Santiago Hidalgo is Director of the [Laboratoire CinéMédias](http://labocinemedias.ca/) and [Affiliate Professor](https://recherche.umontreal.ca/nos-chercheurs/repertoire-des-professeurs/chercheur/is/in28935/) at Université de Montréal. He is a member of the [TECHNÊS](http://technes.org/) *International Research Partnership on Cinema Technology* scientific committee and editor of the [Cinema and Technology](https://www.aup.nl/en/series/cinema-and-technology) series at Amsterdam University Press. He is co-editor of *The Blackwell Companion to Early Cinema* (Wiley, 2011). André Gaudreault is a professor in the Department of Art History and Cinema Studies at the Université de Montréal and Canada Research Chair in Cinema and Media Studies.

• Foreword André Gaudreault Introduction The Discursive Spaces Between a History of Film Technology and Technological Experience Santiago Hidalgo SECTION I: EXPERIENCE Chapter 1 When Did Cinema Become Cinema?: Technology, History, and the Moving Pictures Charles Musser Chapter 2 Exhibition Practices in Transition: Spectators, Audiences, and Projectors Jan Olsson Chapter 3 Reel Changes: Post-mortem Cinephilia or the Resistance of Melancholia André Habib Chapter 4 Walter Benjamin’s Play Room: Where the Future So Eloquently Nests Or: What is Cinema Again? Dana Cooley SECTION II: STUDY Chapter 5 Hitchcock, Film Studies, and New Media: The Impact of Technology on the Analysis of Film David Colangelo Chapter 6 Film Analysis and Statistics: A Field Report Charles O’Brien Chapter 7 A ‘Distant Reading’ of the ‘Chaser Theory’: Local Views and the Digital Generation of New Cinema History Paul Moore SECTION III: THEORY Chapter 8 Graphism: A New Approach to the Evolution of Film Language Through Technology Tom Gunning Chapter 9 Can We Have the Cave and Leave It Too? On the Meaning of Cinema as Technology Vinzenz Hediger Chapter 10 On Viewfinders, Video Assist Systems, and Tape Splicers: Questioning the History of Techniques and Technology in Cinema Benoît Turquety