Silent Film

Rutgers Depth of Field Series

by Richard Abel (Editor)

Covers colour processes, choreographic styles of acting, sound accompaniment, reception, the development from 'cinema of attractions' to narrative film, national cinemas and relations with other forms of mass culture.

Genres: Film

330 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1995

About the author

Richard Owen Abel (born 1941) is Professor Emeritus of International Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Michigan.

Reviews

[Greta · Rating 3 out of 5]

Collection of essays remarkably similar, but smaller to the Silent Cinema Reader—some essays have parts that were further developed in the other book. Ben Singer’s “Female Power in the Serial-Queen Melodrama” is more positive than the section on Pearl White’s victimization in the other book, and Gaylyn Studlar’s (The Perils of Pleasure? Fan magazine discourse as women’s commodified culture in the 1920s) is good in saying women weren’t completely passive consumers and could be skeptical—and that fan magazines tended to avoid scandal mongering. A section on Valentino was developed and is in The Silent Cinema Reader