Maria Tortajada is professor in the Department of History and Aesthetics of Film at Université de Lausanne in Switzerland. François Albera is professor in the Department of History and Aesthetics of Film at Université de Lausanne in Switzerland.

• Acknowledgments, Questioning the Word dispositif: Note on the Translation, Foreword I. Dispositives : programs François Albera, Maria Tortajada : The Dispositive Does Not Exist ! Thomas Elsaesser : Between Knowing and Believing: The Cinematic Dispositive after Cinema II. Dispositives : issues Patrick Désile : You do not even know where you are: Dispositive and Dizziness Maria Tortajada : The Reconstruction of a Concept: Marey and the Synthesis of Movement Elie During : Notes on the Bergsonian Cinematograph Charles Musser : The Stereopticon and Cinema: Media Form or Platform? André Gaudreault : On Some Limitations of the Definition of the Dispositive Cinema Omar Haschemi, The Moment of the Dispositif Philippe Ortel : The Dispositive Effect in Film Narrative III. Dispositives : histories Alain Boillat : The Social Imaginary of Telephony. Fictional Dispositives in Albert Robida's Le Vingtième Siècle and the Archeology of Talking Cinema Laurent Guido : Between Paradoxical Spectacles and Technical Dispositives: Looking Again at the Serpentine Dances of Early Cinema Benoît Turquety : Forms of Machines, Forms of Movement François Albera : The Amateur-Dispositive Gilles Delavaud : Two Versions of the Television Dispositive Charlotte Bouchez : Reality Television as Dispositive: The Case of French-Speaking Switzerland Christophe Wall-Romana : Dispositive and Cinepoetry, around Foucault's Death and the Labyrinth Viva Paci : Archaeology and Spectacle: Old Dispositives and New Objects for Surprised Spectators Stopping by the Museum Authors.