Charlie Keil is Principal of Innis Collegeand a professor in the History Departmentof the University of Toronto. His booksinclude Early American Cinema in Transitionand the co-edited collections, AmericanCinema's Transitional Era and AmericanCinema of the 1910s.Kristen Whissel is a professor of filmand media at the University of California,Berkeley. She is the author of SpectacularDigital Effects: CGI and ContemporaryCinema and of Picturing AmericanModernity: Traffic, Technology and the SilentCinema. She is guest editor of two specialissues of film Criticism journal, on digitaleffects and on 3D.
'A much-needed survey of two fundamental cinematic crafts & techniques and their creative challenges. Essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the instrumental impact of technological turns on film history.' - Andre Gaudreault, Universite de Montreal