The cinema of attractions reloaded /
The cinema of attractions reloaded /
edited by Wanda Strauven.
- Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2006.
- 460 p. : 25 cm.
- Film culture in transition .
Includes bibliographical reference and index.
Introduction to an Attractive Concept / Theory formation ["The Cinema of Attractions"] -- Attractions: How They Came into the World / A Rational Reconstruction of "The Cinema of Attractions" / The Cinema of Attractions as Dispositif / Spectacle, Attractions and Visual Pleasure / Attraction theories and terminologies ["Early Film"] -- From "Primitive Cinema" to "Kine-Attractography" / From "Primitive Cinema" to "Marvelous" / The Attraction of the Intelligent Eye: Obsessions with the Vision Machine in Early Film Theories / Rhythmic Bodies/Movies: Dance as Attraction in Early Film Culture / Audiences and attractions ["Its Spectator"] -- A Cinema of Contemplation, A Cinema of Discernment: Spectatorship, Intertextuality and Attractions in the 1890s / The Lecturer and the Attraction / Integrated Attractions: Style and Spectatorship in Transitional Cinema / Discipline through Diegesis: The Rube Film between "Attraction" and "Narrative Integration" / Attraction practices through history [“The Avant-Garde": section 1] -- Circularity and Repetition at the Heart of the Attraction: Optical Toys and the Emergence of a New Cultural Series / Lumière, the Train and the Avant-Garde / Programming Attractions: Avant-Garde Exhibition Practice in the 1920s and 1930s / The Associational Attractions of the Musical / Digital media and (un)tamed attractions ["The Avant-Garde": section 2] -- Chez le Photographe c'est chez moi: Relationship of Actor and Filmed Subject to Camera in Early Film and Virtual Reality Spaces / The Hollywood Cobweb: New Laws of Attraction / Figures of Sensation: Between Still and Moving Images / "Cutting to the Quick": Techne, Physis, and Poiesis and the Attractions of Slow Motion / Dossier -- Pie and Chase: Gag, Spectacle and Narrative in Slapstick Comedy / Early Cinema as a Challenge to Film History / The Cinema of Attraction[s]: Early Film, Its Spectator and the Avant-Garde / Rethinking Early Cinema: Cinema of Attractions and Narrativity / Wanda Strauven -- Tom Gunning -- Warren Buckland -- Frank Kessler -- Scott Bukatman -- André Gaudreault -- Wanda Strauven -- Viva Paci -- Laurent Guido -- Charles Musser -- Germain Lacasse -- Charlie Keil -- Thomas Elsaesser -- Nicolas Dulac and André Gaudreault -- Christa Blümlinger. Malte Hagener -- Pierre-Emmanuel Jaques -- Alison McMahan -- Dick Tomasovic -- Eivind Rossaak. Vivian Sobchack -- Donald Crafton -- Andre Gaudreault and Tom Gunning -- Tom Gunning -- Charles Musser.
Twenty years ago, noted film scholars Tom Gunning and André Gaudreault introduced the phrase "cinema of attractions" to describe the essential qualities of films made in the medium's earliest days, those produced between 1895 and 1906. Now, The Cinema of Attractions Reloaded critically examines the term and its subsequent wide-ranging use in film studies.
The collection opens with a history of the term, tracing the collaboration between Gaudreault and Gunning, the genesis of the term in their attempts to explain the spectacular effects of motion that lay at the heart of early cinema, and the pair's debts to Sergei Eisenstein and others. This reconstruction is followed by a look at applications of the term to more recent film productions, from the works of the Wachowski brothers to virtual reality and video games.
With essays by an impressive collection of international film scholars – and featuring contributions by Gunning and Gaudreault as well – The Cinema of Attractions Reloaded will be necessary reading for all scholars of early film and its continuing influence.
9789053569443 9053569448
Motion pictures--History
Experimental films--History and criticism
Motion picture audiences
791.4309
Includes bibliographical reference and index.
Introduction to an Attractive Concept / Theory formation ["The Cinema of Attractions"] -- Attractions: How They Came into the World / A Rational Reconstruction of "The Cinema of Attractions" / The Cinema of Attractions as Dispositif / Spectacle, Attractions and Visual Pleasure / Attraction theories and terminologies ["Early Film"] -- From "Primitive Cinema" to "Kine-Attractography" / From "Primitive Cinema" to "Marvelous" / The Attraction of the Intelligent Eye: Obsessions with the Vision Machine in Early Film Theories / Rhythmic Bodies/Movies: Dance as Attraction in Early Film Culture / Audiences and attractions ["Its Spectator"] -- A Cinema of Contemplation, A Cinema of Discernment: Spectatorship, Intertextuality and Attractions in the 1890s / The Lecturer and the Attraction / Integrated Attractions: Style and Spectatorship in Transitional Cinema / Discipline through Diegesis: The Rube Film between "Attraction" and "Narrative Integration" / Attraction practices through history [“The Avant-Garde": section 1] -- Circularity and Repetition at the Heart of the Attraction: Optical Toys and the Emergence of a New Cultural Series / Lumière, the Train and the Avant-Garde / Programming Attractions: Avant-Garde Exhibition Practice in the 1920s and 1930s / The Associational Attractions of the Musical / Digital media and (un)tamed attractions ["The Avant-Garde": section 2] -- Chez le Photographe c'est chez moi: Relationship of Actor and Filmed Subject to Camera in Early Film and Virtual Reality Spaces / The Hollywood Cobweb: New Laws of Attraction / Figures of Sensation: Between Still and Moving Images / "Cutting to the Quick": Techne, Physis, and Poiesis and the Attractions of Slow Motion / Dossier -- Pie and Chase: Gag, Spectacle and Narrative in Slapstick Comedy / Early Cinema as a Challenge to Film History / The Cinema of Attraction[s]: Early Film, Its Spectator and the Avant-Garde / Rethinking Early Cinema: Cinema of Attractions and Narrativity / Wanda Strauven -- Tom Gunning -- Warren Buckland -- Frank Kessler -- Scott Bukatman -- André Gaudreault -- Wanda Strauven -- Viva Paci -- Laurent Guido -- Charles Musser -- Germain Lacasse -- Charlie Keil -- Thomas Elsaesser -- Nicolas Dulac and André Gaudreault -- Christa Blümlinger. Malte Hagener -- Pierre-Emmanuel Jaques -- Alison McMahan -- Dick Tomasovic -- Eivind Rossaak. Vivian Sobchack -- Donald Crafton -- Andre Gaudreault and Tom Gunning -- Tom Gunning -- Charles Musser.
Twenty years ago, noted film scholars Tom Gunning and André Gaudreault introduced the phrase "cinema of attractions" to describe the essential qualities of films made in the medium's earliest days, those produced between 1895 and 1906. Now, The Cinema of Attractions Reloaded critically examines the term and its subsequent wide-ranging use in film studies.
The collection opens with a history of the term, tracing the collaboration between Gaudreault and Gunning, the genesis of the term in their attempts to explain the spectacular effects of motion that lay at the heart of early cinema, and the pair's debts to Sergei Eisenstein and others. This reconstruction is followed by a look at applications of the term to more recent film productions, from the works of the Wachowski brothers to virtual reality and video games.
With essays by an impressive collection of international film scholars – and featuring contributions by Gunning and Gaudreault as well – The Cinema of Attractions Reloaded will be necessary reading for all scholars of early film and its continuing influence.
9789053569443 9053569448
Motion pictures--History
Experimental films--History and criticism
Motion picture audiences
791.4309