Corporeality In Early Cinema: Viscera, Skin, And Physical Form (Early Cinema In Review: Proceedings Of Domitor)

The impossible body of early film / Tom Gunning -- Ovidian violence: George Melies' explosive screen bodies / Vito Adriaensens -- The body under the scalpel in the illustrated press and the cinema / Jeremy Houillere ; translated by Timothy Barnard -- Ghosts and their nationality in the Fin de siecle machinery / Ian Christie -- Field trip to insanity: bodies and minds in the Dr. Maestre film collection (Spain, 1915) / Luis Alonso Garcia, Daniel Sanchez Salas, and Begona Soto Vazquez -- The celluloid specimens: animal origins for the moving image / Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa -- Death by a thousand cuts: on-screen executions in early American cinema / Gary D. Rhodes -- Staged bodies, caged bodies: early cinema in the age of human zoos / Rodolphe Gahery ; translated by Timothy Barnard -- "Stills from a film that is missing": indigenous images and the photographic interval in early cinema / Joanna Hearne -- Risky business: the early film actor and discourses of danger / Charlie Keil and Denise McKenna -- Bodies in motion: dancing and boxing in early Norwegian cinema / Gunnar Iversen -- The beauty of the forzuti: irresistible male bodies on- and offscreen / Ivo Blom -- Nudity in early cinema, or the pictorial transgression / Valentine Robert -- Paul Capellani: the body put to the test by cinema / Sebastien Dupont-Bloch ; translated by Timothy Barnard -- Hair and hairiness in early cinema / Jean-Claude Seguin ; translated by Timothy Barnard -- Lumiere agents in Mexico: the "body" of film as a late-nineteenth-century discourse / John Fullerton -- Breathing faces, twinkling eyes: on cinematic visage in Russian films of the 1910s / Oksana Chefranova -- Making faces: character and makeup in early cinema / Alice Maurice -- "Keep it dark": the fatale attraction of the female viewer's body / Mireille Berton -- "The best synonym of youth": G. Stanley Hall, mimetic play, and early cinema's embodied youth spectator / Christina Petersen -- Perils of cinema: the German cinema debate and the "nerve-racking" medium / Stephanie Werder -- "The taste of the moment seems all for 'pictures'": Irish historical bodies before the early cinema screen / Denis Condon -- The viewer's body in motion: physical and virtual effects of three-dimensional spectacles / Martin Barnier ; translated by Timothy Barnard -- Moving the spectator, dancing with the screen: early dance instruction films and reconfigurations of film spectatorship in the 1910s / Kristina Kohler -- A rational and entertaining species of amusement to bipeds of all ages: the splendid camera obscura / Alison Reiko Loader -- Le corps sous le scalpel de la presse illustree et du cinema / Jeremy Houillere -- Corps mis en scene, corps mis en cage: le cinematographe au temps des zoos humains / Rodolphe Gahery -- Paul capellani: le corps a l'epreuve du cinema / Sebastien Dupont-Bloch -- Poils et pilosites dans le cinema des origines / Jean-Claude Seguin -- Le corps du spectateur en mouvement: effets reels et virtuels des spectacles tridimensionnels / Martin Barnier

• | Author: Marina Dahlquist, Doron Galili, Jan Olsson, Valentine Robert
• | Publisher: Indiana University Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 16, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 370 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0253033659
• | ISBN-13: 9780253033659