Gaudreault / Dulac / Hidalgo A Companion to Early Cinema

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-118-29387-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 640 Seiten, E-Book

An authoritative and much-needed overview of the main issues in thefield of early cinema from over 30 leading international scholarsin the field
* First collection of its kind to offer in one reference:original theory, new research, and reviews of existing studies inthe field
* Features over 30 original essays from some of the leadingscholars in early cinema and Film Studies, including Tom Gunning,Jane Gaines, Richard Abel, Thomas Elsaesser, and AndréGaudreault
* Caters to renewed interest in film studies' historicalmethods, with strict analysis of multiple and competing sources,providing a critical re-contextualization of films, printedmaterial and technologies
* Covers a range of topics in early cinema, such as exhibition,promotion, industry, pre-cinema, and film criticism
* Broaches the latest research on the subject of archivalpractices, important particularly in the current digitalcontext

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gaudreault, André

Dulac, Nicolas

Hidalgo, Santiago

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Contributors viii
Acknowledgments xiv
Introduction 1
Nicolas Dulac, André Gaudreault, and SantiagoHidalgo
Part I Early Cinema Cultures 13
1 The Culture Broth and the Froth of Cultures of So-called EarlyCinema 15
André Gaudreault
2 Toward a History of Peep Practice 32
Erkki Huhtamo
3 "We are Here and Not Here": LateNineteenth-Century Stage Magic and the Roots of Cinema in theAppearance (and Disappearance) of the Virtual Image 52
Tom Gunning
4 The Féerie between Stage and Screen 64
Frank Kessler
5 The Théâtrophone, an Anachronistic Hybrid Experimentor One of the First Immobile Traveler Devices? 80
Giusy Pisano
6 The "Silent" Arts: Modern Pantomime and the Makingof an Art Cinema in Belle Époque Paris: The Case of GeorgesWague and Germaine Dulac 99
Tami Williams
Part II Early Cinema Discourses 119
7 First Discourses on Film and the Construction of a"Cinematic Episteme" 121
François Albera
8 The Discourses of Art in Early Film, or, Why NotRancière? 141
Rob King
9 Sensationalism and Early Cinema 163
Annemone Ligensa
10 From Craft to Industry: Series and Serial ProductionDiscourses and Practices in France 183
Laurent Le Forestier
11 Early American Film Publications: Film Consciousness, SelfConsciousness 202
Santiago Hidalgo
12 Early Cinema and Film Theory 224
Roger Odin
Part III Early Cinema Forms 243
13 A Bunch of Violets 245
Ben Brewster
14 Modernity Stops at Nothing: The American Chase Film and theSpecter of Lynching 257
Jan Olsson
15 "The Knowledge Which Comes in Pictures":Educational Films and Early Cinema Audiences 277
Jennifer Peterson
16 Motion Picture Color and Pathé-Frères: TheAesthetic Consequences of Industrialization 298
Charles O ' Brien
Part IV Early Cinema Presentations 315
17 The European Fairground Cinema: (Re)defining and(Re)contextualizing the "Cinema of Attractions"317
Joseph Garncarz
18 Early Film Programs: An Overture, Five Acts, and an Interlude334
Richard Abel
19 "Half Real-Half Reel": Alternation FormatStage-and-Screen Hybrids 360
Gwendolyn Waltz
20 Advance Newspaper Publicity for the Vitascope and the MassAddress of Cinema 's Reading Public 381
Paul S. Moore
21 Storefront Theater Advertising and the Evolution of theAmerican Film Poster 398
Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley
22 Bound by Cinematic Chains: Film and Prisons during the EarlyEra 420
Alison Griffiths
Part V Early Cinema Identities 441
23 Anonymity: Uncredited and Unknown in Early Cinema 443
Jane M. Gaines
24 The Invention of Cinematic Celebrity in the United Kingdom460
Andrew Shail
25 The Film Lecturer 487
Germain Lacasse
26 Richard Hoffman: A Collector's Archive 498
Richard Koszarski
Part VI Early Cinema Recollections 525
27 Early Films in the Age of Content; or, "Cinema ofAttractions" Pursued by Digital Means 527
Paolo Cherchi Usai
28 Multiple Originals: The (Digital) Restoration and Exhibitionof Early Films 550
Giovanna Fossati
29 Pointing Forward, Looking Back: Reflexivity and Deixis inEarly Cinema and Contemporary Installations 568
Nanna Verhoeff
30 Is Nothing New? Turn-of-the-Century Epistemes in Film History587
Thomas Elsaesser
Index 610

Über Autor(innen)

André Gaudreault is Professor in Film Studies at theUniversité de Montréal, where he heads the research groupGRAFICS (Groupe de recherche sur l'avènement et laformation des institutions cinématographique etscénique). He is also director of the bilingual journalCinémas, published in Montreal. He has presentednumerous scholarly papers and published extensively on filmnarration and early cinema.
Nicolas Dulac is Lecturer in Film Studies at theUniversité de Montréal. He has published on early cinemaand turn-of-the-century popular culture in journals such as1895 Revue d'Histoire du Cinéma, Cinema& Cie, and Early Popular Visual Culture.
Santiago Hidalgo is Lecturer in Film Studies atthe Université de Montréal. He has published on earlycinema, film criticism, and film historiography inCinémas and in conference proceedings for events inUdine, Italy and Cerisy, France.