"Noah's Beasts Were the Stars": Arthur Melbourne Cooper’s Noah’s Ark (1909)
More than one hundred years ago, a now largely forgotten pioneer of the British cinema, Arthur Melbourne Cooper, shot and exhibited Noah’s Ark (Alpha, 1909), the world’s first cinematic depiction of Noah, his ark and the deluge from which it delivered him. This study highlights this remarkable film’...
| Subtitles: | The 2015 International Conference on Religion and Film in Istanbul |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2016
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The journal of religion and film
Year: 2016, Volume: 20, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-27 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Melbourne-Cooper, Arthur 1874-1961
/ The Tale of the ark
/ Great Britain
/ Religion
/ Culture
/ History 1837-1901
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament ZG Media studies; Digital media; Communication studies |
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| Summary: | More than one hundred years ago, a now largely forgotten pioneer of the British cinema, Arthur Melbourne Cooper, shot and exhibited Noah’s Ark (Alpha, 1909), the world’s first cinematic depiction of Noah, his ark and the deluge from which it delivered him. This study highlights this remarkable film’s anticipation of later animated biblical pictures and seeks to contextualize the film’s production and exhibition within both Melbourne Cooper’s oeuvre, and within British religious and visual culture of the late Victorian period. |
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| ISSN: | 1092-1311 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of religion and film
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