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Alice Maurice - The Cinema and Its Shadow: Race and Technology in Early Cinema - 9780816678044 - V9780816678044
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The Cinema and Its Shadow: Race and Technology in Early Cinema

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Description for The Cinema and Its Shadow: Race and Technology in Early Cinema Hardback. Num Pages: 280 pages, 30 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 431.


The Cinema and Its Shadow argues that race has defined the cinematic apparatus since the earliest motion pictures, especially at times of technological transition. In particular, this work explores how racial difference became central to the resolving of cinematic problems: the stationary camera, narrative form, realism, the synchronization of image and sound, and, perhaps most fundamentally, the immaterial image—the cinema’s “shadow,” which figures both the material reality of the screen image and its racist past.


Discussing early “race subjects,” Alice Maurice demonstrates that these films influenced cinematic narrative in lasting ways by helping to determine the relation between ... Read more


Moving beyond analyzing race in purely thematic or ideological terms, Maurice traces how it shaped the formal and technological means of the cinema.


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Product Details

Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816678044
SKU
V9780816678044
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About Alice Maurice
Alice Maurice is associate professor of English at the University of Toronto. Her articles have appeared in journals including Camera Obscura, Moving Image, and Cinema Journal.

Reviews for The Cinema and Its Shadow: Race and Technology in Early Cinema
"The Cinema and Its Shadow will make it impossible to teach and write about the narrative/technological history of cinema without paying attention to race. This is a wonderful book." —Sabine Haenni, author of The Immigrant Scene: Ethnic Amusements in New York, 1880-1920 "An excellent volume for anyone interested in early cinema, racial representation, and cinematic technology."—CHOICE "Alice Maurice’s scholarship is ... Read more

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