LEADER 04877nam 2200685k 450 001 9910794822703321 005 20231206233730.0 010 $a1-83871-062-0 010 $a1-83871-410-3 010 $a1-84457-569-1 024 7 $a10.5040/9781838710620 024 8 $a205403 035 $a(CKB)4340000000023575 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4764044 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11314842 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL976335 035 $a(OCoLC)965718610 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5400935 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11568209 035 $a(OCoLC)1039698709 035 $a(OCoLC)1100851715 035 $a(UkLoBP)CDCBFIFS9781838710620 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4764044 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000023575 100 $a20200925d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$a100 silent films /$fBryony Dixon 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aLondon :$cBritish Film Institute :$c Bloomsbury Publishing (UK),$d2011. 215 $a1 online resource (270 pages) $cillustrations, photographs 225 1 $aScreen Guides 311 $a1-84457-308-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe Nibelungen Saga (Die Nibelungen Saga) -- Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horrors (Nosferatu: Eine Symphonie des Grauens) -- The Oyster Princess (Die Austernprinzessin) -- Page of Madness (Kurutta ippeiji) -- Pandora's Box (Die Bu?chse der Pandora) -- Panorama du Grand Canal vu d'un bateau -- Paris qui dort (The Crazy Ray) -- The Passion of Joan of Arc (La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc) -- People on Sunday (Menschen am Sonntag) -- The Perils of Pauline -- The Phantom Carriage (Ko?rkarlen) -- Policeman (Keisatsukan) -- Poor Little Rich Girl -- Premier prix de violoncelle -- The Queen of Spades (Pikovaya dama) -- Regen (Rain) -- Revolutionshochzeit (The Last Night) -- Safety Last! -- The Scarecrow -- Sex in Chains (Geschlecht in Fesseln) -- The Smiling Madame Beudet (La Souriante Madame Beudet) -- The Son of the Sheik -- The Spirit of His Forefathers -- Stachka (Strike) -- Stage Struck -- The Student of Prague (Der Student von Prag) -- Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans -- Suspense -- The Talisman (Pied de mouton) -- The Thief of Bagdad -- The Three-Must-Get-Theres -- Tol'able David -- Topical Budget 93-1 The Derby 1913 -- Underworld -- The Unknown -- Les Vampires -- Voyage a? travers l'impossible (The Impossible Voyage) -- Way Down East -- The White Slave Trade (Den hvide slavehandel) -- The Wind -- Witchcraft through the Ages (Ha?xan) -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $a100 Silent Films provides an authoritative and accessible history of silent cinema through one hundred of its most interesting and significant films. As Bryony Dixon contends, silent cinema is not a genre; it is the first 35 years of film history, a complex negotiation between art and commerce and a union of creativity and technology. At its most grand - on the big screen with a full orchestral accompaniment - it is magnificent, permitting a depth of emotional engagement rarely found in other fields of cinema. Silent film was hugely popular in its day, and its success enabled the development of large-scale film production in the United States and Europe. It was the start of our fascination with the moving image as a disseminator of information and as mass entertainment with its consequent celebrity culture. The digital revolution in the last few years and the restoration and reissue of archival treasures have contributed to a huge resurgence of interest in silent cinema. Bryony Dixon's illuminating guide introduces a wide range of films of the silent period (1895-1930), including classics such as The Birth of a Nation (1915), The General (1926), Metropolis (1927), Sunrise (1927) and Pandora's Box (1928), alongside more unexpected choices, and represents major genres and directors of the period - Griffith, Keaton, Chaplin, Murnau, Sjos?trom?, Dovzhenko and Eisenstein - together with an introductory overview and useful filmographic and bibliographic information. 410 0$aBFI screen guides. 517 3 $aOne hundred silent films 517 3 $aHundred silent films 606 $aSilent films$xHistory and criticism 606 $aSilent films$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst01118542 606 $aFilm & Media 606 $aFilms, cinema$2bic 608 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$2fast 615 0$aSilent films$xHistory and criticism. 615 7$aSilent films. 615 4$aFilm & Media. 615 7$aFilms, cinema. 676 $a791.43/61 700 $aDixon$b Bryony$01476373 712 02$aBritish Film Institute 801 0$bUkLoBP 801 1$bUkLoBP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910794822703321 996 $a100 silent films$93690983 997 $aUNINA