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...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 *

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

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      Publisher: Indiana University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 16/10/2018
      ISBN13: 9780253033659, 978-0253033659
      ISBN10: 0253033659

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review

      ...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 *

      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

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