The Image in Early Cinema

Scott Curtis is Associate Professor in the Department of Radio/Television/Film at Northwestern University. He is author of The Shape of Spectatorship: Art, Science, and Early Cinema in Germany. Philippe Gauthier lectures in cinema and media at the University of Ottawa. He is author of Le montage altern avant Griffith. Tom Gunning is Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago. He is author of D. W. Griffith and the Origins of American Narrative Film: The Early Years at Biograph and The Films of Fritz Lang: Allegories of Vision and Modernity. Joshua Yumibe is Associate Professor and Director of Film Studies at Michigan State University. He is author of Moving Color: Early Film, Mass Culture, Modernism, and author of Fantasia of Color 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 la Belle poque: quand le dessin de presse rencontre le cinema / Jrmy Houillre 6. De la presse illustre l'actualit filme (1894-1910) : l'mergence d'une nouvelle culture visuelle de l'information ? / Rodolphe Gahry 7. From Path 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 / Jrg 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 poque: When the Illustrated Press Met the Cinema / Jrmy Houillre 29. English Translation of Chapter 6: From the Illustrated Press to Filmed Actualities (1894-1910): The Emergence of a New "Visual Information Culture"? / Rodolphe Gahry