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Journal of e-Media Studies, Volume 7 Issue 1: Early Cinema History (Understanding Visual Culture Through Silent Film Collections)

Volume 7, Issue 1: Early Cinema History (Understanding Visual Culture Through Silent Film Collections)

The Journal of e-Media Studies is a blind peer-reviewed, on-line journal dedicated to the scholarly study of the history and theory of electronic media, especially Television and New Media. It is an inter-disciplinary journal, with an Editorial Board that is chiefly grounded in the methodologies of the field of Film and Television Studies. We welcome submissions across the fields and methodologies that study media and media history. For other issues, submission guidelines, and more information about the Journal of e-Media Studies, go to the journal's homepage.

Volume 7, Issue 1 (2024)
by Mark Williams and John Bell, assisted by Lauren Spencer and Abigail Murdy

About the Issue

Introduction to Special Issue on Early Cinema History (Understanding Visual Culture Through Silent Film Collections)

by Mark Williams
Download PDF (doi: 10.1349/PS1.1938-6060.A.489)

Early U.S. Cinema Compendium

Contributing institutions include the AFI, Library of Congress, NARA, MoMA, Seaver Center at Natural History Museum in LA, EYE Filmmuseum, Women Film Pioneers Project, Film Preservation Society, and Sherman Grinberg Library, plus Charles Musser, Thomas Gunning, Buckey Grimm, Panpan Yang, Yuqian Yan, Anna Kovalova, and the late Paul Spehr, to whom this Compendium and the associated special issue are dedicated.

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Volume 7, Issue 1: Early Cinema History (Understanding Visual Culture Through Silent Film Collections)

About the Issue

Introduction to Special Issue on Early Cinema History (Understanding Visual Culture Through Silent Film Collections)

Early U.S. Cinema Compendium

Articles

New Windows on the World

Early Cinema and the Historiographic Impulse: Scholarly Positionality Then and Now

Seeing through the Haverstraw Tunnel

Learning to See on the Screen: Exploring Female Performance in Early Film through the Media Ecology Project

Annotating FloLo: How the Media Ecology Project Fostered Early Cinema Performance Analysis and Collaborative Research

Action and Acting at Biograph Studio, 1908-1912

Silent Era Motion Picture Camera Operators

Two Ways of Memory: The Signal Corps and CBS World War I Motion Picture Collections at the National Archives

The Biograph Project

Silent Films and Augmented Reality

Daydreams: Cinema of the Russian Empire and Beyond, a Database

Between Naïveté and Desire: Analyzing Collective Intimacy in Sun Yu’s Films with a Time-based Annotation Tool

Photographs in Films Starring Ruan Lingyu: Considering Geometric Regions of the Motion Picture Frame

Metadata and the Media Ecology Project

**Finding One American Beauty: Deyo and Deyo (1897)**

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