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MÃ©liÃ¨s Boots: Footwear and Film Manufacturing in Second Industrial Revolution Paris

By (author) Matthew Solomon

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Before he became an influential cinematic innovator, Georges MÃ©liÃ¨s (1861â€“1938) was a maker of deluxe French footwear, an illusionist, and a caricaturist. Proceeding from these beginnings, MÃ©liÃ¨s Boots traces how the full trajectory of Georges MÃ©liÃ¨sâ€™ career during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, along with the larger cultural and historical contexts in which MÃ©liÃ¨s operated, shaped his cinematic oeuvre. Solomon examines MÃ©liÃ¨sâ€™ unpublished drawings and published caricatures, the role of laughter in his magic theater productions, and the constituent elements of what MÃ©liÃ¨s called ""the new profession of the cinÃ©aste."" The book also reveals MÃ©liÃ¨s' connections to the IncohÃ©rents, a group of ephemeral artists from the 1880s, demonstrating the groupâ€™s relevance for MÃ©liÃ¨s, early cinema, and modernity. By positioning MÃ©liÃ¨s in relation to the material culture of his time, Solomon demonstrates that MÃ©liÃ¨sâ€™ 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.

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