Description
Book SynopsisDrawing 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.
Trade ReviewBean, Kapse, and Horak's collection promises to play a crucial role in the reconfiguration of silent film history, encouraging historians to take an approach that is less strictly linear, that pays attention to the margins and the films and film cultures that exist at the periphery.
* Canadian Journal of Film Studies *
Recommended.
* Choice *
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.
* Scandinavian Studies *
Table of ContentsIntroduction / Jennifer M. Bean
Part I. Picturing Space
Introduction / Anupama Kapse
1. Location, "Location": On the Plausibility of Place Substitution / Mark B. Sandberg
2. Insurgent Place as Visual Space: Location Shots and Rival Geographies of 1857 Lucknow / Priya Jaikumar,
Part II. Prints in Motion
Introduction / Jennifer M. Bean
3. Robespierre Has Been Lost: D. W. Griffith's Movies and the Soviet Twenties / Yuri Tsivian
4. An Afterlife for Junk Prints: Serials and Other "Classics" in Late-1920s Tehran / Kaveh Askari
5. Translations and Transportation: Toward a Transnational History of the Intertitle / Laura Isabel Serna
Part III: Impertinent Appropriations
Introduction / Anupama Kapse
6. From "Misemono" to Zigomar: A Discursive History of Early Japanese Cinema / Aaron Gerow
7. The Crisscrossed Stare: Chinese Protest and Propaganda in the Not-So-Silent Era / Yiman Wang
8. Around the World in 80 Minutes: Douglas Fairbanks and the Indian Stunt Film / Anupama Kapse
Part IV: Cosmopolitan Sexualities and Female Stars
Introduction / Jennifer M. Bean
9. National Soul/Cosmopolitan Skin: Swedish Cinema at a Crossroads / Jan Olsson
10. Queer Crossings: Greta Garbo, National Identity, and Gender Deviance / Laura Horak
11. Cosmopolitan Women: Marlene Dietrich, Anna May Wong, and Leni Riefenstahl / Patrice Petro
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