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People who saw the first moving pictures at the end of the nineteenth century were delighted by a new art that communicated without words yet they were also alarmed to be witnessing events in a strange, mute, spectral realm, where the laws of time and space were suspended and magical transformations could occur. Some early commentators hailed cinema as a blessing and praised it for resurrecting the dead; others likened it to a hypnotic trance or a hallucinogenic drug. The medium has always been
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- Author
- Peter Conrad
- Publisher
- Thames and Hudson Ltd
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780500776377
- Category
- art
- Subjects
- Fiction, History, Humour
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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