TY  - GEN
T1  - Performing new media, 1890-1915
A2  - Askari, Kaveh
A2  - Curtis, Scott
A2  - Gray, Frank
A2  - Pelletier, Louis
A2  - Williams, Tami, 1970-
A2  - Yumibe, Joshua
LA  - English
PP  - New Barnet, Herts
PB  - John Libbey Publishing Ltd.
YR  - 2015
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn907532472
AB  - In the years before the First World War, showmen, entrepreneurs, educators, and scientists used magic lanterns and cinematographs in many contexts and many venues. To employ these silent screen technologies to deliver diverse and complex programs usually demanded audio accompaniment, creating a performance of both sound and image. These shows might include live music, song, lectures, narration, and synchronized sound effects provided by any available party--projectionist, local talent, accompanist or backstage crew--and would often borrow techniques from shadow plays and tableaux vivants. The performances were not immune to the influence of social and cultural forces, such as censorship or reform movements. This collection of essays considers the ways in which different visual practices carried out at the turn of the 20th century shaped performances on and beside the screen.
CN  - PN1993.5.A1
SN  - 9780861969104
SN  - 0861969103
SN  - 9780861967148
KW  - Silent films : History.
KW  - Motion pictures and theater : History.
KW  - Art.
KW  - Art
KW  - Motion Pictures as Topic
KW  - Films muets : Histoire.
KW  - Cinéma et théâtre : Histoire.
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS : Reference.
KW  - Motion pictures and theater
KW  - Silent films
KW  - History
ER  -