Before the Nickelodeon |
Foreword |
Acknowledgments |
1 Introduction |
2 Porter's Early Years. 1870-1896 |
3 Edison and the Kinetoscope: 1888-1895 |
4 Cinema, a Screen Novelty: 1895-1897 |
5 Producer and Exhibitor as Co-Creators: 1897-1900 |
6 The Production Company Assumes Greater Control: 1900-1902 |
7 A Close Look at Life of an American Fireman: 1902-1903 |
8 Story Films Become the Dominant Product: 1903-1904 |
9 Articulating an Old-Middle-Class Ideology: 1904-1905 |
10 Elaborating on the Established Mode of Representation: 1905-1907 |
• | A Transformation in the Realm of Exhibition |
• | Edison Benefits from the Nickelodeon Craze |
• | Production Practices at Edison |
• | The Issue of Narrative Clarity—Audience Familiarity |
• | Self-Sufficient Narratives and Intratextual Redundancy |
• | Complex Narratives |
• | Robert K. Bonine and the Production of Actualities: 1906-1907 |
11 As Cinema Becomes Mass Entertainment, Porter Resists: 1907-1908 |
12 Edison Lets Porter Go: 1908-1909 |
13 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 |
Notes |
List of Abbreviations and Primary Sources |
Credits for Illustrations |
Subject and Name Index |
Film Title Index |