description: This is the first book-length study for nearly fifty years of the relations between early cinema and nineteenth-century theatre. Incorporating the results of recent reconsiderations of early cinema, Brewster explores what features of nineteenth-century theatre early film-makers borrowed oradapted, and the ways specific characteristics of cinema inflected these borrowings. Theatre to Cinema is a seminal work which will profoundly alter our understanding of early cinema.
language: English
title: Theatre to Cinema: Stage Pictorialism and the Early Feature Film
titlecomplete: Theatre to Cinema: Stage Pictorialism and the Early Feature Film
genres: Film
ratings_count: 3
publisher: Oxford University Press