Body Shots Early Cinema's Incarnations.PDF

Body Shots

Body Shots

Early Cinema’s Incarnations

Jonathan Auerbach

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Auerbach, Jonathan, 1954 –

Body shots : early cinema’s incarnations / Jonathan Auerbach.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

isbn 978-0-520-25259-2 (cloth : alk. paper) —

isbn 978-0-520-25293-6 (pbk. : alk. paper)

1. Body, Human, in motion pictures. 2. Silent films — History and

criticism. I. Title.

pn1995.9.b62a84 2007

791.43'656109041 — dc22

2007008837

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