Vito Adriaensens, Velvet Curtains and Gilded Frames: The Art of European Early Cinema (Edinburgh University Press, 2023)
Velvet Curtains and Gilded Frames explores the intermedial context of early cinema. It tackles the first European feature films’ intricate relationship with its sister arts to reveal that the period referred to by historians as the “long nineteenth century” was one in which Bourgeois…
