The silent cinema reader / edited by Lee Grieveson and Peter Krämer. - London : Routledge, 2004. - xvii, 423 p. : ill., facsims., ports. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 401-415) and index.

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 19th century to the coming of sound in the late 1920s.

Specialized.

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Silent films--History and criticism.
Motion pictures--History.

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