“Melodrama, Sensation, and the Discourse of Modernity in ‘Love and the Bioscope’,” in Andrew Shail, ed. Reading the Cinematograph: The Cinema in British Short Fiction, 1896-1912. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2011.
Reading The Cinematograph Review
“This extraordinarily useful volume collects stories that refer to cinema from the popular magazines of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. … There is a trove of material in both the stories and the commentary upon them for scholars and students of early film; one learns an enormous amount from this volume. But only in some of them – those of Tom Gunning and Lise Shapiro Sanders, in particular – does the volume break beyond its documentary interests to suggest something about cinema’s relation to narrative, genre and modernity at large.”
~ Jonathan Freedman, Early Popular Visual Culture 11.2 (2013): 182.