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The Un-Reality Effect in the Cinema of Attractions: Rethinking the Films of Lumière Brothers and Méliès through Pictorial Paradigms and Cultural Filters book cover

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The Un-Reality Effect in the Cinema of Attractions Rethinking the Films of Lumière Brothers and Méliès through Pictorial Paradigms and Cultural Filters

By Sabrina Francesca Crivelli Copyright 2026
144 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

144 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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The Un-Reality Effect in the Cinema of Attractions offers an original rethinking of early European cinema through the lens of its visual and cultural entanglements. Focusing on the works of the Lumière brothers and Georges Méliès, this book situates their films within the cinema of attractions, revealing how pictorial paradigms and cultural filters shaped both realist and fantastical modes of... Read more

Introduction: Redefining The Cinema Of Attractions Through the Un-Reality Effect 

Part I: The Cinematic Attractionalism

1. The Abstracting Factors In The Lumière Photographic Realism

2. The Méliès Cinematic Illusionism                                                                                                                      

Part II: Pictorial Paradigms

3. The Persistence Of Pictorial Codes

4. The Visual Foundations Of Méliès’ Worlds Of Imagination 

Part III: Cultural Filters

5. Imperial Visions

6. Imperial Satire

       

Index

Biography

Sabrina Francesca Crivelli is a film theorist and critic with a PhD in film studies from the University of Birmingham, UK. Her research focuses on film theory and aesthetics, with particular attention to the intersections between European silent cinema, visual culture, and pictorial traditions, and their wider cultural and social implications. She has published widely as an essayist on cinema, contributing to Early Popular Visual Culture, Arte|Documento, Itinera, Artribune, Nocturno Cinema, and La Gazzetta di Parma.

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