The Moving Form Of Film Historicising The Medium Through Other Media Edited By Lcia Nagib Senior Lecturer In Media Studies by Edited By Lúcia Nagib (senior Lecturer In Media Studies), Stefan Solomon 9780197621707, 9780197621714, 0197621708, 0197621716 instant download after payment.

The Moving Form of Film: Historicizing the Medium through Other Media charts the ways in which crossing borders between film & other arts & media can provide an encompassing, inclusive, & non-teleological understanding of film history. 

Evolutionary narratives of cinema have traditionally adopted the Second World War as a watershed that separates 'classical' Hollywood films from 'modern' European productions, a scheme that subjects the entire world to the cinematic history of two hegemonic centres. In turn, histories of film as a technological medium have focused on the specificity of cinema as it gradually separated from the other art & medial forms - theatre, dance, fairground spectacle, painting, literature, still photography & other pre-cinematic modes. 

Taking an ambitious step forward with relation to these approaches, this book focuses on the fluid quality of the film form by exploring an array of exciting & often neglected artistic expressions worldwide as they compare & interconnect films across temporal, geographical, & cultural borders. By observing the ebb & flow of film's contours within the bounds of other artistic & medial expressions, the chapters aspire to establish a flexible historical platform for the moving form of film, posited, from production to consumption, as a transforming & transformative medium.