Image in Early Cinema

<p>In <em>The Image in Early Cinema</em> the contributors examine intersections between early cinematic form technology theory practice and broader modes of visual culture. They argue that early cinema emerged within visual culture composed of a variety of traditions in art science education and image making. Even as methods of motion picture production and distribution materialized they drew from and challenged practices and conventions in other mediums. This rich visual culture produced a complicated overlapping network of image-making traditions innovations and borrowing among painting tableaux vivants photography and other pictorial and projection practices. Using a variety of concepts and theories the contributors explore these crisscrossing traditions and work against an essentialist notion of media to conceptualize the dynamic interrelationship between images and their context.</p>