The Crazy Cinématographe, or the Art of the Impromptu Spectator

[en] A reflection about the spectator of the "Crazy Cinématographe", an astonishing experiment of early films screenings in a fairground tent in the City of Luxembourg since 2007.
[fr] Cet article est une réflexion sur le statut complexe du spectateur du "Crazy Cinématographe", une expérience, lancée en 2007 à Luxembourg, de programmation et de projection de films des premiers temps dans un cadre forain actuel.

Disciplines :

Performing arts

Author, co-author :

Tomasovic, Dick ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des Arts et Sciences de la communication > Théories et pratiques du spectacle (vivant ou enregistré)

Language :

English

Title :

The Crazy Cinématographe, or the Art of the Impromptu Spectator

Alternative titles :

[fr] Le Crazy Cinématographe ou l'art du spectateur impromptu

Publication date :

2011

Main work title :

Early Cinema Today : The Art of Programming and Live Performance

Editor :

Loiperdinger, Martin

Publisher :

John Libbey Publishing, Londres, United Kingdom

ISBN/EAN :

9780811967025

Collection name :

KINtop - Studies in Early Cinema

Pages :

107-114

Available on ORBi :

since 10 January 2012

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Bibliography

Jules Romains, "The Crowd at the Cinematograph" (1911)
Tom Gunning, "The Cinema of Attraction(s): Early Film, Its Spectator and the Avant-Garde" in Thomas Elsaesser (ed.), Early Cinema: Space, Frame, Narrative (London: BFI, 1990).
Tom Gunning, "Re-NewingOld Technologies: Astonishment, Second Nature, and the Uncanny in Technology from the Previous Turn-of-the Century", in David Thorburn and Henry Jenkins (eds), Rethinking Media Change: The Aesthetics of Transition (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003), 39-60.
Isabelle Raynauld, "Le cinématographe comme nouvelle technologie: opacité et transparence", CiNéMAS 14.1 (2003): 117-128.
Victor Fournel, Ce qu'on voit dans les rues de Paris (Paris: Dentu Libraire-éditeur, 1867 [1855]), 270.
Dominique Païni, Le temps exposé: Le cinéma de la salle au musée (Paris: Cahiers du Cinéma, 2002), 54.

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