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.

...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)

• 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 Gunning2. Ovidian Violence: Georges Méliès' Explosive Screen Bodies / Vito Adriaensens3. Le corps sous le scalpel de la presse illustrée et du cinema / Jérémy Houillère4. Ghosts and their Nationality in the Fin De Siècle Machinery / Ian ChristiePart 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 Vázquez6. Celluloid Specimens: Animal Origins for the Moving Image / Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa7. Death by a Thousand Cuts: On-screen Executions in Early American Cinema / Gary D. Rhodes8. Corps mis en scène, corps mis en cage: le cinématographe au temps des zoos humains / Rodolphe Gahéry9. "Stills from a Film that Is Missing": Indigenous Images and the Photographic Interval in Early Cinema / Joanna HearnePart III: Performing Bodies Part III Introduction 10. Risky Business: The Early Film Actor and Discourses of Danger / Charlie Keil and Denise McKenna11. Bodies in Motion: Dancing and Boxing in Early Norwegian Cinema / Gunnar Iversen12. The Beauty of the Forzuti: Irresistible Male Bodies On and Off Screen / Ivo Blom13. Nudity in Early Cinema, or the Pictorial Transgression / Valentine Robert14. Paul Capellani: Le corps à l'épreuve du cinema / Sébastien Dupont-BlochPart IV: Bodily Features Part IV Introduction 15. Poils et pilosités dans le cinéma des origins / Jean-Claude Seguin16. Lumière Agents in Mexico: The "Body" of Film as a Late-Nineteenth-Century Discourse / John Fullerton17. Breathing Faces, Blinking Eyes: On Cinematic Visage in Russian Films of the 1910s / Oksana Chefranova18. Making Faces: Character and Makeup in Early Cinema / Alice MauricePart V: Embodied Audiences Part V Introduction 19. "Keep It Dark": the Fatale Attraction of the Female Viewer's Body / Mireille Berton20. "The Best Synonym of Youth": Stanley Hall, Mimetic Play, Early Cinema's Embodied Youth Spectator / Christina Petersen21. Perils of Cinema? The German Cinema Debate and the "Nerve-Racking" Medium / Stephanie Werder22. The Taste of the Moment Seems All for "Pictures": Irish Historical Bodies before the Early Cinema Screen / Denis CondonPart VI: Bodies in Exhibition SpacesPart VI: Introduction 23. Le corps du spectateur en mouvement: effets réels et virtuels des spectacles tridimensionnels / Martin Barnier24. Perfuming Devices, Purifying Discourses: The Fight against Filthy Theaters and Foul Air / Judith Thissen25. Moving the Spectator, Dancing with the Screen: Early Dance Instruction Films and reconfigurations of film spectatorship in the 1910s / Kristina Köhler26. A Rational and Entertaining Species of Amusement to Bipeds of All Ages: The Splendid Camera Obscura / Alison Reiko LoaderAppendix: English Translations of French Essays 27. The Body under the Scalpel in the Illustrated Press and the Cinema / Jérémy Houillère28. Staged Bodies, Caged Bodies: Early Cinema in the Age of Human Zoos / Rodolphe Gahéry29. Paul Capellani: The Body Put to the Test by Cinema / Sébastien Dupont-Bloch30. Hair and Hairiness in Early Cinema / Jean-Claude Seguin31. The Viewer's Body in Motion: Physical and Virtual Effects of Three-dimensional Spectacles / Martin Barnier Index