"Papers taken from the ... second Visual Delights conference held at the University of Sheffield in 2002"--P. [4] of cover. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Vision and touch, photography and women's popular culture in the nineteenth century / Patrizia Di Bello -- Joseph Burton Wallett (1835-1916) : the life of a travelling photographic artist / Anne Hartley -- Cheap fiction, popular periodicals and early film dramas : some continuities and exchanges / Gerry Turvey -- Popular sensations : institutional modernity and The long strike / Joe Kember -- Trilby's community of sensation / Kaveh Askari -- Dead babies : representations of infant mortality before the First World War / Ine van Dooren and Amy Sargeant -- The neo-institutionalisation of cinema as a new medium / Andre ĚGaudreault and Philippe Marion -- The May Irwin kiss : performance and the beginnings of cinema / Charles Musser -- What the vicar saw or The kiss in the park / David Williams -- Viewing deadly targets for feminine identity : Alar, the human arrow / Peta Tait -- Early political film in Britain / Alan Burton -- Punch and the lantern slide industry / Helen Walasek -- Skylights onto infinity : The world in a stereoscope / William Merrin -- Optical recreations, transparencies, and the invention of the screen / John Plunkett -- Biologiska Museet : a habitat panorama in late nineteenth-century Stockholm / John Fullerton and Elaine King -- The Brighton school and the quest for natural colour / Luke McKernan -- The sensation of the century : Robert Paul and film exhibition in Brighton in 189697 / Frank Gray -- Film and postcards : cross media symbiosis in early Bamforth films / Richard Brown.
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