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Beyond the Screen: Institutions, Networks and Publics of Early Cinema
![]() Beyond the Screen: Institutions, Networks and Publics of Early CinemaEdited by: Marta Braun, Charles Keil, Rob King, Paul Moore, Louis Pelletier This is an edited volume of papers selected from the 2010 DOMITOR meeting (Toronto). Publication date: 2012 Total pages: 350 ISBN: 9780 86196 703 2 Price: £ 30.00 Description
Early moving pictures were not only “harmless entertainment” or “a
business, pure and simple,” as the U.S. Supreme Court defined the medium
in 1915. Looking beyond the screen of a century ago, the essays in this
collection recover an often utopian vision for cinema, imagined to have
emancipatory potential to educate and motivate audiences to act together
as publics. In national and local contexts from Europe, North America
and around the world, cinema entered the domains of science and health
education, social and religious uplift, labour organizing and political
campaigning. Early movies of all sorts were shown to prisoners,
shoppers, news readers, church and museum-goers, and students of all
ages. These essays collectively consider non-theatrical cinema,
documenting the people, institutions, and publics who worked to make
movies more than entertainment.
This is an edited volume of papers selected from the 2010 DOMITOR meeting (Toronto). Biography
Marta Braun is Professor and Director of the Graduate Program in
Photographic Preservation and Collections Management at Ryerson
University in Toronto.
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