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Silent Cinema: Before the Pictures Got Small
Lawrence Napper
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Description for Silent Cinema: Before the Pictures Got Small
Paperback. Lawrence Napper is lecturer in film studies at King's College, London. He is the author of British Cinema and Middlebrow Culture in the Interwar Years (2009) and The Great War in British Popular Cinema of the 1920s: Before Journey's End (2015). Series: Short Cuts. Num Pages: 144 pages, 16 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJG; APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 152. .
Since the spectacular success of The Artist (2011) there has been a resurgence of interest in silent cinema, and particularly in the lush and passionate screen dramas of the 1920s. This book offers an introduction to the cinema of this extraordinary period, outlining the development of the form between the end of the First World War and the introduction of synchronized sound at the end of the 1920s. It addresses the relationship between film aesthetics and the industrial and political contexts of film production through a series of case studies of 'national' cinemas. It also focuses on film-going as the ... Read more
Since the spectacular success of The Artist (2011) there has been a resurgence of interest in silent cinema, and particularly in the lush and passionate screen dramas of the 1920s. This book offers an introduction to the cinema of this extraordinary period, outlining the development of the form between the end of the First World War and the introduction of synchronized sound at the end of the 1920s. It addresses the relationship between film aesthetics and the industrial and political contexts of film production through a series of case studies of 'national' cinemas. It also focuses on film-going as the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Short Cuts
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231181174
SKU
V9780231181174
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About Lawrence Napper
Lawrence Napper is lecturer in film studies at King's College, London. He is the author of British Cinema and Middlebrow Culture in the Interwar Years (2009) and The Great War in British Popular Cinema of the 1920s: Before Journey's End (2015).
Reviews for Silent Cinema: Before the Pictures Got Small
A short introduction though this may be, in eschewing the common textbook structure of plotting a few disparate movements in film history, it manages to construct instead a nuanced and impressively cohesive picture of the diversity of silent cinemas and their cultures.
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