Silent Cinema

Before the Pictures Got Small

Lawrence Napper (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

144 Seiten

2017
Wallflower Press (Verlag)
978-0-231-18117-4 (ISBN)

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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 most popular leisure activity of the age. Areas such as the star system, cinema buildings, musical accompaniments, film fashions, and fan cultures are addressed - all the elements that ensured that the experience of the pictures was 'big'. The international dominance of Hollywood is outlined, as are the different responses to that dominance in Britain, Germany, and the USSR. Case studies seek to move beyond the familiar silent canon, and include The Oyster Princess (1919), It (1927), Shooting Stars (1927), and The Girl with the Hatbox (1927).
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).

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).

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Going to the Pictures
2. Germany: Beyond “Expressionism”
3. Russia: “Of all the arts, the most important for us is the cinema”
4. America: Continuity and Dominance
5. Britain: Looking Two Ways
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	02.02.2017
Reihe/Serie	Short Cuts
Zusatzinfo	16 b&w illustrations
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 203 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-231-18117-5 / 0231181175
ISBN-13	978-0-231-18117-4 / 9780231181174
Zustand	Neuware