The Movie Theatre Audience

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. The Throb of the Cinematograph 11
4. Section 1
5. Cinema and Modern Life 35
6. Cinematography 42
7. The Philosophy of Cinematograph 47
8. Summertime Spectacles: The Cinema 51
9. Why I Love the Cinema 55
10. The Movie Theatre Audience 57
11. The Art of Celluloid 60
12. The Triumph of the Cinema 66
13. The Death of the Word 75
14. Section 2
15. Film in Transition 83
16. The Museum of the Fleeting Moment 91
17. The Woman and the Cinema 95
18. Darkness and Intelligence 98
19. A Spectatrix is Speaking to You 102
20. Motion Pictures in Provincial Towns 105
21. Cinematic Psychology 111
22. The Cinematograph Doesn’t Exist 117
23. The Cinema: School of the Will and of Energy 123
24. The Close-up 135
25. The Soul of Titles 140
26. Section 3
27. Cinema at War 147
28. The War, from Up Close 156
29. That Poor Cinema... 160
30. Families of Soldiers 164
31. War for the Profit of Industry 168
32. The War and Cinematograph 171
33. Max Linder Dies in The War 173
34. Cinema of War 176
35. Section 4
36. Politics, Morality, Education 183
37. The Motion Pictures and Education 197
38. The Intuitive Method in Religious Education 205
39. The Cinema and Its Influence on the Education of the People 213
40. The Cinematograph in the Schools 217
41. Speech at the People’s Theatre 224
42. Cinema for the Cultivation of the Intellect 237
43. Educational Cinema 244
44. Section 5
45. Film, Body, Mind 255
46. Collective Psychology 268
47. About Some Psychological Observations Made During Film Screenings 273
48. Concerning the Effects of Film Viewing on Neurotic Individuals 278
49. The Ongoing Battle between Gesture and Word 286
50. The Cinematograph in the Field of Mental Illness and Criminality: Notes 290
51. Cinema and Juvenile Delinquency 297
52. Section 6
53. The Aesthetic Side 307
54. Problems of Art: Expression and Movement in Sculpture 318
55. Scenic Impressionism 321
56. The Aesthetics of Cinema 325
57. The Poetics of Cinema 329
58. Manifesto for a Cinematic Revolution 333
59. Theatre and the Cinema 339
60. The Futurist Cinematography 341
61. In the Beginning Was Sex… 346
62. Rectangle-Film (25 x 19) 348
63. The Proscenium Arch of My Cinema 353
64. My Views on the Cinematograph 359
65. Meditations in the Dark 368
66. Section 7
67. Theory in a Narrative Form 373
68. Colour Film 381
69. At the Cinema 386
70. A Phantom Pursued 390
71. Miopetti’s Duel 398
72. Pamela-Films 405
73. Feature Film 411
74. Me, Rirì, and Love in Slippers 421
75. A Cinematic Performance 427
76. Life, a Glass Theatre 434
77. The Shears’ Reflection 444
78. Sources 450
79. Author Biographies 455
80. General Bibliography 490
81. Acknowledgements 505
82. About the Editors 507
83. Index of Names 508
84. Index of Concepts 513
85. Index of Films 517