Marketing Modernity: Victorian Popular Shows and Early Cinema (Uep - Exeter Studies in Film History)

by JoeKember (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2009

  $86.80

  In this study of early film exhibition, Joe Kember demonstrates that prior to the emergence of a specific discipline of screen acting and the arrival of picture personalities, the early cinema inherited its human dimensions from diverse earlier traditions of performance, from the magic lantern lecture to the fairground and variety theatre.