Fantastic Voyages of the Cinematic Imagination: Georges Méliès's Trip to the MoonMatthew Solomon State University of New York Press, 1 thg 5, 2011 - 271 trang "Best moving pictures I ever saw." Thus did one Vaudeville theater manager describe Georges Méliès's A Trip to the Moon [Le Voyage dans la lune], after it was screened for enthusiastic audiences in October 1902. Cinema's first true blockbuster, A Trip to the Moon still inspires such superlatives and continues to be widely viewed on DVD, on the Internet, and in countless film courses. In Fantastic Voyages of the Cinematic Imagination, leading film scholars examine Méliès's landmark film in detail, demonstrating its many crucial connecions to literature, popular culture, and visual culture of the time, as well as its long "afterlife" in more recent films, television, and music videos. Together, these essays make clear that Méliès was not only a major filmmaker but also a key figure in the emergence of modern spectacle and the birth of the modern cinematic imagination, and by bringing interdisciplinary methodologies of early cinema studies to bear on A Trip to the Moon, the contributors also open up much larger questions about aesthetics, media, and modernity. In his introduction, Matthew Solomon traces the convoluted provenance of the film's multiple versions and its key place in the historiography of cinema, and an appendix contains a useful dossier of primary-source documents that contextualize the film's production, along with translations of two major articles written by Méliès himself. |
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Georges Méliès Filmmaker and Magician 18611938 | 25 |
Reevaluating the Cinema of Georges Méliès | 31 |
A Composite Film | 49 |
Mélièss Debt to Verne and Wellsand His Influence in Great Britain | 65 |
Méliès le Cinéma and the Moon | 81 |
Reframing Modern Vision | 97 |
7 A Trip to the Moon as Féerie | 115 |
From Robida to Méliès and Marcel Fabre | 183 |
12 No OneWay Ticket to the Moon | 201 |
Appendix | 225 |
A Fantastical Trip to the Moon | 227 |
Reply to Questionary | 233 |
The Marvelous in the Cinema | 235 |
The Importance of the Script | 241 |
Contributors | 245 |
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