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