... Adorno Theodor Baudelaire Charles Black Cat The Argento computer generated imagery CGI Abu Ghraib prison Saw Wan Wan James silent cinema torture porn comics horror cinema censorship animation In the latter half of the nineteenth century, the proliferation of things to see—photographs...

...This chapter covers film distribution, exhibition, and reception in Havana during the era of silent cinema and of Cuba’s first republic, which roughly overlapped. At the turn-of-the-century, moving pictures arrived in Havana just as Cubans achieved independence from Spain and founded their own...

...Silent cinema and contemporaneous literature explored themes of mesmerism, possession, and the ominous agency of corporate bodies that subsumed individual identities. At the same time, critics accused film itself of exerting a hypnotic influence over spellbound audiences. This book shows that all...