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Author:   Marina Dahlquist ,  Doron Galili ,  Jan Olsson ,  Valentine Robert
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
Imprint:   Indiana University Press
Weight:   0.499kg
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9780253033659

ISBN 10:   0253033659
Pages:   370
Publication Date:   16 October 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction / Marina Dahlquist, Doron Galili, Jan Olsson, and Valentine Robert Part I: Impossible Bodies Part I Introduction 1. The Impossible Body of Early Cinema / Tom Gunning 2. Ovidian Violence: Georges Méliès' Explosive Screen Bodies / Vito Adriaensens 3. Le corps sous le scalpel de la presse illustrée et du cinema / Jérémy Houillère 4. Ghosts and their Nationality in the Fin De Siècle Machinery / Ian Christie Part II: Inventories of the Body Part II Introduction 5. Field Trip to Insanity: Bodies and Minds in the Doctor Maestre Film Collection (Spain, 1915) / Luis Alonso García, Daniel Sánchez Salas, and Begoña Soto Vázquez 6. Celluloid Specimens: Animal Origins for the Moving Image / Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa 7. Death by a Thousand Cuts: On-screen Executions in Early American Cinema / Gary D. Rhodes 8. Corps mis en scène, corps mis en cage: le cinématographe au temps des zoos humains / Rodolphe Gahéry 9. ""Stills from a Film that Is Missing"": Indigenous Images and the Photographic Interval in Early Cinema / Joanna Hearne Part III: Performing Bodies Part III Introduction 10. Risky Business: The Early Film Actor and Discourses of Danger / Charlie Keil and Denise McKenna 11. Bodies in Motion: Dancing and Boxing in Early Norwegian Cinema / Gunnar Iversen 12. The Beauty of the Forzuti: Irresistible Male Bodies On and Off Screen / Ivo Blom 13. Nudity in Early Cinema, or the Pictorial Transgression / Valentine Robert 14. Paul Capellani: Le corps à l'épreuve du cinema / Sébastien Dupont-Bloch Part IV: Bodily Features Part IV Introduction 15. Poils et pilosités dans le cinéma des origins / Jean-Claude Seguin 16. Lumière Agents in Mexico: The ""Body"" of Film as a Late-Nineteenth-Century Discourse / John Fullerton 17. Breathing Faces, Blinking Eyes: On Cinematic Visage in Russian Films of the 1910s / Oksana Chefranova 18. Making Faces: Character and Makeup in Early Cinema / Alice Maurice Part V: Embodied Audiences Part V Introduction 19. ""Keep It Dark"": the Fatale Attraction of the Female Viewer's Body / Mireille Berton 20. ""The Best Synonym of Youth"": Stanley Hall, Mimetic Play, Early Cinema's Embodied Youth Spectator / Christina Petersen 21. Perils of Cinema? The German Cinema Debate and the ""Nerve-Racking"" Medium / Stephanie Werder 22. The Taste of the Moment Seems All for ""Pictures"": Irish Historical Bodies before the Early Cinema Screen / Denis Condon Part VI: Bodies in Exhibition Spaces Part VI: Introduction 23. Le corps du spectateur en mouvement: effets réels et virtuels des spectacles tridimensionnels / Martin Barnier 24. Perfuming Devices, Purifying Discourses: The Fight against Filthy Theaters and Foul Air / Judith Thissen 25. Moving the Spectator, Dancing with the Screen: Early Dance Instruction Films and reconfigurations of film spectatorship in the 1910s / Kristina Köhler 26. A Rational and Entertaining Species of Amusement to Bipeds of All Ages: The Splendid Camera Obscura / Alison Reiko Loader Appendix: English Translations of French Essays 27. The Body under the Scalpel in the Illustrated Press and the Cinema / Jérémy Houillère 28. Staged Bodies, Caged Bodies: Early Cinema in the Age of Human Zoos / Rodolphe Gahéry 29. Paul Capellani: The Body Put to the Test by Cinema / Sébastien Dupont-Bloch 30. Hair and Hairiness in Early Cinema / Jean-Claude Seguin 31. The Viewer's Body in Motion: Physical and Virtual Effects of Three-dimensional Spectacles / Martin Barnier Index

Reviews

...essays that feature cinema technology will prove helpful in any study of how cameras, projectors, screens, and studios have mediated the relationship between the viewing bodies in the audience and the flickering bodies that they-and we-gaze upon. -- Kenneth Garner * TECHNOLOGY & CULTURE *

...essays that feature cinema technology will prove helpful in any study of how cameras, projectors, screens, and studios have mediated the relationship between the viewing bodies in the audience and the flickering bodies that they—and we—gaze upon. - Kenneth Garner (TECHNOLOGY & CULTURE)

...essays that feature cinema technology will prove helpful in any study of how cameras, projectors, screens, and studios have mediated the relationship between the viewing bodies in the audience and the flickering bodies that they—and we—gaze upon. -- Kenneth Garner * TECHNOLOGY & CULTURE *

Author Information

Marina Dahlquist is Associate Professor of Cinema Studies at Stockholm University. She is editor of Exporting Perilous Pauline: Pearl White and the Serial Film Craze. Jan Olsson is Professor of Cinema Studies and former Head of Department at Stockholm University. He is author of Hitchcock à la Carte. Valentine Robert is Lecturer of Film Studies at the University of Lausanne. She is editor (with Laurent Le Forestier and François Albera) of Le Film sur l'art. Entre histoire de l'art et documentaire de creation. Doron Galili is Research Fellow in the Department of Media Studies at Stockholm University.

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