Week 2*October 12th Early Cinema: Origins, Machines and Attractions

Required Reading

[For Week 2-3] Cherchi Usai, Paolo. 1997. “Origins and Survival”, in The Oxford History Of World Cinema: The Definitive History Of Cinema Worldwide, edited by Geoffrey Nowell-smith, Oxford University Press, 6-13

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Thompson, Kristine & Bordwell, David. 2010. “The Invention and Early Years Of The Cinema, 1880s-1904”, Film History: an Introduction (third edition), McGraw-Hill Education, 3-21

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