Silent Features

Description

A collection of essays on fifteen feature-length silent films and two silent serial features. The aims of the collection are threefold: to provide detailed accounts of a wide array of films produced between the early 1910s and the early 1930s; to focus principally on films that may be well-known but that have rarely been discussed in detail; and hence to appeal to those interested in film style and its history.

Outstanding group of contributors – see details on Author Biography page – all are acknowledged and well-regarded scholars in the field, many of whom have established international reputations for their work in this area and a world-renowned editor.

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Introduction Steve Neale

Germinal(1913) Ben Brewster

Assunta Spina (1915) Lea Jacobs

L`Enfant de Paris (1913) Heather Heckman

The Wishing Ring (1914) Rebecca Genauer

The Phantom Carriage (Körkalen) (1921) John Gibbs and Douglas Pye

Dr. Mabuse, Der Spieler (1922) Steve Neale

Lazybones (1925) Scott Higgins

Lady Windermere’s Fan (1925) Steve Neale

The Strong Man (1926) Joe Kember

Miss Mend (Mucc Mettò) (1926) Vincent Bohlinger

Wings (1927) Sara Ross

Palais de Dance (1928) Martin Shingler

Piccadilly (1929) John Burrows

The Kiss (1929) Patrick Keating

Love and Duty (Lian `ai yu yiwu) (1931) Anne Kerlan

I Was Born, But....(Umarete wa mita keredo) (1932) Alex Clayton

Street Without End (Kagari naki hodo) (1934) Lisa Dombrowski

Bibliography

Index

 

 

 

 

Sujets

• Industries
• Wings
• Dr. Mabuse
• Película fotográfica
• Jon Andersen
• Miss Mend
• Love and Duty
• University of Exeter Press
• I Was Born, But...
• Doctor Mabuse
• Wing (disambiguation)
• Lady Windermere's Fan
• General officer
• History of film
• Entertainment
• Economics
• Lazybones
• Business
• General
• Wing
• Piccadilly
• Docteur Mabuse
• Kiss
• Film
• Industrie
• Media

Informations

• Publié par: University of Exeter Press
• Date de parution: 13 février 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781905816255
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 5 Mo

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Silent Features
A collection of essays on fifteen feature-length silent films and two silent serial features. The aims of the collection are threefold: to provide detailed accounts of a wide array of films produced between the early 1910s and the early 1930s; to focus principally on films that may be well-known but that have rarely been discussed in detail; and hence to appeal to those interested in film style and its history.
Silent Features is a unique and an important contribution to the general field of film studies, but particularly to the serious study of silent films. The authors are all specialists in their subjects, and all are remarkably (and thankfully) jargon-free. Each essay is highly readable, informative, and whenever possible illustrated with frame stills. For each film, readers are given relevant cultural and historical information, an appropriate business background, and a cinematic definition of visual style, generic context, and narrative structure. Neale has contributed an excellent introductory essay addressing the issues of feature film definition, acting styles, international comparisons, and the general progression of cinema throughout the decades represented.
Professor Jeanine Basinger, Wesleyan University
Steve Neale is Emeritus Professor of Film Studies at the University of Exeter, and Academic Director of the Bill Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture.
Exeter Studies in Film History
Series Editors: Richard Maltby, Professor of Screen Studies, Flinders University
Steve Neale, Professor of Film Studies, University of Exeter

Parallel Tracks: The Railroad and Silent Cinema , Lynne Kirby (1997)
The World According to Hollywood, 1918-1939 , Ruth Vasey (1997)
Film Europe and Film America : Cinema, Commerce and Cultural Exchange 1920-1939 , edited by Andrew Higson and Richard Maltby (1999)
A Paul Rotha Reader , edited by Duncan Petrie and Robert Kruger (1999)
A Chorus of Raspberries: British Film Comedy 1929-1939 , David Sutton (2000)
The Great Art of Light and Shadow:
Archaeology of the Cinema , Laurent Mannoni (2000)
Popular Filmgoing in 1930s Britain: A Choice of Pleasures , John Sedgwick (2000)
Alternative Empires: European Modernist Cinemas and Cultures of Imperialism , Martin Stollery (2000)
Hollywood, Westerns and the 1930s: The Lost Trail , Peter Stanfield (2001)
Young and Innocent? The Cinema in Britain 1896-1930 , ed. Andrew Higson (2002)
Legitimate Cinema: Theatre Stars in Silent British Films 1908-1918 , Jon Burrows (2003)
The Big Show: British Cinema Culture in the Great War (1914-1918) , Michael Hammond (2006)
Multimedia Histories: From the Magic Lantern to the Internet , edited by James Lyons and John Plunkett (2007)
Going to the Movies: Hollywood and the Social Experience of Cinema , edited by Richard Maltby, Melvyn Stokes and Robert C. Allen (2007)
Alternative Film Culture in Inter-War Britain , Jamie Sexton (2008)
Marketing Modernity: Victorian Popular Shows and Early Cinema , Joe Kember (2009)
British Cinema and Middlebrow Culture in the Interwar Years , Lawrence Napper (2009)
Reading the Cinematograph: The Cinema in British Short Fiction 1896-1912 , edited by Andrew Shail (2010)
Charles Urban: Pioneering the Non-fiction
Film in Britain and America, 1897-1925 , Luke McKernan (2013)
Cecil Hepworth and the Rise of the British Film Industry 1899-1911 , Simon Brown (2016)
The Appreciation of Film: The Postwar Film Society Movement and Film Culture in Britain , Richard L. MacDonald (2016)
The Lost Jungle: Cliffhanger Action and Hollywood Serials of the 1930s and 1940s , Guy Barefoot (2016)
Celluloid War Memorials: The British Instructional Films Company and the Memory of the Great War , Mark Connelly (2017)
UEP also publishes the celebrated five-volume series looking at the early years of English cinema, The Beginnings of the Cinema in England , by John Barnes.

