Performing new media, 1890-1915 / edited by Kaveh Askari, Scott Curtis, Frank Gray, Louis Pelletier, Tami Williams and Joshua Yumibe.

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Other Authors: Askari, Kaveh (Editor), Curtis, Scott (Editor), Gray, Frank (Editor), Pelletier, Louis (Editor), Williams, Tami, 1970- (Editor), Yumibe, Joshua (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
French
Published: New Barnet, Herts : John Libbey Publishing Ltd, [2014]
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I. 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 / Frédéric Tabet
  • In the flesh : personal appearances and the picture personality in Britain / Chris O'Rourke
  • Performers : now synchronised on screen / Ian Christie
  • Part II. 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 Vélez-Serna
  • Showing film in winter (1904-1906) : Alberts Frères' 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 Natzén
  • "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
  • Part III. 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
  • Part IV. 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 considèrè sous l'angle de la conférence : quelques traces écrites 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 nouveauté et continuité : le spectacle cinématographique serait-il une émergence 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.