Introduction In his book Life to Those Shadows, Noel Burch argues that early cinema (prior to 1908)cannot be interpreted within an evolutionary approach to history in which the first decade of cinema comes to occupy a primitive, less developed stage in relation to later narrative cinema (Burch 164-9). [1]   As a number of film … Continue reading New Thresholds of Perception: Representations of Altered States in Early Cinema – Marie-Louise Hillcoat