The Cinema of Attractions Reloaded

Introduction to an Attractive Concept – Wanda Strauven
 
THEORY FORMATION
“The Cinema of Attractions”
Attractions: How They Came into the World – Tom Gunning
A Rational Reconstruction of “The Cinema of Attractions” – Warren Buckland
The Cinema of Attractions as Dispositif – Frank Kessler
Spectacle, Attractions and Visual Pleasure – Scott Bukatman

ATTRACTION THEORIES AND TERMINOLOGIES
“Early Film”
From “Primitive Cinema” to “Kine-Attractography” – André Gaudreault
From “Primitive Cinema” to “Marvelous” – Wanda Strauven
The Attraction of the Intelligent Eye: Obsessions with the Vision Machine in Early Film Theories – Viva Paci
Rhythmic Bodies/Movies: Dance as Attraction in Early Film Culture – Laurent Guido
  
AUDIENCES AND ATTRACTIONS
“Its Spectator”

A Cinema of Contemplation, A Cinema of Discernment: Spectatorship, Intertextuality and Attractions in the 1890s – Charles Musser
The Lecturer and the Attraction – Germain Lacasse

Integrated Attractions: Style and Spectatorship in Transitional Cinema –Charlie Keil
Discipline through Diegesis: The Rube Film between “Attraction” and “Narrative Integration” – Thomas Elsaesser
 
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 – Nicolas Dulac and André Gaudreault 
Lumière, the Train and the Avant-Garde – Christa Blümlinger
Programming Attractions: Avant-Garde Exhibition Practice in the 1920s and 1930s – Malte Hagener
The Associational Attractions of the Musical – Pierre-Emmanuel Jaques
 
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 – Alison McMahan
The Hollywood Cobweb: New Laws of Attraction – Dick Tomasovic
Figures of Sensation: Between Still and Moving Images – Eivind Røssaak 
“Cutting to the Quick”: Techne, Physis, and Poiesis and the Attractions of Slow Motion – Vivian Sobchack
 
DOSSIER 
Pie and Chase: Gag, Spectacle and Narrative in Slapstick Comedy – Donald Crafton
Early Cinema as a Challenge to Film History – André Gaudreault and Tom Gunning
The Cinema of Attraction[s]: Early Film, Its Spectator and the Avant-Garde – Tom Gunning
Rethinking Early Cinema: Cinema of Attractions and Narrativity – Charles Musser
Notes on Contributors
General Bibliography 
Index