Montage, Découpage, Mise en scène

Frank Kessler is professor of media history at Utrecht University, The Netherlands, and one of the founders and editors of KINtop: Jahrbuch zur Erforschung des frühen Films. His research mainly concerns the period of the emergence of cinema and nineteenth-century visual culture, as well as the history of film theory. His publications include, as co-editor, A Million Pictures: Magic Lantern Slides in the History of Learning. Timothy Barnard is a Canadian translator and film historian. He is co-editor of the book South American Cinema: A Critical Filmography 1915–1994 and the author of studies of the French film critic Léon Moussinac and of the early film projectionist. Laurent Le Forestier is a professor in the film history and aesthetics section of the Université de Lausanne. He works on early cinema, the history of film criticism and the relations between découpage and montage. He has recently published La Transformation Bazin and is currently completing a book with André Gaudreault on editing practices in the silent era.