Film 1900 : technology, perception, culture /
edited by Annemone Ligensa and Klaus Kreimeier.
- New Burnet, England : John Libbey, (c)2009. Bloomington, IN : Distributed in North America by Indiana University Press
- 1 online resource (vi, 250 pages) : illustrations, maps.
"This collection is based on the conference 'New Paradigms of Perception: Changes in Media and Culture around 1900' held at the University of Siegen, Germany, in November 2006"--Page 248..
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction: Triangulating a turn: film 1900 as technology, perception and culture / Archaeologies of interactivity: early cinema, narrative and spectatorship / Viewing change, changing views: the 'history of vision'-debate / The ambimodernity of early cinema: problems and paradoxes in the film-and-modernity discourse / Mind the gap: the discovery of physiological time / 'Is everything relative?' : cinema and the revolution of knowledge around 1900 / The aesthetic idealist as efficiency engineer: Hugo Münsterberg's theories of perception, psychotechnics and cinema / Between observation and spectatorship: medicine, movies and mass culture in imperial Germany / The scene of the crime: psychiatric discourses on the film audience in early twentieth century German / Seen through the eyes of Simmel: the cinema programme as a 'modern' experience / 'Under the sign of the cinematograph': urban mobility and cinema location in Wilhelmine Berlin / Perceptual environments for films: the development of cinema in Germany, 1895-1914 / 'Fumbling towards some new form of art?': the changing composition of film programmes in Britain, 1908-1914 / The attraction of motion: modern representation and the image of movement / 'Dashing down upon the audience': notes on the genesis of filmic perception / German Tonbilder of the 1900s: advanced technology and national brand / Sculpting with light: early film style, stereoscopic vision and the idea of a 'plastic art in motion' / 'A cinematograph of feminine thought': The dangerous age, cinema and modern women / Cinema as a mode(l) of perception: Dorothy Richardson's novels and essays / Annemone Ligensa -- Thomas Elsaesser -- Frank Kessler -- Ben Singer -- Henning Schmidgen -- Harro Segeberg -- Jörg Schweinitz -- Scott Curtis -- Andreas Killen -- Andrea Haller -- Pelle Snickars -- Joseph Garncarz -- Ian Christie and John Sedgwick -- Tom Gunning -- Klaus Kreimeier -- Martin Loiperdinger -- Michael Wedel -- Annemone Ligensa -- Nicola Glaubitz.
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Motion pictures--History--20th century. Film. Filmtechnik.