Dear Screen-L: The University of California Press is pleased to announce the publication of: Body Shots: Early Cinema's Incarnations Jonathan Auerbach is Professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park and is the author of _Male Call: Becoming Jack London_ (1996) and _The Romance of Failure: First-Person Fictions of Poe, Hawthorne, and James_ (1989). http://go.ucpress.edu/Auerbach "_Body Shots_ is a provocative and compelling account of the centrality of corporeal movement and stillness to early cinema. Auerbach puts theory and history into productive conversation, significantly extending our knowledge of the contexts and strategies of cinema in its early years. It is an original and important book."-Lee Grieveson, author of _Policing Cinema: Movies and Censorship in Early Twentieth-Century-America_ This original and compelling book places the body at the center of cinema's first decade of emergence and challenges the idea that for early audiences, the new medium's fascination rested on visual spectacle for its own sake. Instead, as Jonathan Auerbach argues, it was the human form in motion that most profoundly shaped early cinema. Situating his discussion in a political and historical context, Auerbach begins his analysis with films that reveal striking anxieties and preoccupations about persons on public display-both exceptional figures, such as 1896 presidential candidate William McKinley, and ordinary people caught by the movie camera in their daily routines. The result is a sharp, unique, and groundbreaking way to consider the turn-of-the-twentieth-century American incarnation of cinema itself. Full information about the book, including the table of contents, is available online: http://go.ucpress.edu/Auerbach -- Lolita Guevarra Electronic Marketing Coordinator University of California Press Tel. 510.643.4738 | Fax 510.643.7127 [log in to unmask] ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html