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  • Category: Books (Performing Arts)
  • ISBN-10:  0253012309
  • ISBN-10:  0253012309
  • ISBN-13:  9780253012302
  • ISBN-13:  9780253012302
  • Publisher:  Indiana University Press
  • Publisher:  Indiana University Press
  • Pages:  360
  • Pages:  360
  • Binding:  Paperback
  • Binding:  Paperback
  • Pub Date:  01-May-2014
  • Pub Date:  01-May-2014
  • SKU:  0253012309-11-MPOD
  • SKU:  0253012309-11-MPOD
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In this cross-cultural history of narrative cinema and media from the 1910s to the 1930s, leading and emergent scholars explore the transnational crossings and exchanges that occurred in early cinema between the two world wars. Drawing on film archives from around the world, this volume advances the premise that silent cinema freely crossed national borders and linguistic thresholds in ways that became far less possible after the emergence of sound. These essays address important questions about the uneven forcesgeographic, economic, political, psychological, textual, and experientialthat underscore a non-linear approach to film history. The messiness of film history, as demonstrated here, opens a new realm of inquiry into unexpected political, social, and aesthetic crossings of silent cinema.

Jennifer M. Bean is Director of Cinema and Media Studies and Associate Chair of Comparative Literature at the University of Washington. She is co-editor of Flickers of Desire: Movie Stars of the 1910s.

Anupama Kapse is Assistant Professor in the Department of Media Studies, Queens College, CUNY. Her articles have appeared in Framework and Figurations in Indian Film.

Laura Horak is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Media Studies at Stockholm University. Her writings have appeared in Camera Obscura, Cinema Journal, and Film Quarterly.

This volume brings together much new and exciting scholarship on silent cinema. It is a timely and important scholarly intervention that foregrounds several promising new methodologies for examining space, place, and their relative displacements.Recommended.All in all, this is a truly commendable volume that again demonstrates the richness of silent cinema culture, and challenges us to rethink how this period can be researched. it also opens our eyes anew to how audiences can experience this amazing art form.Silent Cinema and the Politics of Space makes a very important contribution to scholarship on not onlls�
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