Corporeality in Early Cinema

<p><em>Corporeality in Early Cinema</em> inspires a heightened awareness of the ways in which early film culture and screen praxes overall are inherently embodied. Contributors argue that on- and offscreen (and in affiliated media and technological constellations) the body consists of flesh and nerves and is not just an abstract spectator or statistical audience entity.</p><p>Audience responses from arousal to disgust from identification to detachment offer us a means to understand what spectators have always taken away from their cinematic experience. Through theoretical approaches and case studies scholars offer a variety of models for stimulating historical research on corporeality and cinema by exploring the matrix of screened bodies machine-made scaffolding and their connections to the physical bodies in front of the screen.</p>