Verhoeff investigates the emergence of the western genre, made in the first two decades of cinema (1895-1915). By analyzing many unknown and forgotten films from international archives she traces the relationships between films about the American West, their surrounding films, and other popular media such as photography, painting, (pulp) literature, Wild West Shows and popular ethnography. Through this exploration of archival material she raises new questions of historiography and provides a model for historical analysis. These first traces of the Western film reveal a preoccupation with presence and actuality that informs us about the way in which film, as new medium, took shape within the context of its contemporary visual culture.
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'Verhoeff has produced one of the most original and imaginative works yet to be written on early cinema. Besides supplying a fascinating account of the almost totally neglected pre-history of the Western film genre, she offers a witty and insightful approach to the relation between the scholar and the archive and the nature of historical research.'[-]Tom Gunning, University of Chicago
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
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40 black and white illustrations
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Höhe: 240 mm
Breite: 160 mm
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978-90-5356-832-3 (9789053568323)
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Nanna Verhoeff is associate professor of comparative media studies at Utrecht University.[-] She is the author of The West in Early Cinema: After the Beginning, also with Amsterdam University Press.
