Early Cinema Today : The Art of Programming and Live Performance.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (159 pages)
- KINtop Series ; v.1 .
- KINtop Series .
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Stimulating the Audience: Early Cinema's Short Film Programme Format 1906 to 1912 -- Part I: Programming and Performing Early Cinema Today - Outstanding Examples -- The Best Years of Film History: A Hundred Years Ago -- 'From the Bottom of the Sea': Early Film at the Oberhausen Festival -- From the Past to the Future: Suffragettes - Extremists of Visibility in Berlin -- Silent Films in their First Decades - Objects for Research or for Exhibition? -- Programming the Local: Mitchell & -- Kenyon and the Local Film Show -- Part II: Crazy Cinématographe: Early Cinema Performance on the Luxembourg Fairground -- Back to the Future: Early Cinema and Late Economy of Attention An interim report about Crazy Cinématographe -- The Crazy Cinématographe, or the Art of the Impromptu Spectator -- The Art of Crazy Programming Documentation of Crazy Cinématographe Programmes, 2007 to 2010 -- Conclusion -- Programming and Performing Early Cinema Today: Strategies and Dispositifs -- The Contributors -- Picture credits -- KINtop.
Within the last decade, film archives and film festivals have unearthed this lost art and have featured outstanding examples of the culture of early cinema reconfigured for today's audiences.