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| Celebrating 1895 |
The Centenary of Cinema John
Fullerton
In June 1995 a major international conference Celebrating 1895 was held at the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in the UK. Over 60 wide-ranging papers devoted to filmmaking during the first quarter century of cinema were presented to delegates from 15 countries. Celebrating 1895: The Centenary of Cinema presents twenty-seven of the finest papers covering five key areas of cinema scholarship. In the first part of the collection - 'Inscribing a New Technology' the papers discuss the reception of film as new technology or characterise institutional agendas that were developed for the preservation of the medium. The second section - 'Exhibition and Audiences' - draws together a number of papers that challenge current understanding of the exhibition context. The third section - 'Popular Culture' - looks at early film and its relation to popular culture and the fourth part - 'Cultural Representation' - is concerned with the ways in which the new medium threw into disarray earlier definitions of the public and private spheres. The final part of Celebrating 1895 - 'Reconsidering Formal Histories' - offers a reconsideration of the formal development of the medium. Celebrating 1895 focuses, then, on the study of early cinema in the context of advancing and refining some of the paradigms available for studying the medium. What becomes evident, however, from this collection of essays is not so much the ground that has been covered as the terrain that remains to be revealed, let alone charted. From these essays, perhaps the most pressing area of concern remains the interrelation of reception and the formal development of the medium. Contributors to Celebrating 1895 include: Michael Harvey, Marek Hendrykowski, Simon Popple, Deac Rossell, Elü bieta Ostrowska, Richard Abel, Vanessa Toulmin, Mats Björkin, Alan Burton, William Uricchio, Roberta E Pearson, Nicholas Hiley, Stephen Johnson, Richard Crangle, Casper Tybjerg, Karen J Kenkel, Constance Balides, Stephen Bottomore, Andrew Higson, Alison Griffiths, Frank Gray, Clodualdo del Mundo Jnr, Kristin Thompson, Jan Olsson, Ben Brewster, Lea Jacobs and Thomas Elsaesser. Contents: The Cinematography Collection of
the National Museum of Photography, Film & Television; Kazimierz
Prószy½ski and the origins of Polish cinematography; 'Cinema Wasn't
Invented, It Growed': Technological Film Historiography Before 1913;
Double Think: The Cinema and Magic Lantern Culture; Early Film Theory in
Poland: The Work of Karol Irzykowski; Guarding the Borders in Early
Cinema: The Shifting Ground of French-American Relations; Women Bioscope
Proprietors - Before the First World War; Swedish 'Quality' Film: The
Production Output of Orientaliska Teatern, 1911-1912; The Emergence of an
Alternative Film Culture; Corruption, Criminality and the Nickelodeon; 'At
the Picture Palace': The British Cinema Audience, 1895-1920; The Depiction
of Hispanics and Other Races and Ethnicities in United States Film,
1895-1920; Bad Boy: Notes on a Popular Figure in American Cinema, Culture
and Society, 1895-1905; Translating the Tom Show; Saturday Night at the
X-Rays; Stunt-Stories: The Sensation Film Genre in Denmark; The
Nationalisation of the Mass Spectator in Early German Film; Character as
Economics: Fordism, The Consuming Housewife, and The Cheat; 'She's just
like my granny! Where's her crown?' Monarchs and Movies, 1896-1916;
Heritage Discourses and British Cinema Before 1920; 'Animated Geography':
Early Cinema at the American Museum of Natural History; James Williamson's
'Composed Picture': Attack on a China Mission - Bluejackets to the Rescue
(1900); The 'Philopene' Through Gringo Eyes; Na |
