One-volume reference work on the first twenty-five years of the cinema's international emergence from the early 1890s to the mid-1910s.

An authoritative and much-needed overview of the main issues in the field of early cinema from over 30 leading international scholars in the field First collect

Essays on “how motion pictures in the first two decades of the 20th century constructed ‘communities of nationality’ . . . recommended.” —Choice While

Remnants of early films often have a story to tell. As material artifacts, these film fragments are central to cinema history, perhaps more than ever in our dig

The period 1907–1913 marks a crucial transitional moment in American cinema. As moving picture shows changed from mere novelty to an increasingly popular ente