| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 299 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Film and culture series
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Film and culture.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"Today, in a world of smartphones, tablets, and computers, screens are a pervasive part of daily life. Yet a multiplicity of screens has been integral to the media landscape since cinema's golden age. In On the Screen, Ariel Rogers rethinks the history of moving images by exploring how experiments with screen technologies in and around the 1930s changed the way films were produced, exhibited, and experienced. Marshalling extensive archival research, Rogers reveals the role screens played at the height of the era of 'classical' Hollywood cinema. She shows how filmmakers, technicians, architects, and exhibitors employed a variety of screens within diverse spaces, including studio soundstages, theaters, homes, stores, and train stations. Far from inert, screens served as means of structuring mediated space and time, contributing to the transformations of modern culture. On the Screen demonstrates how particular approaches to the use of screens traversed production and exhibition, theatrical and extratheatrical practice, mainstream and avant-garde modes, and even cinema and television. Rogers's history challenges conventional narratives about the novelty of the twenty-first-century multiscreen environment, showing how attention to the variety of historical screen practices opens up new ways to understand contemporary media"-- Provided by publisher |
| Contents |
Production screens in the long 1930s : rear projection and special effects -- Theatrical screens, 1926-1931 : transforming the screen -- Theatrical screens, 1931-1940 : integrating the screen -- Extratheatrical screens in the long 1930s : film and television at home and in transit -- Coda. Multiplicity, immersion, and the new screens |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Motion pictures. |
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United States. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Motion picture industry -- Technological innovations.
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Motion picture industry -- Technological innovations. |
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Motion picture industry. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Rogers, Ariel. On the screen. New York : Columbia University Press, [2019] 9780231188845 (DLC) 2018058579 (OCoLC)1066089660 |
| ISBN |
9780231548038 (electronic book) |
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0231548036 (electronic book) |
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9780231188845 |
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0231188846 |
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9780231188852 |
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0231188854 |
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