Fiction and Imagination in Early Cinema A New Film History
- Submitting institution
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Queen Mary University of London
: B - Film
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies : B - Film
- Output identifier
- 1569
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic
- ISBN
- 9781788314121
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- November
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This is the first monograph (100,000 words) to combine analytic philosophy and new film history while challenging some key and generally accepted disciplinary ideas in both. In the former case, it develops a non-intentionalist theory of fiction. In the latter, by drawing on a plethora of pre-1915 primary sources it explains how filmmakers, distributors, exhibitors, and audiences negotiated film's fictional status. In other words, the monograph argues that that the fictional status of a film may change over time and that numerous pre-1915 films that present-day audiences treat as non-fictions were treated by their contemporaries as fictions and vice versa.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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