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Corporeality in Early Cinema
Viscera, Skin, and Physical Form
Edited by Marina Dahlquist, Doron Galili, Jan Olsson and Valentine Robert
Published by: Indiana University Press
370 Pages, 69 b&w illus.
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- 9780253033680
- Published: October 2018
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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.
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
Marina Dahlquist is Associate Professor of Cinema Studies at Stockholm University. She is editor of Exporting Perilous Pauline: Pearl White and the Serial Film Craze.
Jan Olsson is Professor of Cinema Studies and former Head of Department at Stockholm University. He is author of Hitchcock à la Carte.
Valentine Robert is Lecturer of Film Studies at the University of Lausanne. She is editor (with Laurent Le Forestier and François Albera) of Le Film sur l'art. Entre histoire de l'art et documentaire de creation.
Doron Galili is Research Fellow in the Department of Media Studies at Stockholm University.
"...essays that feature cinema technology will prove helpful in any study of how cameras, projectors, screens, and studios have mediated the relationship between the viewing bodies in the audience and the flickering bodies that they—and we—gaze upon."
~Kenneth Garner, TECHNOLOGY & CULTURE
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