The Un-Reality Effect in the Cinema of Attractions: Rethinking the Films of Lumi?re Brothers and M?li?s through Pictorial Paradigms and Cultural Filte [Hardcover]

This book?offers an original rethinking of early European cinema through the lens of its visual and cultural entanglements.?By revisiting the intersections between realism and illusionism, it opens fresh pathways for future research on cinemas intermedial foundations.

Introduction: Redefining The Cinema Of Attractions Through the Un-Reality Effect 

Part I: The Cinematic Attractionalism

1. The Abstracting Factors In The Lumi?re Photographic Realism

2. The M?li?s Cinematic Illusionism                                                                                                                      

Part II: Pictorial Paradigms

3. The Persistence Of Pictorial Codes

4. The Visual Foundations Of M?li?s Worlds Of Imagination&amlÃ6