Publications 1984
Edited journal issues
Peer-reviewed articles and contributions to edited collections
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“De L’arrivée d’un train à The Lonedale Operator : une trajectoire à parcourir,” in Jean Mottet (ed.), David Wark Griffith, Paris: L’Harmattan/Publications de la Sorbonne, 1984, pp. 44-71 (article derived from a conference paper presented at Université Paris 1 in 1983 at the conference D. W. Griffith). In Italian “Da L’arrivée d’un train a The Lonedale Operator,” in Riccardo Redi (ed.), Da Edison a Griffith, Rome: Di Giacomo Editore, 1992, pp. 13-31.
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“La transgression des lois du copyright aux débuts du cinéma : conséquences pratiques et séquelles théoriques,” Filméchange 28 (1984), pp. 41-49 (article derived from a conference paper presented at York University in 1984 at the annual FSAC conference). In English “The Infringement of Copyright Laws and Its Effects (1900-1906),” Framework 29 (1985), pp. 2-14; reprinted in Thomas Elsaesser (ed.), Early Cinema: Space, Frame, Narrative, London: BFI Publishing, 1990, pp. 114-22.
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“Film, récit, narration : le cinéma des frères Lumière,” Iris 2, no. 1, first semester (1984), pp. 61-70. In English “Film, Narrative, Narration: The Cinema of the Lumière Brothers,” in Thomas Elsaesser (ed.), Early Cinema: Space, Frame, Narrative, London: BFI Publishing, 1990, pp. 68-75; reprinted in Mieke Bal (ed.), Narrative Theory: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies, Volume IV: Interdisciplinarity, Abingdon: Routledge, 2004, pp. 350-58.
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“Histoire et discours au cinéma,” Les Dossiers de la Cinémathèque 12 (1984), pp. 43-46. (“Histoire and Discours in the Cinema,” article derived from a conference paper presented in French in Montreal in 1983 at the AQEC conference and in English at the University of Toronto in 1984 at the conference Semiotics of the Cinema: The State of the Art).
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“Narration et monstration au cinéma,” Hors cadre 2 (April 1984), pp. 87-98. In English “Narration and Monstration in the Cinema,” Journal of Film and Video 39, no. 2 (Spring 1987), pp. 29-36.
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“« Théâtralité » et « narrativité » dans l’œuvre de Georges Méliès,” in Madeleine Malthête-Méliès (ed.), Méliès et la naissance du spectacle cinématographique, Paris: Klincksieck, 1984, pp. 199-219 (article derived from a conference paper presented in 1981 at the Cerisy conference Méliès et la naissance du spectacle cinématographique). In Spanish “Teatralidad y narratividad en la obra de Georges Méliès,” in Georges Méliès Mexico: Filmoteca de la UNAM, 1982, pp. 81-100. In Italian “Teatralità e narratività nell’opera di Georges Méliès,” in Riccardo Redi (ed.), Méliès, Rome: Di Giacomo Editore, 1987, pp. 23-39. In English “Theatricality” and “Narrativity” in the Work of Georges Méliès, Working Paper Series, Graduate Communication Program, McGill University, September 1982, 14 pp. Translation by Paul Attallah reprinted in an abridged version (adapted and revised by Tom Gunning and Vivian Sobchak), entitled “Theatricality, Narrativity, and Trickality: Reevaluating the Cinema of Georges Méliès,” Journal of Popular Film and Television 15, no. 3 (Fall 1987), pp. 110-19, reprinted in Matthew Solomon (ed.), Fantastic Voyages of the Cinematic Imagination: Georges Méliès’s Trip to the Moon, Albany: State University of New York Press, 2011, pp. 31-47, and in Richard Abel (ed.), Early Cinema, Volume III: Filmic Developments, Abingdon: Routledge, 2014, pp. 242-55. In German “Theatralität, Narrativität und ‘Trickästhetik’: Eine Neuberwertung der Filme von Georges Méliès,” KINtop 2 (1993), pp. 31-44. In Polish “Teatralnosc, narracyjnosc i ‘trickowosc’: Oceniajac kino Georges’a Mélièsa,” in Malgorzata Hendrykowska (ed.), Cienu Braci Lumière, Poznan: Ars Nova, 1995, pp. 24-36.
Introductions, prefaces and forewords