2. ‘Never Has One Seen Reality Enveloped in Such a Phantasmagoria’: Watching Spectacular Transformations, 1860–89

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents iii
3. List of Illustrations v
4. Acknowledgements viii
5. Notes on the Contributors ix
6. Introduction: Cinematicity and Comparative Media 1
7. Part 1 Cinematicity before Cinema
8. 1. Dickensian ‘Dissolving Views’: The Magic Lantern, Visual Storytelling and the Victorian Technological Imagination 21
9. 2. ‘Never Has One Seen Reality Enveloped in Such a Phantasmagoria’: Watching Spectacular Transformations, 1860–89 35
10. 3. Moving-picture Media and Modernity: Taking Intermediate and Ephemeral Forms Seriously 46
11. Part 2 Transitions: Early Cinema and Cinematicity
12. 4. Reading in the Age of Edison: The Cinematicity of ‘The Yellow Wall-Paper’ 67
13. 5. Time and Motion Studies: Joycean Cinematicity in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 88
14. 6. Nature Caught in the Act: On the Transformation of an Idea of Art in Early Cinema 107
15. Part 3 Cinematicity in the ‘Classic’ Cinema Age
16. 7. Cinematicity of Speech and Visibility of Literature: The Poetics of Soviet Film Scripts of the Early Sound Film Era 119
17. 8. Making America Global: Cinematicity and the Aerial View 133
18. 9. Invisible Cities, Visible Cinema: Illuminating Shadows in Late Film Noir 157
19. Part 4 Digital Cinematicity
20. 10. Cinema, Video, Game: Astonishing Aesthetics and the Cinematic ‘Future’ of Computer Graphics’ Past 173
21. 11. Miniature Pleasures: On Watching Films on an iPhone 196
22. 12. Kino-Eye in Reverse: Visualizing Cinema 211
23. Select Bibliography 235
24. Index 240