Corporeality in early cinema : viscera, skin, and physical form / edited by Marina Dahlquist, Doron Galili, Jan Olsson, and Valentine Robert.

Some essays translated from the French, with original French text in the appendix.

"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 off screen (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 took and still take 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The impossible body of early film / Tom Gunning -- Ovidian violence: George Melies' explosive screen bodies / Vito Adriaensens -- The body under the scalpel in the illustrated press and the cinema / Jeremy Houillere ; translated by Timothy Barnard -- Ghosts and their nationality in the Fin de siecle machinery / Ian Christie -- Field trip to insanity: bodies and minds in the Dr. Maestre film collection (Spain, 1915) / Luis Alonso Garcia, Daniel Sanchez Salas, and Begona Soto Vazquez -- The celluloid specimens: animal origins for the moving image / Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa -- Death by a thousand cuts: on-screen executions in early American cinema / Gary D. Rhodes -- Staged bodies, caged bodies: early cinema in the age of human zoos / Rodolphe Gahery ; translated by Timothy Barnard -- "Stills from a film that is missing": indigenous images and the photographic interval in early cinema / Joanna Hearne -- Risky business: the early film actor and discourses of danger / Charlie Keil and Denise McKenna -- Bodies in motion: dancing and boxing in early Norwegian cinema / Gunnar Iversen -- The beauty of the forzuti: irresistible male bodies on- and offscreen / Ivo Blom -- Nudity in early cinema, or the pictorial transgression / Valentine Robert -- Paul Capellani: the body put to the test by cinema / Sebastien Dupont-Bloch ; translated by Timothy Barnard -- Hair and hairiness in early cinema / Jean-Claude Seguin ; translated by Timothy Barnard -- Lumiere agents in Mexico: the "body" of film as a late-nineteenth-century discourse / John Fullerton -- Breathing faces, twinkling eyes: on cinematic visage in Russian films of the 1910s / Oksana Chefranova -- Making faces: character and makeup in early cinema / Alice Maurice -- "Keep it dark": the fatale attraction of the female viewer's body / Mireille Berton -- "The best synonym of youth": G. Stanley Hall, mimetic play, and early cinema's embodied youth spectator / Christina Petersen -- Perils of cinema: the German cinema debate and the "nerve-racking" medium / Stephanie Werder -- "The taste of the moment seems all for 'pictures'": Irish historical bodies before the early cinema screen / Denis Condon -- The viewer's body in motion: physical and virtual effects of three-dimensional spectacles / Martin Barnier ; translated by Timothy Barnard -- Moving the spectator, dancing with the screen: early dance instruction films and reconfigurations of film spectatorship in the 1910s / Kristina Kohler -- A rational and entertaining species of amusement to bipeds of all ages: the splendid camera obscura / Alison Reiko Loader -- Le corps sous le scalpel de la presse illustree et du cinema / Jeremy Houillere -- Corps mis en scene, corps mis en cage: le cinematographe au temps des zoos humains / Rodolphe Gahery -- Paul capellani: le corps a l'epreuve du cinema / Sebastien Dupont-Bloch -- Poils et pilosites dans le cinema des origines / Jean-Claude Seguin -- Le corps du spectateur en mouvement: effets reels et virtuels des spectacles tridimensionnels / Martin Barnier.

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English and French.

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