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Informationen zum Autor edited by Marina Dahlquist, Doron Galili, Jan Olsson, Valentine Robert Klappentext Corporeality in Early Cinema inspires a heightened awareness of the ways in which early film culture, and screen praxes overall are inherently embodied. Contributors argue that on- and offscreen (and in affiliated media and technological constellations), the body consists of flesh and nerves and is not just an abstract spectator or statistical audience entity. Audience responses from arousal to disgust, from identification to detachment, offer us a means to understand what spectators have always taken away from their cinematic experience. Through theoretical approaches and case studies, scholars offer a variety of models for stimulating historical research on corporeality and cinema by exploring the matrix of screened bodies, machine-made scaffolding, and their connections to the physical bodies in front of the screen. Zusammenfassung Through theoretical approaches and case studies, scholars offer a variety of models for stimulating historical research on corporeality and cinema by exploring the matrix of screened bodies, machine-made scaffolding, and their connections to the physical bodies in front of the screen. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction / Marina Dahlquist, Doron Galili, Jan Olsson, and Valentine Robert Part I: Impossible Bodies Part I Introduction 1. The Impossible Body of Early Cinema / Tom Gunning 2. Ovidian Violence: Georges Méliès' Explosive Screen Bodies / Vito Adriaensens 3. Le corps sous le scalpel de la presse illustrée et du cinema / Jérémy Houillère 4. Ghosts and their Nationality in the Fin De Siècle Machinery / Ian Christie Part II: Inventories of the Body Part II Introduction 5. Field Trip to Insanity: Bodies and Minds in the Doctor Maestre Film Collection (Spain, 1915) / Luis Alonso García, Daniel Sánchez Salas, and Begoña Soto Vázquez 6. Celluloid Specimens: Animal Origins for the Moving Image / Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa 7. Death by a Thousand Cuts: On-screen Executions in Early American Cinema / Gary D. Rhodes 8. Corps mis en scène, corps mis en cage: le cinématographe au temps des zoos humains / Rodolphe Gahéry 9. "Stills from a Film that Is Missing": Indigenous Images and the Photographic Interval in Early Cinema / Joanna Hearne Part III: Performing Bodies Part III Introduction 10. Risky Business: The Early Film Actor and Discourses of Danger / Charlie Keil and Denise McKenna 11. Bodies in Motion: Dancing and Boxing in Early Norwegian Cinema / Gunnar Iversen 12. The Beauty of the Forzuti: Irresistible Male Bodies On and Off Screen / Ivo Blom 13. Nudity in Early Cinema, or the Pictorial Transgression / Valentine Robert 14. Paul Capellani: Le corps à l'épreuve du cinema / Sébastien Dupont-Bloch Part IV: Bodily Features Part IV Introduction 15. Poils et pilosités dans le cinéma des origins / Jean-Claude Seguin 16. Lumière Agents in Mexico: The "Body" of Film as a Late-Nineteenth-Century Discourse / John Fullerton 17. Breathing Faces, Blinking Eyes: On Cinematic Visage in Russian Films of the 1910s / Oksana Chefranova 18. Making Faces: Character and Makeup in Early Cinema / Alice Maurice Part V: Embodied Audiences Part V Introduction 19. "Keep It Dark": the Fatale Attraction of the Female Viewer's Body / Mireille Berton 20. "The Best Synonym of Youth": Stanley Hall, Mimetic Play, Early Cinema's Embodied Youth Spectator / Christina Petersen 21. Perils of Cinema? The German Cinema Debate and the "Nerve-Racking" Medium / Stephanie Werder 22. The Taste of the Moment Seems All for "Pictures": Irish Historical Bodies before the Early Cinema Screen / Denis Condon Part VI: Bodies in Exhibition Spaces Part VI: Introduction 23. Le corps du spectateur en mouvement: effets réels et virtuels des spectacles tridimensi...
