Table of Contents

Preface Martin Loiperdinger Introduction Stimulating the Audience: Early Cinema's Short Film Programme Format 1906 to 1912 Andrea Haller and Martin Loiperdinger I. Programming and Performing Early Cinema Today: Outstanding Examples The Best Years of Film History: A Hundred Years Ago Mariann Lewinsky 'From the Bottom of the Sea': Early Film at the Oberhausen Festival Tom Gunning From the Past to the Future: Suffragettes: Extremists of Visibility in Berlin Madeleine Bernstorff Silent Films in their First Decades: Objects for Research or for Exhibition? Eric de Kuyper Programming the Local: Mitchell & Kenyon and the Local Film Show Vanessa Toulmin II. Crazy Cinematographe: Early Cinema Performance on the Luxembourg Fairground Back to the Future: Early Cinema and Late Economy of Attention: An interim report about Crazy Cinematographe Claude Bertemes and Nicole Dahlen The Crazy Cinematographe, or the Art of the Impromptu Spectator Dick Tomasovic The Art of Crazy Programming: Documentation of Crazy Cinematographe Programmes, 2007 to 2010 Claude Bertemes and Nicole Dahlen Conclusion Programming and Performing Early Cinema Today: Strategies and Dispositifs Frank Kessler Contributors Picture credits KINtop

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Early cinema in the contemporary context

About the Author

Martin Loiperdinger is Professor of Media Studies at Trier University and has published articles, books, television shows, exhibitions, and DVDs on the topic of early cinema.

Reviews

"[T]oday's programming of early cinema... has to consider the audience if it wants to be successful in making the visual heritage available to as many people as possible. Early Cinema Today shows in a fascinating, versatile, and refreshing way how this can be implemented... [This book] provides practitioners with innovative ideas on how to engage potential audiences, while providing scholars with valuable insight into how film archivists and curators shape perceptions of early cinema and, through this, the direction of film scholarship." -The Moving Image "[This] collection presents a wide range of approaches to the programming of early film, both historically and in the present-day context, while sounding a vibrant and timely call to review the relation that has evolved between scholars, archivists, and film programmers in matters relating to the programming of early cinema today." -Film History