On the Screen: Displaying the Moving Image, 1926–1942
Ariel Rogers, "On the Screen: Displaying the Moving Image, 1926–1942 "
English | ISBN: 0231188846 | 2019 | 320 pages | PDF | 20 MB
English | ISBN: 0231188846 | 2019 | 320 pages | PDF | 20 MB
Today, in a world of smartphones, tablets, and computers, screens are a pervasive part of daily life. Yet a multiplicity of screens has been integral to the media landscape since cinema’s golden age. In On the Screen, Ariel Rogers rethinks the history of moving images by exploring how experiments with screen technologies in and around the 1930s changed the way films were produced, exhibited, and experienced.
Marshalling extensive archival research, Rogers reveals the role screens played at the height of the era of “classical” Hollywood cinema. She shows how filmmakers, technicians, architects, and exhibitors employed a variety of screens within diverse spaces, including studio soundstages, theaters, homes, stores, and train stations. Far from inert, screens served as means of structuring mediated space and time, contributing to the transformations of modern culture.