From Méliès to New Media is an exploration of the presence and importance of film history in digital culture. The author demonstrates that new media forms are

An important reexamination of early film history, translated from the French for the first time.

An orphan and thief, Hugo lives in the walls of a busy train station. He desperately believes a broken automaton will make his dreams come true. But when his wo

From Méliès to New Media contributes to a dynamic stream of film history that is just beginning to understand that new media forms are not only indebted to, b

"Best moving pictures I ever saw." Thus did one Vaudeville theater manager describe Georges Méliès's A Trip to the Moon [Le Voyage dans la lune], after it was