early cinema
“Cinema of attractions” as defined by Tom Gunning is cinema less as A way 0f telling stories than as a way of presenting views to an Audience fascinating because of their illusory power. Gunning has explained that early cinema involved an “aesthetic of Attractions” in which visual curiosity was aroused and satisfied by Novelty, surprise even shock. ... In this case early cinema were universal. More over, early films generally were comprised of a single, autonomous tableau or a serious of tableaux or ‘scenes’, frontally framed and often static, as in photographs or on the theatre stage. This essay will attempt to break the film into parts to attempt to show the style and form of early cinema and back Gunning’s theory of “cinema of attractions”. ... But the camera does one impressive pan that we have not seen in any early films. ... In one of the fourteen scenes, there is a dance scene which can be a good example of Tom Gunning’s “Cinema of attraction”. ... In conclusion, early cinema was