Since the 1960s, a significant effort has been underway to program computers to “see” the
human face—to develop automated systems for identifying faces and distinguishing them …

What have Lumière in common with Wachowski? More than one hundred years separate
these two pairs of brothers who astonished, quite similarly, the film spectator of their …

This encyclopedia presents a wealth of information on early cinema history, with coverage of
the techniques and equipment of film production, profiles of the pioneering directors and …

In 1862 the Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris became the epicenter of the study of hysteria, the
mysterious illness then thought to affect half of all women. There, prominent neurologist …

A lively and engaging study of on-screen and off-screen performances of masculinity,
focusing on well-known male actors in American film and popular culture in the 1990s and …

In Bigger Than Life Mary Ann Doane examines how the scalar operations of cinema,
especially those of the close-up, disturb and reconfigure the spectator's sense of place …

The human face was said to be rediscovered with the advent of motion pictures, in which it is
often viewed as expressive locus, as figure, and even as essence of the cinema. But how …

“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 …

Experimental psychology, clinical observations, and psychiatric theory in late nineteenth-
century France furnished the Parisian cabaret and early film comedy with a new repertoire of …

This article argues for the conceptualization of fAIce communication as the modus operandi
of facial recognition. From apps that claim to determine a person's trustworthiness, recruiting …