Moving Images: From Edison to the Webcam

Collection of essays researching the history of the moving image and the impact of new media, edited by John Fullerton and Astrid Soderbergh Widding. The volume constitutes Volume 5, Numbers 3/4 of Aura. Film Studies Journal. Contents: Paul C. Spehr: Unaltered to Date: Developing 35mm Film Oliver Gaycken: Seeing seeing: Hermann von Helmholtz and the Invention of the Ophthalmoscope Frank Kessler: On Fairies and Technologies Solveig Julich: Seeing in the Dark: Early X-ray Imaging and Cinema Carlos Bustamante: The Bolex Motion Picture Camera Bent Fausing: Sore Society: The Dissolution of the Image and the Assimilation of the Trauma Jan Holmberg: Closing in: Telescopes, Early Cinema, and the Technological Conditions of De-distancing Alison Griffiths: 'We Partake, as it Were, of His Life': The Status of the Visual in Early Ethnographic Film Pelle Snickars: Architectonics of Seeing: Architecture as Moving Images Jay Moman: Submerged Landscapes of the Postmodern Body: Surface, Text, Commodity William Boddy: Weather Porn and the Battle for Eyeballs: Promoting Digital Television in the USA and UK Valeria Camporesi: Stereotyping a Competitor: Images of Television in Spanish Cinema in the 1960s Warren Buckland: Video Pleasure and Narrative Cinema: Luc Besson's The Fifth Element and Video Game Logic Bjorn Thuresson: Space and Character Representation in Interactive Narratives Sheila C. Murphy: Lurking and Looking: Webcams and the Construction of Cybervisuality Ake Walldius: Visual Diaries: Revival of a Documentary Form in Digital Culture Christopher Hales: The Interactive Filmmaker's Challenge

Part of the Bill Douglas and Peter Jewell Collection