American Cinema 1890-1909: Themes and Variations (Screen Decades)

by Andre Gaudreault (Author)

• New

  Illustrated
  2009

  $31.88

  Includes essays that explore and define how the making of motion pictures flowered into an industry that would finally become the central entertainment institution of the world. Beginning with various early types of pictures that moved, this volume tells the story of invention and consolidation of the various processes that gave rise to 'cinema.'