The Oxford Handbook of Silent Cinema

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• ISBN 10: 0197630324
• ISBN 13: 9780197630327
• Author: Charlie Keil, Rob King

With thirty-four original chapters from three dozen top scholars, The Oxford Handbook of Silent Cinema provides a thoughtful and provocative re-examination of a medium that would become the dominant form of mass entertainment by the second decade of the twentieth century. The volume is arranged around a series of broad topics: the “invention” of cinema as both technology and medium; the intermedial development of film aesthetics and genres; nontheatrical and non-commercial uses of cinema; the political economy of Hollywood mass culture; film and global modernities; and silent cinema’s publics and counter-publics.

The historiographical essays in this collection engage with the question of how we might rethink silent film history, especially in the context of the developed media ecosystem that defined the early 1900s. Influenced by methodologies as diverse as media archaeology and industrial studies, and sensitive to both the textual contours of silent films and the cultural, economic, and ideological currents that helped shape them, the Oxford Handbook of Silent Cinema invites its reader to envision its object in expansive terms that incorporate the propulsive energy of the first decades of the 1900s and deploy the analytical frameworks of the current day.

Table of contents:

1. 1. Introduction: The History of the History of Silent Film
2. Part I Origins: From Invention to Medium
3. 2. The Invention of Cinema
4. 3. Early Cinema and the Emergence of Television: An Archaeology of Intertwined Media
5. 4. The Right to One’s Own Image: Animism, The Student of Prague, and Legal Doctrine
6. 5. Copying Technologies: Two Pirates, Two Centuries
7. Part II Intermediality: Genre and Aesthetics in Silent Film
8. 6. The Unfinished Business of History: Defense and Illustration of the Concept “Cultural Series”
9. 7. Reviewing Maple Viewing (Momijigari, 1899)
10. 8. African American Film History Beyond Cinema: William Foster and the Legacy of Black Theatrical Comedy
11. 9. Picture, Shadow, Play: Ontology, Archaeology, Ecology
12. 10. Biograph 1904: The Invention of Chase Comedy
13. 11. Storied Spaces: Staging and Editing in Early American Feature Films
14. 12. Salon Tango: Hollywood Pictorialism and the Beaux-Arts Tradition
15. 13. Symbolist Impressions: Modern Theater, Germaine Dulac, and the Making of an Art Cinema in Belle Époque France (or, the False Ideal of the Cinema against Theater)
16. Part III Pedagogical Formations: Non-Theatrical Cinema and the Uses of Film
17. 14. Popular Science Monthly and the Uses of Moving Pictures
18. 15. Cinema and Science in the Silent Era
19. 16. Cinema on the Move: Museum-Sponsored Expedition Film in the Silent Era
20. 17. Babies and Brochures: Public Service Pamphlet Films of the US Children’s Bureau (1919–1926)
21. 18. Curiosity Seekers, Morbid Minds, and Embarrassed Young Ladies: Female Audiences and Reproductive Politics Onscreen
22. Part IV Hollywood, Inc.: The Institutions of Mass Culture
23. 19. Unlikely Allies: Crafting Hollywood as Institution and Invention
24. 20. A System of Thorough Cooperation: Technology, Service, and the Film Labs of Hollywood
25. 21. A Prologue to Hollywood: Sid Grauman, Film Premieres, and the (Real-Estate) Development of Hollywood
26. 22. Franchising as a Strategy of National Feature Distribution in the 1910s: The Case of the Triangle Film Corporation
27. 23. Paramount Pictures, National Advertising Agencies, and the Conspicuous Distribution of First-Run Feature Films in the United States
28. Part V Nation, Empire, World: The Spaces and Times of Modernity
29. 24. Going Silent on Modernity: Periodization, Geopolitics, and Public Opinion
30. 25. Empire • State • Media
31. 26. Dandyism, Circulation, and Emergent Cinema in Iran: The Powers of Asynchrony
32. 27. The Covered Wagon: Location Shooting and Settler Melodrama
33. 28. Scandinavian Cinema, Location, and the Discourse of Quality in 1920
34. 29. Running Late: The Silent Serial, the Cliffhanger, and the Exigencies of Time, 1914–1920
35. Part VI Cinematic Publics: Critics, Fans, Communities
36. 30. The Silent Film Criticism of Siegfried Kracauer
37. 31. The Decline of Middlebrow Taste in Celebrity Culture: The First Fan Magazines
38. 32. The Many Genders and Sexualities of American and European Silent Cinema
39. 33. Art, Anti-Art, and Poetic Cinema: Revisiting Un Chien andalou (Luis Buñuel, 1929)
40. 34. Coda: Silent Film after Sound

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