%0 Book Section %1 10.2307/j.ctv157bwd.3 %A Casetti, Francesco %B Early Film Theories in Italy 1896-1922: The Little Magic Machine %C Amsterdam %D 2017 %I Amsterdam University Press %K film-criticism film-theory italy technology %P 11--32 %T The Throb of the Cinematograph %U http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv157bwd.3 %X This book assembles 60 texts on cinema that appeared in Italy between 1896 and 1922, most of which are printed here in English translation for the first time.¹ The texts are quite varied in nature: editorials from daily newspapers; essays from illustrated magazines; commentaries in film journals; medical and scientific reports; and fictional stories. The attitudes expressed within them are likewise quite varied: some pieces interrogate cinema from the standpoint of its novelty; others express perplexity, seeing it as a threat to established values; others still are descriptions and reflections from critics, screenwriters, and directors interested in understanding how cinema %@ 9789089648556

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