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New Silent Cinema

Katherine Groo,Paul Flaig
New Silent Cinema Book PDF

Author : Katherine Groo,Paul Flaig
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317819448

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New Silent Cinema by Katherine Groo,Paul Flaig Pdf

With the success of Martin Scorsese’s Hugo (2011) and Michel Hazanavicius’s The Artist (2011) nothing seems more contemporary in recent film than the styles, forms, and histories of early and silent cinemas. This collection considers the latest return to silent film alongside the larger historical field of visual repetitions and affective currents that wind their way through 20th and 21st century visual cultures. Contributors bring together several fields of research, including early and silent cinema studies, experimental and new media, historiography and archive theory, and studies of media ontology and epistemology. Chapters link the methods, concerns, and concepts of early and silent film studies as they have flourished over the last quarter century to the most recent developments in digital culture—from YouTube to 3D—recasting this contemporary phenomenon in popular culture and new media against key debates and concepts in silent film scholarship. An interview with acclaimed Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin closes out the collection.

Silent Cinema, an Introduction

Paolo Cherchi Usai
Silent Cinema an Introduction Book PDF

Author : Paolo Cherchi Usai
Publisher : British Film Institute
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2000-11-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0851707467

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Silent Cinema, an Introduction by Paolo Cherchi Usai Pdf

This revised guide to silent film studies contains two new chapters that present an analysis of color technology and aesthetics. They look at how silent films are saved, restored and made accessible via archives. Aided by new material, this book is a survey of the first 30 years in the history of film.

Silent Film Sound

Rick Altman
Silent Film Sound Book PDF

Author : Rick Altman
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0231116632

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Silent films were, of course, never silent at all. However, the sound that used to accompany the screen picture in the early days of cinema has been neglected as an area of study. Altman explores the various musical, narrative, and even synchronized sound systems that enriched cinema before Jolson spoke.

Silent Cinema and the Politics of Space

Jennifer M. Bean,Anupama Kapse,Laura Horak
Silent Cinema and the Politics of Space Book PDF

Author : Jennifer M. Bean,Anupama Kapse,Laura Horak
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780253015075

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Silent Cinema and the Politics of Space by Jennifer M. Bean,Anupama Kapse,Laura Horak Pdf

In this cross-cultural history of narrative cinema and media from the 1910s to the 1930s, leading and emergent scholars explore the transnational crossings and exchanges that occurred in early cinema between the two world wars. Drawing on film archives from around the world, this volume advances the premise that silent cinema freely crossed national borders and linguistic thresholds in ways that became far less possible after the emergence of sound. These essays address important questions about the uneven forces–geographic, economic, political, psychological, textual, and experiential–that underscore a non-linear approach to film history. The "messiness" of film history, as demonstrated here, opens a new realm of inquiry into unexpected political, social, and aesthetic crossings of silent cinema.

Silent Cinema

Paolo Cherchi Usai
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Author : Paolo Cherchi Usai
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781911239147

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Silent Cinema by Paolo Cherchi Usai Pdf

Paolo Cherchi Usai provides a comprehensive introduction to the study, research and preservation of silent cinema from its heyday in the early 20th century to its present day flourishing. He traces the history of the moving image in its formative years, from Edison's and Lumière's first experiments to the dawn of 'talkies'; provides a clear guide to the basics of silent film technology; introduces the technical and creative roles involved in its production, and presents silent cinema as a performance event, rather than a passive viewing experience. This new, greatly expanded edition takes the reader on a new journey, exploring silent cinema in the broader context of technology, culture, and society, from the invention of celluloid film and its related machinery to film studios, laboratories, theatres and audiences. Among the people involved in the creation of a new art form were filmmakers, actors and writers, but also engineers, entrepreneurs, and projectionists. Their collective efforts, and the struggle to preserve their creative work by archives and museums, are interwoven in a compelling story covering three centuries of media history, from the magic lantern to the reinvention of silent cinema in digital form. The new edition also includes comprehensive resource information for the study, research, preservation and exhibition of silent cinema.

The Sounds of Silent Films

Claus Tieber,Anna Katharina Windisch
The Sounds of Silent Films Book PDF

Author : Claus Tieber,Anna Katharina Windisch
Publisher : Springer
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781137410726

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The Sounds of Silent Films by Claus Tieber,Anna Katharina Windisch Pdf

The Sounds of Silent Films is a unique collection of investigatory and theoretical essays that, for the first time, unite up-to-date research on the complex historical performance practices of silent film accompaniment with in-depth analyses of relevant case studies.

Missing Reels

Farran Smith Nehme
Missing Reels Book PDF

Author : Farran Smith Nehme
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781468310788

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Missing Reels by Farran Smith Nehme Pdf

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.

Music and Sound in Silent Film

Ruth Barton,Simon Trezise
Music and Sound in Silent Film Book PDF

Author : Ruth Barton,Simon Trezise
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351995863

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Music and Sound in Silent Film by Ruth Barton,Simon Trezise Pdf

Despite their name, the silent films of the early cinematic era were frequently accompanied by music and other sound elements of many kinds, including mechanical instruments, live performers, and audience sing-alongs. The 12 chapters in this concise book explore the multitude of functions filled by music in the rapidly changing context of the silent film era, as the concept of cinema itself developed. Examples are drawn from around the globe and across the history of silent film, both during the classic era of silent film and later uses of the silent format. With contributors drawn from film studies and music disciplines, and including both senior and emerging scholars, Music and Sound in Silent Film offers an essential introduction to the origins of film music and the cinematic art form.

