EMILE COHL
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20 x 16 cm / 264 pages /November 2008
isbn: 978-2-35137-063-6
Texts by : Marcode Blois, Catherine Charpin, Maurice Corbet, Roland Cosandey, Pierre Courtet-Cohl, Brigitte Liabeuf, Hervé Joubert-Laurencin, Philippe Moins, Juliette Singer, Akira Toshigi and Pascal Vimenet.
In French only
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Émile Cohl (1857-1938), the great caricaturist and pioneering, inventive and modern filmmaker, was an essential pioneer and an often-missing link in the history of cinema.
film critics, historians and curators. His incredible career, his collaborations with the great names of cinema at the time,
such as Louis Feuillade, and his undeniable contribution to the new cinematographic language are the pretexts for a definition of his cinema: did he transmit a virus to cinema, and what was it? A historical and contemporary discovery, focusing on the ‘incoherent’ source and making the link with contemporary plastic expressions, accompanied by exceptional iconography, to celebrate in a lively way the centenary of the first screening of Fantasmagorie (1908).
