Tom Gunning's label for early cinema, and tendencies that continue in avant-garde and special effects cinema, is the cinema of attractions.
Cinema of Attraction is a term used to describe films as visual entertainment, in which the audience focuses solely on the movies or animation, and less on the narrative.
The concept of 'attraction cinema' encompasses the development of early cinema, technology, the industry, and its cultural context. This is related to the influence of history at that time. The term cinema of attraction came to be related to the development of the film industry at the turn of the 20th century.
The phrase cinema of attraction put up in motion in 1985 by Tom Gunning and André Gaudreault – Canadian film historians, to outline the debate between Burch, Charles Musser, and Barry Salt regarding the kinds of differences and degrees of autonomy that cinema manifested up to the First World War.
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