Silent Film (Rutgers Depth of Field Series)

Abel, Richard, ed. w. intro.

ISBN 10: 0813522250 / ISBN 13: 9780813522258

Published by Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ, 1996

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Lt. bl. cl., 1" fade line across top front. Backstr. black lettering, logos, sl. sunned. Illus. Viii, 319pp. incl. sel. bibliogr., list of contributors, index. CONTENTS MINT.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1786564645216

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Silent Film (Rutgers Depth of Field Series)
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0813522250
• ISBN 13: 9780813522258
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Dimensions: 15.24W x 23.5H x 2.54D centimeters 15.24 centimeters width by 23.5 centimeters height by 2.54 centimeters depth
• Weight: 1.55 pounds
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art History
  • Literary Criticism

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Richard Abel is a National Endowment Professor of the Humanities at Drake University. His books include French Cinema: The First Wave, 1915-1929; French Film Theory and Criticism: A History /Anthology; and The CinT Goes to Town: French Cinema, 1896-1914.