Film 1900

Introduction: Triangulating a Turn: Film 1900 as Technology, Perception and Culture Annemone Ligensa
1. Archaeologies of Interactivity: Early Cinema, Narrative and Spectatorship Thomas Elsaesser
2. Viewing Change, Changing Views: The 'History of Vision'-Debate Frank Kessler
3. The Ambimodernity of Early Cinema Problems and Paradoxes in the Film-and-Modernity Discourse Ben Singer
4. Mind, the Gap: The Discovery of Physiological Time Henning Schmidgen
5. 'Is Everything Relative?': Cinema and the Revolution of Knowledge Around 1900 Harro Segeberg
6. The Aesthetic Idealist as Efficiency Engineer: Hugo Munsterberg's Theories of Perception, Psychotechnics and Cinema Jörg Schweinitz
7. Between Observation and Spectatorship: Medicine, Movies and Mass Culture in Imperial Germany Scott Curtis
8. The Scene of the Crime: Psychiatric Discourse on the Film Audience in Early Twentieth Century Germany Andreas Killen
9. Seen Through the Eyes of Simmel: The Cinema Programme as a 'Modern' Experience Andrea Haller
10. 'Under the Sign of the Cinematograph': Urban Mobility and Cinema Location in Wilhelmine Berlin Pelle Snickars
12. Perceptual Environments for Films: The Development of Cinema in Germany, 1895-1914 Joseph Garncarz
12. 'Fumbling Towards Some New Form of Art': The Changing Composition of Film Programmes in Britain, 1908-1914 Ian Christie and John Sedgwick
13. The Attraction of Motion: Modern Representation and the Image of Movement Tom Gunning
14. 'Dashing Down Upon the Audience': Notes on the Genesis of Filmic Perception Klaus Kreimeier
15. German Tonbilder of the 1900s: Advanced Technology and National Brand Martin 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 Women Annemone Ligensa
14. Cinema as a Mode(l) of Perception: Dorothy Richardson's Novels and Essays Nicola Glaubitz
Biographies

Klaus Kreimeier is Professor Emeritus of Media Studies at the University of Siegen, Germany.