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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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