Silent Cinema: An IntroductionPublished for the first time in English in 1994 as "Burning Passions," Cherchi Usai's groundbreaking guide to silent film studies has become the indispensable textbook for scholars, researchers, and archivists. This much-awaited sequel to the first edition has been extensively rewritten and updated in order to reflect the spectacular development witnessed by the discipline in the past few years. In addition, two new chapters have been added for this edition. The first is an extensive analysis of color technology and aesthetics, from hand-coloring to the dawn of Technicolor. The second is a detailed account of how silent films are saved from destruction, restored, and made accessible by film archives. A number of new illustrations, tables, bibliographical references and historical sources add additional value to this fundamental survey of the first thirty years in the history of the moving image. |
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... distributed short films accompanied by texts and arias from light theatre and opera . The premonitory signs of the real revolution , and the end of the silent era , emerged around 1918 in Germany , thanks to Vogt , Engel and Massolle ...
... distributed short films accompanied by texts and arias from light theatre and opera . The premonitory signs of the real revolution , and the end of the silent era , emerged around 1918 in Germany , thanks to Vogt , Engel and Massolle ...
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... distributed in the United States by Indiana University Press ) ; Paolo Cherchi Usai and Lorenzo Codelli ( eds ) , Before Caligari . German Cinema , 1895–1920 ( Pordenone : Biblioteca dell'Immagine , 1990 , distributed in the United ...
... distributed in the United States by Indiana University Press ) ; Paolo Cherchi Usai and Lorenzo Codelli ( eds ) , Before Caligari . German Cinema , 1895–1920 ( Pordenone : Biblioteca dell'Immagine , 1990 , distributed in the United ...
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... distributed ; what was the relation between the images projected onto the screen and the space that surrounded them ; to what model of perception the rival technologies and patented inventions referred . On the other hand , an analysis ...
... distributed ; what was the relation between the images projected onto the screen and the space that surrounded them ; to what model of perception the rival technologies and patented inventions referred . On the other hand , an analysis ...
Contents
The Romance of Celluloid | 1 |
The Way of All Flesh Tones | 21 |
The Ethics of Film Preservation | 44 |
Copyright | |
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