| Description |
1 online resource (459 pages) : illustrations |
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Film culture in transition |
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Film culture in transition.
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1. After-effects. Bits & Pieces -- City Limits -- Deconstructing the Other -- Easterns -- Facts and Fictions -- Genre -- 2. Coincidences. History Lessons -- Instant Nostalgia -- Jeopardy -- KaleidoscopicWorlds -- Landscapes -- Modernities -- 3. Strategies. Narrativity -- Old Timers -- Picture Postcards -- Questioning Categories -- Riding the Wilderness -- Spectacle -- Time Travel -- 4. Practices. Universal Ambition -- Virtual Museums -- WildWest Show -- X-Rated -- YoungWildWomen -- Zooming In, Zapping, Zooming Out |
| Summary |
Verhoeff investigates the emergence of the western genre, made in the first two decades of cinema (1895-1915). By analyzing many unknown and forgotten films from international archives she traces the relationships between films about the American West, their surrounding films, and other popular media such as photography, painting, (pulp) literature, Wild West Shows and popular ethnography. Through this exploration of archival material she raises new questions of historiography and provides a model for historical analysis. These first traces of the Western film reveal a preoccupation with presence and actuality that informs us about the way in which film, as new medium, took shape within the context of its contemporary visual culture |
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In The West in Early Cinema gaat Nanna Verhoeff op zoek naar de nog onbekende beginjaren van het westerngenre tijdens de eerste twee decennia van het medium film 1895-1915). Aan de hand van onbekende en vergeten films uit internationale filmarchieven traceert zij de relaties tussen films over het Westen, omringende filmgenres uit deze periode, en andere populaire media als fotografie, schilderkunst, (pulp)literatuur, Wild West Shows en populaire etnografie. Deze sporen van het genre tonen een grote actualiteit en variatie, die laat zien op welke manier de film als nieuw medium een vorm vond binnen de toenmalige visuele cultuur |
| Analysis |
Multi-User |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- History.
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Western films -- History and criticism
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The arts.
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Film, TV and radio.
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Films, cinema.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
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Motion pictures.
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Western films.
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Western Film
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Kultur
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Films.
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Wild-westfilms.
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Motieven (kunst)
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Wilder Westen
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USA.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1423785282 |
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9781423785286 |
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9781429454612 |
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142945461X |
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9789053568316 |
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905356831X |
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9789048509744 |
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9048509742 |
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1280958278 |
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9781280958274 |
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9786610958276 |
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6610958270 |
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