Film 1900 : Technology, Perception, Culture / edited by Annemone Ligensa and Klaus Kreimeier.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ligensa, Annemone.

Kreimeier, Klaus.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--History--20th century.

Motion pictures.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (258 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hertfordshire, England : John Libbey Publishing, 2015.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Film 1900 is an important reassessment of early cinema's position in cultural history.

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:

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ISBN:

0-86196-916-2

OCLC:

966846099