{"product_id":"9781844576951","title":"Making Movies into Art: Picture Craft from the Magic Lantern to Early Hollywood","description":"Focusing on early cinema's relationship with the pictorial arts, this pioneering study explores how cinema's emergence was grounded in theories of picture composition, craft and arts education – from magic lantern experiments in 1890s New York through to early Hollywood feature films in the 1920s.\u003cp\u003eChallenging received notions that the advent of cinema was a celebration of mechanisation and a radical rejection of nineteenth-century traditions of representation, Kaveh Askari instead emphasises the overlap between craft traditions and modernity in early film.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOpening up valuable new perspectives on the history of film as art, Askari links American silent cinema with the practice of teaching the public how to appreciate fine art; charts its entrance into arts education via art schools and university film courses;\u003cbr\u003eshows how concepts of artistic production entered films through a material interest in the studio; and examines the way in which Maurice Tourneur and Rex Ingram made early art films by shaping an image of the film director around the idea of the fine artist.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BFI Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47063038394608,"sku":"9781844576951","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781844576951_p0.jpg?v=1763742644","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781844576951","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}