Fantastic Voyages of the Cinematic Imagination: Georges Méliès's Trip to the Moon [With DVD]

"Best moving pictures I ever saw." Thus did one Vaudeville theater manager describe Georges Méliès's A Trip...
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Author: Matthew Solomon
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Fantastic Voyages of the Cinematic Imagination: Georges Méliès's Trip to the Moon [With DVD] by Solomon, Matthew

Fantastic Voyages of the Cinematic Imagination: Georges Méliès's Trip to the Moon [With DVD]

$101.10

Fantastic Voyages of the Cinematic Imagination: Georges Méliès's Trip to the Moon [With DVD]

$101.10
Author: Matthew Solomon
Format: Paperback
Language: English
"Best moving pictures I ever saw." Thus did one Vaudeville theater manager describe Georges Méliès's A Trip to the Moon [Le Voyage dans la lune], after it was screened for enthusiastic audiences in October 1902. Cinema's first true blockbuster, A Trip to the Moon still inspires such superlatives and continues to be widely viewed on DVD, on the Internet, and in countless film courses. In Fantastic Voyages of the Cinematic Imagination, leading film scholars examine Méliès's landmark film in detail, demonstrating its many crucial connecions to literature, popular culture, and visual culture of the time, as well as its long "afterlife" in more recent films, television, and music videos. Together, these essays make clear that Méliès was not only a major filmmaker but also a key figure in the emergence of modern spectacle and the birth of the modern cinematic imagination, and by bringing interdisciplinary methodologies of early cinema studies to bear on A Trip to the Moon, the contributors also open up much larger questions about aesthetics, media, and modernity.

In his introduction, Matthew Solomon traces the convoluted provenance of the film's multiple versions and its key place in the historiography of cinema, and an appendix contains a useful dossier of primary-source documents that contextualize the film's production, along with translations of two major articles written by Méliès himself.

Author: Matthew Solomon
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 05/01/2011
Pages: 271
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781438435800


Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2011
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2011 pg. 181

About the Author
Matthew Solomon is Associate Professor of Cinema Studies at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York. He is the author of Disappearing Tricks: Silent Films, Houdini, and the New Magic of the Twentieth Century.


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