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

by Matthew Solomon

Book Overview

"Best moving pictures I ever saw." Thus did one Vaudeville theater manager describe Georges M li s'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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1438435800
• ISBN13: 9781438435800
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 271 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"