Front Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction to an Attractive Concept -- Theory Formation ["The Cinema of Attractions"] -- Spectacle, Attractions and Visual Pleasure -- Attractions: How They Came into the World -- A Rational Reconstruction of "The Cinema of Attractions" -- The Cinema of Attractions as Dispositif -- Attraction Theories and Terminologies ["Early Film"] -- From "Primitive Cinema" to "Kine-Attractography" -- From "Primitive Cinema" to "Marvelous" -- The Attraction of the Intelligent Eye: Obsessions with the Vision Machine in Early Film Theories -- Rhythmic Bodies/Movies: Dance as Attraction in Early Film Culture -- Audiences and Attractions ["Its Spectator"] -- A Cinema of Contemplation, A Cinema of Discernment: Spectatorship, Intertextuality and Attractions in the 1890s -- The Lecturer and the Attraction -- Integrated Attractions: Style and Spectatorship in Transitional Cinema -- Discipline through Diegesis: The Rube Film between "Attractions" and "Narrative Integration -- Attraction Practices through History ["The Avant-Garde": section 1] -- Circularity and Repetition at the Heart of the Attraction: Optical Toys and the Emergence of a New Cultural Series -- Lumière, the Train and the Avant-Garde -- Programming Attractions: Avant-Garde Exhibition Practice in the 1920s and 1930s -- The Associational Attractions of the Musical -- Digital Media and (Un)Tamed Attractions ["The Avant-Garde": section 2] -- Chez le Photographe c'est chez moi: Relationship of Actor and Filmed Subject to Camera in Early Film and Virtual Reality Spaces -- The Hollywood Cobweb: New Laws of Attraction -- Figures of Sensation: Between Still and Moving Images -- "Cutting to the Quick": Techne, Physis, and Poiesis and the Attractions of Slow Motion -- Dossier -- Pie and Chase: Gag, Spectacle and Narrative in Slapstick Comedy.

Early Cinema as a Challenge to Film History -- The Cinema of Attraction[s]: Early Film, Its Spectator and the Avant-Garde -- Rethinking Early Cinema: Cinema of Attractions and Narrativity -- Notes on Contributors -- General Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Film Titles -- Index of Subjects.

About the attractiveness and usefulness of the term "cinema of attractions" for both pre-classical and post-classical cinema.

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