Silent Film

By: Richard Abel (Editor)

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Paperback | 1 February 1999 | Edition Number 1

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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" to a "classical narrative cinema," on the relationship between changes in production and those in exhibition, and on the historical specificity of national cinemas. Still others focus on early cinema's intertextual relations with various forms of mass culture (from magazine stories or sensational melodramas in the United States to the tango craze in Russia), and on reception in silent cinema (from black audiences in Chicago to women's fan magazines of the 1920s). Taken together, the contributors to this volume suggest provocative parallels between silent cinema at the turn of the last century and "postmodern" cinema at the end of our own. This book is an important contribution to the study of silent film and a key addition to this new series.

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Introduction	p. 1
The Materiality of Silent Cinema
The Color of Nitrate: Some Factual Observations on Tinting and Toning Manuals for Silent Films	p. 21
The Sound of Silents	p. 31
Kuleshov's Experiments and the New Anthropology of the Actor	p. 45
The Periodicity and Nationality of Silent Cinema
"Now You See It, Now You Don't": The Temporality of the Cinema of Attractions	p. 71
Pre-Classical American Cinema: Its Changing Modes of Film Production	p. 85
Booming the Film Business: The Historical Specificity of Early French Cinema	p. 109
Cinema as Anti-Theater: Actresses and Female Audiences in Wilhelmianian Germany	p. 125
Theorizing a Cultural History of Silent Cinema
Dickens, Griffith, and Film Theory Today	p. 145
Female Power in the Serial-Queen Melodrama: The Etiology of an Anomaly	p. 163
Russia, 1913: Cinema in the Cultural Landscape	p. 194
Intertextuality and Reception in Silent Cinema
Dante's Inferno and Caesar's Ghost: Intertextuality and Conditions of Reception in Early American Cinema	p. 217
"The Finest Outside the Loop": Motion Picture Exhibition in Chicago's Black Metropolis, 1905-1928	p. 234
The Perils of Pleasure? Fan Magazine Discourse as Women's Commodified Culture in the 1920s	p. 263
Selected Bibliography	p. 299
Contributors	p. 307
Index	p. 309
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