Title: Silent film /
Authors: Abel, Richard, 1941-
Publisher: Rutgers University Press,
Year: 1996
Subjects: Silent films History and criticism
Contents: The color of nitrate : some factual observations on tinting and toning manuals for silent films / Paolo Cherchi Usai -- The sound of silents / Norman King -- Kuleshov's experiments and the new anthropology of the actor / Mikhail Yampolsky -- "Now you see it, now you don't" : the temporality of the cinema of attractions / Tom Gunning -- Pre-classical American cinema : its changing modes of film production / Charles Musser -- Booming the film business : the historical specificity of early French cinema / Richard Abel -- Cinema as anti-theater : actresses and female audiences in Wilhelmianian Germany / Heide Schlüpmann -- Dickens, Griffith, and the film theory today / Rick Altman -- Female power in the serial-queen melodrama : the etiology of an anomaly / Ben Singer -- Russia, 1913 : cinema in the cultural landscape / Yuri Tsivian --