Introduction / Scott Curtis, Philippe Gauthier, Tom Gunning, and Joshua Yumibe

Part I: Form
1. La part picturale du tableau-style / Valentine Robert
2. The Unsettling of Vision: Tableaux Vivants, Early Cinema, and Optical Illusions / Daniel Wiegand
3. The Vision Scene: Revelation and Remediation / Frank Gray
4. Animating Antiquity / Laura Horak
5. Caricature et films comiques à la Belle Époque: quand le dessin de presse rencontre le cinema / Jérémy Houillère
6. De la presse illustrée à l'actualité filmée (1894-1910) : l'émergence d'une nouvelle culture visuelle de l'information ? / Rodolphe Gahéry
7. From Pathé to Paramount: Visual Design in Movie Advertising to 1915 / Richard Abel
8. Landscape Topoi: From the Mountains to the Sea / Jennifer Peterson
9. A View Aesthetic without a View? Space and Place in Early Norwegian Polar Expedition Films / Gunnar Iversen

Part II: Material
10. Between "Recognition" and "Abstraction": Early Vocational Training Films / Florian Hoof
11. Ruptured Perspectives: The "View," Early Special Effects, and Film History / Leslie DeLassus
12. Surface and Color: Stenciling in Applied Arts, Fashion Illustration, and Cinema / Jelena Rakin
13. The Color Image / Joshua Yumibe

Part III: Networks
14. Shared Affinities and "Kunstwollen": Stylistics of the Cinematic Image in the 1910s and Art Theory at the Turn of the Century in Germany / Jörg Schweinitz
15. Techniques in Circulation: Sovereignty, Imaging Technology, and Art Education in Qajar Iran / Kaveh Askari
16. Corporeality and Female Modernity: Intermediality and Early Film Celebrities / Marina Dahlquist
17. A Scientific Instrument? Animated Photography among Other New Imaging Techniques / Ian Christie
18. Advertising with Moving Pictures: International Harvester's The Romance of the Reaper (1910-13) / Gregory A. Waller
19. The City View(ed): Muybridge's Panoramas of San Francisco and their Afterlives in Early Cinema / Dimitrios Latsis
20. California Landscapes: John Divola and the Cine-Geography of Serial Photography / Charles Wolfe
21. What is a Fake Image? / Frank Kessler and Sabine Lenk
22. The Lantern Image between Stage and Screen / Artemis Willis

Part IV: Discourses
23. Pictorialism and the Picture: Art, Photography, and the "Doctrine of Taste" in the Discourse on Transitional Era Quality Films / Tom Paulus
24. Boredom and Visions in Vachel Lindsay's Film Theory / Ryan Pierson
25. Falling Desperately in Love with the Image on Screen: "The Flictoflicker Girl" (1913) and Cinematic Structures of Fascination / Denis Condon
26. An "Advertising Punch" in Every Frame: Image Making in Early Advertising Films / Martin L. Johnson

Appendix: Translations
27. English Translation of Chapter 1: Early Cinema's Realizations: The Pictorial in the Tableau Style / Valentine Robert
28. English Translation of Chapter 5: Caricature and Comic Films in the Belle Époque: When the Illustrated Press Met the Cinema / Jérémy Houillère
29. English Translation of Chapter 6: From the Illustrated Press to Filmed Actualities (1894-1910): The Emergence of a New "Visual Information Culture"? / Rodolphe Gahéry