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Introduction: Triangulating a turn: film 1900 as technology, perception and culture / Annemone Ligensa -- Archaeologies of interactivity: early cinema, narrative and spectatorship / Thomas Elsaesser -- Viewing change, changing views: the 'history of vision'-debate / Frank Kessler -- The ambimodernity of early cinema: problems and paradoxes in the film-and-modernity discourse / Ben Singer -- Mind the gap: the discovery of physiological time / Henning Schmidgen -- 'Is everything relative?' : cinema and the revolution of knowledge around 1900 / Harro Segeberg -- The aesthetic idealist as efficiency engineer: Hugo Münsterberg's theories of perception, psychotechnics and cinema / Jörg Schweinitz -- Between observation and spectatorship: medicine, movies and mass culture in imperial Germany / Scott Curtis -- The scene of the crime: psychiatric discourses on the film audience in early twentieth century German / Andreas Killen -- Seen through the eyes of Simmel: the cinema programme as a 'modern' experience / Andrea Haller -- 'Under the sign of the cinematograph': urban mobility and cinema location in Wilhelmine Berlin / Pelle Snickars -- Perceptual environments for films: the development of cinema in Germany, 1895-1914 / Joseph Garncarz -- 'Fumbling towards some new form of art?': the changing composition of film programmes in Britain, 1908-1914 / Ian Christie and John Sedgwick -- The attraction of motion: modern representation and the image of movement / Tom Gunning -- 'Dashing down upon the audience': notes on the genesis of filmic perception / Klaus Kreimeier -- German Tonbilder of the 1900s: advanced technology and national brand / Martin Loiperdinger -- Sculpting with light: early film style, stereoscopic vision and the idea of a 'plastic art in motion' / Michael Wedel -- 'A cinematograph of feminine thought': The dangerous age, cinema and modern women / Annemone Ligensa -- Cinema as a mode(l) of perception: Dorothy Richardson's novels and essays / Nicola Glaubitz.