The End of Cinema?: A Medium in Crisis in the Digital Age (Film and Culture Series)

Is a film watched on a video screen still cinema? Have digital compositing, motion capture, and other advanced technologies remade or obliterated the craft? Rooted in their hypothesis of the "double birth of media," André Gaudreault and Philippe Marion take a positive look at cinema's ongoing digital revolution and reaffirm its central place in a rapidly expanding media landscape. The authors begin with an overview of the extreme positions held by opposing camps in the debate over cinema: the "digitalphobes" who lament the implosion of cinema and the "digitalphiles" who celebrate its new, vital incarnation. Throughout, they remind readers that cinema has never been a static medium but a series of processes and transformations powering a dynamic art. From their perspective, the digital revolution is the eighth major crisis in the history of motion pictures, with more disruptions to come. Brokering a peace among all sides, Gaudreault and Marion emphasize the cultural practice of cinema over rigid claims on its identity, moving toward a common conception of cinema to better understand where it is headed next.

Gaudreault, André

Marion, Philippe

Religion & Spirituality

Columbia University Press

Film and Attraction: From Kinematography to Cinema

Establishing a new vision for film history, Film and Attraction: From Kinematography to Cinema urges readers to consider the importance of complex social and cultural forces in early film. André Gaudreault argues that Edison and the Lumières did not invent cinema; they invented a device. Explaining how this device, the kinematograph, gave rise to cinema is the challenge he sets for himself in this volume. He highlights the forgotten role of the film lecturer and examines film's relationship with other visual spectacles in fin-de-siècle culture, from magic sketches to fairy plays and photography to vaudeville. In reorienting the study of film history, Film and Attraction offers a candid reassessment of Georges Méliès' rich oeuvre and includes a new, unabridged translation of Méliès' famous 1907 text "Kinematographic Views." A foreword by Rick Altman stresses the relevance of Gaudreault's concerns to Anglophone film scholarship.

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

University of Illinois Press

Establishing a new vision for film history, Film and Attraction: From Kinematography to Cinema urges readers to consider the importance of complex social and cultural forces in early film. André Gaudreault argues that Edison and the Lumières did not invent cinema; they invented a device. Explaining how this device, the kinematograph, gave rise to cinema is the challenge he sets for himself in this volume. He highlights the forgotten role of the film lecturer and examines film's relationship with other visual spectacles in fin-de-siècle culture, from magic sketches to fairy plays and photography to vaudeville. In reorienting the study of film history, Film and Attraction offers a candid reassessment of Georges Méliès' rich oeuvre and includes a new, unabridged translation of Méliès' famous 1907 text "Kinematographic Views." A foreword by Rick Altman stresses the relevance of Gaudreault's concerns to Anglophone film scholarship.

With this lucid translation of Du litteraire au filmique, André Gaudreault's highly influential and original study of film narratology is now accessible to English-language audiences for the first time. Building a theory of narrative on sources as diverse as Plato, The Arabian Nights,and Proust, From Plato to Lumière challenges narratological orthodoxy by positing that all forms of narrative are mediated by an "underlying narrator" who exists between the author and narrative text.
 Offering illuminating insights, definitions, and formal distinctions, Gaudreault examines the practices of novelists, playwrights, and filmmakers and applies his theory to the early cinema of the Lumière brothers and more recent films. He also enhances our understanding of how narrative develops visually without language - monstration - by detailing how the evolution of the medium influenced narratives in cinema. From Plato to Lumière includes a translation of Paul Ricoeur's preface to the French-language edition as well as a new preface by Tom Gunning. It is a must-read for cinema and media students and scholars and an essential text on the study of narrative.

From Plato to Lumière: Narration and Monstration in Literature and Cinema

University of Toronto Press

With this lucid translation of Du litteraire au filmique, André Gaudreault's highly influential and original study of film narratology is now accessible to English-language audiences for the first time. Building a theory of narrative on sources as diverse as Plato, The Arabian Nights,and Proust, From Plato to Lumière challenges narratological orthodoxy by positing that all forms of narrative are mediated by an "underlying narrator" who exists between the author and narrative text.Offering illuminating insights, definitions, and formal distinctions, Gaudreault examines the practices of novelists, playwrights, and filmmakers and applies his theory to the early cinema of the Lumière brothers and more recent films. He also enhances our understanding of how narrative develops visually without language - monstration - by detailing how the evolution of the medium influenced narratives in cinema. From Plato to Lumière includes a translation of Paul Ricoeur's preface to the French-language edition as well as a new preface by Tom Gunning. It is a must-read for cinema and media students and scholars and an essential text on the study of narrative.

University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division

The Kinematic Turn: Film in the Digital Era and Its Ten Problems

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

caboose

Le récit cinématographique - 3e éd. - Films et séries télévisées: Films et séries télévisées

Jost, François

Photography & Video

ARMAND COLIN

Au-delà des histoires traditionnelles, André Gaudreault nous montre que les frères Lumière ont inventé, en 1895, un appareil de prise de vues permettant la projection de vues animées, le Cinématographe, mais nullement le cinéma. Le cinéma ne s''« invente » pas, nul brevet à déposer, mais s''institue, progressi¬vement et collectivement.C''est une nouvelle approche que nous propose André Gaudreault dans cet ouvrage documenté. Il ressuscite un univers occulté avec le bonimenteur ou commentateur de la projection, le complice du « vil exhibiteur » ou gérant de la salle. Il nous découvre ses sources d''inspiration : du théâtre au cirque et à la photographie. L''œuvre de Méliès est ici étudiée dans toute sa richesse et dans toutes les étapes de sa création, en particulier dans son atelier.Un nouveau regard sur le cinéma, une étude indispensable suivie de l''édition critique du fameux texte intitulé « Les vues ciné¬matographiques » de Georges Méliès (1907).

Cinéma et attractions-Pour une nouvelle histoire du cinématographe

CNRS EDITIONS

Du Litteraire Au Filmique: Systeme Du Recit (French and English Edition)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Pr De L'Universite Laval

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