A Companion to Early Cinema (ePub)

List of Contributors viii Acknowledgments xiv Introduction 1 Nicolas Dulac, André Gaudreault, and Santiago Hidalgo Part I Early Cinema Cultures 13 1 The Culture Broth and the Froth of Cultures of So-called Early Cinema 15 André Gaudreault 2 Toward a History of Peep Practice 32 Erkki Huhtamo 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 52 Tom Gunning 4 The Féerie between Stage and Screen 64 Frank Kessler 5 The Théâtrophone, an Anachronistic Hybrid Experiment or One of the First Immobile Traveler Devices? 80 Giusy Pisano 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 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 Not Rancière? 141 Rob King 9 Sensationalism and Early Cinema 163 Annemone Ligensa 10 From Craft to Industry: Series and Serial Production Discourses and Practices in France 183 Laurent Le Forestier 11 Early American Film Publications: Film Consciousness, Self Consciousness 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 the Specter 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: The Aesthetic 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 Interlude 334 Richard Abel 19 "Half Real-Half Reel": Alternation Format Stage-and-Screen

André Gaudreault is Professor in Film Studies at the Université de Montréal, where he heads the research group GRAFICS (Groupe de recherche sur l'avènement et la formation des institutions cinématographique et scénique). He is also director of the bilingual journal Cinémas, published in Montreal. He has presented numerous scholarly papers and published extensively on film narration and early cinema.

Nicolas Dulac is Lecturer in Film Studies at the Université de Montréal. He has published on early cinema and turn-of-the-century popular culture in journals such as 1895 Revue d'Histoire du Cinéma, Cinema & Cie, and Early Popular Visual Culture.

Santiago Hidalgo is Lecturer in Film Studies at the Université de Montréal. He has published on early cinema, film criticism, and film historiography in Cinémas and in conference proceedings for events in Udine, Italy and Cerisy, France.

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