Acknowledgements
Preface
1. Cinema 1895-1914
2. Approaches to Early Cinema
3. The Uses of Cinema
4. Exhibition and Reception
5. Film Form: Genre and Narrative
Notes
Sources and Resources
Glossary
Bibliography

Simon Popple is Principal Lecturer in Media History at the University of Teesside, and is joint editor of Living Pictures: The Journal of the Popular and Projected Image Before 1914.Joe Kember is Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Teesside and specializes in the study of late nineteenth-century popular entertainment and visual culture.