2006, ISBN: 905356831X

[EAN: 9789053568316], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Amsterdam University Press], AESTHETIC ALBERT KAHN ACTING STYLE ADAPTATION AM&B AMERICAN KINEMA ARCHIVAL POETICS AUTHENTICITY CRI… Meer...

[EAN: 9789053568316], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Amsterdam University Press], AESTHETIC ALBERT KAHN ACTING STYLE ADAPTATION AM&B AMERICAN KINEMA ARCHIVAL POETICS AUTHENTICITY CRITICISM ANACHRONISM ANACHRONISTIC ARCHIVE ATTRACTIONS AUTHENTIC BRICOLAGE BUFFALO BILL CAPTIVITY NARRATIVE CENSORSHIP CHASE CLASS COMEDY COMIC COMICAL COMMODITY COMMODIFICATION COSTUME CROSS DRESSING CAMERA CHARACTER COLLECTION CONCEPT CONTEMPORARY CONTEXT CORPUS COWBOY MILLIONAIRE COWBOYS DIME NOVELS DISCOURSE SELF DECONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTARY EARLY CINEMA EDISON FILMS EFFECT ETHNOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION EDUCATION ELSEWHEN ENTERTAINMENT EPISTEMOLOGY ETHNOGRAPHY EXOTIC EXOTICISM FEATURE FILMIC FOREGROUND FRAGMENT FRONTIER FRAGMENTATION GENRE GENDER HISTORICAL HETEROGENEITY HISTORIOGRAPHY HUMOR HUMOUR HYPERTEXT HYPERTEXTUALITY INDIAN INSTANT NOSTALGIA INTERTEXTUAL IDEOLOGY INTERTEXT INTERTEXTUALITY KALEIDOSCOPIC KALEM KALEIDOSCOPE MEANING MEDIUM METAPHOR MODE MODERN MOTOGRAPHY MOVING IMAGE PICTURE WORLD METHODOLOGY MOBILITY MUSEIFICATION MYTH MYTHOGRAPHY NICKELODEON NONFICTION NATIONALISM OPPOSITION OTHERNESS PAN EXPOSITION PARODY PATHÉ FRÈRES PHANTOM RIDE PICTURESQUE PLAY PLOT PRACTICE PRODUCTION PANORAMA PERFORMANCE PERFORMING PHOTOGRAPHY REALISM REPRESENTATION RHETORIC SCENES SELIG SENSE SHOT SPECIFIC SPECTACLE STORY STRATEGIES SYNECDOCHE TEMPORAL THRILL URBAN VIEWER VISUAL CULTURE VITAGRAPH WILD WEST SHOW WOMEN, Paperback, 459 pages, NOT ex-library. Light handling wear, gentle wear to tips of corners. Book is clean and bright with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. -- The Western film is inextricably tied to American culture: untamed landscapes, fiercely independent characters, and an unwavering distinction between good and evil. Yet Westerns began in the early twentieth century as far more fluid works of comedy, adventure, and historical explorations of the frontier landscape. Nanna Verhoeff examines here the earliest films made in the Western genre and proposes the thought-provoking argument that these little-studied films demand new ways of considering Westerns and the history of cinema. -- Verhoeff analyzes the earliest American and European Westerns - made between 1894 and 1915 - and finds them to be an international repository for anxieties about modernity and identity, not the instructional morality tales we assume them to be. She draws on an array of archival materials - photography, paintings, Wild West shows, popular ethnographic studies, and pulp literature - to locate these early Westerns more precisely in their original social and cultural contexts. These early films - which coincided with the 'closing' of the West and rises in rates of immigration, railroad travel, and urbanization - drove the transformation of film, Verhoeff argues, from just another new technology into the dominant cultural vehicle for dealing with issues of national and personal nostalgia, as well as uncertainty in the face of modernity. From these fragmentary early films Verhoeff extracts a rich historical analysis that radically reorients our view of the first two decades of cinema history in America and provocatively connects the evolution of Westerns to our transition today into a new media culture. -- Contents: After the Beginning; 1. After-effects [Bits & Pieces; City Limits; Deconstructing the Other; Easterns; Facts and Fictions; Genre]; 2. Coincidences [History Lessons; Instant Nostalgia; Jeopardy; Kaleidoscopic Worlds; Landscapes; Modernities]; 3. Strategies [Narrativity; Old Timers; Picture Postcards; Questioning Categories; Riding the Wilderness; Spectacle; Time Travel]; 4. Practices [Universal Ambition; Virtual Museums; Wild West Show; X-Rated; Young Wild Women; Zooming In, Zapping, Zooming Out]; List of illustrations; Fimography; Bibliography; Index, Books<