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Prologue: What was Silent Cinema?
2014This prologue provides an overview of silent cinema. Our sense of cinema as a site of commercial entertainment can be traced back to the Lumière brothers. In December of 1895, they attracted a fee-paying public in Paris to sit and watch flickering images on an illuminated screen.
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, 2015 With the incredible success of Martin Scorsese's Hugo and Michel Hazanavicius's The Artist, nothing seems more contemporary in recent film than the styles, forms, and histories of early and silent cinemas. This collection considers the most recent return
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Danish and German Silent Cinema
2023The book examines how the films and film industries of Denmark and Germany, two of the leading silent film producing countries, interacted from 1910 to the advent of sound around 1930. Using the methodological framework of entangled film history, the chapters analyse Danish-German interconnections through a variety of approaches, including production ...
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2019
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 ...
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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 ...
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Journal of Film Music, 2019
Whereas sounds in American early cinema have been examined by Rick Altman for his ground-breaking book Silent Film Sounds, published in 2004, the musical components of German early cinema remain largely unexamined. Previous research on silent film sound in Germany primarily relied on the contemporary music press and neglected the film press, even ...
Carolin Beinroth, Claudia Bullerjahn
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Whereas sounds in American early cinema have been examined by Rick Altman for his ground-breaking book Silent Film Sounds, published in 2004, the musical components of German early cinema remain largely unexamined. Previous research on silent film sound in Germany primarily relied on the contemporary music press and neglected the film press, even ...
Carolin Beinroth, Claudia Bullerjahn
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2014
This chapter details how, from the end of the World War I until the end of the silent era in 1927 (and beyond), Hollywood dominated the international film industry. The Hollywood studios reached their peak, both in their organisation and efficiency, and in the sheer quality of their product. But this quality was fed from both within and without.
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This chapter details how, from the end of the World War I until the end of the silent era in 1927 (and beyond), Hollywood dominated the international film industry. The Hollywood studios reached their peak, both in their organisation and efficiency, and in the sheer quality of their product. But this quality was fed from both within and without.
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Strindberg and the Silent Cinema
Theatre Research International, 1993Of nineteenth century Swedish writers, August Strindberg was almost alone in displaying any interest in the predecessors to the moving film. On one occasion, during the conception of ‘Tschandala’, his interest in moving, projected pictures led him to a literary fantasy of a greatly suggestive power.
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Silent women: pioneers of cinema
Early Popular Visual Culture, 2017A telling testament to the fate of early women filmmakers can be read in the cinema pages of the newspaper Le Temps in September 1933, where an elderly Alice Guy-Blache writes in response to an art...
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