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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790037603321

Titolo

Fantastic voyages of the cinematic imagination [[electronic resource] ] : Georges Méliès's Trip to the moon / / edited by Matthew Solomon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2011

ISBN

1-4384-3582-7

1-4416-9545-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (275 p.)

Collana

SUNY series, horizons of cinema

Altri autori (Persone)

SolomonMatthew

Disciplina

791.43/72

Soggetti

Motion pictures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Disc: A trip to the moon: reconstructed version with commentary (15:39) ; tinted version with commentary (11:48).

Introduction -- A trip to the movies: Georges Melies, filmmaker and magician (1861-1938) / Paolo Cherchi Usai -- Theatricality, narrativity, and trickality : reevaluating the cinema of Georges Melies / Andre Gaudreault -- A trip to the moon : a composite film / Thierry Lefebvre -- First-footing on the moon : Melies's debt to Verne and Wells and his influence in Great Britain / Ian Christie -- Distance does not exist : Melies, le cinema, and the moon / Murray Pomerance -- Shooting into outer space : reframing modern vision / Tom Gunning -- A trip to the moon as feerie / Frank Kessler -- A trip to the moon as an American phenomenon / Richard Abel -- A trip to the fair; or, moon-walking in space / Matthew Solomon -- The stars might be smiling : a feminist forage into a famous film / Victoria Duckett -- Impossible voyages and extraordinary adventures in early science fiction cinema : from Robida to Melies and Marcel Fabre / Antonio Costa -- No one-way ticket to the moon / Viva Paci -- Appendix: A fantastical ... trip to the moon ; Answers to Questionary [sic] / Georges Melies ; Marvelous in the cinema / Georges Melies ; The importance of the script / George Melies.