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Papers

(The median citation count of Early Popular Visual Culture is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Roll of honour films: a reappraisal	2
The dainty: the aesthetics of female film stardom in the transitional period	2
The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures: a true tale of obsession, murder, and the movies	2
Early photographic federations and the pursuit of collaborative education	2
Women at the wheel: female management and workforce at the nineteenth-century funfair	1
Our Lady Cinema	1
Putting imperial time on show: visual culture in the mid-nineteenth-century anniversaries of Singapore and Batavia	1
In Northcliffe Jail: Iris Barry, film journalist	1
Editorial	1
Between defiance and control: wild animal performance in the interwar circus	0
Techniques of Illusion: a cultural and media history of stage magic in the late nineteenth century	0
Provenance and early cinema	0
Representing the past in the art of the long nineteenth century: historicism, postmodernism, and internationalism	0
Mabel, Marilyn, and Me: writing about Mabel Normand as a feminist film historian	0
Early cinema, modernity and visual culture: the imaginary of the Balkans	0
MoMA goes to Paris in 1938: building and politicizing American Art	0
From Bombay to Singapore: Parsi theatre companies and early film exhibitions	0
Painting words: aesthetics and the relationship between image and text	0
Ireland Bros.’ Pan-American Electric Carnival: Canadians’ border-crossing circuits of early cinema	0
The auspicious and the mechanized: exploring transitions in temporalities through the wall paintings of Shekhawati (1750–1940)	0
Movie Mavens: US newspaperwomen take on the movies, 1914-1923	0
The grammar of typography: The Printers’ International Specimen Exchange and Victorian letterpress design reform	0
The Gender of Early Cinema	0
Keystone’s mystical sphere: covert transgressions within a disciplinary regime	0
Silent film performance: dramatic bodies on screen	0

The British Silent Film Festival and Symposium: Part Two	0
Twelve Caesars: images of power from the ancient world to the modern	0
Doing Experimental Media Archaeology: Theory Doing Experimental Media Archaeology: Theory , by Andreas Fickers and Annie van den Oever, De Gruyter Oldenbourg: Berlin, Bo	0
Mary Pickford’s mugshot: early Hollywood celebrities and San Quentin Prison	0
An amusing optical toy for the hands?: reassessing nineteenth-century British paper peepshows through embodied knowledge	0
‘A window of the world’: itinerant silent cinemas in rural Australia	0
Ink-Stained Hollywood: the Triumph of the American cinema’s trade press	0
‘The Admiralty has been keeping its pictures’: photography and the British Arctic Expedition, 1875–1876	0
“Please the women or die”: silent cinema and the construction of female desire	0
Seeing time	0
The transhumanist and animated bodies of Georges Méliès	0
Aeroscopics: media of the Bird’s-Eye View	0
Was Sultan Abdülhamid II suspicious of the cinema? A study of cinema in the Hamidian era (1876–1908)	0
‘A game of hare and hounds with one small terrier puffing well in the rear’: working at the birth of British silent cinema music	0
The silent muse: the memoirs of Asta Nielsen The silent muse: the memoirs of Asta Nielsen , edited and translated by Julie K. Allen, foreword by Jennifer Bean, Rochester	0
Pictures of poverty: the works of George R. Sims and their screen adaptations	0
Serialized space: Chinatown iconography in Universal’s The Master Key	0
Sound arrives at the Tudor, 1927–1931: programming, attendance and the business of cinema exhibition	0
Moving at the speed of sight: before-and-after imagery in nineteenth-century American print culture and the acceleration of visual time	0
The visual culture of Meiji Japan: negotiating the transition to modernity The visual culture of Meiji Japan: negotiating the transition to modernity , edited by Ayelet	0
The Lads of the Village : from stage to screen to court	0
Gender and the Nasty Women of history	0
Maurice Elvey and Hindle Wakes : ‘the greatest English play ever written’	0
An archeological survey - the Norden collection at the cinema museum	0
Mozgó fényképek. The scandal and debate around moving images in early Hungarian cinema	0
Class, stardom and film: how early film stars were portrayed in The Red Letter	0
Muybridge and mobility with an introduction Muybridge and mobility with an introduction by Anthony W. Lee, Berkeley, California, USA, Tim Cresswell, and John Ott, Univer	0
Ghosts in the glass: the rise and fall of Victorian autostereoscopic photography	0
Aesthetic and moral objections to hand-painted films in the Scottish Highlands	0
Imagining British film beauty: gender and national identity in 1920s ‘star search’ contests	0
The Origins of Transmedia Storytelling in Early Twentieth Century Adaptation	0
William Friese-Greene & the art of collaboration	0
White screens, Black fandom: silent film and African American spectatorship in Harlem	0
Magic lanterns and raree shows: metaphors of financial speculation during the bubbles of 1720	0
Guest editorial	0
Karlyn [J.F. Burrows], The Stage Artist: Lightning sketches, cartoons, smoke, rag and sand pictures and how to do them (c.1912)	0
Shedding fresh light on lanterns	0
The moving image as an instrument of oppression and resistance in Jim Crow Era Jacksonville, Florida, 1907–1917	0
Endless intervals: cinema, psychology, and semiotechnics around 1900	0
Lost literacies: experiments in the nineteenth-century US comic strip	0
Fulfilling his debt to civilization: American filmmaker Harold Marvin Shaw, British wartime propaganda, and the anti-Bolshevik The Land of Mystery , 1914–1920	0
The spectacle of vision: eye and eyesight in the nineteenth-century scientific press	0
Franco-Indian exchanges from 1905 to the early 1920s: Pathé, Legrand and Madan	0
The early years of television and the BBC	0
Hale’s Tours in Singapore and Hong Kong	0
Deploying ‘all[-]important moments’: seeing time in Duke University’s collections of early North American advertisements	0
Physical characteristics of early films as aids to identification	0
‘Twelve thrills for the screen’ or a ‘ludicrous travesty’? Harry A. Berg’s Cosmopolitan Productions Limited and Haunted Houses and Castles of Great Britain (1926)	0
The Victorian idyll in art and literature: subject, ecology, form	0
Introduction to scholarship on early cinema in the British colonies	0

