| Description |
viii, 319 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Rutgers depth of field series |
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Rutgers depth of field series.
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| Contents |
Introduction / Richard Abel -- The Color of Nitrate: Some Factual Observations on Tinting and Toning Manuals for Silent Films / Paolo Cherchi Usai -- The Sound of Silents / Norman King -- Kuleshov's Experiments and the New Anthropology of the Actor / Mikhail Yampolsky -- "Now You See It, Now You Don't": The Temporality of the Cinema of Attractions / Tom Gunning -- Pre-Classical American Cinema: Its Changing Modes of Film Production / Charles Musser -- Booming the Film Business: The Historical Specificity of Early French Cinema / Richard Abel -- Cinema as Anti-Theater: Actresses and Female Audiences in Wilhelmianian Germany / Heide Schlupmann -- Dickens, Griffith, and Film Theory Today / Rick Altman -- Female Power in the Serial-Queen Melodrama: The Etiology of an Anomaly / Ben Singer -- Russia, 1913: Cinema in the Cultural Landscape / Yuri Tsivian |
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Dante's Inferno and Caesar's Ghost: Intertextuality and Conditions of Reception in Early American Cinema / William Uricchio and Roberta E. Pearson -- "The Finest Outside the Loop": Motion Picture Exhibition in Chicago's Black Metropolis, 1905-1928 / Mary Carbine -- The Perils of Pleasure? Fan Magazine Discourse as Women's Commodified Culture in the 1920s / Gaylyn Studlar |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-306) and index |
| Subject |
Silent films -- History and criticism.
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| Author |
Abel, Richard, 1941-
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| LC no. |
95012437 |
| ISBN |
0813522250 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0813522269 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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