Overview: Because silent cinema is widely perceived as having been exactly that-silent-no one has fully examined how sounds was used to accompany the films of this era. Silent Film Sound reconsiders all aspects of sound practices during the entire silent film period. Based on ex…
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Slapstick comedy & its cast of film stars has long been viewed as central to the early formal development of narrative cinema generally, & of American cinema in particular. This volume presents 14 essays exploring the enduring debates & questions surrounding slapstick's role in …
While the American silent movie was one of the most significant popular art forms of the modern age, it is also one that is largely lost to us, as more than eighty percent of silent films have disappeared, the victims of age, disaster, and neglect. We now know about many of thes…
Music for Silent Films : From Synchronicity to Polysynchronicity -- Scores for Silent Film : Then and Now -- Opportunities in Contemporary Scores for Silent Film -- Contemporary Scores for Silent Film : Four Case Studies -- The Application of Polysynchronicity : Five Case Studie…
Introduction: what Gertrude Stein wonders about historians -- What happened to women in the silent U.S. film industry? -- Where was Antonia Dickson? the peculiarity of historical time -- More fictions: did Alice Guy Blaché make La fée aux choux (The cabbage fairy)? -- Object les…
"Women held more positions of power in the silent film era than at any other time in American motion picture history. Marion Leonard broke from acting to cofound a feature film company. Gene Gauntier, the face of Kalem Films, also wrote the first script of Ben-Hur . Helen Holmes…
El autor examina el desarrollo, durante las tres primeras décadas del siglo XX, de las actividades fílmicas, la distribución y la exhibición pública de películas. Centrado en Lima, el trabajo describe también lo ocurrido en otras regiones del Perú. El análisis se enriquece con u…
This pathbreaking book reveals how Hollywood became "Hollywood" and what that meant for the politics of America and American film. Working-Class Hollywood tells the story of filmmaking in the first three decades of the twentieth century, a time when going to the movies could tra…
