Table of Contents

Part 1 Virtuality and the Ontology of the Digitalised Image Part 2 Social and Cultural Implications of Cybervisuality Part 3 Problematising the Prosthetic "Promise" of Optical Technologies Part 4 Earlier Entertainment Forms and Moving Image and Sound Technologies

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The best of current research in the history of the moving image

About the Author

John Fullerton is an Associate Professor in the Department of Cinema Studies, Stockholm University, and has published widely on early Swedish film. With Jan Olsson, he is editor of the Stockholm Studies in Cinema series, and edited Celebrating 1895: The Centenary of Cinema for John Libbey in 1998. He has also recently co-edited Moving Images: From Edison to the Webcam the second publication in the Stockholm Studies in Cinema series. Astrid Soderbergh Widding is an Associate Professor in the Department of Cinema Studies, Stockholm University and is the author of a number of monographs on cinema. Her most recent book is Stumfilm I brytningstid: Stil och Berattande I Georg at Klerchers filmer.