Body Shots: Early Cinema's Incarnations [1 ed.] 0520252594, 9780520252592, 9780520252936, 1615141312111

This original and compelling book places the body at the center of cinema's first decade of emergence and challenge

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Table of contents :
Contents......Page 8
List of Illustrations......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Introduction: Body, Movement, Space......Page 14
Part I. Bodies in Public......Page 26
1. Looking In: McKinley at Home......Page 28
2. Looking Out: Visualizing Self-Consciousness......Page 55
Interlude. The Vocal Gesture:Sounding the Origins of Cinema......Page 76
Part II. Bodies in Space......Page 96
3. Chasing Film Narrative......Page 98
4. Windows 1900; or, Life of an American Fireman......Page 117
Conclusion: The Stilled Body......Page 137
Notes......Page 150
Bibliography......Page 192
Index......Page 208

Body Shots: Early Cinema's Incarnations [1 ed.]
 0520252594, 9780520252592, 9780520252936, 1615141312111

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