Silent Film

Name: Silent Film
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ISBN: 9780813522265

ISBN-10: 0813522269

ISBN-13: 9780813522265

Edition: 1996

Authors: Richard Able, Richard Abel

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Book details

List price: $38.95
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publication date: 12/1/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 334
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English



Introduction



The Materiality of Silent Cinema


The Color of Nitrate: Some Factual Observations on Tinting and Toning Manuals for Silent Films



The Sound of Silents



Kuleshov's Experiments and the New Anthropology of the Actor



The Periodicity and Nationality of Silent Cinema


"Now You See It, Now You Don't": The Temporality of the Cinema of Attractions



Pre-Classical American Cinema: Its Changing Modes of Film Production



Booming the Film Business: The Historical Specificity of Early French Cinema



Cinema as Anti-Theater: Actresses and Female Audiences in Wilhelmianian Germany



Theorizing a Cultural History of Silent Cinema


Dickens, Griffith, and Film Theory Today



Female Power in the Serial-Queen Melodrama: The Etiology of an Anomaly



Russia, 1913: Cinema in the Cultural Landscape



Intertextuality and Reception in Silent Cinema


Dante's Inferno and Caesar's Ghost: Intertextuality and Conditions of Reception in Early American Cinema



"The Finest Outside the Loop": Motion Picture Exhibition in Chicago's Black Metropolis, 1905-1928



The Perils of Pleasure? Fan Magazine Discourse as Women's Commodified Culture in the 1920s



Selected Bibliography


Contributors


Index