The cinema of attractions reloaded

Table of Contents - 6[-]Acknowledgments - 10[-]Introduction to an Attractive Concept - 12[-]Theory Formation [-The Cinema of Attractions ] - 30[-] Spectacle, Attractions and Visual Pleasure - 72[-] Attractions: How They Came into the World - 32[-] A Rational Reconstruction of -The Cinema of Attractions  - 42[-] The Cinema of Attractions as Dispositif - 58[-]Attraction Theories and Terminologies [-Early Film ] - 84[-] From -Primitive Cinema  to -Kine-Attractography  - 86[-] From -Primitive Cinema  to -Marvelous  - 106[-] The Attraction of the Intelligent Eye: Obsessions with the Vision Machine in Early Film Theories - 122[-] Rhythmic Bodies/Movies: Dance as Attraction in Early Film Culture - 140[-]Audiences and Attractions ["Its Spectator"] - 158[-] A Cinema of Contemplation, A Cinema of Discernment: Spectatorship, Intertextuality and Attractions in the 1890s - 160[-] The Lecturer and the Attraction - 182[-] Integrated Attractions: Style and Spectatorship in Transitional Cinema - 194[-] Discipline through Diegesis: The Rube Film between -Attractions  and "Narrative Integration" - 206[-]Attraction Practices through History [-The Avant-Garde : section 1] - 226[-] Circularity and Repetition at the Heart of the Attraction: Optical Toys and the Emergence of a New Cultural Series - 228[-] Lumi re, the Train and the Avant-Garde - 246[-] Programming Attractions: Avant-Garde Exhibition Practice in the 1920s and 1930s - 266[-] The Associational Attractions of the Musical - 282[-]Digital Media and (Un)Tamed Attractions ["The Avant-Garde": section 2] - 290[-] Chez le Photographe c'est chez moi: Relationship of Actor and Filmed Subject to Camera in Early Film and Virtual Reality Spaces - 292[-] The Hollywood Cobweb: New Laws of Attraction - 310[-] Figures of Sensation: Between Still and Moving Images - 322[-] -Cutting to the Quick : Techne, Physis, and Poiesis and the Attractions of Slow Motion - 338[-]Dossier - 354[-] Pie and Chase: Gag, Spectacle and Narrative in Slapstick Comedy - 356[-] Early Cinema as a Challenge to Film History - 366[-] The Cinema of Attraction[s]: Early Film, Its Spectator and the Avant-Garde - 382[-] Rethinking Early Cinema: Cinema of Attractions and Narrativity - 390[-]Notes on Contributors - 418[-]General Bibliography - 422[-]Index of Names - 436[-]Index of Film Titles - 446[-]Index of Subjects - 452