Fantastic voyages of the cinematic imagination
Fantastic voyages of the cinematic imagination Georges Melies's Trip to the moon / [electronic resource] :
edited by Matthew Solomon.
- Albany : State University of New York Press, c2011.
- 1 online resource (xii, 259 p. :) ill. ;
- The SUNY series, horizons of cinema .
- SUNY series, horizons of cinema. UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Accompanying disc includes two versions of the film: a reconstructed version accompanied by an original 1903 score and a recently rediscovered color-tinted version; both have optional audio commentaries by the editor.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Disc: A trip to the moon: reconstructed version with commentary (15:39) ; tinted version with commentary (11:48). Introduction -- A trip to the movies: Georges Melies, filmmaker and magician (1861-1938) / Paolo Cherchi Usai -- Theatricality, narrativity, and trickality : reevaluating the cinema of Georges Melies / Andre Gaudreault -- A trip to the moon : a composite film / Thierry Lefebvre -- First-footing on the moon : Melies's debt to Verne and Wells and his influence in Great Britain / Ian Christie -- Distance does not exist : Melies, le cinema, and the moon / Murray Pomerance -- Shooting into outer space : reframing modern vision / Tom Gunning -- A trip to the moon as feerie / Frank Kessler -- A trip to the moon as an American phenomenon / Richard Abel -- A trip to the fair; or, moon-walking in space / Matthew Solomon -- The stars might be smiling : a feminist forage into a famous film / Victoria Duckett -- Impossible voyages and extraordinary adventures in early science fiction cinema : from Robida to Melies and Marcel Fabre / Antonio Costa -- No one-way ticket to the moon / Viva Paci -- Appendix: A fantastical ... trip to the moon ; Answers to Questionary [sic] / Georges Melies ; Marvelous in the cinema / Georges Melies ; The importance of the script / George Melies.
9781438435824 1438435827
Melies, Georges, 1861-1938 --Criticism and interpretation.
Trip to the moon (Motion picture)
Electronic books.
PN1997.T693 / F36 2011
791.43/72
Accompanying disc includes two versions of the film: a reconstructed version accompanied by an original 1903 score and a recently rediscovered color-tinted version; both have optional audio commentaries by the editor.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Disc: A trip to the moon: reconstructed version with commentary (15:39) ; tinted version with commentary (11:48). Introduction -- A trip to the movies: Georges Melies, filmmaker and magician (1861-1938) / Paolo Cherchi Usai -- Theatricality, narrativity, and trickality : reevaluating the cinema of Georges Melies / Andre Gaudreault -- A trip to the moon : a composite film / Thierry Lefebvre -- First-footing on the moon : Melies's debt to Verne and Wells and his influence in Great Britain / Ian Christie -- Distance does not exist : Melies, le cinema, and the moon / Murray Pomerance -- Shooting into outer space : reframing modern vision / Tom Gunning -- A trip to the moon as feerie / Frank Kessler -- A trip to the moon as an American phenomenon / Richard Abel -- A trip to the fair; or, moon-walking in space / Matthew Solomon -- The stars might be smiling : a feminist forage into a famous film / Victoria Duckett -- Impossible voyages and extraordinary adventures in early science fiction cinema : from Robida to Melies and Marcel Fabre / Antonio Costa -- No one-way ticket to the moon / Viva Paci -- Appendix: A fantastical ... trip to the moon ; Answers to Questionary [sic] / Georges Melies ; Marvelous in the cinema / Georges Melies ; The importance of the script / George Melies.
9781438435824 1438435827
Melies, Georges, 1861-1938 --Criticism and interpretation.
Trip to the moon (Motion picture)
Electronic books.
PN1997.T693 / F36 2011
791.43/72