Dream That Kicks: The Prehistory and Early Years of Cinema in Britain
- Book Review,
by Michael Chanan
Wide Angle
"...it confronts, head on, the most basic questions of the aesthetics, economics, technology and ideology of cinema."
Cine Tracts
"...not only is the book a careful study of early British cinema but it is equally an important explosion of what it means to write film history."
Book Description
The Dream That Kicks puts forward a theory of invention to show how cinematography was a product of the growing forces of nineteenth century capitalism and traces the development of British cinema from its mystical origins in music halls to its emergence as a cultural commodity.The Dream That Kicks situates cinema within its wider context to produce a thought-provoking exploration of its cultural and ideological implications.
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