Cine-Graphism: A New Approach to the Evolution of Film Language through Technology
page 195--212. Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, (2018)Abstract
Cinema appeared first as a particular technology at the end of the nineteenth century; but precisely what it would be used for was not immediately clear.¹ The work, both historical and theoretical, of my friend and colleague André Gaudreault indicates that cinema’s purposes were originally less well defined than were its mechanics.² As Gaudreault has shown, cinema as a cultural form emerged gradually from a number of differently defined uses and rather separate cultural series. These include: Marey’s need for a means of recording scientifically the movement of bodies: human, animal, and inanimate; the Lumière’s company’s desire to extend the