Performing New Media, 1890-1915 /

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In the years before the First World War, showmen, entrepreneurs, educators, and scientists used magic lanterns and cinematographs in many contexts and many venues. To employ these silent screen technologies to deliver diverse and complex programs usually demanded audio accompaniment, creating a perf...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Yumibe, Joshua, 1974- (Editor), Williams, Tami, 1970- (Editor), Pelletier, Louis (Editor), Gray, Frank (Editor), Curtis, Scott (Editor), Askari, Kaveh (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Francés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2015
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Motion pictures and theater > History.
Silent films > History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Performing on the screen : actors and personalities
  • Lois Weber at Rex : performing femininity across media / Shelley Stamp
  • Diva intermedial : Lyda Borelli between art, photography, theatre and cinema / Ivo Blom
  • Why sue "Little Mary?" : how Independent Moving Pictures Company of America v Gladys Smith and Owen Moore (1911) defined celebrity and professionalism for film actors / Leslie Midkiff DeBauche
  • Camera distance and acting in the Griffith Biography / Charles O'Brien
  • Performance times : the lightning cartoon and the emergence of animation / Malcolm Cook
  • La transparence du Fregoligraph en question / Frederic Tabet
  • In the flesh : personal appearances and the picture personality in Britain / Chris O'Rourke
  • Performers : now synchronised on screen / Ian Christie
  • Performing beside the screen : narrators, showmen, and musicians
  • Missing believed lost : the film narrator, then and now / Martin Loiperdinger
  • Standards of practice in transition : the showmanship of Jasper Redfern as it emerged / Peter Walsh
  • Showmanship skills and the changing role of the exhibitor in 1910s Scotland / María Antonia Velez-Serna
  • Showing film in winter (1904-1906) : Alberts Freres' film galas in Dutch multi-purpose buildings / Ansje van Beusekom
  • Performing new media and the creation of national identity : Kräusslich and Köpke in Norway before 1910 / Gunnar Iversen
  • Music programming and the formation of Swedish cinema culture / Christopher Natzen
  • "Marvelous and fascinating" : L. Frank Baum's Fairylogue and radio-plays (1908) / Artemis Willis
  • The multiple media lecture : Racing with death in Antarctic blizzards (1915) / Gregory A. Waller
  • Performing with the screen : audiences, educators and officials
  • Kinoreformbewegung revisited : performing the cinematograph as a pedagogical tool / Frank Kessler and Sabine Lenk
  • Health on display : the Panama-Pacific International Exposition as sanitary venue / Marina Dahlquist
  • Lyrical education : music and colour in early non-fiction film / Jennifer Peterson
  • "Offensive and riotous behaviour"? Performing the role of an audience in Irish cinema of the mid-1910s / Denis Condon
  • Tango mad and affected by cinematographitis : rhythmic "contagions" between screens and audiences in the 1910s / Kristina Köhler
  • Intermedial performance
  • Screening sensations and live performance : the creative blending of traditional and new projected media at the start of the twentieth century / Ludwig Maria Vogl-Bienek
  • Le spectacle de lanterne magique considere sous l'angle de la conference : quelques traces ecrites d'une performance orale / Alain Boillat
  • Getting to know the Dutch : magic lantern slides as traces of intermedial performance practices / Sarah Dellmann
  • 20 minutes or less : short-form film-and-theatre hybrids : skits, sketches, playlets, and acts in vaudeville, variety, revues, &c. / Gwendolyn Waltz
  • Between Karagöz and cinema : connectivity, mobility, collectivity / Canan Balan
  • Entre nouveaute et continuite : le spectacle cinematographique serait-il une emergence des ombres françaises? / Thierry Lecointe
  • "Performed live and talking. No kinematograph" : amateur performances of Tableaux vivants and local film exhibition in Germany around 1900 / Daniel Wiegand
  • Performing painting : projected images as living pictures / Valentine Robert
  • Colour as performance in visual music, film tinting and digital painting / Joshua Yumibe
  • Coda
  • Early cinema today and its "digital performance" : the re-discovery of The soldier's courtship (1896) / Franziska Heller.

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