Sabrina Francesca Crivelli is a film theorist and critic with a PhD in film studies from the University of Birmingham, UK. Her research focuses on film theory and aesthetics, with particular attention to the intersections between European silent cinema, visual culture, and pictorial traditions, and their wider cultural and social implications. She has published widely as an essayist on cinema, contributing to Early Popular Visual Culture, Arte|Documento, Itinera, Artribune, Nocturno Cinema, and La Gazzetta di Parma.

• Introduction: Redefining The Cinema Of Attractions Through the Un-Reality Effect Part I: The Cinematic Attractionalism1. The Abstracting Factors In The Lumière Photographic Realism2. The Méliès Cinematic Illusionism Part II: Pictorial Paradigms3. The Persistence Of Pictorial Codes4. The Visual Foundations Of Méliès’ Worlds Of Imagination Part III: Cultural Filters5. Imperial Visions6. Imperial SatireIndex

Sabrina Francesca Crivelli is a film theorist and critic with a PhD in film studies from the University of Birmingham, UK. Her research focuses on film theory and aesthetics, with particular attention to the intersections between European silent cinema, visual culture, and pictorial traditions, and their wider cultural and social implications. She has published widely as an essayist on cinema, contributing to Early Popular Visual Culture, Arte|Documento, Itinera, Artribune, Nocturno Cinema, and La Gazzetta di Parma.

• Introduction: Redefining The Cinema Of Attractions Through the Un-Reality Effect Part I: The Cinematic Attractionalism1. The Abstracting Factors In The Lumière Photographic Realism2. The Méliès Cinematic Illusionism Part II: Pictorial Paradigms3. The Persistence Of Pictorial Codes4. The Visual Foundations Of Méliès’ Worlds Of Imagination Part III: Cultural Filters5. Imperial Visions6. Imperial SatireIndex

Sabrina Francesca Crivelli is a film theorist and critic with a PhD in film studies from the University of Birmingham, UK. Her research focuses on film theory and aesthetics, with particular attention to the intersections between European silent cinema, visual culture, and pictorial traditions, and their wider cultural and social implications. She has published widely as an essayist on cinema, contributing to Early Popular Visual Culture, Arte|Documento, Itinera, Artribune, Nocturno Cinema, and La Gazzetta di Parma.

• Introduction: Redefining The Cinema Of Attractions Through the Un-Reality Effect Part I: The Cinematic Attractionalism1. The Abstracting Factors In The Lumière Photographic Realism2. The Méliès Cinematic Illusionism Part II: Pictorial Paradigms3. The Persistence Of Pictorial Codes4. The Visual Foundations Of Méliès’ Worlds Of Imagination Part III: Cultural Filters5. Imperial Visions6. Imperial SatireIndex