Image in Early Cinema

Introduction / Scott Curtis, Philippe Gauthier, Tom Gunning, and Joshua Yumibe Part I: Form 1. La part picturale du tableau-style / Valentine Robert 2. The Unsettling of Vision: Tableaux Vivants, Early Cinema, and Optical Illusions / Daniel Wiegand 3. The Vision Scene: Revelation and Remediation / Frank Gray 4. Animating Antiquity / Laura Horak 5. Caricature et films comiques a la Belle Epoque: quand le dessin de presse rencontre le cinema / Jeremy Houillere 6. De la presse illustree a l'actualite filmee (1894-1910) : l'emergence d'une nouvelle " culture visuelle de l'information "? / Rodolphe Gahery 7. From Pathe to Paramount: Visual Design in Movie Advertising to 1915 / Richard Abel 8. Landscape Topoi: From the Mountains to the Sea / Jennifer Peterson 9. A View Aesthetic without a View? Space and Place in Early Norwegian Polar Expedition Films / Gunnar Iversen Part II: Material 10. Between "Recognition" and "Abstraction": Early Vocational Training Films / Florian Hoof 11. Ruptured Perspectives: The "View," Early Special Effects, and Film History / Leslie DeLassus 12. Surface and Color: Stenciling in Applied Arts, Fashion Illustration, and Cinema / Jelena Rakin 13. The Color Image / Joshua Yumibe Part III: Networks 14. Shared Affinities and "Kunstwollen": Stylistics of the Cinematic Image in the 1910s and Art Theory at the Turn of the Century in Germany / Joerg Schweinitz 15. Techniques in Circulation: Sovereignty, Imaging Technology, and Art Education in Qajar Iran / Kaveh Askari 16. Corporeality and Female Modernity: Intermediality and Early Film Celebrities / Marina Dahlquist 17. A Scientific Instrument? Animated Photography among Other New Imaging Techniques / Ian Christie 18. Advertising with Moving Pictures: International Harvester's The Romance of the Reaper (1910-13) / Gregory A. Waller 19. The City View(ed): Muybridge's Panoramas of San Francisco and their Afterlives in Early Cinema / Dimitrios Latsis 20. California Landscapes: John Divola and the Cine-Geography of Serial Photography / Charles Wolfe 21. What is a Fake Image? / Frank Kessler and Sabine Lenk 22. The Lantern Image between Stage and Screen / Artemis Willis Part IV: Discourses 23. Pictorialism and the Picture: Art, Photography, and the "Doctrine of Taste" in the Discourse on Transitional Era Quality Films / Tom Paulus 24. Boredom and Visions in Vachel Lindsay's Film Theory / Ryan Pierson 25. Falling Desperately in Love with the Image on Screen: "The Flictoflicker Girl" (1913) and Cinematic Structures of Fascination / Denis Condon 26. An "Advertising Punch" in Every Frame: Image Making in Early Advertising Films / Martin L. Johnson Appendix: Translations 27. English Translation of Chapter 1: Early Cinema's Realizations: The Pictorial in the Tableau Style / Valentine Robert 28. English Translation of Chapter 5: Caricature and Comic Films in the Belle Epoque: When the Illustrated Press Met the Cinema / Jeremy Houillere 29. English Translation of Chapter 6: From the Illustrated Press to Filmed Actualities (1894-1910): The Emergence of a New "Visual Information Culture"? / Rodolphe Gahery