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  From Peepshow to Palace: The Birth of American Film (Paperback) By (author) David Robinson, Foreword by Martin Scorsese

  

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  Short Description for From Peepshow to PalaceRobinson chronicles the early use of film as vaudeville sideshow; as sheer spectacle of moving images precluding any notion of plot development or drama; and as a fledgling dramatic effort, ranging from prizefights to Passion plays.
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  • Publisher: Columbia University Press
  • Published: 01 November 1997
  • Format: Paperback 248 pages
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  • Categories: Films, Cinema | Film Theory & Criticism | History Of The Americas
  • ISBN 13: 9780231103398 ISBN 10: 0231103395
  • Sales rank: 798,726

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• Film critic David Robinson chronicles the early use of film as vaudeville sideshow; as sheer spectacle of moving images precluding any notion of plot development or drama; and as a fledgling dramatic effort, ranging from prizefights to Passion plays. He also takes readers to the nickelodeon theaters, and replete with more than 150 drawings and photographs, shows how the earliest devices of cinematic prehistory--machines with colorful names like the Phantascope and the Wheel of Life--led to the technology of filmmaking we know today.