Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vi
4. Acknowledgements xiii
5. Introduction: History, Intermediality, and Early European Cinema 1
6. 1. The Birth of a Sixth Art: The Art Film and the Film-as-Art Discourse 22
7. 2. Behind the Velvet Curtain: The Cultural Communion between Stage and Screen 54
8. 3. An Actress for Our Age: Betty Nansen, Modern Media Icon 78
9. 4. In Another Light: Academic Painting, Pictorial Photography, Bourgeois Cinema 104
10. 5. Old Masters Endure: Victor Sjöström’s Netherlandish Tableaux 140
11. Conclusion: Towards a Cultural Poetics of Early European Cinema 167
12. Bibliography 174
13. Filmography 190
14. About the Author 194
15. Index 195