Body Shots
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19th century american film history
20th century american film history
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bodies in public
bodies in space
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cinema
cinema of attractions
cinema production
corporeal movement
early cinema
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film
film history
film narrative
film studies
human form in motion
movie history
movie studies
movies
persons on public display
presidential candidate
self consciousness
visual art
visual spectacle
william mckinley
Product details
- ISBN 9780520252936
- Weight: 318g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 09 Oct 2007
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This original and compelling book places the body at the center of cinema's first decade of emergence and challenges the idea that for early audiences, the new medium's fascination rested on visual spectacle for its own sake. Instead, as Jonathan Auerbach argues, it was the human form in motion that most profoundly shaped early cinema. Situating his discussion in a political and historical context, Auerbach begins his analysis with films that reveal striking anxieties and preoccupations about persons on public display - both exceptional figures, such as 1896 presidential candidate William McKinley, and ordinary people caught by the movie camera in their daily routines. The result is a sharp, unique, and groundbreaking way to consider the turn-of-the-twentieth-century American incarnation of cinema itself.
Jonathan Auerbach is Professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park and is the author of Male Call: Becoming Jack London (1996) and The Romance of Failure: First-Person Fictions of Poe, Hawthorne, and James (1989).
