Introduction; One: Political Light - I. Primal Light, II.Invasion of Light; Two: Mediating Light - I. Light in the Lost Dimension, II.Proto-cinematic Worlds; Three: Performance Light - I. Spectacular Light, II.The Electric Drama psychedelic light, III. War of Light, IV. Democracy of Light;Four: Absent Light - I. Desert, II. Universal Darkness / Artificial Darkness,III. Solar Eclipse, IV. Journey to the Centre of the Earth, V. But for theDisappearing Light; References; Index