20 | EARLY CINEMA

A concise and accessible introduction to the period 1895 to 1914 when cinema emerged as the leading form of visual culture and established itself as a worldwide institution. This volume introduces the study of cinema as a series of aesthetic, technological, cultural, ideological and economic debates while exploring new and challenging approaches to the subject. It makes use of the latest research in this field presenting both critical and practical instruction for the student or general reader through a series of case studies.

January 2004
144 pages

978-1–903364–58–1 (pbk)

£12.99

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Simon Popple is Principal Lecturer in Media History at the University of Teesside, and is joint editor of Living Pictures: The Journal of the Popular and Projected Image Before 1914.

Joe Kember is Lecturer in Film Studies at the of University of Exeter and specialises in the study of late nineteenth-century popular entertainment and visual culture. He is also a contributor to The Cinema of David Lynch: American Dreams, Nightmare Visions (2004).

'Bringing new perspectives and rigour to the study of film and popular culture, there is a real need for the up-to-date introduction that Popple and Kember provide.'
– Ian Christie, Birkbeck College, London

'The book is excellent. Thorough, well researched and written and presented in a predominately accessible style ... It is a book of high standard and both an informative and enjoyable read.'
– In the Picture

‘Early Cinema is an impressive achievement … an effective introduction for undergraduate students to the issues and potentialities of studying early film.’
– Marshall Deutelbaum, www.film-philosophy.com

'Simon Popple and Joe Kember, two very fine authorities on early British cinema, have created a potentially valuable textbook for the study of early cinema.'
– Richard Schellhammer, www.film-philosophy.com