Photography, Early Cinema and Colonial Modernity: Frank Hurley’s Synchronized Lecture EntertainmentsAnthem Press, 15. nov 2013 - 288 pages ‘Photography, Early Cinema and Colonial Modernity’ is not a biography of Frank Hurley the man; it is instead an examination of the social life of the many marvellous and meaningful things he made as a professional photographer and film maker. The focus of this volume surrounds the media events that encompassed these various creations – what Hurley called his ‘synchronized lecture entertainments’. These media events were at once national and international; they involved Hurley in an entire culture industry that was constantly in movement along global lines of travel and communication. This raises complex questions both about the authorship of Hurley’s photographic and filmic texts – which were often produced and presented by other people – and about their ontology, as they were often in a state of reassemblage in response to changing market opportunities. This unique study re-imagines, from inside the quiet and stillness of the archive, the prior social life enjoyed by Hurley’s creations amidst the complicated topography of the early twentieth century’s rapidly internationalizing mass-media landscape. As a way to conceive of that space, and of the social life of the people and things within it, this study uses the concept of ‘colonial modernity’. |
Contents
Photography Early Cinema_01_Ch01_p001038 | 1 |
Photography Early Cinema_02_Ch02_p039076 | 39 |
Photography Early Cinema_03_Photos_p077108 | 77 |
Photography Early Cinema_04_Ch03_p109146 | 109 |
Photography Early Cinema_05_Ch04_p147164 | 147 |
Photography Early Cinema_06_Ch05_p165208 | 165 |
Photography Early Cinema_07_Conclu_p209218 | 209 |
Photography Early Cinema_08_Notes_p219238 | 219 |
Photography Early Cinema_09_Biblio_p239246 | 239 |
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