Mapping The Moving Image: Gesture, Thought And Cinema Circa 1900

Mapping the Moving Image Mapping the Moving Image Gesture, Thought and Cinema circa 1900 Pasi Väliaho This publication is made possible by a grant from AVEK – The Promotion Centre for Audiovisual Culture. Front cover illustration: Still from Le mystère des roches de Kador, by Léonce Perret. Production Gaumont, ; Collection Musée Gaumont Back cover illustration: Still from L’Homme à la tête en caoutchouc, by Georges Méliès (The Man With the Rubber Head, ) Cover design: Kok Korpershoek, Amsterdam Lay-out: japes, Amsterdam isbn isbn e-isbn nur      (paperback)      (hardcover)       © Pasi Väliaho / Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam  All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this book may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise) without the written permission of both the copyright owner and the author of the book. Contents Acknowledgments  Introduction Rhythm Gesture and Thought Art, Science, Philosophy     1 Modulation: On Cinematic Gestures Nervous Gestures Detached Heads Non-Human Observers Penetrating the Nervous Apparatus      2 Experimental Life: The Biopolitical Context Test Subject Bare Life Hysteria Neuromimesis and Mutism      3 Umwelt: Automatism and Affectivity Organ Projection Automatism Vitality Affects The Open      4 Paradox-Image: Mapping the Unconscious White Screen Ruptures in Vision Writing Pad m&n      5 Differential Image: Abyss of Time The Bridge Schein Imposition and Gramma Lightning Image      6 Virtual Image: Cinema and Intuition Cinematographical Mechanism Indivisible Interval Memory and Mirror     6 Mapping the Moving Image Continuum Intuition   Conclusion  Notes  Bibliography  Index of Names  Index of Film Titles  Index of Subjects  Acknowledgments This book would not have come into existence without the aid, inspiration and encouragement of Jukka Sihvonen, Trond Lundemo and Tom Conley. I would also like to express my indebtedness and gratitude to Thomas Elsaesser, whose comments and advice have been invaluable. During the long process of writing and rewriting, I have benefited from the company of a multitude of friends and colleagues, such as Jussi Parikka, Ilona Hongisto, Teemu Taira, Milla Tiainen, Katve-Kaisa Kontturi, Tarmo Malmberg, Olli Pyyhtinen, Olli-Jukka Jokisaari, Seija Ridell, and Janne Salo, and I am most grateful for their help and encouragement. Furthermore, I would like to thank Chris Berry, Kay Dickinson, Janet Harbord and Rachel Moore for their supportive gestures when the manuscript was in its final stages. Finally, my deepest thanks go to Matleena Kalajoki for her affection and patience. Some of the material in chapters  and  was or