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Silent Film: A Very Short Introduction [#671]
Silent Film: A Very Short Introduction [#671]
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  • Covers the entire span of the silent era, from the period of early cinema to Hollywood's classical age
  • Takes a global approach, examining the development of cinema in the United States, Europe, Asia, Australia, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America
  • Pays special attention to the pivotal contributions of women and minority filmmakers the world over, including figures long-forgotten by film history

  
Encompassing the thirty-five year span between the initial development of film technology in the mid-1890s and the adoption of synchronized sound in the late 1920s, the cinema's silent era is both one of the most important epochs of film history and one of the most misunderstood within the popular imagination. In this brief and readable account, these formative decades come vividly to life.
   
Covering the full scope of the silent era-from the invention of motion pictures to the rise of the Hollywood studios-and touching on films and filmmakers from every corner of the globe, Silent Film: A Very Short Introduction offers a window into film's first years as a worldwide entertainment phenomenon. From groundbreaking early shorts to the masterpieces of the cinema's classical era, from street-corner nickelodeons to grand movie palaces, from slapstick to the avant-garde, the silent era's artistic abundance and global variety are here put on full display. In the story of silent film, we see not just the origins of a new culture industry but also a legacy of imagination and innovation that continues to profoundly influence the cinema even to this day.

Index: 

Introduction: All Film is Silent Film
Chapter 1: The Three Ages of Silent Film
Chapter 2: A Global Cinema
Chapter 3: Making Films in the Silent Era
Chapter 4: Watching Films in the Silent Era
Epilogue: The Secret Afterlife of Silent Film
References
Filmography
Further Reading

About the author: 

Donna Kornhaber is associate professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Nightmares in the Dream Sanctuary: War and the Animated Film, Wes Anderson: A Collector's Cinema, and Charlie Chaplin, Director.

Product details

ISBN : 9780190852528

Author: 
Donna Kornhaber
Pages
168 Pages
Format
Paperback
Size
111 x 174 mm
Pub date
Oct 2020
Series
Very Short Introductions
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Silent Film: A Very Short Introduction [#671]

Silent Film: A Very Short Introduction [#671]

Silent Film: A Very Short Introduction [#671]