Moving performance : British stage and screen, 1890s-1920s /
Identifies performance as a central focus point in the relationship between theatrical modes and the emergence of cinematic forms in British theatre and film.
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Trowbridge :
Flicks Books,
2000.
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Table of Contents:
- Taking it forward: theatricality and British cinema style in the 1920s / Christine Gledhill
- Darwin, Duchenne, Delsarte / Amy Sargeant
- "Sir J. and Lady Forbes-Robertson left for America on Saturday": marketing the 1913 Hamlet for stage and screen / Emma Smith
- A scene--King John--now playing at Her Majesty's theatre / Luke McKernan
- The influence of the English music-hall on early screen acting / Frank Scheide
- "The cinematograph still reigns supreme at the Skating Palace": the first decades of film in Scotland / Adrienne Scullion
- "Come in please, come out pleased": the development of British fairground Bioscope presentation and performance / Mervyn Heard
- William Haggar: film pioneer, actor and showman / Dave Berry
- True crime? Charles Peace and the British crime film, 1895-1905 / Andrew Clay
- Films at home: putting domestic audiences in the picture / Uma Dinsmore
- Women and early British film: finding a screen of her own / Katherine Newey.