Bibliogr. Index

Introduction / Nicolas Dulac, André Gaudreault, Santiago Hidalgo Early Cinema Cultures. The Culture Broth and the Froth of Cultures of So-called Early Cinema / André Gaudreault Toward A History Of Peep Practice / Erkki Huhtamo "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 The Féerie between Stage and Screen / Frank Kessler The Théâtrophone, an Anachronistic Hybrid Experiment or One of the First Immobile Traveler Devices? / Giusy Pisano 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 Early Cinema Discourses. First Discourses on Film and the Construction of a "Cinematic Episteme" / François Albera The Discourses of Art in Early Film, or, Why not Rancière? / Rob King Sensationalism and Early Cinema / Annemone Ligensa From Craft to Industry: Series and Serial Production Discourses and Practices in France / Laurent Le Forestier Awareness of Film, Language and Self in Early American Film Publications / Santiago Hidalgo Early Cinema and Film Theory / Roger Odin Early Cinema Forms. A Bunch of Violets / Ben Brewster Modernity Stops at Nothing: The American Chase Film and the Specter of Lynching / Jan Olsson "The Knowledge Which Comes in Pictures": Educational Films and Early Cinema Audiences / Jennifer Peterson Motion Picture Color and Pathé-Frères: The Aesthetic Consequences of Industrialization / Charles O'Brien Early Cinema Presentations. The European Fairground Cinema: (Re-)defining and (Re-)contextualizing the "Cinema of Attractions" / Joseph Garncarz Early Film Programs: an Overture, Five Acts, and an Interlude / Richard Abel "Half Real-Half Reel": Alternation Format Stage-and-Screen Hybrids / Gwendolyn Waltz Advance Newspaper Publicity for the Vitascope and the Mass Address of Cinema's Reading Public / Paul S. Moore Storefront Theater Advertising and the Evolution of the American Film Poster / Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley Bound by Cinematic Chains: Film and Prisons during the Early Era / Alison Griffiths Early Cinema Identities. Anonymity: Uncredited and Unknown in Early Cinema / Jane M. Gaines The Invention of Cinematic Celebrity in Britain / Andrew shail The film lecturer / Germain Lacasse Richard Hoffman: A Collector's Archive / Richard Koszarski Early Cinema Recollections. Early Films in the Age of Content; or, "Cinema of Attractions" Pursued by Digital Means / Paolo Cherchi Usai Multiple Originals: The (Digital) Restoration and Exhibition of Early Films / Giovanna Fossati Pointing Forward, Looking Back: Reflexivity and Deixis in Early Cinema and Contemporary Installations / Nanna Verhoeff Is Nothing New? Turn of the Century Epistemes in Film History / Thomas Elsaesser