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Making Images Move: Handmade Cinema and the Other Arts

By Gregory Zinman, University of California Press, $45

Devoid of zeitgeisty romanticizations of the analog, Gregory Zinman’s book, Making Images Move, presents a defiant yet clear-eyed alternative history of the origins of cinema.

HE ETHOS OF ARTISANAL CRAFTSMANSHIP presents a defiant yet clear-eyed alternative history of the origins of cinema.

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