TY - BOOK AU - Braun,Marta AU - Keil,Charlie AU - King,Rob AU - Moore,Paul TI - Beyond the Screen: Institutions, Networks, and Publics of Early Cinema SN - 9780861969135 AV - PN1993.5.A1 -- .B496 2016eb PY - 2012/// CY - Bloomington PB - John Libbey & Company, Limited KW - Motion pictures--History--20th century KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART I: Charity and Religion -- 1. "Neutrality-Humanity": The Humanitarian Mission and the Films of the American Red Cross -- 2. Early Missionary Filming and the Emergence of the Professional Camera man -- 3. Mission on Screen: the Church Army and its Multi-Media Activities -- 4. "Baits to Entrap the Pleasure-Seeker and the Worldling": Charity Bazaars Introduce Moving Pictures to Irela nd -- 5. Paroles éducatives et religieuses lors des projections de films en France avant 1915 -- 6. Mütter, verzaget nicht! (1911) [Mothers, Despair Not!]: Henny Porten's Promotion for Mothers' Welfare -- PART II: Government and Civics -- 7. The Tsar and The Kinemat ograph: Film as History and The Chronicle of the Russian Monarchy -- 8. "Wheelbarrows" and "Real Soldiers": Advertising, Audiences and War Films of all Varieties -- 9. "What is a Picture?": Film as Defined in British Law Before 1910 -- 10. Le cinéma et les élections au Québec: de l'attraction à la banalité -- 11. A Moving Picture Farce: Public Opinion and the Beginnings of Film Censorship in Quebec -- PART III: Education and Advocacy -- 12. Health Instruction on Screen: The Department of Health in New York City, 1909-1917 -- 13. John Collier, Thomas Edison and the Educational Promotion of Moving Pictures -- 14. "And They Can See Half-Naked Dancers, Catching Young Men In Their Nets": Teachers and the Cinema in Norway, 1907-1913 -- 15. Documentaries, Family Film Nights and the First Film University: The Early Works and Big Ideas of Belgian Film Pioneer Hippolyte De Kempeneer (1876-1944) -- PART IV: Science and Magic -- 16. The School of the Future or Ganot's Physics?: Edison's Foray into Educational Cinema; 17. Multi-Purposing Early Cinema: A Psychological Experiment Involving Van Bibber's Experiment (Edison, 1911) -- 18. Dissecting the Medical Training Film -- 19. Corporal Permeability and Shadow Pictures: Reconsidering Uncle Josh at the Moving Picture Show (1902) -- 20. Eroticism and Death: The Skeleton in the Trick Film -- 21. Magies en images, les prestidigitateurs et la machine -- PART V: Art and Aesthetics -- 22. Early Film Colour, Today and Yesterday -- 23. Salvage Ethnography and the Exoticisation of Decay in Peter Delpeut's Lyrical Nitrate and Bill Morrison's Decasia -- 24. Picture Craft, Visual Education and the Lantern: A Lecture Fantasy -- 25. The Scope of Those Scopes: Production Diversity for the Mutoscope and Biograph During the Movies' Early Years -- 26. The High-Stakes History of the French Camera Operators' Union before the First World War -- PART VI: Exhibition and Showmanship -- 27. Les séries culturelles de la conférence-avec-projection et de la projection-avec-boniment: continuités et ruptures -- 28. Les "conférenciers de cinéma" en France (1896-1930): Historique à travers différents lieux de projection, genres filmiques et réseaux -- 29. Les images en mouvement au théâtre de variétés: le cas de l'Apollo de Düsseldorf -- 30. Royals, Rembrandts and Luxors: Patterns and Clusters in the Nomenclature of Dutch Cinemas -- 31. Local Showmanship in the Early Feature Era: The Case of Stanley Mastbaum -- 32. A Transformative Moment: Samuel Rothafel and the Rise of Multi-Class Moviegoing in the Midwest, 1911-1913 -- PART VII: Community and thePublic Sphere -- 33. "This Splendid Temple": Watching Movies in the Wanamaker Department Store -- 34. "Boost Your Town in the Movies": Municipal Film Companies in the United States, 1910-1917; 35. Early Cinema and the Public Sphere of the Neighbourhood Meeting Hall: The Longue Durée of Working-Class Sociability -- 36. Trans-Inter-National Public Spheres -- 37. Turning the Social Problem into Performance: Slumming and Screen Culture in Victorian Lantern Shows -- Editors and contributors -- Index of Films -- Index of Names N2 - Beyond the Screen captures this pioneering vision of the future of cinema UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4514163 ER -