Reviews
On the Screen is a major achievement that insists on screen technology as an integral component of film history., Offering an extensive and systematic exploration of screen practices in the 1930s, Ariel Rogers recharacterizes this seemingly solid, coherent era by analyzing its multiplicity and heterogeneity. The screen becomes a kaleidoscopic reality., A thoroughly documented account of the broad culture of synchronicity in screen culture over the long 1930s., There is no other book remotely like this. On the Screen is original in the material it unearths and discusses, offering an innovative history of film and technology. It strikes an easy balance between big ideas and focused analysis, addressing unmapped screen dynamics as crucial elements of that still undiscovered phenomena we call cinema., There is no other book remotely like this. On the Screen is original in the material it unearths and discusses, offering an innovative history of film and technology. It strikes an easy balance between big ideas and focused analysis, addressing unmapped screen dynamics as crucial elements of cinema., Film theory's classic question "What is cinema?" often gets a (stereo)typical answer around the idea that movies exist when projected on standard screens in theaters. With her well-known and lauded attention to archival research, Ariel Rogers revises this received account of cinema and essentially rewrites it from the ground up. This is a rich and rewarding study that combines sharp scholarship with compelling new interpretation to change the field., Offering an extensive and systematic exploration of screen practices in the 1930s, Ariel Rogers recharacterizes this seemingly solid, coherent era by analyzing its multiplicity and heterogeneity. Screen becomes a kaleidoscopic reality., Rogers's detailed and impressively supported account of how film screen technologies have proliferated is a timely and relevant study., Offering an extensive and systematic exploration of screen practices in the 1930s, Ariel Rogers re-characterizes this seemingly solid, coherent era by analyzing its multiplicity and heterogeneity. Screen becomes a kaleidoscopic reality.
