Overview

This book examines early and silent cinema and its contexts in Ireland, 1895-1921. It explores the extent to which cinema fostered a new way of looking in and at Ireland and the extent to which the new technology inherited forms of looking from the image-producing cultural practices of the theatre, tourism, and such public events as state occasions, political protests, and sports meetings. It argues that before cinema emerged as an independent institution in the late 1910s, it was comprehensively intermedial, not only adapting to the presentational strategies of such forms as the fairground attraction, the melodrama, and the magic lantern lecture, but actually constituting these forms and altering them in the process.In locating cinema in relation to popular and elite culture during a key period of Irish history, it draws in particular on surviving films and photographs; articles and illustrations in newspapers, magazines, and trade journals; contemporary accounts; and official documents. Working against approaches that see early cinema as a precursor to the so-called 'classical' cinema of the 1920s onwards, it provide its readers with a wealth of contemporary material that allows them to see early cinema in its own terms as an evolving (audio-) visual form.

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Author:   Denis Condon
Publisher:   Irish Academic Press Ltd
Imprint:   Irish Academic Press Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 23.90cm
Weight:   0.635kg
ISBN:  

9780716529729

ISBN 10:   0716529726
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   16 September 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Retrospection and Projection 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Film Shows in Dublin, 1895-1901: An Overview 1.3 The Kinetoscope 1.4 Kinetoscope Parlours, Charity Bazaars, and Other Venues 1.5 The Cinematograph and X-Rays 1.6 The Veriscope 1.7 Shows of Protest: Queen Victoria and the Boer War 1.8 The Thomas Edison Animated Picture Company 1.9 Conclusion 2. Theatre 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Music Hall 2.3 Melodrama 2.4 Literary Theatre 2.5 Conclusion 3. Tourism 3.1 Introduction: Virtual Tourism and Autoexoticism 3.2 Tourism as the Industrial Basis for Film Production in 1900s Ireland 3.3 Killarney as the Nineteenth-Century Focus of the Tourist Gaze 3.4 The Mutoscope in the Round Tower 3.5 The O'Kalems in Killarney 3.6 Film Exhibition in Kerry, 1910-15 3.7 Conclusion 4. Participation 4.1 Introduction: Seeing Yourself 4.2 Local Films and City Films 4.3 Political Film and Newsreel 4.4 Attending The Funeral of Thos. Ashe (1917) 4.5 Figuring the Crowd in Fictions of Church and State 4.6 Conclusion 5. 'The Great Institution of Kinematography' 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Reception 5.3 Distribution 5.4 Exhibition 5.5 Regulations and Censorship 5.6 Production and the Film Company of Ireland 5.7 Irish Limelight Reviews Knocknagow 5.8 Willy Reilly and His Colleen Bawn: Classical Narrative Cinema? 5.9 Conclusion Conclusion Filmography Bibliography

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Denis Condon is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Media Studies, NUI Maynooth. He has been a Lecturer at the Centre for Media Studies and departments of English and German, NUI Maynooth, Mater Dei Institute of Education, and Dublin City University. He has worked as a freelance film cameraperson and has contributed articles to a number of media related books and journals.

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