Before the Nickelodeon

  Foreword
  Acknowledgments

 expand section1  Introduction
 expand section2  Porter's Early Years. 1870-1896
 expand section3  Edison and the Kinetoscope: 1888-1895
 expand section4  Cinema, a Screen Novelty: 1895-1897
 expand section5  Producer and Exhibitor as Co-Creators: 1897-1900
 expand section6  The Production Company Assumes Greater Control: 1900-1902
 expand section7  A Close Look at Life of an American Fireman: 1902-1903
 expand section8  Story Films Become the Dominant Product: 1903-1904
 expand section9  Articulating an Old-Middle-Class Ideology: 1904-1905
 expand section10  Elaborating on the Established Mode of Representation: 1905-1907
 collapse section11  As Cinema Becomes Mass Entertainment, Porter Resists: 1907-1908
 The End of the Nickelodeon Frontier
 The Formation of the Association of Edison Licensees and the Film Service Association
 The Biograph Association of Licensees
 The Edison Manufacturing Company Opens Its Bronx Studio
 Narrative Clarity: 1907-1909
 The Lecture
 "Talking Pictures"
 Intertitles
 A Rigorous Linear Temporality
 Edison Features: 1907-1908
 The Kinetograph Department Forms Two Production Units
 Cinema and Society
 expand section12  Edison Lets Porter Go: 1908-1909
 expand section13  Postscript

  Appendix A  Edison Manufacturing Company Statements of Profit and Loss: 1893-1911
  Appendix B  Kleine Optical Company Accounts
  Appendix C  Credits and Key To Quotations in the Documentary Film Before the Nickelodeon: the Early Cinema of Edwin S. Porter
 expand sectionNotes
  List of Abbreviations and Primary Sources
  Credits for Illustrations
 expand sectionSubject and Name Index
 expand sectionFilm Title Index

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