Stage to screen
Subtitle: theatrical method from Garrick to Griffith
By: A. Nicholas Vardac
Publisher: [Davidson Press]
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Lieu de publication non identifié]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9781406771299
Subjects: Motion pictures; History; Theater; Cinéma; Histoire; Théâtre
Notes: Titre de la couverture.

Iindex: pages 273-283.

Références bibliographiques: pages 255-269.

Reproduction en fac-sim. de l'édition de: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1949.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : realism, romance, and the development of the motion picure; title: Theatres, staging methods, and the breakdown of the Nineteenth-Century conventions; title: The melodrama : cinematic conceptions and screen techniques; title: Picture plays : the spectacle stage; title: The photographic ideal : Henry Irving, David Belasco, Steele MacKaye; title: Pictorial fantasy : the pantomime-spectacle; title: Photographic realism : the birth of the film, 1895-1902; title: Pictorial fantasy : George Mélìès; title: Melodrama : The photoplay, 1902-1913; title: Realism and romance : D. W. Griffith; title: Spectacle : the feature film; title: From Garrick to Griffith.