Silent Film

Book Overview

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"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813522269
• ISBN13: 9780813522265
• Release Date: December 1995
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"