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The birth of cinema coincided with the heyday of the short story. This book studies the relationship between popular magazine short stories and the very early British films. It pairs eight intriguing short stories on cinema with eight new essays unveiling the rich documentary value of the original fiction and using the stories as touchstones for a discussion of the popular culture of the period during which cinema first developed. The short stories are by authors ranging from the notable (Rudyard Kipling and Sax Rohmer) to the unknown (Raymond Rayne and Mrs. H.J. Bickle); their endearing tributes to the new cinematograph chart its development from unintentional witness to entertainment institution.

Reading the Cinematograph: Introduction, Andrew Shail

Story 1: Our Detective Story (24 January 1897) by Dagonet [George R. Sims]

Chapter 1: George R. Sims and the Film as Evidence, Stephen Bottomore

Story 2: The Awful Story of Heley Croft (20 May 1899) by A.S. Appelbee

Chapter 2: Cinema Re-Mystified: A.S. Appelbee's Technological Ghost Story, David Trotter and Chris O'Rourke

Story 3: Colonel Rankin's Advertisement (December 1901) by Raymond Rayne

Chapter 3: The Great American Kinetograph: News, Fakery and the Boer War, Andrew Shail

Story 4: Mrs Bathurst (September 1904) by Rudyard Kipling

Chapter 4: "The Very Thing": Rudyard Kipling's 'Mrs Bathurst', Tom Gunning

Story 5: The Green Spider (October 1904) by A[rthur Henry] Sarsfield Ward, a.k.a. Sax Rohmer

Chapter 5: 'Only from the Senses': Detection, Early Cinema and a Giant Green Spider, Stacy Gillis

Story 6: Romantic Lucy (Summer 1911) by Alphonse Courlander

Chapter 6: "She Had So Many Appearances": Alphonse Courlander and the Birth of the 'Moving Picture Girl, Jon Burrows

Story 7: Love and the Bioscope: A Heart-Thrilling Story of a Deserted Bride (8 June 1912) by Mrs H.J. Bickle

Chapter 7: Melodrama, Sensation and the Discourse of Modernity in 'Love and the Bioscope', Lise Shapiro Sanders

Story 8; The Sense of Touch (December 1912) by Ole Luk-Oie [Ernest Dunlop Swinton]

Chapter 8: A visit to the cinema in 1912: 'The Sense of Touch', Andrew Higson

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Ireland

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History of Europe

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Stephen Ireland

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Sax Rohmer

Rudyard Kipling

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Publié par	University of Exeter Press
Date de parution	02 mars 2015
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780859899420
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	3 Mo

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R E A D I N G T H E CINEMATOGRAPH

The Cinema in British Short Fiction 1896 -1912

edited by ANDREW SHAIL

R C

The birth of cinema coincided with the heyday of the short story.Reading the Cinematographstudies the relationship between popular magazine short stories and the very early British films. The book pairs eight short stories about the cinema with eight new essays from leading film and literary scholars. Contributors including Tom Gunning and Andrew Higson reveal the influence which film and fiction had on one another in Britain at the beginning of the twentieth century. The short stories are by authors ranging from the notable (Rudyard Kipling and Sax Rohmer) to the unknown (Raymond Rayne and Mrs H.J. Bickle).

‘As entertaining as it is edifying,Reading the Cinematograph showcases the transformative presence—and role—of cinema in British short fiction at the turn of the twentieth century. Andrew Shail has devised a marvelous format for the occasion: eight stories, reprinted in full and accompanied by their original illustrations, followed by valuable critical commentary by eminent film scholars, and framed by Shail’s indispensable historical/critical introduction and sure editorial hand. A work of impeccable and imaginative scholarship¬’Maria DiBattista, Professor of English at Princeton University and author ofFast Talking Dames

Andrew Shailis Lecturer in Film at Newcastle University. He is coauthor of a BFI Film Classic onBack to the Futureand editor of a special issue ofEarly Popular Visual Cultureon intermediality in early cinema.

Exeter Studies in Film History

Published by University of Exeter Press in association with the Bill Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture Series Editors:Richard Maltby, Professor of Screen Studies, Flinders University, South Australia andSteve Neale,Professor of Film Studies and Academic Director of the Bill Douglas Centre, University of Exeter.

Parallel Tracks: The Railroad and Silent Cinema Lynne Kirby () The World According to Hollywood,– Ruth Vasey () ‘Film Europe’ and ‘Film America’: Cinema, Commerce andCultural Exchange‒ edited by Andrew Higson and Richard Maltby () A Paul Rotha Reader edited by Duncan Petrie and Robert Kruger () A Chorus of Raspberries: British Film Comedy– David Sutton () The Great Art of Light and Shadow: Archaeology of the Cinema Laurent Mannoni, translated by Richard Crangle () Popular Filmgoing ins Britain: A Choice of Pleasures John Sedgwick () Alternative Empires: European Modernist Cinemas and Cultures of Imperialism Martin Stollery () Hollywood, Westerns and thes: The Lost Trail Peter Stanfield () Young and Innocent? The Cinema in Britain– edited by Andrew Higson () Legitimate Cinema: Theatre Stars in Silent British Films– Jon Burrows () The Big Show: British Cinema Culture in the Great War (–) Michael Hammond () Multimedia Histories: From the Magic Lantern to the Internet edited by James Lyons and John Plunkett () Going to the Movies: Hollywood and the Social Experience of Cinema edited by Richard Maltby, Melvyn Stokes and Robert C. Allen () Alternative Film Culture in InterWar Britain Jamie Sexton () Marketing Modernity: Victorian Popular Shows and Early Cinema Joe Kember () British Cinema and Middlebrow Culture in the Interwar Years Lawrence Napper () UEP also publishes the celebrated fivevolume series looking at the early years of English cinema,The Beginnings of the Cinema in England, by John Barnes.

