Cinema Before the World: The Global Routes of the Lumière Brothers - Hardcover

by Michael Allan (Author)

Tells the global story of the cinematograph while modeling a film scholarship committed to transnational analysis across languages, regions, and media.

Author Biography

Michael Allan is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Cinema Studies at the University of Oregon. He is the author of In the Shadow of World Literature: Sites of Reading in Colonial Egypt (Princeton, 2016, winner, MLA First Book Prize) and serves as editor of the journal Comparative Literature.