PART I Interrogating the National1 Tom Gunning / Early cinema as global cinema: The encyclopedic ambition; 2 Jonathan Auerbach / Nationalizing attractions; 3 Frank Kessler / Images of the National in early non-fiction films; 4 Giorgio Bertellini / National and racial landscapes and the photographic form; 5 Charles O'Brien / Sound-on-disc:Cinema and Electrification in Britain, France, Germany, and the United States; 6 Torey Liepa / Mind-reading/mind-speaking: Dialogue inThe Birth of a Nation(1915) and the emergence of speech in American silent cinema; 7 Marta Braun and Charlie Keil /Living Canada: Selling the Nation throughImages; 8 Sheila Skaff / Early cinema and the Polish questionPART II Colonialism/Imperialism9 Frank Gray /Our Navyand patriotic entertainment in Brighton at the start of the Boer War; 10 Ian Christie / An England of our Dreams?: Early Patriotic Entertainments with Film in Britain during the Anglo-Boer War; 11 Nico de Klerk / The transport of audiences: making cinema National; 12 Panivong Norindr / Enlisting early cinema in the service of la plus grande France; 13 Marina Dahlquist / Teaching citizenship via celluloid; 14 David Mayer /Fights of Nationsand national fights; 15 Gregory A. Waller / Japan onAmerican screens, 1908-1915PART III Locating/Relocating the National in Film Exhibition16 Paul S. Moore / Nationalist film-going without Canadian-made films?; 17 John Welle / The cinema arrives inItaly: city, region and nation in early film discourse; 18 Canan Balan / Wondrous pictures in Istanbul: from cosmopolitanism to nationalism; 19 Joseph Garncarz / The emergence of nationally specific film cultures in Europe, 1911-1914; 20 Gunnar Iversen / The Norwegian municipal cinema system and the development of a national cinema; 21 Daniel Sánchez-Salas / Spanish lecturers and their relations with the national; 22 Germaine Lacasse / Joseph Dumais and the language of French-Canadian silent cinema; 23 Rudmer Canjels / Localizing serials: Translating daily life inLes Mystères de New-York(1915)PART IV Genre and the National24 Amanda Keeler ? Seeing the world while staying at home: slapstick, modernity and American-ness; 25 Rob King / A Purely American Product: tramp comedy and white working-class formation in the 1910s; 26 Matthew Solomon for Peter Wollen / The Chinese conjurer: orientalist magic in variety theater and the trick film; 27 Oliver Gaycken / A note on the national character of early popular science films; 28 Dominique Nasta and Muriel Andrin / European melodramas and World War I: narrated time and historical time as reflections of national identity; 29 W.D. Phillips / Cow-punchers, bull-whackers and tin horn gamblers: generic formulae, sensational literature, and early American cinema; 30 Wolfgang Fuhrmann / Early ethnographic film and the museumPART V Gender and the National31 Mark Hain / Black hair, black eyes, black heart: Theda Bara and race suicide panic; 32 Andrea Haller / Who is the right star to adore? Nationality, masculinity and the female cinema audience in Germany during World War IPART VI Memory, Imagination, and the National33 Joseph Yumibe / From Switzerland to Italy and all around the world: the Joseph Joye and Davide Turconi collections; 34 Jennifer M. Bean / The imagination of early Hollywood: movie-land and the magic cities, 1914-1916.