The silent cinema reader
By: edited by Lee Grieveson and Peter Krämer.
Contributors: Grieveson, Lee, 1969-; Krämer, Peter, 1961-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 423
Subjects: Silent films -- History and criticism.; Motion pictures -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. Prologue: introduction; title: 3. At the beginning: motion picture production, representation and ideology at the Edison and Lumiere Companies / Charles Musser; title: 4. Film projection and variety shows: introduction; title: 5. Now you see it, now you don't: the temporality of the cinema of attractions / Tom Gunning; title: 6. The Kiss in the tunnel (1899), G.A. Smith and the emergence of the edited film in England / Frank Gray; title: 7. The cinema of attractions in France, 1896-1904 / Richard Abel; title: 8. Storytelling and the nickelodeon: introduction; title: 9. Moving towards fictional narratives: story films become the dominant product, 1903-1907 / Charles Musser; title: 10. Path ̌goes to town': French films create a market for the nickelodeon, 1903-1906 / Richard Abel; title: 11. Manhattan nickelodeons: new data on audiences and exhibition / Ben Singer; title: 12. Cinema and reform: introduction; title: 13. From the opium den to the theatre of morality: moral discourse and the film process in early American cinema / Tom Gunning; title: 14. How many times shall Caesar bleed in sport: Shakespeare and the cultural debate about moving pictures / Roberta E. Pearson and William Uricchio; title: 15. Fighting films: race, morality, and the governing of cinema, 1912-1915 / Lee Grieveson; title: 16. Feature films and cinema programmes: introduction; title: 17. A Star is born: American culture and the dynamics of Charlie Chaplin's star image, 1913-1916 / Charles J. Maland; title: 18. An awful struggle between love and ambition: serial heroines, serial stars and their female fans / Shelley Stamp; title: 19. Traffic in souls (1913): an experiment in feature-length narrative construction / Ben Brewster; title: 20. Race, melodrama and The birth of a nation (1915) / Linda Williams; title: 21. The international exploration of cinematic expressivity / Kristin Thompson; title: 22. Classical Hollywood cinema: introduction; title: 23. The making of a comic star: Buster Keaton and The Saphead (1920) / Peter Kramer; title: 24. The perfect lover?: Valentino and ethnic masculinity in the 1920s / Gaylyn Studlar; title: 25. The new woman and consumer culture: Cecil B. DeMille's sex comedies / Sumiko Higashi; title: 26. The open door: Hollywood's public relations at home and abroad, 1922-1928 / Ruth Vasey; title: 27. European cinemas: introduction; title: 28. New notes on Russian film culture between 1908 and 1919 / Yuri Tsivian.; title: 29. Early alternatives to the Hollywood mode of production: implications for Europe's avant-garde / Kristin Thompson; title: 30. Monumental heroics: form and style in Eisenstein's silent films / David Bordwell; title: 31. Art and industry: German cinema of the 1920s / Joseph Garncarz.