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Arthuriana
Abstract: Pioneering silent-filmmakers Thomas Edison, D.W. Griffith, Cecil B. DeMille, and others turned at times to the Arthurian legends for their subjects. Using either medieval or modern settings, they reinterpreted such stories as the Grail, Tristan, and the Lady of Shalott, sometimes introducing comedy, social commentary, or edifying morals (BTL).
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Abstract: Pioneering silent-filmmakers Thomas Edison, D.W. Griffith, Cecil B. DeMille, and others turned at times to the Arthurian legends for their subjects. Using either medieval or modern settings, they reinterpreted such stories as the Grail, Tristan, and the Lady of Shalott, sometimes introducing comedy, social commentary, or edifying morals (BTL).
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Italian Silent Cinema. A Reader
Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 2014Italian Silent Cinema. A Reader is an incredibly rich text, a must-read for anybody interested in studying the beginnings of cinema in Italy and its multifaceted, interdisciplinary and complex hist...
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2009
Movies aren’t just an art form, which developed in the course of time; they are also a significant mirror for the society in which the movies were produced and where they are imbedded. They present different social relations, opinions, fashion trends, criticisms and sexual role models and role allocations.
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Movies aren’t just an art form, which developed in the course of time; they are also a significant mirror for the society in which the movies were produced and where they are imbedded. They present different social relations, opinions, fashion trends, criticisms and sexual role models and role allocations.
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Silent Cinema and the Politics of Space
Choice Reviews Online, 2014Global exchanges and crossings of early ...
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The Oxford Handbook of Silent Cinema
Early Popular Visual CultureAbstract The historiography of silent cinema has long been the leading edge of scholarly innovation in film history. The Oxford Handbook of Silent Cinema brings that scholarship up to date with thirty-four chapters informed by new perspectives in film and media studies and the humanities.
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Studying Early and Silent Cinema
2009In this introduction to early and silent cinema, which is currently enjoying a renaissance, both academically and in the popular imagination thanks to The Artist, the author provides both a comprehensive chronology of the period until the birth of sound and also a series of detailed case studies on the key films from the period—some well-known ...
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Cinema and Science in the Silent Era
Abstract This chapter examines an example of early microcinematography, Mécanisme de la phagocytose des trypanosomes, phénomène de l’accolement—Jean Comandon’s 1910 commissioned film for Pasteur Institute immunologist Constantin Levaditi—which opens onto a broader history of cinema and science.Scott Curtis, Oliver Gaycken
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