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How race shaped the fundamental formal and technological means of the  
cinema

THE CINEMA AND ITS SHADOW: Race and Technology in Early Cinema
By Alice Maurice
University of Minnesota Press | 288 pages | 2013
ISBN 978-0-8166-7805-1 | paperback | $25.00
ISBN 978-0-8166-7804-4 | cloth | $75.00

The Cinema and Its Shadow argues that race has defined the cinematic  
apparatus since the earliest motion pictures, especially at times of  
technological transition. Discussing early “race subjects,” Alice  
Maurice demonstrates that these films influenced cinematic narrative  
in lasting ways by helping to determine the relation between stillness  
and motion, spectacle and narrative drive.

PRAISE FOR THE CINEMA AND ITS SHADOW:
"The Cinema and Its Shadow will make it impossible to teach and write  
about the narrative/technological history of cinema without paying  
attention to race. This is a wonderful book." —Sabine Haenni, author  
of The Immigrant Scene: Ethnic Amusements in New York, 1880-1920

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Alice Maurice is associate professor of English at the University of  
Toronto. Her articles have appeared in journals including Camera  
Obscura, Moving Image, and Cinema Journal.

For more information, including the table of contents, visit the  
book's webpage:
http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-cinema-and-its-shadow

Please email me if you have any questions.

Anne Wrenn
University of Minnesota Press
111 3rd Ave S, Ste. 290
Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520
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