Buster Keaton

James Curtis
Buster Keaton Book PDF

Author : James Curtis
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 833 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780385354219

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Buster Keaton by James Curtis Pdf

**One of Literary Hub’s Five “Most Critically Acclaimed” Biographies of 2022** From acclaimed cultural and film historian James Curtis—a major biography, the first in more than two decades, of the legendary comedian and filmmaker who elevated physical comedy to the highest of arts and whose ingenious films remain as startling, innovative, modern—and irresistible—today as they were when they beguiled audiences almost a century ago. "It is brilliant—I was totally absorbed, couldn't stop reading it and was very sorry when it ended."—Kevin Brownlow It was James Agee who christened Buster Keaton “The Great Stone Face.” Keaton’s face, Agee wrote, "ranked almost with Lincoln’s as an early American archetype; it was haunting, handsome, almost beautiful, yet it was also irreducibly funny. Keaton was the only major comedian who kept sentiment almost entirely out of his work and . . . he brought pure physical comedy to its greatest heights.” Mel Brooks: “A lot of my daring came from Keaton.” Martin Scorsese, influenced by Keaton’s pictures in the making of Raging Bull: “The only person who had the right attitude about boxing in the movies for me,” Scorsese said, “was Buster Keaton.” Keaton’s deadpan stare in a porkpie hat was as recognizable as Charlie Chaplin’s tramp and Harold Lloyd’s straw boater and spectacles, and, with W. C. Fields, the four were each considered a comedy king--but Keaton was, and still is, considered to be the greatest of them all. His iconic look and acrobatic brilliance obscured the fact that behind the camera Keaton was one of our most gifted filmmakers. Through nineteen short comedies and twelve magnificent features, he distinguished himself with such seminal works as Sherlock Jr., The Navigator, Steamboat Bill, Jr., The Cameraman, and his masterpiece, The General. Now James Curtis, admired biographer of Preston Sturges (“definitive”—Variety), W. C. Fields (“by far the fullest, fairest and most touching account we have yet had. Or are likely to have”—Richard Schickel, front page of The New York Times Book Review), and Spencer Tracy (“monumental; definitive”—Kirkus Reviews), gives us the richest, most comprehensive life to date of the legendary actor, stunt artist, screenwriter, director—master.

30-Second Cinema

IVY PRESS.,Nikki Baughan
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Author : IVY PRESS.,Nikki Baughan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-14
Category : Motion picture industry
ISBN : 9781782405498

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30-Second Cinema by IVY PRESS.,Nikki Baughan Pdf

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.

The Last Silent Picture Show

William M. Drew
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Author : William M. Drew
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780810876811

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The Last Silent Picture Show by William M. Drew Pdf

This book details the fate of an entire art form—the silent cinema—in the United States during the 1930s and how it managed to survive the onslaught of sound.

The Electric Hotel

Dominic Smith
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Author : Dominic Smith
Publisher : Sarah Crichton Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374719692

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The Electric Hotel by Dominic Smith Pdf

A sweeping work of historical fiction from the New York Times–bestselling author Dominic Smith, The Electric Hotel is a spellbinding story of art and love. For more than thirty years, Claude Ballard has been living at the Hollywood Knickerbocker Hotel. A French pioneer of silent films who started out as a concession agent for the Lumière brothers, the inventors of cinema, Claude now spends his days foraging for mushrooms in the hills of Los Angeles and taking photographs of runaways and the striplings along Sunset Boulevard. But when a film history student comes to interview Claude about The Electric Hotel—the lost masterpiece that bankrupted him and ended the career of his muse, Sabine Montrose—the past comes surging back. In his run-down hotel suite, the ravages of the past are waiting to be excavated: celluloid fragments in desperate need of restoration, as well as Claude’s memories of the woman who inspired and beguiled him. The Electric Hotel is a portrait of a man entranced by the magic of moviemaking, a luminous romance, and a whirlwind trip through early cinema. Sit back, relax, and enjoy the show.

Silent Film

Richard Abel
Silent Film Book PDF

Author : Richard Abel
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0485300761

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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.

Silent Cinema

Lawrence Napper
Silent Cinema Book PDF

Author : Lawrence Napper
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231543507

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Silent Cinema by Lawrence Napper Pdf

Since the spectacular success of The Artist (2011) there has been a resurgence of interest in silent cinema, and particularly in the lush and passionate screen dramas of the 1920s. This book offers an introduction to the cinema of this extraordinary period, outlining the development of the form between the end of the First World War and the introduction of synchronized sound at the end of the 1920s. Lawrence Napper addresses the relationship between film aesthetics and the industrial and political contexts of film production through a series of case studies of "national" cinemas. It also focuses on film-going as the most popular leisure activity of the age. Topics such as the star system, cinema buildings, musical accompaniments, film fashions, and fan cultures are addressed—all the elements that ensured that the experience of the pictures was "big." The international dominance of Hollywood is outlined, as are the different responses to that dominance in Britain, Germany, and the USSR. Case studies seek to move beyond the familiar silent canon, and include The Oyster Princess (1919), It (1927), Shooting Stars (1927), and The Girl with the Hatbox (1927).

The Silent Cinema Reader

Lee Grieveson,Peter Krämer
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Author : Lee Grieveson,Peter Krämer
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0415252849

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The Silent Cinema Reader by Lee Grieveson,Peter Krämer Pdf

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.