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Tables of Contents for The Silent Cinema Reader
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of illustrations
ix
Notes on contributors
xi
Acknowledgements
xv
Lee Grieveson and Peter Kramer
INTRODUCTION
1
10
PROLOGUE
INTRODUCTION
11
20
1 Charles Musser
AT THE BEGINNING: MOTION PICTURE PRODUCTION, REPRESENTATION AND IDEOLOGY AT THE EDISON AND LUMIÈRE COMPANIES
15
16
PART I Film projection and variety shows
INTRODUCTION
31
10
2 Tom Gunning
"NOW YOU SEE IT, NOW YOU DON'T": THE TEMPORALITY OF THE CINEMA OF ATTRACTIONS
41
10
3 Frank Gray
THE KISS IN THE TUNNEL (1899), G.A. SMITH AND THE EMERGENCE OF THE EDITED FILM IN ENGLAND
51
12
4 Richard Abel
THE CINEMA OF ATTRACTIONS IN FRANCE, 1896-1904
63
14
PART II Storytelling and the nickelodeon
INTRODUCTION
77
10
5 Charles Mussen
MOVING TOWARDS FICTIONAL NARRATIVES: STORY FILMS BECOME THE DOMINANT PRODUCT, 1903-1904
87
16
6 Richard Abel
PATHÉ GOES TO TOWN: FRENCH FILMS CREATE A MARKET FOR THE NICKELODEON, 1903-1906
103
16
7 Ben Singer
MANHATTAN NICKELODEONS: NEW DATA ON AUDIENCES AND EXHIBITORS
119
16
PART III Cinema and reform
INTRODUCTION
135
10
8 Tom Gunning
FROM THE OPIUM DEN TO THE THEATRE OF MORALITY: MORAL DISCOURSE AND THE FILM PROCESS IN EARLY AMERICAN CINEMA
145
10
9 Roberta E. Pearson and William Uricchio
HOW MANY TIMES SHALL CAESAR BLEED IN SPORT: SHAKESPEARE AND THE CULTURAL DEBATE ABOUT MOVING PICTURES
155
14
10 Lee Grieveson
FIGHTING FILMS: RACE, MORALITY, AND THE GOVERNING OF CINEMA, 1912-1915
169
18
PART IV Feature films and cinema programmes
INTRODUCTION
187
10
11 Charles J. Maland
A STAR IS BORN: AMERICAN CULTURE AND THE DYNAMICS OF CHARLIE CHAPLIN'S STAR IMAGE, 1913-1916
197
13
12 Shelley Stamp
AN AWFUL STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOVE AND AMBITION: SERIAL HEROINES, SERIAL STARS AND THEIR FEMALE FANS
210
16
13 Ben Brewster
TRAFFIC IN SOULS (1913): AN EXPERIMENT IN FEATURE-LENGTH NARRATIVE CONSTRUCTION
226
16
14 Linda Williams
RACE, MELODRAMA, AND THE BIRTH OF A NATION (1915)
242
12
15 Kristin Thompson
THE INTERNATIONAL EXPLORATION OF CINEMATIC EXPRESSIVITY
254
17
PART V Classical Hollywood cinema
INTRODUCTION
271
8
16 Peter Krämer
THE MAKING OF A COMIC STAR: BUSTER KEATON AND THE SAPHEAD (1920)
279
11
17 Gaylyn Studiar
"THE PERFECT LOVER"?: VALENTING AND ETHNIC MASCULINITY IN THE 1920'S
290
15
18 sumiko Higashi
THE NEW WOMAN AND CONSUMER CULTURE: CECIL B. DEMILLE'S SEX COMEDIES
305
13
19 Ruth Vasey
THE OPEN DOOR: HOLLYWOOD'S PUBLIC RELATIONS AT HOME AND ABROAD, 1922-1928
318
11
PART VI European cinemas
INTRODUCTION
329
10
20 Yuri Tsivian
NEW NOTES ON RUSSIAN FILM CULTURE BETWEEN 1908 AND 1919
339
10
21 Kristin Thompson
EARLY ALTERNATIVES TO THE HOLLYWOOD MODE OF PRODUCTION: IMPLICATIONS FOR EUROPE'S AVANT-GARDES
349
19
22 David Bordwell
MONUMENTAL HEROICS: FORM AND STYLE IN EISENSTEIN'S SILENT FILMS
368
21
23 Joseph Garncarz
ART AND INDUSTRY: GERMAN CINEMA OF THE 1920'S
389
12
Bibliography
401
15
Index
416