Silent Cinema 9781842433744

Vampires in Silent Cinema 139952576X, 9781399525763

One of the first academic books devoted to vampires in silent cinema Explores vampires in all of their cinematic forms a

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Soviet Cinema in the Silent Era, 1918–1935 9780292761100

The golden age of Soviet cinema, in the years following the Russian Revolution, was a time of both achievement and contr

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The Colour Fantastic: Chromatic Worlds of Silent Cinema 9789048532988

This book explores archival restoration, colour film technology, colour theory, and experimental film alongside beautifu

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Parallel tracks: the railroad and silent cinema 9780822318330, 9780822318392

From its earliest days, the cinema has enjoyed a special kinship with the railroad, a mutual attraction based on similar

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Special Effects and German Silent Film: Techno-Romantic Cinema 9789048551712

One of the most famous special-effects sequences in the history of cinema is the robot's anthropogenesis in Metropo

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Picturing American Modernity: Traffic, Technology, and the Silent Cinema 9780822391456

Study of the relationship between modernity and cinema, with an emphasis on how early-20th-century films represented tec

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Silent Cinema: Before the Pictures Got Small 9780231543507

Since the spectacular success of The Artist (2011) there has been a resurgence of interest in silent cinema, and particu

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Silent Life and Silent Language 9781944838294

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Irish Film Censorship: A Cultural Journey from Silent Cinema to Internet Pornography 1851828443, 9781851828449

This book maps the history of Irish film censorship from its origins in the 1910s, through to the all-encompassing Censo

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Cinematic Ghosts: Haunting and Spectrality from Silent Cinema to the Digital Era 9781628922141, 9781628922134, 9781501304729, 9781628922158

In 1896, Maxim Gorky declared cinema “the Kingdom of Shadows.” In its silent, ashen-grey world, he saw a land of spectra

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