This is a collection of essays which focus upon the most important aspects of the silent cinema, opening up parallels with the postmodern cinema of our own times. Subjects discussed include the colour processes, choreograhic styles of acting, sound accompaniment, reception, the development from "cinema of attractions" to narrative film, national cinemas and relations with other forms of mass culture.
| ISBN: | 9780485300765 |
| Publication date: | 1st February 1999 |
| Author: | Richard Professor of Humanities, Drake University, USA Abel |
| Publisher: | Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 300 pages |
| Genres: |
Film history, theory or criticism |