num_pages: 606
description: Combining film history and social history, Kevin Brownlow surveys the treatment of contemporary social problems by film directors and producers in the early part of the century. This is the definitive history of silent films, documenting many that have been lost or forgotten.
language: English
title: Behind the Mask of Innocence: Films of Social Conscience in the Silent Era
titlecomplete: Behind the Mask of Innocence: Films of Social Conscience in the Silent Era
genres: History, Sociology, Film, Media Tie In, Nonfiction, Art
ratings_count: 62
publisher: University of California Press