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Dimitrios Latsis, How the Movies Got a Past: A Historiography of American Cinema, 1894-1930 (Oxford University Press, 2023)

January 15, 2024 7:18am Category: Research

Dimitrios Latsis, How the Movies Got a Past: A Historiography of American Cinema, 1894-1930 (Oxford University Press, 2023)

by Clara Auclair
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How the Movies Got a Past presents a comprehensive survey of the rise of historiographical discourse on cinema in North America as it is reflected in publications, exhibitions, lectures, and films about the cinema as a technology, form of art, and source of entertainment, from…

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