| Description |
1 online resource (xxxv, 311 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction: The Perpetual Reinvention of Film; 1. Rubes, Camera Fiends, Filmmakers, and Other Amateurs: The Intermedia Imagination of Early Films; 2. A Cinema without Wires; 3. Eating the Other Medium: Sound Film in the Age of Broadcasting; 4. The Glass Web: Unraveling the Videophobia of Postwar Hollywood Cinema; 5. The Negative Reinvention of Cinema: Late Hollywood in the Early Digital Age; Acknowledgments; Notes; Filmography; Index |
| Summary |
Paul Young looks at the American cinema's imaginative constructions of three electronic mediaradio, television, and the Internetat the times when these media seemed to hold limitless possibilities. The Cinema Dreams Its Rivals demonstrates that Hollywood is marked by the advent of each new medium, but conversely, the identities of the media are themselves changed as Hollywood turns them to its own purposes |
| Notes |
"Chapter 5 first appeared in a slightly different and shorter form as 'The Negative Reinvention of Cinema: Late Hollywood in the Early Digital Age, ' Convergence: The Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 5, no. 2 (1999): 24-50, guest edited by Ross Harley. Reprinted with permission"--Title page verso |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-284) and index |
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Filmography: pages 285-288 |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Mass media in motion pictures.
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Fantasy films -- History and criticism
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism.
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Fantasy films
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Mass media in motion pictures
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2005035510 |
| ISBN |
9780816691685 |
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0816691681 |
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