Corporeal cinema. Editorial

In a 12-second clip featuring trapeze performer Luis Martinetti, shot for Edison’s Kinetoscope, the film spectator of 1894 was treated to an astonishing spectacle that bore all the hallmarks of what Tom Gunning would later identify as a “cinema of attraction”. Dressed in a tiger print body suit, Mar...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ian Murphy, Gwenda Young
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University College Cork 2014-06-01
Series:Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media
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Online Access:http://www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue7/HTML/Editorial.html