Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Early cinema as global cinema : the encyclopedic ambition / Tom Gunning
  • Nationalizing attractions / Jonathan Auerbach
  • Images of the 'National' in early non-fiction films / Frank Kessler
  • National and racial landscapes and the photographic form / Giorgio Bertellini
  • Sound-on-disc cinema and electrification in pre-WWI Britain, France, Germany and the United States / Charles O'Brien
  • Mind-reading, mind-speaking : dialogue in The birth of a nation (1915) and the emergence of speech in American silent cinema / Torey Liepa
  • Living Canada : selling the nation through images / Marta Braun and Charlie Keil
  • Early cinema and 'the Polish question' / Sheila Skaff
  • Our Navy and patriotic entertainment in Brighton at the start of the Boer War / Frank Gray
  • 'An England of our dreams'? : early patriotic entertainments with film in Britain during the Anglo-Boer War / Ian Christie
  • 'The transport of audiences' : making cinema 'national' / Nico de Klerk
  • Enlisting early cinema in the service of 'la plus grande France' / Panivong Norindr
  • Teaching citizenship via celluloid / Marina Dahlquist
  • Fights of nations and national fights / David Mayer
  • Japan on American screens, 1908-1915 / Gregory A. Waller
  • Nationalist film-going without Canadian-made films? / Paul S. Moore
  • The cinema arrives in Italy : city, region and nation in early film discourse / John Welle
  • Wondrous pictures in Istanbul : from cosmopolitanism to nationalism / Canan Balan
  • The emergence of nationally specific film cultures in Europe, 1911-1914 / Joseph Garncarz
  • The Norwegian municipal cinema system and the development of a national cinema / Gunnar Iversen
  • Spanish lecturers and their relations with the national / Daniel Sánchaz Salas
  • Joseph Dumais and the language of French-Canadian silent cinema / Germain Lacasse
  • Localizing serials : translating daily life in Les Mysteres de New-York (1915) / Rudmer Canjels
  • Seeing the world while staying at home : slapstick, modernity and American-ness / Amanda Keeler
  • 'A purely American product' : tramp comedy and white working-class formation in the 1910s / Rob King
  • The 'Chinese' conjurer : orientalist magic in variety theater and the trick film / Matthew Solomon
  • A note on the national character of early popular science films / Oliver Gaycken
  • European melodramas and World War I : narrated time and historical time as reflections of national identity / Dominique Nasta and Muriel Andrin
  • 'Cow-punchers, bull-whackers and tin horn gamblers' : generic formulae, sensational literature, and early American cinema / W.D. Phillips
  • Early ethnographic film and the museum / Wolfgang Fuhrmann
  • Black hair, black eyes, black heart : Theda Bara and race suicide panic / Mark Hain
  • Who is the 'right' star to adore? : nationality, masculinity and the female cinema audience in Germany during World War I / Andrea Haller
  • From Switzerland to Italy and all around the world : the Joseph Joye and Davide Turconi collections / Joshua Yumibe
  • The imagination of early Hollywood : movie-land and the magic cities, 1914-1916 / Jennifer M. Bean.