Proto-cinephilia: retheorizing working class women’s moviegoing pre-1920	0
Cinema on the Front Line: British Soldiers and Cinema in the First World War	0
Fiction & imagination in early cinema: a philosophical approach to film history	0
‘There is no gallery’: race and the politics of space at the Capitol Theatre, New York	0
‘In the world of movies and talkies’: Hollywood in the Yiddish Forverts , 1920-1935	0
Film exhibition for indigenous people in Soviet Siberia: ‘cinema-coming’ and political enlightenment in the red yurt	0
Transnational Trailblazers of Early Cinema: Sarah Bernhardt, Gabrielle Réjane, Mistinguett Transnational Trailblazers of Early Cinema: Sarah Bernhardt, Gabrielle Réjane, Mistinguett	0
Designing Russian cinema: the production artist and the material environment in silent era film	0
Colonial film markets in the early 20 ^th century Mediterranean	0
Between the scene and the silver screen: early Romanian cinema and the rediscovery of the ‘lost’ woman film pioneer Marioara Voiculescu	0
The art of picturing in early modern English literature The art of picturing in early modern English literature , edited by Camila Caporicci and Armelle Sabatiere, Abing	0
Discomfort food: the culinary imagination in late nineteenth-century French art	0
Silent film era and marginalised spectatorship	0
Adrian Brunel and British cinema of the 1920s: the artist versus the moneybags Adrian Brunel and British cinema of the 1920s: the artist versus the moneybags , by Joseph	0
The spectacle of the moon conquest: how visual culture shaped Méliès’ Le voyage dans la Lune and its anti-imperialist satire	0
Immersion Techniques. The Lisbon Earthquake from a paper theatre (Augsburg, 1756) to the Quake Museum (Lisbon, 2022) passing through the Cyclorama (London, 1848)	0
Sound, image, silence: art and the aural imagination in the Atlantic world	0
Antonia Dickson: The kineto-phonograph and the telephony of the future	0
Méliès – léger d’écran	0
Motionless pictures: the waiting public in popular American visual culture, 1870-1930	0
Practical Books on Ventriloquism, 1875 – 1905	0
Early cinema as photographic history: audience and theatrical space in colonial Bombay 1910–1915	0
Speculative landscapes: American art and real estate in the nineteenth century Speculative landscapes: American art and real estate in the nineteenth century , by Ross B	0
Contemplating imperialism: early film reenactments of the South African War	0
The tarnished myth of British precedence: William Friese-Greene, Robert Paul and evidence vs. boosterism	0
Queer Timing: The Emergence of Lesbian Sexuality in Early Cinema	0
Early British animation and cartoonal ‘co-conspiracy’: the case of Jerry the Troublesome Tyke (1925–1927)	0
The British Silent Film Festival and Symposium: an Overview	0
TheMaréoramain the 1900 Universal Exhibition: a simulated Mediterranean voyage from the banks of the Seine	0
Shifting scenes of colouration and illumination: the narrative and temporal fluidities of tissue paper stereoviews	0
“Whispers Heard at the Pictures”: women’s work in early cinema	0
ReFocus: the films of Paul Leni	0
Cartographic Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth-Century Americas	0
Cinema’s original sin: D. W. Griffith, American racism, and the rise of film culture Cinema’s original sin: D. W. Griffith, American racism, and the rise of film culture	0
Robb Wilton’s datebook, 1943–1956	0
Drawing time: Winsor McCay’s lightning sketches on stage and screen	0
Transfixed by prehistory: an inquiry into modern art and time	0
Sapho Kiss: Queer Reproduction in Early Cinema	0
Generic overlap as a mode of (social) production in Portuguese silent non-fiction film: the case of A Covilhã Industrial, Pitoresca e seus Arredores (1921)	0
Periodising early Hong Kong cinema (1914–41): Tianyi Hong Kong Studio, Cantonese resistance, and colonial paradox	0
A companion to D. W. Griffith	0
The picture postcard: a new window into Edwardian Ireland	0
Working on marginalised cinema audiences with the Jewish historical press website: illustrated on the quest for Jewish patrons of the palace venue in 1920s Warsaw	0
Cut/copy/paste: fragments from the history of bookwork Cut/copy/paste: fragments from the history of bookwork , by Whitney Trettien, Minneapolis, MN, University of Minne	0
The kinematograph theatre arrives: part III of the London county council and the cinematograph	0
A ‘great outrage on human decency’: a trial on lewdness and indecency at a Manchester music hall in 1890	0
Boarding house blues	0
Cinema in the British Indian Ocean: from silent to sound	0
Tiger in a photographic gaze: an analysis of early animal photography in India	0
Physical culture, posing, and the medium of fitness magazines	0