Table of Contents

Introduction, Kaveh Askari, Scott Curtis, Frank Gray, Louis Pelletier, Tami Williams, and Joshua Yumibe Part I, Performing on the Screen: Actors and Personalities 1. Louis Weber at Rex: Performing Femininity Across Media, Shelley Stamp 2. Diva Intermedial: Lyda Borelli between Art, Photography, Theatre, and Cinema, Ivo Blom 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, Leslie Midkiff DeBauche 4. Camera Distance and Acting in Griffith Biographs, Charles O' Brien 5. Performance Times: The Lightning Cartoon and the Emergence of Animation, Malcolm Cook 6. La transparence du Fregoligraph en question, Frederic Tabet 7. In the Flesh: Personal Appearances and the Picture Personality in Britain, Chris O'Rourke 8. Performers-New Synchronized on Screen, Ian Christie Part II, Performing Beside the Screen: Narrators, Showmen, and Musicians 9. Missing Believed Post: The Film Narrator, Then and Now, Martin Loiperdinger 10. Standards of Practice in Transition: The Showmanship of Jasper Redfern as It Emerged, Peter Walsh 11. Showmanship Skills and the Changing Role of the Exhibitor in 1910s Scotland, Maria Antonia Velez-Serna 12. Showing Film in Winter (1904-1906): Albert Freres' Film Galas in Dutch Multipurpose Buildings, Ansje van Beusekom 13. Performing New Media and the Creation of National Identity: Krausslich and Kopke in Norway before 1910, Gunnar Iversen 14. Music Programming and the Formation of Swedish Cinema Culture, Christopher Natzen 15. 'Marvelous and Fascinating': L. Frank Baum's Fairylogue and Radio-Plays (1908), Artemis Willis 16. The Multiple-Media Lecture: Racing with Death in Antarctic Blizzard (1915), Greg Waller Part III, Performing with the Screen: Audiences, Educators, and Officials 17. Kinoreformbewegung Revisited: Performing the Cinematograph as a Pedagogical Tool, Frank Kessler and Sabine Lenk 18. Health on Display: The Panama-Pacific International Exposition as Sanitary Venue, Marina Dahlquist 19. Lyrical Education: Music and Colour in Early Nonfiction Film, Jennifer Peterson 20. 'Offensive and Riotous Behavior'? Performing the Role of an Audience in Irish Cinema of the mid-1910s, Denis Condon 21. Tango Mad and Affected by Cinematographitis: Rhythmic 'Contagions' between Screen and Audiences in the 1910s, Kristina Kohler Part IV, Intermedial Performance 22. Screening Sensations and Live Performance: the Creative Blending of the Traditional and New Projected Media at the Start of the Twentieth Century, Ludwig Maria Vogl-Bienek 23. Le spectacle de lantern magique considere sous l'angle de la conference: quelques traces ecrites d'une performance orale, Alain Boillet 24. Getting to Know the Dutch: Magic Lantern Slides as Traces of Intermedial Performance Practices, Sarah Dellmann 25. 20 Minutes or Less: Short-Form Film-and-Theatre Hybrids: Skits Sketches, Playlets and Acts in Vaudeville, Variety, Revues, etc., Gwendolyn Waltz 26. Between Karagoz and Cinema: Connectivity, Mobility, Collectivity, Canan Balan 27. Entre nouveaute et continuite: Le Spectacle cinematographique serait-il une emergence des ombres francaises?, Thierry Lecointe 28. 'Performed live and talking. No Kinematograph.' Amateur Performances of Tableaux Vivants and Local Film Exhibition in Germany around 1900, Daniel Wiegand 29. Performing Painting: Projected Images as Living Pictures, Valentine Robert 30. Colour as Performance in Visual Music, Film Tinting, and Digital Painting, Joshua Yumibe Coda 31. Early Cinema Today and its 'Digital Performance': The Rediscovery of the Soldier's Courtship (1896), Franziska Heller Editors and Contributors Index of Films Index of Names

About the Author

Kaveh Askari is Associate Professor in the English Department at Western Washington University. Scott Curtis Associate Professor in the Department of Radio/Television/Film at Northwestern University. He is currently President of Domitor, the international society for the study of early cinema. Frank Gray is Director of Screen Archive South East at the University of Brighton. Louis Pelletier is a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow at Universite de Montreal and Concordia University where he is research coordinator of the Canadian Educational, Sponsored, and Industrial Film Archive project. Tami Williams is Associate Professor of Film Studies and English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Joshua Yumibe is Director and Assistant Professor of Film Studies at Michigan State University. He holds a joint appointment as Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of St. Andrews.