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1) Silent film
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Silent Film offers some of the best recent essays on silent cinema, essays that cross disciplinary boundaries and break new ground in a variety of ways. Some focus on the "materiality" of early cinema: the color processes used in printing nitrate film stocks, the choreographic styles of film acting, and the wide range of sound accompaniment. Others focus on questions of periodicity and nationality: on the shift from a "cinema of attractions" to a...
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Examines the international film industry from 1893 to 1927 according to genre (e.g. horror, westerns and comedy) and highlights the work of silent film art directors, cinematographers, directors, and actors. Includes stills, promo materials and posters from the Library of Congress's memorabilia collection.
A gorgeous, lavish history of silent movies - with more than 400 amazing images - captures the birth of film and icons like Chaplin, Garbo, Clara...
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In the twenty years preceding the First World War, cinema rapidly developed from a fairground curiosity into a major industry and social institution, a source of information and entertainment for millions of people. Only recently have film scholars and historians begun to study these early years of cinema in their own right and not simply as first steps towards the classical narrative cinema we now associate with Hollywood. The essays in this collection...
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"They went that-a-way!" The gesturing arm pointed into the fading sun, setting the scene for an hour of action and adventure many memorable Saturday afternoons long ago. As the travelogue faded from the darkened screen, a matinee audience filled with kids hoarse from shrieking and whistling at Art Acord's adventures in his latest serial greeted a white-clad silent stranger with a thundering roar as he rode into a dusty western town to face the gunslingers...
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