, the musical and the war film, exploring their cultural reverberations and modes of audience address. Based on the assumption that popular cinema contributed immensely to the breakthrough of a modern audiovisual "culture of the senses" in Germany between 1910 and 1930, Pictorial Affects, Senses of Rupture offers close readings of a number of rarely analyzed films, including one of the first cinematic adaptations of the Titanic disaster from 1912 and the German version of All Quiet on the Western Front from 1930. Restoring the films' horizons of historicity by locating them at crucial points of intersection between social, cultural, technological and aesthetic discourses, this book argues for the prominent role popular German cinema’s own forms of discursivity have played within the historical formation of modernity.

Author : Julie Brown
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199797544
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sounds of the Silents in Britain written by Julie Brown and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early cinemas were noisy places with pianos, organs, ensembles of all varieties and sometimes full orchestras accompanied films. Britain, a key cultural player in the entertainment world both at the time and now, has a different history than the US of musical cultures and film production.

Author : L. Enticknap
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113732872X
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Film Restoration written by L. Enticknap and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-11-13 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first monograph-length work intended to enable readers with a humanities background and the general public to understand what the processes and techniques of film restoration do and do not involve, attempting to integrate systematically a discussion about related technological and cultural issues.

Author : Daniel Stone
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593329376
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sinkable written by Daniel Stone and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the national bestselling author of The Food Explorer, a fascinating and rollicking plunge into the story of the world’s most famous shipwreck, the RMS Titanic On a frigid April night in 1912, the world’s largest—and soon most famous—ocean liner struck an iceberg and slipped beneath the waves. She had scarcely disappeared before her new journey began, a seemingly limitless odyssey through the world’s fixation with her every tragic detail. Plans to find and raise the Titanic began almost immediately. Yet seven decades passed before it was found. Why? And of some three million shipwrecks that litter the ocean floor, why is the world still so fascinated with this one? In Sinkable, Daniel Stone spins a fascinating tale of history, science, and obsession, uncovering the untold story of the Titanic not as a ship but as a shipwreck. He explores generations of eccentrics, like American Charles Smith, whose 1914 recovery plan using a synchronized armada of ships bearing electromagnets was complex, convincing, and utterly impossible; Jack Grimm, a Texas oil magnate who fruitlessly dropped a fortune to find the wreck after failing to find Noah’s Ark; and the British Doug Woolley, a former pantyhose factory worker who has claimed, since the 1960s, to be the true owner of the Titanic wreckage. Along the way, Sinkable takes readers through the two miles of ocean water in which the Titanic sank, showing how the ship broke apart and why, and delves into the odd history of our understanding of such depths. Author Daniel Stone studies the landscape of the seabed, which in the Titanic’s day was thought to be as smooth and featureless as a bathtub. He interviews scientists to understand the decades of rust and decomposition that are slowly but surely consuming the ship. (It is expected to disappear entirely within a few decades!) He even journeys over the Atlantic, during a global pandemic, to track down the elusive Doug Woolley. And Stone turns inward, looking at his own dark obsession with both the Titanic and shipwrecks in general, and why he spends hours watching ships sink on YouTube. Brimming with humor, curiosity and wit, Sinkable follows in the tradition of Susan Orlean and Bill Bryson, offering up a page-turning work of personal journalism and an immensely entertaining romp through the deep sea and the nature of obsession.