Corporeality in Early Cinema

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 tridimensionnels / Martin Barnier
24. Perfuming Devices, Purifying Discourses: The Fight against Filthy Theaters and Foul Air / Judith Thissen
25. Moving the Spectator, Dancing with the Screen: Early Dance Instruction Films and reconfigurations of film spectatorship in the 1910s / Kristina Köhler
26. A Rational and Entertaining Species of Amusement to Bipeds of All Ages: The Splendid Camera Obscura / Alison Reiko Loader

Appendix: English Translations of French Essays
27. The Body under the Scalpel in the Illustrated Press and the Cinema / Jérémy Houillère
28. Staged Bodies, Caged Bodies: Early Cinema in the Age of Human Zoos / Rodolphe Gahéry
29. Paul Capellani: The Body Put to the Test by Cinema / Sébastien Dupont-Bloch
30. Hair and Hairiness in Early Cinema / Jean-Claude Seguin
31. The Viewer's Body in Motion: Physical and Virtual Effects of Three-dimensional Spectacles / Martin Barnier

Index