Film 1900 : technology, perception, culture / edited by Annemone Ligensa and Klaus Kreimeier.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kreimeier, Klaus.

Ligensa, Annemone.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--History--20th century.

Motion pictures.

History.

Physical Description:

vi, 250 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

England : John Libbey ; Bloomington, IN : Distributed in North America by Indiana University Press, [2009]

Contents:

Introduction: Triangulating a turn: film 1900 as technology, perception and culture / Annemone Ligensa

Archaeologies of interactivity: early cinema, narrative and spectatorship / Thomas Elsaesser

Viewing change, changing views: the 'history of vision'-debate / Frank Kessler

The ambimodernity of early cinema: problems and paradoxes in the film-and-modernity discourse / Ben Singer

Mind the gap: the discovery of physiological time / Henning Schmidgen

'Is everything relative?' : cinema and the revolution of knowledge around 1900 / Harro Segeberg

The aesthetic idealist as efficiency engineer: Hugo Münsterberg's theories of perception, psychotechnics and cinema / Jörg Schweinitz

Between observation and spectatorship: medicine, movies and mass culture in imperial Germany / Scott Curtis

The scene of the crime: psychiatric discourses on the film audience in early twentieth century German / Andreas Killen

Seen through the eyes of Simmel: the cinema programme as a 'modern' experience / Andrea Haller

'Under the sign of the cinematograph': urban mobility and cinema location in Wilhelmine Berlin / Pelle Snickars

Perceptual environments for films: the development of cinema in Germany, 1895-1914 / Joseph Garncarz

'Fumbling towards some new form of art?': the changing composition of film programmes in Britain, 1908-1914 / Ian Christie and John Sedgwick

The attraction of motion: modern representation and the image of movement / Tom Gunning

'Dashing down upon the audience': notes on the genesis of filmic perception / Klaus Kreimeier

German Tonbilder of the 1900s: advanced technology and national brand / Martin Loiperdinger

Sculpting with light: early film style, stereoscopic vision and the idea of a 'plastic art in motion' / Michael Wedel

'A cinematograph of feminine thought': The dangerous age, cinema and modern women / Annemone Ligensa

Cinema as a mode(l) of perception: Dorothy Richardson's novels and essays / Nicola Glaubitz.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780861966967

0861966961

OCLC:

261177329

Publisher Number:

99935410008