The Silent Cinema Reader

by Grieveson; Lee

• ISBN13: 9780415252843
• ISBN10: 0415252849
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2003-12-17
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

TheSilent Cinema Readerbrings together key writings on cinema from the beginnings of film in 1894 to the advent of sound in 1927, addressing the development of film production and exhibition technologies, methods of distribution, film form, and film culture during this critical period on film history. Thematic sections address: film projection and variety shows; storytelling and the Nickelodeon; cinema and reform; feature films and cinema programs; classical Hollywood cinema and European national cinemas. Each section is introduced by the editors, and contains suggestions for further readings and film viewings.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	ix
Notes on contributors	xi
Acknowledgements	xv
Lee Grieveson and Peter Kramer
INTRODUCTION	1	(10)
PROLOGUE
INTRODUCTION	11	(4)
1 Charles Mussen
AT THE BEGINNING: MOTION PICTURE PRODUCTION, REPRESENTATION AND IDEOLOGY AT THE EDISON AND LUMIÈRE COMPANIES	15	(16)
PART I Film projection and variety shows
INTRODUCTION	31	(10)
2 Tom Gunning
"NOW YOU SEE IT, NOW YOU DON'T": THE TEMPORALITY OF THE CINEMA OF ATTRACTIONS	41	(10)
3 Frank Gray
THE KISS IN THE TUNNEL (1899), G.A. SMITH AND THE EMERGENCE OF THE EDITED FILM IN ENGLAND	51	(12)
4 Richard Abel
THE CINEMA OF ATTRACTIONS IN FRANCE, 1896-1904	63	(14)
PART II Storytelling and the nickelodeon
INTRODUCTION	77	(10)
5 Charles Mussen
MOVING TOWARDS FICTIONAL NARRATIVES: STORY FILMS BECOME THE DOMINANT PRODUCT, 1903-1904	87	(16)
6 Richard Abel
PATHÉ GOES TO TOWN: FRENCH FILMS CREATE A MARKET FOR THE NICKELODEON, 1903-1906	103	(16)
7 Ben Singer
MANHATTAN NICKELODEONS: NEW DATA ON AUDIENCES AND EXHIBITORS	119	(16)
PART III Cinema and reform
INTRODUCTION	135	(10)
8 Tom Gunning
FROM THE OPIUM DEN TO THE THEATRE OF MORALITY: MORAL DISCOURSE AND THE FILM PROCESS IN EARLY AMERICAN CINEMA	145	(10)
9 Roberta E. Pearson and William Uricchio
HOW MANY TIMES SHALL CAESAR BLEED IN SPORT: SHAKESPEARE AND THE CULTURAL DEBATE ABOUT MOVING PICTURES	155	(14)
10 Lee Grieveson
FIGHTING FILMS: RACE, MORALITY, AND THE GOVERNING OF CINEMA, 1912-1915	169	(18)
PART IV Feature films and cinema programmes
INTRODUCTION	187	(10)
11 Charles J. Maland
A STAR IS BORN: AMERICAN CULTURE AND THE DYNAMICS OF CHARLIE CHAPLIN'S STAR IMAGE, 1913-1916	197	(13)
12 Shelley stamp
AN AWFUL STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOVE AND AMBITION: SERIAL HEROINES, SERIAL STARS AND THEIR FEMALE FANS	210	(16)
13 Ben Brewster
TRAFFIC IN SOULS (1913): AN EXPERIMENT IN FEATURE-LENGTH NARRATIVE CONSTRUCTION	226	(16)
14 Linda Williams
RACE, MELODRAMA, AND THE BIRTH OF A NATION (1915)	242	(12)
15 Kristin Thompson
THE INTERNATIONAL EXPLORATION OF CINEMATIC EXPRESSIVITY	254	(17)
PART V Classical Hollywood cinema
INTRODUCTION	271	(8)
16 Peter Kramer
THE MAKING OF A COMIC STAR: BUSTER KEATON AND THE SAPHEAD (1920)	279	(11)
17 Gaylyn Studlar
"THE PERFECT LOVER"?: VALENTINO AND ETHNIC MASCULINITY IN THE 1920's	290	(15)
18 Sumiko Higashi
THE NEW WOMAN AND CONSUMER CULTURE: CECIL B. DEMILLE'S SEX COMEDIES	305	(13)
19 Ruth Vasey
THE OPEN DOOR: HOLLYWOOD'S PUBLIC RELATIONS AT HOME AND ABROAD, 1922-1928	318	(11)
PART VI European cinemas
INTRODUCTION	329	(10)
20 Yuri Tsivian
NEW NOTES ON RUSSIAN FILM CULTURE BETWEEN 1908 AND 1919	339	(10)
21 Kristin Thompson
EARLY ALTERNATIVES TO THE HOLLYWOOD MODE OF PRODUCTION: IMPLICATIONS FOR EUROPE'S AVANT-GARDES	349	(19)
22 David Bordwell
MONUMENTAL HEROICS: FORM AND STYLE IN EISENSTEIN'S SILENT FILMS	368	(21)
23 Joseph Garncarz
ART AND INDUSTRY: GERMAN CINEMA OF THE 1920's	389	(12)
Bibliography	401	(15)
Index	416