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The Oxford Handbook of Silent Cinema is a collection of new scholarship that investigates the first decades of motion-picture history from diverse perspectives and methodologies. Featuring over thirty essays by leading scholars in the field, the Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of cinema's earliest years while also illuminating how cinema derived strength from competing cultural forms, becoming in the process the most influential mass medium of the early twentieth century.

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The Oxford Handbook of Silent Cinema is a collection of new scholarship that investigates the first decades of motion-picture history from diverse perspectives and methodologies. Featuring over thirty essays by leading scholars in the field, the Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of cinema's earliest years while also illuminating how cinema derived strength from competing cultural forms, becoming in the process the most influential mass medium of the early twentieth century.
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Charlie Keil is a professor in the Cinema Studies Institute and the Department of History at the University of Toronto, where he also serves as Principal of Innis College. He has published seven books, the majority focusing on early and silent cinema, with an emphasis on the transitional era of American cinema. He is currently working on a study of the origins of Hollywood, both as a filmmaking center and a concept, co-authored with Denise McKenna. Rob King is a professor at Columbia University's School of the Arts. He is the author of Hokum! The Early Sound Slapstick Short and Depression-Era Mass Culture and the award-winning The Fun Factory: The Keystone Film Company and the Emergence of Mass Culture. He has also edited or coedited the volumes Cornell Woolrich and Transmedial Noir, Beyond the Screen: Institutions, Networks, and Publics of Early Cinema, Slapstick Comedy, and Early Cinema and the "National." King is currently working on a monograph on the adult filmmaker Radley Metzger.