Book ID: CBB835134951

On the Screen: Displaying the Moving Image, 1926–1942 (2019)

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Ariel Rogers (Author)


Columbia University Press


Publication Date: 2019
Physical Details: 299
Language: English

Today, in a world of smartphones, tablets, and computers, screens are a pervasive part of daily life. Yet a multiplicity of screens has been integral to the media landscape since cinema's golden age. In On the Screen, Ariel Rogers rethinks the history of moving images by exploring how experiments with screen technologies in and around the 1930s changed the way films were produced, exhibited, and experienced. Marshalling extensive archival research, Rogers reveals the role screens played at the height of the era of 'classical' Hollywood cinema. She shows how filmmakers, technicians, architects, and exhibitors employed a variety of screens within diverse spaces, including studio soundstages, theaters, homes, stores, and train stations. Far from inert, screens served as means of structuring mediated space and time, contributing to the transformations of modern culture. On the Screen demonstrates how particular approaches to the use of screens traversed production and exhibition, theatrical and extratheatrical practice, mainstream and avant-garde modes, and even cinema and television. Rogers's history challenges conventional narratives about the novelty of the twenty-first-century multiscreen environment, showing how attention to the variety of historical screen practices opens up new ways to understand contemporary media.

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Review Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece (April 2021) Review of "On the Screen: Displaying the Moving Image, 1926–1942". Technology and Culture (pp. 646-647). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Murray, Susan
Kathryn Cramer Brownell
Fitsanakis, Joseph
Cynthia B. Meyers
Lenny Lipton
Godfrey, Donald G.
Concepts
Motion pictures; cinema; movies
Television
Communication technology
Mass media
Technology and society
Cinematography
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
19th century
18th century
Places
United States
Sweden
Great Britain
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