The Silent Cinema Reader
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A comprehensive resource of key writings on early cinema, addressing filmmaking practice, film form, style and content, and the ways in which silent films were exhibited and understood by their audiences, from the beginnings of film in the late nineteenth century to the coming of sound in the late 1920s.
| Editor | Lee Grieveson and Peter Krämer |
|---|---|
| Reference | P3579 |
| Date | 2003 |
| Type | Publication |
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