André Gaudreault - A Companion to Early Cinema

This edition first published 2012
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

A companion to early cinema / edited by Andr Gaudreault, Nicolas Dulac, Santiago Hidalgo ; assisted by
Pierre Chemartin.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4443-3231-5 (hardback : alk. paper) 1. Motion picturesHistory. 2. Silent filmsHistory and
criticism. I. Gaudreault, Andr. II. Dulac, Nicolas. III. Hidalgo, Santiago.
PN1994.C584 2012
791.4309dc23

2011048257

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Richard Abel is Robert Altman Collegiate Professor of Film Studies in Screen Arts & Cultures at the University of Michigan. Most recently he published Americanizing the Movies and Movie-Mad Audiences, 19101914 (2006), co-edited Early Cinema and the National (2008), and edited a paperback version of the Encyclopedia of Early Cinema (2010). His current project is Menus for Movie Land: Newspapers and the Emergence of American Film Culture, 19131916.
Franois Albera is Professor of History and Aesthetics of Cinema at the Universit de Lausanne (Switzerland). A specialist in Soviet and Russian Cinema Studies, he has written Eisenstein et le constructivisme russe (1989), Albatros; des russes Paris 19191929 (1995), and Lavant-garde au cinma (2006), and edited many books, including S. M. Eisenstein: cinmatisme (1980) and Les Formalistes russes et le cinma, potique du film (1995). Albera is also a regular contributor to 1895 Revue dHistoire du Cinma and was for many years its chief editor.
Ben Brewster has just retired from a position as Assistant Director of the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He formerly taught at the University of Kent at Canterbury, and was editor of Screen. He has published on early and silent cinema in such journals as Screen, Cinema Journal, and Film History.
Paolo Cherchi Usai, Senior Curator of Film at George Eastman House in Rochester, NY, is Curator Emeritus of the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia and co-founder of the Pordenone Silent Film Festival and the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation. He directed the experimental film Passio (2007), adapted from his book The Death of Cinema (2001). His most recent work is Film Curatorship: Archives, Museums, and the Digital Marketplace (2008).
Nicolas Dulac is Lecturer in Film Studies at the Universit de Montral, where he is also a researcher for GRAFICS (Groupe de recherche sur lavnement et la formation des institutions cinmatographique et scnique). He has published on early cinema and turn-of-the-century popular culture in journals such as 1895Revue dHistoire duCinma,Cinma & Cie, and Early Popular Visual Culture.
Thomas Elsaesser is Professor Emeritus of Film and Television Studies at the Universiteit van Amsterdam and, since 2006, Visiting Professor at Yale University. He has authored, edited, and co-edited some twenty volumes. Among his recent books as author are European Cinema: Face to Face with Hollywood (2005), Terror und Trauma (2007), Film Theory: An Introduction through the Senses (2010, with Malte Hagener), and The Persistence of Hollywood (2011).
Giovanna Fossati is Head Curator of EYE Film Institute Netherlands. She holds a Ph.D. in Media Studies (Universiteit Utrecht) and teaches in the MA Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image (Universiteit van Amsterdam). Her recent publications include articles in The YouTube Reader (Pelle Snickars and Patrick Vonderau, eds., 2009) and the book From Grain to Pixel: The Archival Life of Film in Transition (2009).
Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley is a Professor in the Department of Communication at Georgia State University. A cultural historian of film, radio, and television, she is the author of numerous essays and has written or edited four books, including, as editor, Hollywood in the Neighborhood: Historical Case Studies of Local Moviegoing (2008), and the single-author volumes At the Picture Show: Small Town Audiences and the Creation of Movie Fan Culture (2000) and Celebrate Richmond Theater (2001).
Jane M. Gaines is a Professor of Film Studies at Columbia University in New York. She has won national awards for two books: Contested Culture: The Image, the Voice, and the Law (1991) and Fire and Desire: Mixed Race Movies in the Silent Era (2001). She has published articles on intellectual property and early piracy as well as documentary film and video and co-edited Collecting Visible Evidence (1999). Currently, she is completing Fictioning Histories: Women Film Pioneers, a project for which she received an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences scholar award.
Joseph Garncarz is currently Privatdozent for Theater, Film, and Television Studies at the Universitt zu Kln, Germany, and has regularly been a visiting professor at several European universities. A social historian of media, his publications include Hollywood in Deutschland: Zur Internationalisierung der Kinokultur 19251990