Fantastic Voyages of the Cinematic Imagination: Georges Melies's Trip to the Moon

by Solomon, Matthew

• ISBN13: 9781438435800
• ISBN10: 1438435800
• Edition: DVD
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-05-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

An authoritative and comprehensive guide to cinema's first true blockbuster.

Author Biography

Matthew Solomon is Associate Professor of Cinema Studies at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York. He is the author of Disappearing Tricks: Silent Films, Houdini and the New Magic of the Twentieth Century.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
A Trip to the Movies: Georges Méliès, Filmmaker and Magician (1861-1938)	p. 25
Theatricality, Narrativity, and Trickality: Reevaluating the Cinema of Georges Méliès	p. 31
A Trip to the Moon: A Composite Film	p. 49
First-Footing on the Moon: Méliès's Debt to Verne and Wells and His Influence in Great Britain	p. 65
ôDistance Does Not Existö: Méliès, le Cinéma, and the Moon	p. 81
Shooting into Outer Space: Refraining Modern Vision	p. 97
A Trip to the Moon as Féerie	p. 115
A Trip to the Moon as an American Phenomenon	p. 129
A Trip to the Fair; or, Moon-Walking in Space	p. 143
The Stars Might Be Smiling: A Feminist Forage into a Famous Film	p. 161
Impossible Voyages and Extraordinary Adventures in Early Science Fiction Cinema: From Robida to Méliès and Marcel Fabre	p. 183
No One-Way Ticket to the Moon	p. 201
Appendix	p. 225
A Fantastical … Trip to the Moon	p. 227
ôAnswer to Questionary [sic]ö	p. 233
ôThe Marvelous in the Cinemaö	p. 235
ôThe Importance of the Scriptö	p. 241
List of Contributors	p. 245
Index	p. 251
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