Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART I: Performing on the Screen: Actors and Personalities -- Chapter 1 Lois Weber at Rex: Performing Femininity Across Media -- Chapter 2 Diva Intermedial: Lyda Borelli between Art, Photography, Theatre and Cinema -- Chapter 3 Why Sue 'Little Mary?': How Independent Moving Pictures Company of America v Gladys Smith and Owen Moore (1911) Defined Celebrity and Professionalism for Film Actors -- Chapter 4 Camera Distance and Acting in Griffith Biographs -- Chapter 5 Performance Times: The Lightning Cartoon and the Emergence of Animation -- Chapter 6 La transparence du Fregoligraph en question -- Chapter 7 In the Flesh: Personal Appearances and the Picture Personality in Britain -- Chapter 8 Performers - Now Synchronised on Screen -- PART II: Performing Beside the Screen: Narrators, Showmen, and Musicians -- Chapter 9 Missing Believed Lost: The Film Narrator, Then and Now -- Chapter 10 Standards of Practice in Transition: The Showmanship of Jasper Redfern as It Emerged -- Chapter 11 Showmanship Skills and the Changing Role of the Exhibitor in 1910s Scotland -- Chapter 12 Showing Film in Winter (1904-1906): Albert Frères' Film Galas in Dutch Multipurpose Buildings -- Chapter 13 Performing New Media and the Creation of National Identity: Kr™usslich and Köpke in Norway before 1910 -- Chapter 14 Music Programming and the Formation of Swedish Cinema Culture -- Chapter 15 'Marvelous and Fascinating': L. Frank Baum's Fairylogue and Radio-Plays (1908) -- Chapter 16 The Multiple-Media Lecture: Racing with Death in Antarctic Blizzards (1915) -- PART III: Performing with the Screen: Audiences, Educators and Officials -- Chapter 17 Kinoreformbewegung Revisited: Performing the Cinematograph as a Pedagogical Tool -- Chapter 18 Health on Display: The Panama-Pacific International Exposition as Sanitary Venue.

Chapter 19 Lyrical Education: Music and Colour in Early Nonfiction Film -- Chapter 20 'Offensive and Riotous Behavious'? Performing the of Role of an Audience in Irish Cinema of the mid-1910s -- Chapter 21 Tango Mad and Affected by Cinematographitis: Rhythmic 'Contagions' between Screens and Audiences in the 1910s -- PART IV: Intermedial Performance -- Chapter 22 Screening Sensations and Live Performance: the Creative Blending of Traditional and New Projected Media at the Start of the Twentieth Century -- Chapter 23 Le spectacle de lanterne magique considéré sous l'angle de la conférence : quelques traces écrites d'une performance orale -- Chapter 24 Getting to Know the Dutch: Magic Lantern Slides as Traces of Intermedial Performance Practices -- Chapter 25 20 Minutes or Less: Short-Form Film-and-Theatre Hybrids - Skits, Sketches, Playlets, & Acts in Vaudeville, Variety, Revues, &c. Gwendolyn Waltz -- Chapter 26 Between Karagöz and Cinema: Connectivity, Mobility, Collectivity, Collectivity -- Chapter 27 Entre nouveauté et continuité : Le spectacle cinématographique serait-il une émergence des ombres françaises? -- Chapter 28 'Performed live and talking. No Kinematograph.' Amateur Performances of Tableaux Vivants and Local Film Exhibition in Germany around 1900 -- Chapter 29 Performing Painting: Projected Images as Living Pictures -- Chapter 30 Colour as Performance in Visual Music, Film Tinting and Digital Painting -- Coda -- Chapter 31 Early Cinema Today and its 'Digital Performance': The Re-discovery of The Soldier's Courtship (1896) -- Editors and Contributors -- Index of Films -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z -- Index of Names -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.