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ISBN 10: 1444332317 

ISBN 13: 9781444332315

Author: André Gaudreault, Nicolas Dulac, Santiago Hidalgo

A Companion to Early Cinema is an authoritative reference on the field of early cinema. Its 30 peer-reviewed chapters offer cutting-edge research and original perspectives on the major concerns in early cinema studies, and take an ambitious look at ideas and themes that will lead discussions about early cinema into the future.

Including work by both established and up-and-coming scholars in early cinema, film theory, and film history, this will be the definitive volume on early cinema history for years to come and a must-have reference for all those working in the field.

Table of contents:

Part I Early Cinema Cultures
1 The Culture Broth and the Froth of Cultures of So-called Early Cinema
2 Toward a History of Peep Practice
3 “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
4 The Féerie between Stage and Screen
5 The Théâtrophone, an Anachronistic Hybrid Experiment or One of the First Immobile Traveler Devices?
6 The “Silent” Arts: Modern Pantomime and the Making of an Art Cinema in Belle Époque Paris: The Case of Georges Wague and Germaine Dulac

Part II Early Cinema Discourses
7 First Discourses on Film and the Construction of a “Cinematic Episteme”
8 The Discourses of Art in Early Film, or, Why Not Rancière?
9 Sensationalism and Early Cinema
10 From Craft to Industry: Series and Serial Production Discourses and Practices in France
11 Early American Film Publications: Film Consciousness, Self Consciousness
12 Early Cinema and Film Theory

Part III Early Cinema Forms
13 A Bunch of Violets
14 Modernity Stops at Nothing: The American Chase Film and the Specter of Lynching
15 “The Knowledge Which Comes in Pictures”: Educational Films and Early Cinema Audiences
16 Motion Picture Color and Pathé-Frères: The Aesthetic Consequences of Industrialization

Part IV Early Cinema Presentations
17 The European Fairground Cinema: (Re)defining and (Re)contextualizing the “Cinema of Attractions”
18 Early Film Programs: An Overture, Five Acts, and an Interlude
19 “Half Real-Half Reel”: Alternation Format Stage-and-Screen Hybrids
20 Advance Newspaper Publicity for the Vitascope and the Mass Address of Cinema’s Reading Public
21 Storefront Theater Advertising and the Evolution of the American Film Poster
22 Bound by Cinematic Chains: Film and Prisons during the Early Era

Part V Early Cinema Identities
23 Anonymity: Uncredited and Unknown in Early Cinema
24 The Invention of Cinematic Celebrity in the United Kingdom
25 The Film Lecturer
26 Richard Hoffman: A Collector’s Archive

Part VI Early Cinema Recollections
27 Early Films in the Age of Content; or, “Cinema of Attractions” Pursued by Digital Means
28 Multiple Originals: The (Digital) Restoration and Exhibition of Early Films
29 Pointing Forward, Looking Back: Reflexivity and Deixis in Early Cinema and Contemporary Installations
30 Is Nothing New? Turn-of-the-Century Epistemes in Film History

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