Itinerant cinema and the moving image of modernism’s borders

• Main Author: Riordan, Kevin
• Other Authors: School of Humanities
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Humanities::Language::English; French Cinema; Border Studies
• Online Access: https://affirmationsmodern.com/articles/5/; https://hdl.handle.net/10356/143759
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The film historian Jacques Rittaud-Hutinet argues that early cinema’s itinerant projectionists, without their quite knowing it at the time, were responsible for “a new sensibility […] a new art and, above all, a new way of seeing.”[1] More than the medium’s much-heralded inventors, these men were, f...