The Silent Cinema Reader

Author: Lee Grieveson
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415252843
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448

Book Description
The Silent Cinema Reader brings together key writings on cinema from the beginnings of film in 1894 to the advent of sound in 1927, addressing the development of film production and exhibition technologies, methods of distribution, film form, and film culture during this critical period on film history. Thematic sections address: film projection and variety shows; storytelling and the Nickelodeon; cinema and reform; feature films and cinema programs; classical Hollywood cinema and European national cinemas. Each section is introduced by the editors, and contains suggestions for further readings and film viewings.

The Silent Cinema Reader

Author: Lee Grieveson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 423

Book Description

Italian Silent Cinema

Author: Giorgio Bertellini
Publisher: JOHN LIBBEY PUBLISHING
ISBN: 9780861966707
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 401

Book Description
Despite the wealth of studies of silent cinema in the English language, knowledge of the medium's first decades has remained attached to a canon in which Italian silent cinema appears deceptively familiar but largely absent. With 30 essays written by leading scholars in the field, 'Italian Silent Cinema' illuminates this understudied area of film history. Featuring over 100 illustrations, the reader brings into focus individual film companies, stars and genres and seeks to place the Italian production of dramas, comedies, serials, newsreels, and avant-garde works in dialogue with international film culture.

30-Second Cinema

Author: Pamela Hutchinson
Publisher: Ivy Press
ISBN: 1782407995
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 163

Book Description
Are you an art-movie buff or a blockbuster enthusiast? Can you reel off a list of New Wave masterpieces, or are you more interested in classic Westerns? Most of us love the movies in one form or another, but very few of us have the all-round knowledge we’d like. 30-Second Cinema offers an immersion course, served up in neat, entertaining shorts. These 50 topics deal with cinema’s beginnings, with its growth as an industry, with key stars and producers, with global movements—from German Expressionism to New Hollywood—and with the movies as a business. By the time you’ve worked your way through, you’ll be able to identify the work of George Melies, define auteur theory or mumblecore in a couple of pithy phrases, and you’ll have broadened your knowledge of global cinema to embrace not only Bollywood but Nollywood, too. All in the time it takes to watch a couple of trailers.

Sessue Hayakawa

Author: Daisuke Miyao
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822339694
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 404

Book Description
DIVCritical biography of Sessue Hayakawa, a Japanese actor who became a popular silent film star in the U.S., that looks at how Hollywood treated issues of race and nationality in the early twentieth century./div

Missing Reels

Author: Farran Smith Nehme
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 146831078X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320

Book Description
New York in the late 1980s. Ceinwen Reilly has just moved from Yazoo City, Mississippi, and she’s never going back, minimum wage job (vintage store salesgirl) and shabby apartment (Avenue C walkup) be damned. Who cares about earthly matters when Ceinwen can spend her days and her nights at fading movie houses—and most of the time that’s left trying to look like Jean Harlow? One day, Ceinwen discovers that her downstairs neighbor may have—just possibly—starred in a forgotten silent film that hasn’t been seen for ages. So naturally, it’s time for a quest. She will track down the film, she will impress her neighbor, and she will become a part of movie history: the archivist as ingénue. As she embarks on her grand mission, Ceinwen meets a somewhat bumbling, very charming, 100% English math professor named Matthew, who is as rational as she is dreamy. Together, they will or will not discover the missing reels, will or will not fall in love, and will or will not encounter the obsessives that make up the New York silent film nut underworld. A novel as winning and energetic as the grand Hollywood films that inspired it, Missing Reels is an irresistible, alchemical mix of Nora Ephron and David Nicholls that will charm and delight.

The Titanic and Silent Cinema

Author: Stephen Bottomore
Publisher: The Projection Box
ISBN: 9781903000007
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Book Description
"Number nine in a series of monographs on pre-cinema and early film."

The Parade's Gone By

Author: Kevin Brownlow
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520030688
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 614

Book Description
Well illustrated book on history of silent movies

Seductive Cinema

Author: James Card
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780816633906
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 319

Book Description
On the history of silent films.

Soviet Cinema in the Silent Era, 1918–1935

Author: Denise J. Youngblood
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292761112
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 353

Book Description
The golden age of Soviet cinema, in the years following the Russian Revolution, was a time of both achievement and contradiction, as reflected in the films of Eisenstein, Pudovkin, and Kuleshov. Tensions ran high between creative freedom and institutional constraint, radical and reactionary impulses, popular and intellectual cinema, and film as social propaganda and as personal artistic expression. In less than a decade, the creative ferment ended, subjugated by the ideological forces that accompanied the rise of Joseph Stalin and the imposition of the doctrine of Socialist Realism on all the arts. Soviet Cinema in the Silent Era, 1918–1935 records this lost golden age. Denise Youngblood considers the social, economic, and industrial factors that influenced the work of both lesser-known and celebrated directors. She reviews all major and many minor films of the period, as well as contemporary film criticism from Soviet film journals and trade magazines. Above all, she captures Soviet film in a role it never regained—that of dynamic artform of the proletarian masses.