Dear Screen-L:





The University of California Press  is pleased to announce the publication of:



Body Shots: Early Cinema's Incarnations



Jonathan Auerbach is Professor of English at the University of 

Maryland, College Park and is the author of _Male Call: Becoming Jack 

London_ (1996) and _The Romance of Failure: First-Person Fictions of 

Poe, Hawthorne, and James_ (1989).



http://go.ucpress.edu/Auerbach



"_Body Shots_ is a provocative and compelling account of the 

centrality of corporeal movement and stillness to early cinema. 

Auerbach puts theory and history into productive conversation, 

significantly extending our knowledge of the contexts and strategies 

of cinema in its early years. It is an original and important 

book."-Lee Grieveson, author of _Policing Cinema: Movies and 

Censorship in Early Twentieth-Century-America_





This original and compelling book places the body at the center of 

cinema's first decade of emergence and challenges the idea that for 

early audiences, the new medium's fascination rested on visual 

spectacle for its own sake. Instead, as Jonathan Auerbach argues, it 

was the human form in motion that most profoundly shaped early 

cinema. Situating his discussion in a political and historical 

context, Auerbach begins his analysis with films that reveal striking 

anxieties and preoccupations about persons on public display-both 

exceptional figures, such as 1896 presidential candidate William 

McKinley, and ordinary people caught by the movie camera in their 

daily routines. The result is a sharp, unique, and groundbreaking way 

to consider the turn-of-the-twentieth-century American incarnation of 

cinema itself.



Full information about the book, including the table of contents, is 

available online: http://go.ucpress.edu/Auerbach





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Lolita Guevarra

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University of California Press

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