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An authoritative and comprehensive guide to cinemas first true blockbuster. Best moving pictures I ever saw. Thus did one vaudeville theater manager describe Georges Mliss A Trip to the Moon [ Le Voyage dans la lune ], after it was screened for enthusiastic audiences in October 1902. Cinemas first blockbuster, A Trip to the Moon still inspires such superlatives and continues to be widely seen more than one hundred years later. In Fantastic Voyages of the Cinematic Imagination , a number of leading film scholars examine Mliss landmark film in detail, demonstrating its many crucial connections to literature, popular culture, and visual culture of the time, as well as its long afterlife in more recent films, music videos, and television. Together, their essays make clear that Mlis should be seen not only as a major filmmaker but also as a key figure in the emergence of modern spectacle. By bringing the interdisciplinary methodologies of early cinema studies to bear on A Trip to the Moon , the books contributors also open up much larger questions about aesthetics, media, and modernity. In his introduction, Matthew Solomon traces the convoluted provenance of the films multiple versions

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Author

Matthew Solomon

Publisher

State University of New York Press] ; Eye Film Institute Netherlands

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781438435824

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Sports, Literary Fiction

Rating

5 / 5 (3 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14