A Space and Time Machine: Actuality Cinema in New York City, 1890s to c. 1905

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A Space and Time Machine: Actuality Cinema in New York City, 1890s to c. 1905

Urban actuality films are short, single shot views of street scenes, skyscrapers or construction sites, or views from moving vehicles. They are, typically, regarded as simple filmic snap-shots. Conversely, early cinema is conventionally thought to be a complex hybrid medium, a crucible for the idea...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Walsh, John
Format:	Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:	English
Published:	2005
Subjects:	early cinema early film actuality cinema actuailty film New York City skyscraper Flatiron Building vision visuality visual culture ways of seeing representation cultural history photography intermedial intermediality temporality temporal simultaneity
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/10142/

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