American Cinema 1890-1909

ANDRÉ GAUDREAULT is a professor in the Département d'histoire de l'art et d'études cinématographiques at the Université de Montréal. He is the author of From Plato to Lumière: Narration and Monstration in Literature and Cinema and Cinéma et attractions: Pour une nouvelle histoire du cinématographe.

• American cinema emerges (1890-1909) / Andre Gaudreault, Tom Gunning1890-1895: movies and the kinetoscope / Paul C. Spehr1896-1897: movies and the beginnings of cinema / Charles Musser1898-1899: movies and entrepreneurs / Patrick Loughney1900-1901: movies, new imperialism, and the new century / Jean-Pierre Sirois-Trahan1902-1903: movies, stories, and attractions / Tom Gunning1904-1905: movies and chasing the missing link(s) / Andre Gaudreault1906: movies and spectacle / Lauren Rabinovitz1907: movies and the expansion of the audience / Eileen Bowser1908: movies and other media / Matthew Solomon1909: movies and progress / Jennifer M. BeanSources for films

"This impressive volume—all of it immensely readable, fascinating, and coherent—leads one to appreciate the breadth and scope of global cinema. Gaudreault and his talented contributors provided a fresh, lively, informative, engaging chronological survey of the first decades of American film. Highly recommended."— CHOICE"There is nothing like this series. Screen Decades firmly situates American cinema in the realms of material culture, popular culture, cultural narrative, reception analysis, and industrial history."— American Quarterly