An edition of The Silent Cinema Reader
(2003)
The silent cinema reader
by Lee Grieveson and Peter Kramer
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SILENT CINEMA READER; ED. BY LEE GRIEVESON.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Prologue: introduction
3. At the beginning: motion picture production, representation and ideology at the Edison and Lumiere Companies / Charles Musser
4. Film projection and variety shows: introduction
5. Now you see it, now you don't: the temporality of the cinema of attractions / Tom Gunning
6. The Kiss in the tunnel (1899), G.A. Smith and the emergence of the edited film in England / Frank Gray
7. The cinema of attractions in France, 1896-1904 / Richard Abel
8. Storytelling and the nickelodeon: introduction
9. Moving towards fictional narratives: story films become the dominant product, 1903-1907 / Charles Musser
10. Path ǧoes to town': French films create a market for the nickelodeon, 1903-1906 / Richard Abel
11. Manhattan nickelodeons: new data on audiences and exhibition / Ben Singer
12. Cinema and reform: introduction
13. From the opium den to the theatre of morality: moral discourse and the film process in early American cinema / Tom Gunning
14. How many times shall Caesar bleed in sport: Shakespeare and the cultural debate about moving pictures / Roberta E. Pearson and William Uricchio
15. Fighting films: race, morality, and the governing of cinema, 1912-1915 / Lee Grieveson
16. Feature films and cinema programmes: introduction
17. A Star is born: American culture and the dynamics of Charlie Chaplin's star image, 1913-1916 / Charles J. Maland
18. An awful struggle between love and ambition: serial heroines, serial stars and their female fans / Shelley Stamp
19. Traffic in souls (1913): an experiment in feature-length narrative construction / Ben Brewster
20. Race, melodrama and The birth of a nation (1915) / Linda Williams
21. The international exploration of cinematic expressivity / Kristin Thompson
22. Classical Hollywood cinema: introduction
23. The making of a comic star: Buster Keaton and The Saphead (1920) / Peter Kramer
24. The perfect lover?: Valentino and ethnic masculinity in the 1920s / Gaylyn Studlar
25. The new woman and consumer culture: Cecil B. DeMille's sex comedies / Sumiko Higashi
26. The open door: Hollywood's public relations at home and abroad, 1922-1928 / Ruth Vasey
27. European cinemas: introduction
28. New notes on Russian film culture between 1908 and 1919 / Yuri Tsivian.
29. Early alternatives to the Hollywood mode of production: implications for Europe's avant-garde / Kristin Thompson
30. Monumental heroics: form and style in Eisenstein's silent films / David Bordwell
31. Art and industry: German cinema of the 1920s / Joseph Garncarz.
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