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On the Screen: Displaying the Moving Image, 1926-1942
Contributor(s): Rogers, Ariel (Author)
ISBN: 0231188854     ISBN-13: 9780231188852
Publisher: Columbia University Press
OUR PRICE:   $34.65  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: July 2019
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BISAC Categories:
- Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism
- History | United States - 20th Century
- Computers | Digital Media - Video & Animation
Dewey: 791.430
LCCN: 2018058579
Series: Film and Culture
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.1" W x 9.2" (1.00 lbs) 320 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
 
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Publisher Description:
Today, in a world of smartphones, tablets, and computers, screens are a pervasive part of daily life. Yet a multiplicity of screens has been integral to the media landscape since cinema's golden age. In On the Screen, Ariel Rogers rethinks the history of moving images by exploring how experiments with screen technologies in and around the 1930s changed the way films were produced, exhibited, and experienced.

Marshalling extensive archival research, Rogers reveals the role screens played at the height of the era of "classical" Hollywood cinema. She shows how filmmakers, technicians, architects, and exhibitors employed a variety of screens within diverse spaces, including studio soundstages, theaters, homes, stores, and train stations. Far from inert, screens served as means of structuring mediated space and time, contributing to the transformations of modern culture. On the Screen demonstrates how particular approaches to the use of screens traversed production and exhibition, theatrical and extratheatrical practice, mainstream and avant-garde modes, and even cinema and television. Rogers's history challenges conventional narratives about the novelty of the twenty-first-century multiscreen environment, showing how attention to the variety of historical screen practices opens up new ways to understand contemporary media.