A companion to early cinema
By: edited by André Gaudreault, Nicolas Dulac, Santiago Hidalgo ; assisted by Pierre Chemartin
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Malden
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781444332315
Subjects: Motion pictures; Silent films; History and criticism; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Nicolas Dulac, André Gaudreault, Santiago Hidalgo; title: Early Cinema Cultures. The Culture Broth and the Froth of Cultures of So-called Early Cinema / André Gaudreault; title: Toward A History Of Peep Practice / Erkki Huhtamo; title: "We are Here and Not Here": Late Nineteenth Century Stage Magic and the Roots of Cinema in the Appearance (and Disappearance) of the Virtual Image / Tom Gunning; title: The Féerie between Stage and Screen / Frank Kessler; title: The Théâtrophone, an Anachronistic Hybrid Experiment or One of the First Immobile Traveler Devices? / Giusy Pisano; title: The "Silent" Arts: Modern Pantomime and the Making of an Art Cinema in Belle Époque Paris: The Case of Georges Wague and Germaine Dulac / Tami Williams; title: Early Cinema Discourses. First Discourses on Film and the Construction of a "Cinematic Episteme" / François Albera; title: The Discourses of Art in Early Film, or, Why not Rancière? / Rob King; title: Sensationalism and Early Cinema / Annemone Ligensa; title: From Craft to Industry: Series and Serial Production Discourses and Practices in France / Laurent Le Forestier; title: Awareness of Film, Language and Self in Early American Film Publications / Santiago Hidalgo; title: Early Cinema and Film Theory / Roger Odin; title: Early Cinema Forms. A Bunch of Violets / Ben Brewster; title: Modernity Stops at Nothing: The American Chase Film and the Specter of Lynching / Jan Olsson; title: "The Knowledge Which Comes in Pictures": Educational Films and Early Cinema Audiences / Jennifer Peterson; title: Motion Picture Color and Pathé-Frères: The Aesthetic Consequences of Industrialization / Charles O'Brien; title: Early Cinema Presentations. The European Fairground Cinema: (Re-)defining and (Re-)contextualizing the "Cinema of; title: Attractions" / Joseph Garncarz; title: Early Film Programs: an Overture, Five Acts, and an Interlude / Richard Abel; title: "Half Real-Half Reel": Alternation Format Stage-and-Screen Hybrids / Gwendolyn Waltz; title: Advance Newspaper Publicity for the Vitascope and the Mass Address of Cinema's Reading Public / Paul S. Moore; title: Storefront Theater Advertising and the Evolution of the American Film Poster / Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley; title: Bound by Cinematic Chains: Film and Prisons during the Early Era / Alison Griffiths; title: Early Cinema Identities. Anonymity: Uncredited and Unknown in Early Cinema / Jane M. Gaines; title: The Invention of Cinematic Celebrity in Britain /; title: Andrew shail; title: the film lecturer / Germain Lacasse; title: Richard Hoffman: A Collector's Archive / Richard Koszarski; title: Early Cinema Recollections. Early Films in the Age of Content; or, "Cinema of Attractions" Pursued by Digital Means / Paolo Cherchi Usai; title: Multiple Originals: The (Digital) Restoration and Exhibition of Early Films / Giovanna Fossati; title: Pointing Forward, Looking Back: Reflexivity and Deixis in Early Cinema and Contemporary Installations / Nanna Verhoeff; title: Is Nothing New? Turn of the Century Epistemes in Film History / Thomas Elsaesser.