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A trip to the Moon

Author(s): Małgorzata Hendrykowska
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: Georges Méliès; A Trip to the Moon /Voyage dans la Lune; film science fiction; popular culture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries; film reconstruction and restoration; film in literary; theatrical; visual arts contexts
Summary/Abstract: A monograph of a landmark film for the history of filmmaking – A Trip to the Moon (1902) by the global pioneer of cinema Georges Méliès. The author presents and analyses this film in broad literary, theatrical, and visual arts contexts, placing it within the tastes and expectations of audiences of European popular culture at the turn of the 20th century. The book is a continuation of the Classics of Cinema series published by AMU Press, in which more than twenty book monographs have been published so far.

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