John Libbey Publishing: 33 books

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Tex Avery

A Unique Legacy

by Floriane Place-Verghnes
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2006

Floriane Place-Verghnes examines the work of this great American animator. Focusing primarily on four facets of Avery’s work, the author first concentrates on Avery’s ability to depict the American attempt both to retrieve the past nostalgically and to catch the Zeitgeist of 1940s America, which...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014

Public performances using the magic or optical lantern became a prominent part of the social fabric of the late 19th century. Drawing on a rich variety of primary sources, Screen Culture and the Social Question, 1880-1914 investigates how the magic lantern and cinematograph, used at public lectures,...
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Moving Images

From Edison to the Webcam

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Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2000

In 1888, Thomas Edison announced that he was experimenting on "an instrument which does for the eye what the phonograph does for the ear, which is the recording and reproduction of things in motion." Just as Edison’s investigations were framed in terms of the known technologies of the phonograph...
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The Mouse and the Myth

Sacred Art and Secular Ritual of Disneyland

by Dorene Koehler
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017

Rituals mark significant moments in our lives—perhaps none more significant than moments of lightheartedness, joy, and play. The rituals that bond humanity create our most transcendent experiences and meaningful memories. Rituals of play are among the most sacred of any of the rites in which humanity...
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Screening the Stage

Case Studies of Film Adaptations of Stage Plays and Musicals in the Classical Hollywood Era, 1914-1956

by Steven Neale
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017

Introduced by a comprehensive account of the factors governing the adaptation of stage plays and musicals in Hollywood from the early 1910s to the mid-to-late 1950s, Screening the Stage consists of a series of chapter-length studies of feature-length films, the plays and musicals on which they were...
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