Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. A Trip to the Movies: Georges Méliès, Filmmaker and Magician (1861–1938)
2. Theatricality, Narrativity, and Trickality: Reevaluating the Cinema of Georges Méliès
3. A Trip to the Moon: A Composite Film
4. First-Footing on the Moon: Méliès’s Debt to Verne and Wells and His Influence in Great Britain
5. “Distance Does Not Exist”: Méliès, le Cinéma, and the Moon
6. Shooting into Outer Space: Reframing Modern Vision
7. A Trip to the Moon as Féerie
8. A Trip to the Moon as an American Phenomenon
9. A Trip to the Fair; or, Moon-Walking in Space
10. The Stars Might Be Smiling: A Feminist Forage into a Famous Film
11. Impossible Voyages and Extraordinary Adventures in Early Science Fiction Cinema: From Robida to Méliès and Marcel Fabre
12. No One-Way Ticket to the Moon
Appendix
A Fantastical . . . Trip to the Moon
Georges Méliès, “Answer to Questionary [sic]”
Georges Méliès, “The Marvelous in the Cinema”
Georges Méliès, “The Importance of the Script"
List of Contributors
Index