Film 1900 (eBook, ePUB)

Technology, Perception, Culture
Redaktion: Ligensa, Annemone; Kreimeier, Klaus

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Essays examining the relationships between culture, film, and the audience around the turn of the twentieth century. The current digital revolution has sparked a renewed interest in the origins and trajectory of modern media, particularly in the years around 1900 when the technology was rapidly developing. This collection aims to broaden our understanding of early cinema as a significant innovation in media history. Joining traditional scholarship with fresh insights from a variety of disciplines, this book explains the aesthetic and institutional characteristics in early cinema within the context of the contemporary media landscape. It also addresses transcultural developments such as scientific revolutions, industrialization, urbanization, and globalization, as well as differing attitudes toward modernization. Film 1900 is an important reassessment of early cinema's position in cultural history. "The capable Ligensa and Kreimeier invited a coterie of renowned Continental scholars and thinkers to reflect on issues of modernity and cinema by harking back to the fin de siècle.... Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty." -T. Lindval, Choice

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Libbey Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 388
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780861969166
• Artikelnr.: 45067707

Autorenporträt

edited by Klaus Kreimeier, Annemone Ligensa

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Triangulating a Turn: Film 1900 as Technology, Perception and
CultureAnnemone Ligensa
1. Archaeologies of Interactivity: Early Cinema, Narrative and
SpectatorshipThomas Elsaesser
2. Viewing Change, Changing Views: The 'History of Vision'-DebateFrank
Kessler
3. The Ambimodernity of Early Cinema Problems and Paradoxes in the
Film-and-Modernity DiscourseBen Singer
4. Mind, the Gap: The Discovery of Physiological TimeHenning Schmidgen
5. 'Is Everything Relative?': Cinema and the Revolution of Knowledge Around
1900Harro Segeberg
6. The Aesthetic Idealist as Efficiency Engineer: Hugo Munsterberg's
Theories of Perception, Psychotechnics and CinemaJörg Schweinitz
7. Between Observation and Spectatorship: Medicine, Movies and Mass Culture
in Imperial GermanyScott Curtis
8. The Scene of the Crime: Psychiatric Discourse on the Film Audience in
Early Twentieth Century GermanyAndreas Killen
9. Seen Through the Eyes of Simmel: The Cinema Programme as a 'Modern'
ExperienceAndrea Haller
10. 'Under the Sign of the Cinematograph': Urban Mobility and Cinema
Location in Wilhelmine BerlinPelle Snickars
12. Perceptual Environments for Films: The Development of Cinema in
Germany, 1895-1914Joseph Garncarz
12. 'Fumbling Towards Some New Form of Art': The Changing Composition of
Film Programmes in Britain, 1908-1914Ian Christie and John Sedgwick
13. The Attraction of Motion: Modern Representation and the Image of
MovementTom Gunning
14. 'Dashing Down Upon the Audience': Notes on the Genesis of Filmic
PerceptionKlaus Kreimeier
15. German Tonbilder of the 1900s: Advanced Technology and National
BrandMartin Loiperdinger
16. Sculpting with Light: Early Film Style, Stereoscopic Vision and the
Idea of a 'Plastic Art In Motion'Michael Wedel
17. 'A Cinematograph of Feminine Thought': The Dangerous Age, Cinema and
Modern WomenAnnemone Ligensa
14. Cinema as a Mode(l) of Perception: Dorothy Richardson's Novels and
EssaysNicola Glaubitz
Biographies of the Authors