Fantastic voyages of the cinematic imagination
Subtitle: Méliès's Trip to the moon
By: edited by Matthew Solomon
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9781438435817; 9781438435800
Description: Accompanying disc includes two versions of the film: a reconstructed version accompanied by an original 1903 score and a recently rediscovered color-tinted version; both have optional audio commentaries by the editor.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: A trip to the movies: Georges Méliès, filmmaker and magician (1861-1938) / Paolo Cherchi Usai; title: Theatricality, narrativity, and trickality : reevaluating the cinema of Georges Méliès / André Gaudreault; title: A trip to the moon : a composite film / Thierry Lefebvre; title: First-footing on the moon : Méliès, debt to Verne and Wells and his influence in Britain / Ian Christie; title: Distance does not exist : Méliès, le cinéma, and the moon / Murray Pomerance; title: Shooting into outer space : reframing modern vision / Tom Gunning; title: A trip to the moon as féerie / Frank Kessler; title: A trip to the moon as an American phenomenon / Richard Abel; title: A trip to the fair; or, moon-walking in space / Matthew Solomon; title: The stars might be smiling : a feminist forage into a famous film / Victoria Duckett; title: Impossible voyages and extraordinary adventures in early science fiction cinema : from Robida to Méliès and Marcel Fabre / Antonio Costa; title: No one-way ticket to the moon / Viva Paci.