Book Announcement: The Cinema and Its Shadow
Darryl Wiggers <[email protected]> Mon, 8 Apr 2013 12:21:29 -0400
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From: Dylan Hester <[email protected]> How race shaped the fundamental formal and technological means of the cinema THE CINEMA AND ITS SHADOW: Race and Technology in Early Cinema By Alice Maurice University of Minnesota Press | 288 pages | 2013 ISBN 978-0-8166-7805-1 | paperback | $25.00 ISBN 978-0-8166-7804-4 | cloth | $75.00 The Cinema and Its Shadow argues that race has defined the cinematic apparatus since the earliest motion pictures, especially at times of technological transition. Discussing early “race subjects,” Alice Maurice demonstrates that these films influenced cinematic narrative in lasting ways by helping to determine the relation between stillness and motion, spectacle and narrative drive. PRAISE FOR THE CINEMA AND ITS SHADOW: "The Cinema and Its Shadow will make it impossible to teach and write about the narrative/technological history of cinema without paying attention to race. This is a wonderful book." —Sabine Haenni, author of The Immigrant Scene: Ethnic Amusements in New York, 1880-1920 ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Alice Maurice is associate professor of English at the University of Toronto. Her articles have appeared in journals including Camera Obscura, Moving Image, and Cinema Journal. For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book's webpage: http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-cinema-and-its-shadow Please email me if you have any questions. Anne Wrenn University of Minnesota Press 111 3rd Ave S, Ste. 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 [email protected] -- Dylan Hester Marketing Assistant