The birth of cinema coincided with the heyday of the short story. This book studies the relationship between popular magazine short stories and the very early British films.
Reading the Cinematograph: Introduction, Andrew Shail
Story 1: Our Detective Story (24 January 1897) by Dagonet [George R. Sims]
Chapter 1: George R. Sims and the Film as Evidence, Stephen Bottomore
Story 2: The Awful Story of Heley Croft (20 May 1899) by A.S. Appelbee
Chapter 2: Cinema Re-Mystified: A.S. Appelbee's Technological Ghost Story, David Trotter and Chris O'Rourke
Story 3: Colonel Rankin's Advertisement (December 1901) by Raymond Rayne
Chapter 3: The Great American Kinetograph: News, Fakery and the Boer War, Andrew Shail
Story 4: Mrs Bathurst (September 1904) by Rudyard Kipling
Chapter 4: "The Very Thing": Rudyard Kipling's 'Mrs Bathurst', Tom Gunning
Story 5: The Green Spider (October 1904) by A[rthur Henry] Sarsfield Ward, a.k.a. Sax Rohmer
Chapter 5: 'Only from the Senses': Detection, Early Cinema and a Giant Green Spider, Stacy Gillis
Story 6: Romantic Lucy (Summer 1911) by Alphonse Courlander
Chapter 6: "She Had So Many Appearances": Alphonse Courlander and the Birth of the 'Moving Picture Girl, Jon Burrows
Story 7: Love and the Bioscope: A Heart-Thrilling Story of a Deserted Bride (8 June 1912) by Mrs H.J. Bickle
Chapter 7: Melodrama, Sensation and the Discourse of Modernity in 'Love and the Bioscope', Lise Shapiro Sanders
Story 8; The Sense of Touch (December 1912) by Ole Luk-Oie [Ernest Dunlop Swinton]
Chapter 8: A visit to the cinema in 1912: 'The Sense of Touch', Andrew Higson
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Reading the Cinematograph von Andrew Shail - mit der ISBN: 9780859899420
FICTION / Short Stories (single author); HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General; HISTORY / Europe / Ireland; HISTORY / Social History; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; Britsh cinema; Heyday of the short story; Mrs. H.J. Bickle; Raymond Rayne; Rudyard Kipling; Sax Rohmer; cinematograph; early cinema; entertainment institution; film history; film studies; literary studies; magazine short stories; popular culture; short fiction; short stories; touchstones, Online-Buchhandlung
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