| Contents |
Introduction / Richard Abel -- The color of nitrate : some factual observations on tinting and toning manuals for silent films / Paolo Cherchi Usai -- The sound of silents / Norman King -- Kuleshov's experiments and the new anthropology of the actor / Mikhail Yampolsky -- "Now you see it, now you don't" : the temporality of the cinema of attractions / Tom Gunning -- Pre-classical American cinema : its changing modes of film production / Charles Musser -- Booming the film business : the historical specificity of early French cinema / Richard Abel -- Cinema as anti-theater : actresses and female audiences in Wilhelminian Germany / Heide Schlüpmann -- Dickens, Griffith, and film theory today / Rick Altman -- Female power in the serial-queen melodrama : the etiology of an anomaly / Ben Singer -- Russia, 1913 : cinema in the cultural landscape / Yuri Tsivian -- Dante's Inferno and Caesar's ghost : intertextuality and conditions of reception in early American cinema / William Uricchio and Roberta E. Pearson -- "The finest outside the Loop" : motion picture exhibition in Chicago's Black Metropolis, 1905-1928 / Mary Carbine -- The perils of pleasure? Fan magazine discourse as women's commodified culture in the 1920s / Gaylyn Studlar. |
