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The current digital revolution has sparked a renewed interest in the origins and trajectory of modern media, particularly in the years around 1900 when the technology was rapidly developing. This collection aims to broaden our understanding of early cinem
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Introduction: Triangulating a Turn: Film 1900 as Technology, Perception and CultureAnnemone Ligensa
1. Archaeologies of Interactivity: Early Cinema, Narrative and SpectatorshipThomas Elsaesser
2. Viewing Change, Changing Views: The 'History of Vision'-DebateFrank Kessler
3. The Ambimodernity of Early Cinema Problems and Paradoxes in the Film-and-Modernity DiscourseBen Singer
4. Mind, the Gap: The Discovery of Physiological TimeHenning Schmidgen
5. 'Is Everything Relative?': Cinema and the Revolution of Knowledge Around 1900Harro Segeberg
6. The Aesthetic Idealist as Efficiency Engineer: Hugo Munsterberg's Theories of Perception, Psychotechnics and CinemaJörg Schweinitz
7. Between Observation and Spectatorship: Medicine, Movies and Mass Culture in Imperial GermanyScott Curtis
8. The Scene of the Crime: Psychiatric Discourse on the Film Audience in Early Twentieth Century GermanyAndreas Killen
9. Seen Through the Eyes of Simmel: The Cinema Programme as a 'Modern' ExperienceAndrea Haller
10. 'Under the Sign of the Cinematograph': Urban Mobility and Cinema Location in Wilhelmine BerlinPelle Snickars
12. Perceptual Environments for Films: The Development of Cinema in Germany, 1895-1914Joseph Garncarz
12. 'Fumbling Towards Some New Form of Art': The Changing Composition of Film Programmes in Britain, 1908-1914Ian Christie and John Sedgwick
13. The Attraction of Motion: Modern Representation and the Image of MovementTom Gunning
14. 'Dashing Down Upon the Audience': Notes on the Genesis of Filmic PerceptionKlaus Kreimeier
15. German Tonbilder of the 1900s: Advanced Technology and National BrandMartin Loiperdinger
16. Sculpting with Light: Early Film Style, Stereoscopic Vision and the Idea of a 'Plastic Art In Motion'Michael Wedel
17. 'A Cinematograph of Feminine Thought': The Dangerous Age, Cinema and Modern WomenAnnemone Ligensa
14. Cinema as a Mode(l) of Perception: Dorothy Richardson's Novels and EssaysNicola Glaubitz
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edited by Klaus Kreimeier, Annemone Ligensa
