Early cinema : space, frame, narrative / edited by Thomas Elsaesser with Adam Barker.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Elsaesser, Thomas, 1943-2019
Barker, Adam
Language:English
Published: London : BFI Pub., 1990.
Subjects:
Silent films > History and criticism.
Motion pictures > History.
Motion picture industry > History.
Cinema films, history.
Physical Description:424 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Early cinema : from linear history to mass media archaeology ; Early film form : articulations of space and time : introduction / Thomas Elsaesser
  • Film form 1900-1906 / Barry Salt
  • Deep staging in French films 1900-1914 / Ben Brewster
  • The cinema of attractions : early films, its spectator and the avant-garde / Tom Gunning
  • Let there be Lumière / Dai Vaughan
  • Film, narrative, narration : the cinema of the Lumière Brothers / André Gaudreault
  • From Lumière to Pathé : the break-up of perspectival space / Richard deCordova
  • Non-continuity, continuity, discontinuity : a theory of genres in early films ; 'Primitive' cinema : a frame-up? or, the trick's on us / Tom Gunning.
  • Shots in the dark : the real origins of film editing / Stephen Bottomore
  • The infringement of copyright laws and its effects (1900- 1906) / André Gaudreault
  • The travel genre in 1903-1904 : moving towards fictional narrative / Charles Musser
  • Detours in film narrative : the development of cross-cutting / André Gaudreault
  • The institution cinema : industry, commodity, audience : introduction / Thomas Elsaesser
  • Economic conditions of early cinema / Michael Chanan
  • Combination and litigation : structures of US film distribution, 1896-1917 / Janet Staiger
  • In the beginning was the word : six pre-Griffith motion picture scenarios / Patrick G. Loughney.
  • A primitive mode of representation? / Noël Burch
  • Early cinema : whose public sphere? / Miriam Hansen
  • Some historical footnotes to the Kuleshov experiment / Yuri Tsivian
  • The nickelodeon era begins : establishing the framework for Hollywood's mode of representation / Charles Musser
  • Showing and telling : image and word in early cinema / André Gaudreault
  • Silent films : what was the right speed? / Kevin Brownlow
  • The continuity system : Griffith and beyond : introduction / Thomas Elsaesser and Adam Barker
  • A scene at the 'movies' / Ben Brewster
  • 'A properly adjusted window' : vision and sanity in D.W. Griffith's 1908-1909 biograph films / Anne Friedberg.
  • Weaving a narrative : style and economic background in Griffith's biograph films / Tom Gunning
  • Griffith : the frame, the figure / Jacques Aumont
  • To alternate/to narrate / Raymond Bellour
  • Spatial and temporal articulation in pre-classical Swedish film / John Fullerton
  • 'The student of Prague' : division and codification of space / Leon Hunt.