First published in 2018 by
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2018 Steve Neale and the individual contributors

The right of Steve Neale and the individual contributors to be identified as authors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

Hardback ISBN 978 0 85989 289 6
Paperback ISBN 978 0 85989 291 9
Cover image: still from Lady Windermere s Fan (1925), Chapter 8
This book is dedicated to all devotees, scholars and students of silent cinema
Contents

Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction Steve Neale
1 Germinal (1913) Ben Brewster
2 Assunta Spina (1915) Lea Jacobs
3 L Enfant de Paris (1913) Heather Heckman
4 The Wishing Ring (1914) Rebecca Genauer
5 The Phantom Carriage (K rkarlen) (1921) John Gibbs and Douglas Pye
6 Dr Mabuse, der Spieler (Dr Mabuse, the Gambler) (1922) Steve Neale
7 Lazybones (1925) Scott Higgins
8 Lady Windermere s Fan (1925) Steve Neale
9 The Strong Man (1926) Joe Kember
10 Miss Mend (1926) Vincent Bohlinger
11 Wings (1927) Sara Ross
12 Palais de Danse (1928) Martin Shingler
13 Piccadilly (1929) Jon Burrows
14 The Kiss (1929) Patrick Keating
15 Love and Duty (Lian ai yu yiwu) (1931) Anne Kerlan
16 I Was Born, But . . . (Umarete wa mita keredo) (1932) Alex Clayton
17 Street Without End (Kagiri naki hodo) (1934) Lisa Dombrowski

Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements
I would like first of all to thank Simon Baker, Richard Maltby and University of Exeter Press for their support. In addition, I would like to thank Ben Brewster and Lea Jacobs for agreeing to rework their online article on acting, Chris Grosvenor for compiling the index, Scott Higgins and Lisa Dombrowski for all their help, and all the other contributors to this book for their patience. Last but not least, love and thanks go to Karen Edwards, who supported me throughout and who helped me through a computer crisis of epic proportions.
S.N.
Notes on Contributors
Vincent Bohlinger is Associate Professor and Director of Film Studies at Rhode Island College. His primary interests are in Soviet cinema, and he is a regular contributor to Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema and KinoKultura . He is currently working on a book on Soviet film style from the late 1920s to the mid-1930s and co-editing a collection of essays on movie stars in Russian/Soviet cinema.
Ben Brewster was editor of Screen and taught Film Studies at the University of Kent before becoming Assistant Director of the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research in Madison, Wisconsin. He is the co-author of Theatre to Cinema (1996) and has contributed articles on early cinema to Screen , Cinema Journal , Film History , Cinema & Cie and a number of essay collections.
Jon Burrows is an Associate Professor in the Department of Film and Television Studies, University of Warwick. He is the author of Legitimate Cinema (2003) and The British Cinema Boom, 1909-1914 (2017) and various essays and articles on the subject of silent British cinema.
Alex Clayton is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television at the University of Bristol. He is the author of The Body in Hollywood Slapstick (2007), coeditor of The Language and Style of Film Criticism (2011), and a member of the editorial board of Movie: A Journal of Film Criticism . He has published a range of essays on screen comedy, performance and aesthetics, and his next book is entitled Funny How? Sketch Comedy and the Art of Humor (forthcoming).
Lisa Dombrowski is Associate Professor of Film Studies at Wesleyan University. She is the author of The Films of Samuel Fuller: If You Die, I ll Kill You! (2008) and the editor of Kazan Revisited (2011), and has written for the New York Times , Film Comment , Film Quarterly, Film History , and the Criterion Collection.
Rebecca Genauer is a doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she is undertaking research on William de Mille. She is also a contributor to Films on Ice: Cinemas of the Arctic (2015).
John Gibbs is Professor of Film at the University of Reading. He is a member of the editorial board of Movie: a journal of film criticism and the author of Mise-en-Sce ne: Film Style and Interpretation (2002), Filmmakers Choices (2006) and The Life of Mise-en-Sce ne: Visual Style and British Film Criticism, 1946-78 (2013). His collaborations with Douglas Pye include the collections Style and Meaning (2005) and The Long Take: Critical Approaches (2017), audiovisual essays on Notorious and The Phantom Carriage and coediting the series Palgrave Close Readings in Film and Television .
Heather Heckman is Director of Moving Image Research Collections at the University of South Carolina. She has contributed essays to The American Archivist , The Moving Image and Colour and the Moving Image: History, Theory, Aesthetics, Archive (2013).
Scott Higgins is Charles W. Fries Professor of Film Studies and Director of the College of Film and the Moving Image at Wesleyan University. His books include Harnessing the Technicolor Rainbow (2007), Arnheim for Film and Media Studies (2011), and Matinee Melodrama (2016). He has contributed to Serial Narrative (2017), Behind the Silver Screen: Editing and Special Effects (2016), and The Ultimate Stallone Reader (2014).
Lea Jacobs teaches film history and aesthetics in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of The Wages of Sin: Censorship and the Fallen Woman Film (1997), The Decline of Sentiment: American Film in the 1920s (2008), Film Rhythm after Sound (2015), and co-author of Theatre to Cinema (1998). She has also contributed articles to Cinema Journal , Film History , Iris , Screen and a number of other publications.
Patrick Keating is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communic