Italian Silent Cinema
Subtitle: A Reader
Publisher: Libbey & Company, Limited, John; John Libbey & Co Ltd
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 402
ISBN-13: 9780861966707
Subjects: Motion pictures, italy
Description: Despite the wealth of studies of silent cinema in the English language, knowledge of the medium's first decades has remained attached to a canon in which Italian silent cinema appears deceptively familiar but largely absent. With 30 essays written by leading scholars in the field, 'Italian Silent Cinema' illuminates this understudied area of film history. Featuring over 100 illustrations, the reader brings into focus individual film companies, stars and genres and seeks to place the Italian production of dramas, comedies, serials, newsreels, and avant-garde works in dialogue with international film culture.