Dedication

John Galsworthy dedicated the onevolume edition ofThe Forsyte Saga (), a work that he had been writing since, thus:

TO MY WIFE: I DEDICATE THE FORSYTE SAGA IN ITS ENTIRETY, BELIEVING IT TO BE OF ALL MY WORKS THE LEAST UNWORTHY OF ONE WITHOUT WHOSE ENCOURAGEMENT, SYMPATHY AND CRITICISM I COULD NEVER HAVE BECOME EVEN SUCH A WRITER AS I AM.

To my partner

‘carryin’ a little reticule an’ lookin’ from side to side – comes out Mrs. Bathurst.’ George Gibbs, illustration for the American edition of Rudyard Kipling’s ‘Mrs Bathurst’,Metropolitan Magazine, September. Reprinted inThe Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling, ‘Outward Bound’ Edition. Vol.: Traffics & Discoveries(New York: Scribner’s,), facing page.

C Rinematographeading the The Cinema in British Short Fiction ‒

edited and annotated by Andrew Shail

Paperback cover images: front cover, a still from Mitchell & Kenyon: Lord Roberts’ Visit to Manchester,October; back cover, a drawing from Story Three in the book, Colonel Rankin’s Advertisementby Raymond Rayne, December.

First published inby University of Exeter Press Reed Hall, Streatham Drive Exeter  UK www.exeterpress.co.uk

The right of Andrew Shail and the individual contributors to be identified as authors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Acts.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

Hardback ISBN     Paperback ISBN    

Typeset in Caslon by XL Publishing Services, Tiverton Printed in Great Britain by Short Run Press Ltd., Exeter

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements

Contents

Reading the Cinematograph: Introduction Andrew Shail Story:Our Detective Story(January) 1 by Dagonet [George R. Sims] Chapter: George R. Sims and the Film as Evidence Stephen Bottomore

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Story:The Awful Story of Heley Croft(May) by A.S. Appelbee Chapter: Cinema ReMystified: A.S. Appelbee’s Technological Ghost Story David Trotter and Chris O’Rourke

Story:Colonel Rankin’s Advertisement(December) by Raymond Rayne Chapter: The Great American Kinetograph: News, Fakery and the Boer War Andrew Shail

Story:Mrs Bathurst(September) by Rudyard Kipling Chapter: ‘The Very Thing’: Rudyard Kipling’s ‘Mrs Bathurst’ Tom Gunning

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Story:The Green Spider

(October)

by A[rthur Henry] Sarsfield Ward, a.k.a. Sax Rohmer

Chapter: ‘Only from the Senses’: Detection, Early Cinema

and a Giant Green Spider

Stacy Gillis

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Story:Romantic Lucy(Summer) by Alphonse Courlander Chapter: ‘She Had So Many Appearances’: Alphonse Courlander and the Birth of the ‘Moving Picture Girl’ Jon Burrows

Story:Love and the Bioscope: A HeartThrilling Story of a Deserted Bride (June) by Mrs H.J. Bickle Chapter: Melodrama, Sensation and the Discourse of Modernity in ‘Love and the Bioscope’

Lise Shapiro Sanders

Story:The Sense of Touch(December) by Ole LukOie [Ernest Dunlop Swinton] Chapter: A visit to the cinema in: ‘The Sense of Touch’ Andrew Higson

Notes Index

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Notes on Contributors

Stephen Bottomoreis an independent film historian and the author of two books and many articles on silent cinema. He has professionally directed broadcast and educational documentaries in Europe, Africa, Asia/Pacific and the Americas. He is associate editor ofFilm History. He was awarded a PhD by Utrecht University infor his thesis,Filming, Faking and Prop aganda: The Origins of the War Film,–. He continues to write on early cinema, particularly its relations with the society and culture of the time. He lives in Thailand and the UK.

Jon Burrowsis an Associate Professor in the Department of Film and Television Studies, University of Warwick. He is the author ofLegitimate Cinema: Theatre Stars in Silent British Films,–(University of Exeter Press,) and numerous essays and articles on aspects of British film culture in the silent era.

Stacy Gillisis Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Newcastle University. The coeditor ofThird Wave Feminism: A Critical Exploration(rev. edn, Palgrave,) and editor ofThe Matrix Trilogy: Cyberpunk Reloaded(Wallflower,), she has published widely in the fields of detective fiction, cyberculture and feminist theory. Current research includes work on the forensic gothic and on the cultural afterlife of the First World War.

Tom Gunningis the Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Art History and the Committee on Cinema and Media at the University of Chicago. He is the author ofD.W. Griffith and the Origins of American Narrative Film(University of Illinois Press,) andThe Films of Fritz Lang: Allegories of Vision and Modernity (British Film Institute,), as well as over one hundred articles on early cinema, film history and theory, avantgarde film, film genre, and cinema and modernism.