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Queen Victoria at the Pictures
Queen Victoria was enthusiastically taken up by the shows, exhibitions, and lectures that blossomed in the nineteenth century. This collaborative article demonstrates the way Victoria’s life and reign was embraced by the moving-image and projected-image ...
Bryony Dixon +2 more
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Social Changes in America: The Silent Cinema Frontier and Women Pioneers
Silent cinema acted as a bridge between early motion pictures and today’s film industry, playing a transformative role in shaping feminist film history and American society.
Alicia Inge Peng
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The Afterlife of a Lost Art. On the Work and Legacy of Silent Film Pianist Arthur Kleiner
This article examines the life and work of Arthur Kleiner, an Austrian composer, conductor, and pianist who, although relatively unknown, can be considered one of the most influential practitioners of silent film music during the sound era ...
Anna K. Windisch
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Music scoring of film is one of the most potent techniques for defining and dimensionalizing moving images; in silent film, musical fabric has formidable powers to broaden and evoke emotional and intellectual responses simultaneously. Silent film scoring
Robert Israel
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In her multi award-winning feature film Silent Waters (2003), Pakistani woman filmmaker Sabiha Sumar connects the socio-political traumas of the Partition of India and creation of Pakistan (1947) with the onset of military dictator General Zia-ul-Haq’s ...
Rahat Imran
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Researching Black women and film history
My project (Horizon 2020, 2018–20) traces Black female moviegoing in Harlem during the silent film era. The main challenge in uncovering the women’s stories is that historical paradigm has always prioritised the voices of the white, middle-class elite ...
Agata Frymus
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Collections of silent film music constitute valuable sources for historical research on the musical practice in the silent film era. The musical prints preserved in the Mirskey Collection were previously used by the author to reconstruct a score for the ...
Cieślak-Krupa Agnieszka
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Following the threads of impersonality and empathy, which are firmly interwoven in the stories of Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923), this article aims to reflect on the author’s interest in the then-new medium of silent film, and to contextualize her work ...
Maurizio Ascari
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This article seeks to explore the early stages of American film theory, where cinephilia became a site of aesthetic interest and criticism thanks to the theorization of cinema as a conversational medium.
Statius Marthe
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Polskie tłumaczenie napisowe w 1930 roku
Polish Subtitling in 1930 Film subtitle translation, contrary to frequently quoted opinions, did not start with the introduction of sound in films, which occurred in Poland in the 1929/30 cinema season.
Elżbieta Plewa
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