The Oxford handbook of silent cinema / edited by Rob King and Charlie Keil.
| Other author | King, Rob, 1975- |
| Other author | Keil, Charlie. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024] |
| Description | xviii, 799 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Handbooks Online Literature |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Silent cinema |
| Contents | Introduction : the history of the history of silent film / Rob King and Charlie Keil -- The invention of cinema / Tom Gunning -- Early cinema and the emergence of television : an archaeology of intertwined media / Doron Galili -- The right to one's own image : animism, the student of Prague, and legal doctrine / Stefan Andriopoulos -- Copying technologies : two pirates, two centuries / Jane Gaines -- The unfinished business of history : defense and illustration of the concept 'cultural series' / André Gaudreault and Philippe Marion -- Reviewing maple viewing (Momijigari, 1899) / Daisuke Miyao -- African-American film history beyond cinema : William Foster and the legacy of Black theatrical comedy / Allyson Nadia Field -- Picture, shadow, play : ontology, archaeology, ecology / Weihong Bao -- Biograph 1904 : the invention of chase comedy / Rob King -- Storied spaces : staging and editing in early American feature films / Miriam Siegel -- Salon tango : Hollywood pictorialism and the beaux-arts tradition / Tom Paulus -- Symbolist impressions : modern theater, Germaine Dulac, and the making of an art cinema in Belle Époque France (or the false ideal of the cinema against theater) / Tami Williams -- Popular science monthly and the uses of moving pictures / Greg Waller -- Cinema and science in the silent era / Scott Curtis and Oliver Gaycken -- Cinema on the move : museum-sponsored expedition film in the silent era / Alison Griffiths -- Babies and brochures : public service pamphlet films of the US Children's Bureau (1919-1926) / Jennifer Horne -- Curiosity seekers, morbid minds, and embarrassed young ladies : female audiences and reproductive politics onscreen / Shelley Stamp -- Unlikely allies : crafting Hollywood as institution and invention / Charlie Keil and Denise McKenna -- A system of thorough co-operation : technology, service, and the film labs of Hollywood / Luci Marzola -- A prologue to Hollywood : Sid Graumann, film premieres, and the (real estate) development of Hollywood / Ross Melnick -- Franchising as a strategy of national feature distribution in the 1910s : the case of the triangle film corporation / Derek Long -- Paramount Pictures, national advertising agencies, and the conspicuous distribution of first-run feature films in the United States / Paul S. Moore -- Going silent on modernity : periodization, geopolitics, and public opinion / Giorgio Bertellini -- Empire/state/media / Lee Grieveson -- Dandyism, circulation, and emergent cinema in Iran : the powers of asynchrony / Kaveh Askari -- The covered wagon : location shooting and settler melodrama / Jennifer Peterson -- Scandinavian cinema, location, and the discourse of quality in 1920 / Anne Bachmann -- Running late : the silent serial, the cliffhanger, and the exigencies of time, 1914-1920 / Ruth Mayer -- The silent film criticism of Siegfried Kracauer / Johannes von Moltke -- The decline of middlebrow taste in celebrity culture : the first fan magazines / Sumiko Higashi -- The many genders and sexualities of American and European silent cinema / Laura Horak -- Art, anti-art, and poetic cinema : revisiting un Chien andalou (Luis Buñuel, 1929) / Breixo Viejo -- Coda : silent film after sound / Donna Kornhaber. |
| Abstract | "The historiography of silent cinema has long been the leading edge of scholarly innovation in film history. The Oxford Handbook of Silent Cinema brings that scholarship up to date with thirty-four chapters informed by new perspectives in film and media studies and the humanities. Featuring contributions by both established and up-and-coming scholars, the volume is arranged around a series of broad topics: the "invention" of cinema as both technology and medium; the intermedial development of film aesthetics and genres; non-theatrical and non-commercial uses of cinema; the political economy of Hollywood mass culture; film and global modernities; and silent cinema's publics and counter-publics. Unlike other anthologies of this nature, The Oxford Handbook of Silent Cinema is more than just a collection of disparate new work. Taken as a whole, the essays gathered here signal an impulse to rethink silent film history, narrowly conceived, as instead a form of transmedial history attuned to the relations amongst media forms and technologies, artistic traditions and practices, and economic and governmental institutions. The volume takes stock of what the history of silent cinema has been, but it also introduces agendas intended to shape new work for the future"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2023024944 |
| ISBN | 9780190496692 (hardback) |
| ISBN | (epub) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |