The Silent Cinema Reader

Lee Grieveson, Peter Kr�amer

Routledge, 2004 - Performing Arts - 423 pages

The Silent Cinema Reader is a comprehensive resource of key writings on early cinema, addressing filmmaking practice, film form, style and content, and the ways in which silent films were exhibited and understood by their audiences, from the beginnings of film in the late nineteenth century to the coming of sound in the late 1920s.
The Reader covers international developments in film aesthetics, the growth of the American film industry and its relationship with foreign competitors at home and abroad, and the broader cultural, social and political contexts of film production and consumption in the United States as well as Britain, France, Russia and Germany. The Reader includes in-depth case studies of major directors and stars of the silent era, including Cecil B. DeMille, Eisenstein, D. W. Griffith, Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin and Rudolph Valentino.

Articles are grouped into thematic sections, each with an introduction by the editors, which focus on:

* Film projection and variety shows
* Storytelling and the nickelodeon
* Cinema and reform
* Feature films and cinema programmes
* Classical Hollywood cinema
* European national cinemas

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Really good collection of articles on the silent era, including Tom Gunning, Richard Abel (one of which is on Pathe Freres supplying the burgeoning nickelodeon market), Charles Musser, Sumiko Higashi ... Read full review

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About the author (2004)

Lee Grieveson is a Lecturer in the Film Studies Program in the School of Humanities, King's College, University of London, and a recipient of the prestigious Katherine Singer Kovacs Essay Award from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.

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Title	The Silent Cinema Reader The Silent Cinema Reader, Peter Kr�mer
Editors	Lee Grieveson, Peter Kr�amer
Edition	illustrated, reprint
Publisher	Routledge, 2004
ISBN	0415252849, 9780415252843
Length	423 pages
Subjects	Performing Arts › Film & Video › History & Criticism Performing Arts / Film & Video / History & Criticism Social Science / Media Studies

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