Civilization and City Images in the Films of Georges Méliès

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.200907.027How to use a DOI?

Keywords

silent cinema, Georges Méliès, An Adventurous Automobile Trip, the Legend of Rip van Winkle, Christmas Dream, city, civilization, distraction, locations

Abstract

The very first images of civilization and city in Georges Méliès fiction films are described in the article. His vision of “islands” of a civilization in the middle of a stony landscape and active aircraft traffic were adopted by science-fiction cinema later. In his travel films, the director creates the image of civilization not so much with the help of the spatial environment, but with references to the world of science, entertainment and spectacular urban culture. Méliès became the author of the first images of city roofs, the Middle Age city screen myth, and the confrontation of traditional city and modern technical civilization.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ekaterina Salnikova
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/09/07
TI  - Civilization and City Images in the Films of Georges Méliès
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Art Studies: Science, Experience, Education (ICASSEE 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 145
EP  - 150
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200907.027
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200907.027
ID  - Salnikova2020
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