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Domitor Conference 2014

July 1, 2014

Last week I attended the 13th International Domitor conference, which took place in Chicago an Evanston, June 21-25. It was a very well organised meeting of Domitorians from many different countries discussing various aspects of early cinema and the broader media and entertainment landscape around 1900. Sabine Lenk (who unfortunately could not come) […]

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RECENT PUBLICATIONS

- “The Gentleman in the Stalls: Georges Méliès and Spectatorship in Early Cinema” in: Ian Christie (ed.), Audiences. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2012, pp. 35-44.

- “Die Imagination des Zuschauers – der imaginierte Zuschauer” in: Julian Hanich, Hans-Jürgen Wulff (ed.), Auslassen, andeuten, auffüllen. Der Film und die Imagination des Zuschauers. München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2012, pp. 181-189.

- “The Féerie Between Stage and Screen” in: André Gaudreault, Nicolas Dulac, Santiago Hidalgo (ed.), A Companion to Early Cinema. Malden, MA, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012, pp. 64-79.

- (with Sabine Lenk) “Les images en mouvement au théâtre de variétés: le cas de l’Apollo de Düsseldorf” in: Marta Braun et al. (ed.) Beyond the Screen: Institutions, Networks and Publics of Early Cinema. New Barnet: John Libbey, 2012, pp. 247-254.