Early Film Theories in Italy, 1896-1922

The Throb of the Cinematograph /Francesco Casetti --Section 1 --Cinema and Modern Life /Francesco Casetti --Cinematography /Edipi --The Philosophy of Cinematograph /Giovanni Papini --Summertime Spectacles: The Cinema /Gaio --Why I Love the Cinema /Maffio Maffii --The Movie Theatre Audience /Giovanni Fosse --The Art of Celluloid /Crainquebille --The Triumph of the Cinema /Ricciotto Canudo --The Death of the Word /Fausto Maria Martini --Section 2 --Film in Transition /Francesco Casetti --The Museum of the Fleeting Moment /Lucio d'Ambra --The Woman and the Cinema /Haydee --Darkness and Intelligence /Emanuele Toddi --A Spectatrix is Speaking to You /Matilde Serao --Motion Pictures in Provincial Towns /Emilio Scaglione --Cinematic Psychology /Edoardo Coli --The Cinematograph Doesn't Exist /Silvio d'Amico --The Cinema: School of the Will and of Energy /Giovanni Bertinetti --The Close-up /Alberto Orsi --The Soul of Titles /Ernesto Quadrone --Section 3 --Cinema at War /Luca Mazzei --The War, from Up Close /Nino Salvaneschi --That Poor Cinema /Renato Giovannetti --Families of Soldiers /Luigi Lucatelli --War for the Profit of Industry /Renato Giovannetti --The War and Cinematograph /g.pr. --Max Linder Dies in The War /Lucio d'Ambra --Cinema of War /Saverio Procida --Section 4 --Politics, Morality, Education /Silvio Alovisio --The Motion Pictures and Education /Domenico Orano --The Intuitive Method in Religious Education /Romano Costetti --The Cinema and Its Influence on the Education of the People /Giovanni Battista Avellone --The Cinematograph in the Schools /Francesco Orestano --Speech at the People's Theatre /Vittorio Emanuele Orlando --Cinema for the Cultivation of the Intellect /Angelina Buracci --Educational Cinema /Ettore Fabietti --Section 5 --Film, Body, Mind /Silvio Alovisio --Collective Psychology /Pasquale Rossi --About Some Psychological Observations Made During Film Screenings /Mario Ponzo --Concerning the Effects of Film Viewing on Neurotic Individuals /Giuseppe d'Abundo --The Ongoing Battle between Gesture and Word /Mariano Luigi Patrizi --The Cinematograph in the Field of Mental Illness and Criminality: Notes /Giuseppe Vidoni --Cinema and Juvenile Delinquency /Mario Ponzo --Section 6 --The Aesthetic Side /Luca Mazzei --Problems of Art: Expression and Movement in Sculpture /Corrado Ricci --Scenic Impressionism /Sebastiano Arturo Luciani --The Aesthetics of Cinema /Goffredo Bellonci --The Poetics of Cinema /Sebastiano Arturo Luciani --Manifesto for a Cinematic Revolution /Goffredo Bellonci --Theatre and the Cinema /Antonio Gramsci --The Futurist Cinematography /Remo Chiti --In the Beginning Was Sex /Antonio Gramsci --Rectangle-Film (25 x 19) /Emanuele Toddi --The Proscenium Arch of My Cinema /Anton Giulio Bragaglia --My Views on the Cinematograph /Lucio d'Ambra --Meditations in the Dark /Michele Biancale --Section 7 --Theory in a Narrative Form /Luca Mazzei --Colour Film /Roberto Tanfani --At the Cinema /Luigia Cortesi --A Phantom Pursued /Alberto Lumbroso --Miopetti's Duel /Aldo Borelli --Pamela-Films /Guido Gozzano --Feature Film /Pio Vanzi --Me, Riri, and Love in Slippers /Luciano Doria --A Cinematic Performance /Federigo Tozzi --Life, a Glass Theatre /Pier Maria Rosso di San Secondo --The Shears' Reflection /Guido Gozzano.