Early film theories in Italy, 1896-1922

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Early film theories in Italy, 1896-1922 is written by Silvio Alovisio and published by Amsterdam University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9048527104 (ISBN 10) and 9789048527106 (ISBN 13).

How did Italian writers, scholars, clergymen, psychologists, members of parliament, and philosophers react to the advent of cinema? How did they establish a common language to discuss an invention that exceeded habits and expectations, and that transcended existing forms and categories of thought? This anthology gathers for the first time a large number of social discourses that in Italy tried to define and contextualize cinema from the 1890s to 1920s. What results is an impressive picture of a culture in distress at a 'scandalous' event and eager to appropriate it for the sake of modernization.