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book		The beginnings of the cinema in England / John Barnes Newton Abbot: David and Charles, 1976. Call No: 71(41) BAR Author: Barnes, John Source: UK Place: Newton Abbot Publisher: David and Charles PubDate: 1976 PhysDes: 240 p. : ill., facsims, ports ; 26 cm Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA. ENGLAND Notes: List of films: p.201-219. - Index ISBN: 0715370898 Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006 More info
book		The beginnings of the cinema in England 1894-1901 : Volume two: 1897 / John Barnes Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2001. Call No: 71(410) BAR Author: Barnes, John Place: Exeter Publisher: University of Exeter Press PubDate: 2001 PhysDes: 272 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA. ENGLAND Notes: The University of Exeter Press edition of Volume 2 of The Beginnings of the Cinema in England, 1894-1901 is a re-issue of the first edition published in 1983. ISBN: 085989519X More info
book		Electric Edwardians : the story of the Mitchell & Kenyon collection / Vanessa Toulmin London: British Film Institute, 2006. Call No: 19 MIT TOU Author: Toulmin, Vanessa Source: UK Place: London Publisher: British Film Institute PubDate: 2006 PhysDes: x, 310 p. : ill. ; 25 cm Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA. ENGLAND; MITCHELL AND KENYON FILM COMPANY, THE; MITCHELL, SAGAR; KENYON, JAMES Summary: A visual record of the films of Sagar Mitchell and James Kenyon, combined with an illuminating discussion of the films and the social context of their production by Vanessa Toulmin, the leading authority on the collection. Focusing on major themes such as Leisure and Recreation, Sport, Industry, the Boer War and the City. Includes over 400 illustrations drawn from the collection as well as contemporary posters and handbills. [Taken from back cover.] ISBN: 1844571459 More info
book		Film 1900 : technology, perception, culture / edited by Annemone Ligensa and Klauss Kreimeier New Barnet, Herts: John Libbey ; Chatswood, N.S.W. : Distributed in Australia by Elsevier, c2009. Call No: 70 (04) FIL Author: Ligensa, Annemone; Kreimeier, Klaus Place: New Barnet, Herts Publisher: John Libbey ; Chatswood, N.S.W. : Distributed in Australia by Elsevier PubDate: c2009 PhysDes: vi, 250 p. : ill., tables, maps, ports ; 23 cm Subject: CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; HISTORY OF CINEMA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; HISTORY OF CINEMA. ENGLAND; MUNSTERBERG, HUGO Summary: "The current digital revolution has sparked a renewed interest in the origins and trajectory of modern media, particularly in the years around 1900 when the technology was rapidly developing. This collection aims to broaden our understanding of early cinema as a significant innovation in media history. Joining traditional scholarship with fresh insights from a variety of disciplines, this book explains the aesthetic and institutional characteristics in early cinema within the context of the contemporary media landscape. It also addresses trans-cultural developments such as scientific revolutions, industrialization, urbanization, and globalization, as well as differing attitudes toward modernization. Film 1900 is an important reassessment of early cinema's position in cultural history."--BACK COVER ISBN: 9780861966967 Contents: Introduction. Triangulating a turn: Film 1900 as technology, perception and culture / Annemone Ligensa -- Chapter 1. Archaeologies of interactivity: early cinema, narrative and spectatorship / Thomas Elsaessar -- Chapter 2. Viewing change, changing views: the 'history of vision' debate / Frank Kessler -- Chapter 3. The ambimodernity of early cinema: problems and paradoxes of the film-and-modernity discourse / Ben Singer -- Chapter 4. Mind, the gap: the discovery of physiological time / Henning Schmidgen -- Chapter 5. 'Is everything relative?': cinema and the revolution of knowledge around 1900 / Harro Segeberg -- Chapter 6. The aesthetic idealist as efficiency engineer: Hugo Munsterberg's theories of perception, psychotechnics and cinema / Jorg Schweinitz -- Chapter 7. Between observation and spectatorship: medicine, movies and mass culture in imperial Germany / Scott Curtis -- Chapter 8. The scene of the crime: psychiaztric discourses on the film audience in early twentieth century Germany / Andreas Killen -- Chapter 9. Seen through the eyes of Simmel: The cinema programme as a 'modern' experience / Andrea Haller -- Chapter 10. 'Under the sign of the cinematograph': urban mobility and cinema location in Wilhelmine Berlin / Pelle Snickars -- Chapter 11. Perceptual environments for films: the development of cinema in Germany, 1895-1914 / Joseph Garncarz -- Chapter 12. 'Fumbling towards some new form of art?': the changing composition of film programmes in Britain, 1908-1914 / Ian Christie and John Sedgwick -- Chapter 13. The attraction of motion: modern representation and the image of movement / Tom Gunning -- Chapter 14. 'Dashing down upon the audience': notes on the genesis of filmic perception / Laus Kreimeier -- Chapter 15. German Tonbilder of the 1900s: advanced technology and national brand / Martin Loiperdinger -- Chapter 16. Sculpting with light: early film style, stereoscopic vision and the idea of a 'plastic art in motion' / Michael Wedel -- Chapter 17. 'A cinematograph of feminine thought': the dangerous age, cinema and modern women / Annemone Ligensa -- Chapter 18. Cinema as a mode(l) of perception: Dorothy Richardson's novels and essays / Nicola Glaubitz More info
book		The history of British film : 1914- 1918 / by Rachael Low [New York]: [Distributed in the United States by Bowker], [1973]. Call No: 71(41)"01" LOW Author: Low, Rachael Source: US Place: [New York] Publisher: [Distributed in the United States by Bowker] PubDate: [1973] PhysDes: 332 p. : ill. ; 25 cm Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA. ENGLAND ISBN: 0047910027 Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006 More info

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