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Early Film Theories in Italy, 1896-1922
The Little Magic Machine
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Edited by:
Francesco Casetti
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2017
About this book
An exploration of Italian culture in transition during the advent of cinema, as this 'scandalous' new technology appeared poised to thoroughly change everyday life.
Author / Editor information
Casetti Francesco :
Francesco Casetti is the Thomas E. Donnelly Professor of Humanities and Film and Media Studies at Yale University.Alovisio Silvio :
Silvio Alovisio is Assistant Professor of Film at University of Torino. He is extensively working on Italian silent cinema and early film theories. He is the author of some ten essays and books, among which The 'Pastrone System': Itala Film from the Origins to World War 1, and L'occhio sensibile (The Responsive Eye) on cinema and psycho/physiology.Mazzei Luca :
Luca Mazzei is Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Film at University of Roma "Tor Vergata". He currently works on early film theories, novels on film, and the role of cinema during the war against the Ottoman Empire (1911). He is the co-editor of Lucio d'Ambra il cinema (co-ed. with A. Aprà) and Microteorie. Cinema Muto Italiano (co-ed. with L. Quaresima).
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Frontmatter
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Table of Contents
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The Throb of the Cinematograph
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Cinema and Modern Life
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Cinematography
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The Philosophy of Cinematograph
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Summertime Spectacles: The Cinema
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Why I Love the Cinema
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The Movie Theatre Audience
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The Art of Celluloid
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The Triumph of the Cinema
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The Death of the Word
75 - Section 2
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Film in Transition
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The Museum of the Fleeting Moment
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The Woman and the Cinema
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Darkness and Intelligence
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A Spectatrix is Speaking to You
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Motion Pictures in Provincial Towns
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Cinematic Psychology
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The Cinematograph Doesn’t Exist
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The Cinema: School of the Will and of Energy
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The Close-up
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The Soul of Titles
140 - Section 3
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Cinema at War
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The War, from Up Close
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That Poor Cinema...
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Families of Soldiers
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War for the Profit of Industry
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The War and Cinematograph
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Max Linder Dies in The War
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Cinema of War
176 - Section 4
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Politics, Morality, Education
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The Motion Pictures and Education
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The Intuitive Method in Religious Education
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The Cinema and Its Influence on the Education of the People
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The Cinematograph in the Schools
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Speech at the People’s Theatre
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Cinema for the Cultivation of the Intellect
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Educational Cinema
244 - Section 5
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Film, Body, Mind
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Collective Psychology
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About Some Psychological Observations Made During Film Screenings
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Concerning the Effects of Film Viewing on Neurotic Individuals
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The Ongoing Battle between Gesture and Word
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The Cinematograph in the Field of Mental Illness and Criminality: Notes
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Cinema and Juvenile Delinquency
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The Aesthetic Side
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Problems of Art: Expression and Movement in Sculpture
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Scenic Impressionism
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The Aesthetics of Cinema
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The Poetics of Cinema
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Manifesto for a Cinematic Revolution
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Theatre and the Cinema
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The Futurist Cinematography
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In the Beginning Was Sex…
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Rectangle-Film (25 x 19)
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The Proscenium Arch of My Cinema
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My Views on the Cinematograph
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Meditations in the Dark
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Theory in a Narrative Form
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Colour Film
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At the Cinema
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A Phantom Pursued
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Miopetti’s Duel
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Pamela-Films
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Feature Film
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Me, Rirì, and Love in Slippers
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A Cinematic Performance
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Life, a Glass Theatre
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The Shears’ Reflection
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Sources
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Author Biographies
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General Bibliography
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Acknowledgements
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About the Editors
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Index of Names
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Index of Concepts
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Index of Films
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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
October 22, 2018
eBook ISBN:
9789048527106
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
512
eBook ISBN:
9789048527106
Keywords for this book
early film theories; social impact of cinema; cinema and philosophy; cinema and psychology; cinema and war
Audience(s) for this book
Professional and scholarly;
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