Jean Epstein

Sarah Keller is assistant professor of English and cinema studies at Colby College, Maine. Jason N. Paul is a PhD student in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago.

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Sarah Keller is assistant professor of English and cinema studies at Colby College, Maine. Jason N. Paul is a PhD student in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago.

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Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Preface
Tom Gunning
Introduction
Sarah Keller

Essays
Epstein's Photogénie as Corporeal Vision: Inner Sensation, Queer Embodiment, and Ethics
Christophe Wall-Romana
Novelty and Poiesis in the Early Writings of Jean Epstein
Stuart Liebman
The Cinema of the Kaleidoscope
Katie Kirtland
Distance Is [Im]material: Epstein Versus Etna
Jennifer Wild
"The Supremacy of the Mathematical Poem": Jean Epstein's Conceptions of Rhythm
Laurent Guido
The "Microscope of Time": Slow Motion in Jean Epstein's Writings
Ludovic Cortade
A Different Nature
Rachel Moore
Cinema Seen from the Seas: Epstein and the Oceanic
James Schneider
A Temporal Perspective: Jean Epstein's Writings on Technology and Subjectivity
Trond Lundemo
Ultra-Modern: Jean Epstein, or Cinema "Serving the Forces of Transgression and Revolt"
Nicole Brenez
Thoughts on Photogénie**Plastique
Érik Bullot
Translations
Introduction: Epstein's Writings
La Poésie d'aujourd'hui, un nouvel état d'intelligence (1921)
Introdution
Sarah Keller
Cinema and Modern Literature
Bonjour Cinéma (1921)
Introduction
Sarah Keller
Continuous Screenings
La Lyrosophie (1922)
Introduction
Katie Kirtland
Excerpts from La Lyrosophie
Le Cinématographe vu de l'Etna (1926)
Introduction
Stuart Liebman
The Cinema Seen from Etna
On Certain Characteristics of Photogénie
Langue d'Or
The Photogenic Element
For a New Avant-Garde
Amour de Charlot
Amour de Sessue
L'Intelligence d'une machine (1946)
Introduction
Trond Lundemo
Excerpts from L'Intelligence d'une machine
Le Cinéma du diable (1947)
Introduction
Ludovic Cortade
Indictment
To a Second Reality, a Second Reason
Later Works
Introduction to Espirit de cinéma and Alcool et Cinéma
Christophe Wall-Romana
*Espirit de cinéma

• The Logic of Images
  Rapidity and Fatigue of the Homo spectatoris
  Ciné-analysis, or Poetry in an Industrial Quantity
  Dramaturgy in Space
  Dramaturgy in Time
  Visual Fabric
  Pure Cinema and Sound Film
  Seeing and Hearing Thought
  The Counterpoint of Sound
  The Close-up of Sound
  The Delirium of a Machine
  Late Articles
  The Slow Motion of Sound
  The Fluid World of the Screen
  Alcool et cinéma
  Logic and Fluidity
  Logic of Variable Time
  Afterword: Reclaiming Jean Epstein
  Richard Abel

  Filmography
  Select Bibliography
  Notes on Contributors
  Index of Names
  Index of Films and Major Writings by Jean Epstein
  Index of Films