"This book examines how writers and artists from the 1870s to the 1960s turned their attention to the physical process of spoken language. Their goal was to cap

This thoroughly revised and expanded edition of a key textbook offers an innovative and accessible account of the richness and diversity of French film history

A history of the near-simultaneous emergence of moving pictures in several countries in the mid-1890s and a thorough reevaluation of the development of the tech