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Body Shots : Early Cinema’s Incarnations by Jonathan Auerbach is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Body Shots : Early Cinema’s Incarnations about?

This original and compelling book places the body at the center of cinema's first decade of emergence and challenges the idea that for early audiences, the new medium's fascination rested on visual spectacle for its own sake. Instead, as Jonathan Auerbach argues, it was the human form in motion that most profoundly shaped early cinema. Situating his discussion in a political and historical context, Auerbach begins his analysis with films that reveal striking anxieties and preoccupations about persons on public display—both exceptional figures, such as 1896 presidential candidate William McKinley, and ordinary people caught by the movie camera in their daily routines. The result is a sharp, unique, and groundbreaking way to consider the turn-of-the-twentieth-century American incarnation of cinema itself.

Who reads Body Shots : Early Cinema’s Incarnations?

Author

Jonathan Auerbach

Publisher

University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton, University of California Press

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9781435611450

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Performing Arts, Sports