This book offers comprehensive accounts of the professional itineraries of three women in the silent film in the Netherlands, France and North America: 1– the long career of Dutch stage and film actress Adriënne Solser; 2– the stage and screen career of French actress and filmmaker…

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This book (“Cartoon in Filmland”) explores the early encounter between animation and live-action. The historical analysis of this tumultuous relationship demonstrates that these two modes of representation have not always been so different from each other. It leads to a better understanding of the…

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Showing and Telling is an academic study portraying how publicly funded film heritage institutes account for their mandate in their public activities. It does that by inspecting and evaluating public presentations and visitor information about these presentations. The research was done by juxtaposing two…

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The book investigates the dispersed emergence of the new visual regime associated with nineteenth-century pre-cinematic spectacles in the literary imagination of the previous centuries. Its comparative angle ranges from the Medieval and Baroque period to the visual and stylistic experimentations of the Romantic age,…

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In his new book, Steven Johnson argues that the pursuit of novelty and wonder has always been a powerful driver of world-shaping technological change. He highlights how the overwhelming majority of devices such as the ones portrayed in the ninth-century Book of Ingenious Devices…

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Transbordeur – Photographie, histoire, société / Nr. 1 “Musées de photographies documentaires” Edited by Estelle Sohier, Olivier Lugon & Anne Lacoste   Transbordeur is a new annual review about photography history, edited by Christian Joschke & Olivier Lugon. Instead of a strictly aesthetical approach to photography, Transborder aims to…

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Revue d’études proustiennes 2:4 “Proust au temps du cinématographe: un écrivain face aux médias” Edited by Thomas Carrier-Lafleur & Jean-Pierre Sirois-Trahan This volume features the famous article in which the Domitor member Jean-Pierre Sirois-Trahan identifies Marcel Proust in an early film. See here our post on…

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Since cinema has entered the digital era, its very nature has come under renewed scrutiny. Countering the ‘death of cinema’ debate, Film History as Media Archaeology presents a robust argument for the cinema’s current status as a new epistemological object, of interest to philosophers,…

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Recherches et innovations dans l’industrie du cinéma: les cahiers des ingénieurs Pathé (1906-1927) Edited by Jacques Malthête and Stéphanie Salmon With contributions by Benjamin Alimi, Camille Blot-Wellens, Saïd Chaouni, Iris Deniozou, Clair Dupré la Tour, François Ede, Rodolphe Gahéry, André Gaudreault, Anne Gourdet-Marès, Frank Kessler, Laurent…

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The Moving Image 16:1, “Early Cinema and the Archives” Edited by Tami Williams Very excited to announce this special issue of The Moving Image, 16.1, on Early Cinema and the Archives, courtesy of series editors Don Crafton and Susan Ohmer, and guest editor Tami Williams, with wonderful articles by numerous…

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We are pleased to announce the recent publication of several new books by Domitor’s Past President, Scott Curtis, Current President Tami Williams, and Executive Committee members, Oliver Gaycken and Colin Williamson! The books cover an exciting range of topics, including early nontheatrical film in Germany,…

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This year marks the publication of a major collection of primary source materials: The Promise of Cinema: German Film Theory, 1907-1933, edited by Anton Kaes, Nicholas Baer, and Michael Cowan (Oakland: University of California Press, 2016). At just over 700 pages, the book contains more than…

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The recent publication of Fantasia of Color in Early Cinema, edited by Giovanna Fossati, Tom Gunning, Joshua Yumibe, and Jonathon Rosen (Amsterdam University Press, 2015)  is a vivid example of the possibilities afforded by collaborations between historians and archives. The book consists mainly of…

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