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Fantastic voyages of the cinematic imagination [electronic resource] : Georges Melies's Trip to the moon / edited by Matthew Solomon.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: SUNY series, horizons of cinema | UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Albany : State University of New York Press, c2011. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (xii, 259 p. :) illContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781438435824
  • 1438435827
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.43/72 22
LOC classification:
  • PN1997.T693 F36 2011
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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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.

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