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Introduction: A Modernist Cinema?

Introduction: A Modernist Cinema? Michael Valdez Moses From the time of Eadweard Muybridge’s first successful experiments with stereoscopic fast motion photography in 1878, the history of cinema has been indissolubly linked with those of modernity and modern art. The rapid development of the new medium by Muybridge, William Friese-Greene, William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, Thomas Edison, and Auguste and Louis Lumière in the 1880s and 1890s occurred during a period of artistic ferment and formal innovation in literature, painting, sculpture, architecture, opera and music. Even as the ‘cinematograph’ of the Lumière brothers (and Jean Aimé Le Roy), the ‘Vitascope’ of Edison, and the ‘Bioscop’ of Emil and Max Skladonowsky enjoyed their initial public triumphs in Paris, New York and Berlin in the mid-1890s, a bewildering variety of new movements in the arts – naturalism, symbolism, aestheticism, impressionism, decadence, modernismo, art deco, modernisme (the Catalan architectural movement) and verismo, to name only a few of the most prominent – flourished in Europe and the Americas. The subsequent worldwide success first of the silent movie and then after 1927 of the sound film significantly coincided with what has been traditionally regarded as the heyday of literary (and more generally artistic) modernism. At a time when http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Modernist Cultures Edinburgh University Press

Introduction: A Modernist Cinema?

Moses, Michael Valdez
Modernist Cultures , Volume 5 (1): 1 – May 1, 2010
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Edinburgh University Press
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© Edinburgh University Press 2010
Subject
Film, Media and Cultural Studies
ISSN
2041-1022
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1753-8629
DOI
10.3366/mod.2010.0002
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Michael Valdez Moses From the time of Eadweard Muybridge’s first successful experiments with stereoscopic fast motion photography in 1878, the history of cinema has been indissolubly linked with those of modernity and modern art. The rapid development of the new medium by Muybridge, William Friese-Greene, William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, Thomas Edison, and Auguste and Louis Lumière in the 1880s and 1890s occurred during a period of artistic ferment and formal innovation in literature, painting, sculpture, architecture, opera and music. Even as the ‘cinematograph’ of the Lumière brothers (and Jean Aimé Le Roy), the ‘Vitascope’ of Edison, and the ‘Bioscop’ of Emil and Max Skladonowsky enjoyed their initial public triumphs in Paris, New York and Berlin in the mid-1890s, a bewildering variety of new movements in the arts – naturalism, symbolism, aestheticism, impressionism, decadence, modernismo, art deco, modernisme (the Catalan architectural movement) and verismo, to name only a few of the most prominent – flourished in Europe and the Americas. The subsequent worldwide success first of the silent movie and then after 1927 of the sound film significantly coincided with what has been traditionally regarded as the heyday of literary (and more generally artistic) modernism. At a time when

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