New Perspectives on Early Cinema History

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List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: New perspectives on early cinema - Mario Slugan and Daniel Biltereyst
PART ONE: CONCEPTS AND THEORIES
1. Animated pictures according to Georges Melies: A sober and unpretentious remediation, or when Melies took a stand against ... the cinema! - Andre Gaudreault
2. Attraction/narration/illustration: A third paradigm for early cinema - Valentine Robert
3. 'The very act itself, even to the smack': Early cinema, presence and experience - Gert Jan Harkema
4. Lost love on a hot summer day: The absorptive experience of the first film show in Denmark - Casper Tybjerg
PART TWO: APPROACHES, METHODS AND SOURCES
5. Revisiting the fiction/non-fiction distinction: Early cinema and the philosophy of imagination - Mario Slugan
6. Using Mediathread for gesture analysis in the cinema of attractions - Danae Kleida
7. Librettos as source material for film history: The case of early Russian cinema - Anna Kovalova
PART THREE AUDIENCES AND EXPERIENCES
8. Narrative cinema as a separate attraction: Archie L. Shepard's newspaper publicity - Paul S. Moore
9. Mapping Black moviegoing in Harlem, New York City, 1909-14 - Agata Frymus
10. Attraction, narration, performance: A historical-pragmatic perspective on early cinema - Frank Kessler and Sabine Lenk
11. The other panicking audience: A New Cinema History approach to early cinemagoing, cinema fires, disasters and panics - Daniel Biltereyst
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• Teoria e crítica de filmes
• História social e cultural
• História do século 20: c 1900 a c 2000

Early cinema; Concepts; Methods; Applications