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  • The Image in Early Cinema: Form and Material
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  • Edited by Scott Curtis, Philippe Gauthier, Tom Gunning, and Joshua Yumibe
  • 2018
  • Published by: Indiana University Press
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In The Image in Early Cinema, the contributors examine intersections between early cinematic form, technology, theory, practice, and broader modes of visual culture. They argue that early cinema emerged within a visual culture composed of a variety of traditions in art, science, education, and image making. Even as methods of motion picture production and distribution materialized, they drew from and challenged practices and conventions in other mediums. This rich visual culture produced a complicated, overlapping network of image-making traditions, innovations, and borrowing among painting, tableaux vivants, photography, and other pictorial and projection practices. Using a variety of concepts and theories, the contributors explore these crisscrossing traditions and work against an essentialist notion of media to conceptualize the dynamic interrelationship between images and their context.

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  1. Front Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright
  2. pp. i-iv
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. v-x
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  1. Introduction
  2. Scott Curtis, Philippe Gauthier,Tom Gunning, and Joshua Yumibe
  3. pp. 1-12
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  1. Part I: Form
  1. 1 La part picturale du tableau-style
  2. Valentine Robert
  3. pp. 15-25
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  1. 2 The Unsettling of Vision: Tableaux Vivants, Early Cinema, and Optical Illusions
  2. Daniel Wiegand
  3. pp. 26-35
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  1. 3 The Vision Scene: Revelation and Remediation
  2. Frank Gray
  3. pp. 36-46
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  1. 4 Animating Antiquity
  2. Laura Horak
  3. pp. 47-57
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  1. 5 Caricature et films comiques à la Belle Époque: quand le dessin de presse rencontre le cinéma
  2. Jérémy Houillère
  3. pp. 58-68
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  1. 6 De la presse illustrée à l’actualité filmée (1894–1910): l’émergence d’une nouvelle « culture visuelle de l’information »?
  2. Rodolphe Gahéry
  3. pp. 69-77
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  1. 7 From Pathé to Paramount: Visual Design in Movie Advertising to 1915
  2. Richard Abel
  3. pp. 78-93
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  1. 8 Landscape Topoi: From the Mountains to the Sea
  2. Jennifer Peterson
  3. pp. 94-101
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  1. 9 A View Aesthetic without a View? Space and Place in Early Norwegian Polar Expedition Films
  2. Gunnar Iversen
  3. pp. 102-108
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  1. Part II: Material
  1. 10 Between Recognition and Abstraction: Early Vocational Training Films
  2. Florian Hoof
  3. pp. 111-119
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  1. 11 Ruptured Perspectives: The “View,” Early Special Effects, and Film History
  2. Leslie DeLassus
  3. pp. 120-131
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  1. 12 Surface and Color: Stenciling in Applied Arts, Fashion Illustration, and Cinema
  2. Jelena Rakin
  3. pp. 132-141
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  1. 13 The Color Image
  2. Joshua Yumibe
  3. pp. 142-150
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  1. Part III: Networks
  1. 14 Shared Affinities and “Kunstwollen”: Stylistics of the Cinematic Image in the 1910s and Art Theory at the Turn of the Century in Germany
  2. Jörg Schweinitz
  3. pp. 153-163
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  1. 15 Techniques in Circulation: Sovereignty, Imaging Technology, and Art Education in Qajar Iran
  2. Kaveh Askari
  3. pp. 164-173
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  1. 16 Corporeality and Female Modernity: Intermediality and Early Film Celebrities
  2. Marina Dahlquist
  3. pp. 174-184
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  1. 17 A Scientific Instrument? Animated Photography among Other New Imaging Techniques
  2. Ian Christie
  3. pp. 185-193
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  1. 18 Advertising with Moving Pictures: International Harvester’s The Romance of the Reaper (1910–1913)
  2. Gregory A. Waller
  3. pp. 194-202
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  1. 19 The City View(ed): Muybridge’s Panoramas of San Francisco and Their Afterlives in Early Cinema
  2. Dimitrios Latsis
  3. pp. 203-211
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  1. 20 California Landscapes: John Divola and the Cine-Geography of Serial Photography
  2. Charles Wolfe
  3. pp. 212-227
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  1. 21 What is a Fake Image?
  2. Frank Kessler and Sabine Lenk
  3. pp. 228-236
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  1. 22 The Lantern Image between Stage and Screen
  2. Artemis Willis
  3. pp. 237-246
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  1. Part IV: Discourses
  1. 23 Pictorialism and the Picture: Art, Photography, and the “Doctrine of Taste” in the Discourse on Transitional-Era Quality Films
  2. Tom Paulus
  3. pp. 249-256
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  1. 24 Boredom and Visions in Vachel Lindsay’s Film Theory
  2. Ryan Pierson
  3. pp. 257-265
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  1. 25 Falling Desperately in Love with the Image on Screen: “The Flictoflicker Girl” (1913) and Cinematic Structures of Fascination
  2. Denis Condon
  3. pp. 266-275
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  1. 26 An “Advertising Punch” in Every Frame: Image-Making in Early Advertising Films
  2. Martin L. Johnson
  3. pp. 276-286
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  1. Appendix: Translations
  1. 27 English Translation of Chapter 1: The Pictorial in the Tableau Style
  2. Valentine Robert
  3. pp. 289-299
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  1. 28 English Translation of Chapter 5: Caricature and Comic Films in the Belle Époque: When the Illustrated Press Met the Cinema
  2. Jérémy Houillère
  3. pp. 300-310
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  1. 29 English Translation of Chapter 6: From the Illustrated Press to Filmed Actualities (1894–1910): The Emergence of a New “Visual Information Culture”?
  2. Rodolphe Gahéry
  3. pp. 311-320
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  1. Subject Index
  2. pp. 321-330
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  1. Film Index
  2. pp. 331-332
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  1. Back Cover
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