The Silent Cinema Reader

INTRODUCTION 1 AT THE BEGINNING: MOTION PICTURE PRODUCTION, REPRESENTATION AND IDEOLOGY AT THE EDISON AND LUMIÈRE COMPANIES PART I Film projection and variety shows 2 "NOW YOU SEE IT, NOW YOU DON'T": THE TEMPORALITY OF THE CINEMA OF ATTRACTIONS 3 THE KISS IN THE TUNNEL (1899), G. A. SMITH AND THE EMERGENCE OF THE EDITED FILM IN ENGLAND 4 THE CINEMA OF ATTRACTIONS IN FRANCE, 1896-1904 PART II Storytelling and the nickelodeon 5 MOVING TOWARDS FICTIONAL NARRATIVES: STORY FILMS BECOME THE DOMINANT PRODUCT, 1903-1904 6 PATHE GOES TO TOWN: FRENCH FILMS CREATE A MARKET FOR THE NICKELODEON, 1903-1906 7 MANHATTAN NICKELODEONS: NEW DATA ON AUDIENCES AND EXHIBITORS PART III Cinema and reform 8 FROM THE OPIUM DEN TO THE THEATRE OF MORALITY: MORAL DISCOURSE AND THE FILM PROCESS IN EARLY AMERICAN CINEMA 9 HOW MANY TIMES SHALL CAESAR BLEED IN SPORT: SHAKESPEARE AND THE CULTURAL DEBATE ABOUT MOVING PICTURES 10 FIGHTING FILMS: RACE, MORALITY, AND THE GOVERNING OF CINEMA, 1912-1915 PART IV Feature films and cinema programmes 11 A STAR IS BORN: AMERICAN CULTURE AND THE DYNAMICS OF CHARLIE CHAPLIN'S STAR IMAGE, 1913-1916 12 AN AWFUL STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOVE AND AMBITION: SERIAL HEROINES, SERIAL STARS AND THEIR FEMALE FANS 13 TRAFFIC IN SOULS (1913): AN EXPERIMENT IN FEATURE-LENGTH NARRATIVE CONSTRUCTION 14 RACE, MELODRAMA, AND THE BIRTH OF A NATION (1915) 15 THE INTERNATIONAL EXPLORATION OF CINEMATIC EXPRESSIVITY PART V Classical Hollywood cinema 16 THE MAKING OF A COMIC STAR: BUSTER KEATON AND THE SAPHEAD (1920) 17 "THE PERFECT LOVER"?: VALENTINO AND ETHNIC MASCULINITY IN THE 1920S 18 THE NEW WOMAN AND CONSUMER CULTURE: CECIL B. DEMILLE'S SEX COMEDIES 19 THE OPEN DOOR: HOLLYWOOD'S PUBLIC RELATIONS AT HOME AND ABROAD, 1922-1928 PART VI European cinemas 20 NEW NOTES ON RUSSIAN FILM CULTURE BETWEEN 1908 AND 1919 21 EARLY ALTERNATIVES TO THE HOLLYWOOD MODE OF PRODUCTION: IMPLICATIONS FOR EUROPE'S AVANT-GARDES 22 MONUMENTAL HEROICS: FORM AND STYLE IN EISENSTEIN'S SILENT FILMS 23 ART AND INDUSTRY: GERMAN CINEMA OF THE 1920S.