Foreword André Gaudreault
Introduction The Discursive Spaces Between a History of Film Technology and Technological Experience
Santiago Hidalgo
SECTION I: EXPERIENCE
Chapter 1
When Did Cinema Become Cinema?: Technology, History, and the Moving Pictures
Charles Musser
Chapter 2
Exhibition Practices in Transition: Spectators, Audiences, and Projectors
Jan Olsson
Chapter 3
Reel Changes: Post-mortem Cinephilia or the Resistance of Melancholia
André Habib
Chapter 4
Walter Benjamin’s Play Room: Where the Future So Eloquently Nests Or: What is Cinema Again?
Dana Cooley
SECTION II: STUDY
Chapter 5
Hitchcock, Film Studies, and New Media: The Impact of Technology on the Analysis of Film
David Colangelo
Chapter 6
Film Analysis and Statistics: A Field Report
Charles O’Brien
Chapter 7
A ‘Distant Reading’ of the ‘Chaser Theory’: Local Views and the Digital Generation of New Cinema History
Paul Moore
SECTION III: THEORY
Chapter 8
Graphism: A New Approach to the Evolution of Film Language Through Technology
Tom Gunning
Chapter 9
Can We Have the Cave and Leave It Too? On the Meaning of Cinema as Technology
Vinzenz Hediger
Chapter 10
On Viewfinders, Video Assist Systems, and Tape Splicers: Questioning the History of Techniques and Technology in Cinema
Benoît Turquety