M駘i鑚 Boots: Footwear and Film Manufacturing in Second Industrial Revolution Paris

Before he became an influential cinematic innovator, Georges M駘i鑚 (1861-1938) was a maker of deluxe French footwear, an illusionist, and a caricaturist. Proceeding from these beginnings, M駘i鑚 Boots traces how the full trajectory of Georges M駘i鑚' career during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, along with the larger cultural and historical contexts in which M駘i鑚 operated, shaped his cinematic oeuvre. Solomon examines M駘i鑚' unpublished drawings and published caricatures, the role of laughter in his magic theater productions, and the constituent elements of what M駘i鑚 called "the new profession of the cin饌ste." The book also reveals M駘i鑚' connections to the Incoh駻ents, a group of ephemeral artists from the 1880s, demonstrating the group's relevance for M駘i鑚, early cinema, and modernity. By positioning M駘i鑚 in relation to the material culture of his time, Solomon demonstrates that M駘i鑚' work was expressive of a distinctly modern, and modernist, sensibility that appeared in France during the 1880s in the wake of the Second Industrial Revolution.

Author: Matthew Solomon
ISBN-10: 0472055585
ISBN-13: 9780472055586
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Language: English
Published: 09/08/2022
Pages: 230
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50d