Marketing Modernity: Victorian Popular Shows and Early Cinema

by Joe Kember

In this innovative study of early film exhibition, Joe Kember demonstrates that prior to the emergence of a specific discipline of screen acting and the arrival of picture personalities, the early cinema inherited its human dimensions from diverse earlier traditions of performance, from the magic lantern lecture to the fairground and variety theatre. Uncovering new sources, including previously neglected films, industrial documentation, memoirs, trade...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0859898016
• ISBN13: 9780859898010
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: University of Exeter Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.6" x 9.5"