A Companion to Early Cinema -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I Early Cinema Cultures -- 1 The Culture Broth and the Froth of Cultures of So-called Early Cinema -- 2 Toward a History of Peep Practice -- 3 "We are Here and Not Here": Late Nineteenth-Century Stage Magic and the Roots of Cinema in the Appearance (and Disappearance) of the Virtual Image -- 4 The Féerie between Stage and Screen -- 5 The Théâtrophone, an Anachronistic Hybrid Experiment or One of the First Immobile Traveler Devices? -- 6 The "Silent" Arts: Modern Pantomime and the Making of an Art Cinema in Belle Époque Paris: The Case of Georges Wague and Germaine Dulac -- Part II Early Cinema Discourses -- 7 First Discourses on Film and the Construction of a "Cinematic Episteme" -- 8 The Discourses of Art in Early Film, or, Why Not Rancière? -- 9 Sensationalism and Early Cinema -- 10 From Craft to Industry: Series and Serial Production Discourses and Practices in France -- 11 Early American Film Publications: Film Consciousness, Self Consciousness -- 12 Early Cinema and Film Theory -- Part III Early Cinema Forms -- 13 A Bunch of Violets -- 14 Modernity Stops at Nothing: The American Chase Film and the Specter of Lynching -- 15 "The Knowledge Which Comes in Pictures": Educational Films and Early Cinema Audiences -- 16 Motion Picture Color and Pathé-Frères: The Aesthetic Consequences of Industrialization -- Part IV Early Cinema Presentations -- 17 The European Fairground Cinema: (Re)defining and (Re)contextualizing the "Cinema of Attractions" -- 18 Early Film Programs: An Overture, Five Acts, and an Interlude -- 19 "Half Real-Half Reel": Alternation Format Stage-and-Screen Hybrids -- 20 Advance Newspaper Publicity for the Vitascope and the Mass Address of Cinema's Reading Public.

21 Storefront Theater Advertising and the Evolution of the American Film Poster -- 22 Bound by Cinematic Chains: Film and Prisons during the Early Era -- Part V Early Cinema Identities -- 23 Anonymity: Uncredited and Unknown in Early Cinema -- 24 The Invention of Cinematic Celebrity in the United Kingdom -- 25 The Film Lecturer -- 26 Richard Hoffman: A Collector's Archive -- Part VI Early Cinema Recollections -- 27 Early Films in the Age of Content -- or, "Cinema of Attractions" Pursued by Digital Means -- 28 Multiple Originals: The (Digital) Restoration and Exhibition of Early Films -- 29 Pointing Forward, Looking Back: Reflexivity and Deixis in Early Cinema and Contemporary Installations -- 30 Is Nothing New? Turn-of-the-Century Epistemes in Film History -- Index.