Film 1900
Subtitle: technology, perception, culture
By: edited by Annemone Ligensa and Klaus Kreimeier.
Contributors: Kreimeier, Klaus.; Ligensa, Annemone.
Publisher: John Libbey; Distributed in North America by Indiana University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New Burnet, England; Bloomington, IN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780861966967
Subjects: Motion pictures -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Triangulating a turn: film 1900 as technology, perception and culture / Annemone Ligensa; title: Archaeologies of interactivity: early cinema, narrative and spectatorship / Thomas Elsaesser; title: Viewing change, changing views: the 'history of vision'-debate / Frank Kessler; title: The ambimodernity of early cinema: problems and paradoxes in the film-and-modernity discourse / Ben Singer; title: Mind the gap: the discovery of physiological time / Henning Schmidgen; title: 'Is everything relative?' : cinema and the revolution of knowledge around 1900 / Harro Segeberg; title: The aesthetic idealist as efficiency engineer: Hugo Münsterberg's theories of perception, psychotechnics and cinema / Jörg Schweinitz; title: Between observation and spectatorship: medicine, movies and mass culture in imperial Germany / Scott Curtis; title: The scene of the crime: psychiatric discourses on the film audience in early twentieth century German / Andreas Killen; title: Seen through the eyes of Simmel: the cinema programme as a 'modern' experience / Andrea Haller; title: 'Under the sign of the cinematograph': urban mobility and cinema location in Wilhelmine Berlin / Pelle Snickars; title: Perceptual environments for films: the development of cinema in Germany, 1895-1914 / Joseph Garncarz; title: 'Fumbling towards some new form of art?': the changing composition of film programmes in Britain, 1908-1914 / Ian Christie and John Sedgwick; title: The attraction of motion: modern representation and the image of movement / Tom Gunning; title: 'Dashing down upon the audience': notes on the genesis of filmic perception / Klaus Kreimeier; title: German Tonbilder of the 1900s: advanced technology and national brand / Martin Loiperdinger; title: Sculpting with light: early film style, stereoscopic vision and the idea of a 'plastic art in motion' / Michael Wedel; title: 'A cinematograph of feminine thought': The dangerous age, cinema and modern women / Annemone Ligensa; title: Cinema as a mode(l) of perception: Dorothy Richardson's novels and essays / Nicola Glaubitz.