Theatre to Cinema: Stage Pictorialism and the Early Feature Film

By Ben Brewster and Lea Jacobs

This is the first book-length study for nearly fifty years of the relations between early cinema and nineteenth-century theatre. Incorporating the results of recent reconsiderations of early cinema, Brewster explores what features of nineteenth-century theatre early film-makers borrowed or adapted, and the ways specific characteristics of cinema inflected these borrowings. Theatre to Cinema is a seminal work which will profoundly alter our understanding of early cinema.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198159501
• ISBN13: 9780198159506
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.5" x 9.7"