The Promise of Cinema

  • About
    • Contact
    • Acknowledgments
  • The Book
    • Description
    • Reviews
    • Past Events
    • Table of Contents
    • Introduction
    • Selected Texts
    • Documents in Chronological Order
  • Documents
    • New Translations
    • Historical books, pamphlets and longer studies
  • Resources
    • Historical Film Journals Online
    • Online Resources
    • Weimar Cinema and Theory
    • Syllabi
  • Films
    • 1895-1918
    • 1919-1926
    • 1927-1933
  • Illustrations
  • Constellations
  • Essays
December 13, 2015

 

 

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NEWS

The Promise of Cinema wins the 41st annual Limina Award for Best International Film Studies Book, awarded by the Filmforum Udine-Gorizia in association with Consulta Universitaria del Cinema and Cinema & Cie: International Film Studies Journal

The Promise of Cinema wins an Award of Distinction from the Society of Cinema and Media Studies

Promise of Cinema included in the Best Film Books of 2016 at Huffington Post

Interview with the editors in Film Quarterly, spring 2016

Promise of Cinema named "Filmbuch des Monats" by Hans Helmut Prinzler. See review here.

Review by Jan-Christopher Horak, UCLA Film and Television Archive (July 2016).

 

NEW UPLOADS

Kristina Köhler on Rudolf Laban’s Film Theory

Howard Eiland on Benjamin

Konrad Lange, Das Kino in Gegenwart und Zukunft (1920)

Lithographic Animation Loops for Children 1907

Mathematische Trickfilms 1912

"Telephony"

 

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