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Download or read book The Dream that Kicks written by Michael Chanan and published by Routledge & Kegan Paul Books. This book was released on 1980 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Film has taught us to see the world afresh, but it could not picture its own birth. In "The Dream That Kicks," Michael Chanan puts forward a theory of invention to show how cinematography was a product of the growing forces of nineteenth century capitalist production and traces the development of British cinema from its mystical origins in music halls to its emergence as a cultural commodity. "The Dream That Kicks" combines astute textual analysis of individual films with detailed archival work of the industry. It situates cinema within its wider context to produce a thought-provoking exploration of its cultural and ideological implications. This paperback edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to take into account orhte recent work on early cinema.