Bryony Dixon

100 Silent Films (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

100 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, Sjöström, Dovzhenko and Eisenstein - together with an introductory overview and useful filmographic and bibliographic information.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781838714109
• Artikelnr.: 59861905

Autorenporträt

Bryony Dixon is curator of silent film at the BFI National Archive. She is the author of 100 Silent Films (BFI Screen Guides, 2011) and has written numerous articles and book chapters on silent cinema and archiving. She is co-director of the British Silent Film Festival and has programmed films for many international festivals. She has been lead curator on a number of the BFI's recent film restorations, including Underground (1928), Shooting Stars (1927), Epic of Everest (1924), The Great White Silence (1924), all nine surviving Hitchcock silent films and the BFI's large format Victorian films.

Inhaltsangabe

From the contents:
Aelita (1924)
Airship Destroyer (1909)
Arsenal (1929)
Ballet Mecanique (1924)
Battles of the Coronel and Falkland Islands (1928)
Battleship Potemkin (1925)
Berlin Symphony of a City (1927)
Big Parade (1925)
Big Swallow (1901)
Birth of a Nation (1916)
Black Pirate (1926)
Blackmail (1929)
Brasier Ardent (1923)
Broken Blossoms (1919)
By the law (1926)
Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1919)
Cabiria (1914)
Cameraman (1928)
Cameraman's Revenge (Starevitch)
Casanova (1928)
Circus (1928)
Coeur Fidele (1923)
Cottage on Dartmoor (1929)
Crossways
Cursed be War (1913)
Deux Timides (1928)
Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)
Docks of New York (1928)
Douro, Faine Fluvial (1931) late silent
Earth
En Rade
Erotikon (1929)
Fall of the House of Usher (1928)
Fantomas series
Faust (1926)
Finis Terrae (1928)
Fire! (1901)
Four Devils (1911)
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)
Fugitive, The (1915)
Girl in Every Port, a (1928)
Golem, Der
Gosta Berlings Saga
Great Train Robbery (1903)
Greed
HaxanHirondelle et la Mésange (1920)
Hotes de L'Air (1910) aka Glimpses of Bird Life
Inferno (1911)
Informer (1929)
Ingeborg Holm (1913) Sjöström
Intolerance
Italian Straw Hat (1927)
Japonaiserie (1904)
Joyless Street
Kean
Kid, The
La Belle Nivernais (1923) Epstein again!
Last Laugh, The
Les Miserables (1925)
Lodger, The (1926)
Lure of Crooning Water, The (1920)
Maldone
Man with a Movie camera
Manhatta (1921)
Mantrap
Marie du Chateau Maudit (1910)
Marriage Circle
Max Toreador
Menilmontant (1926)
Metropolis
Nanook of the North
Napoleon
Nibelungen Saga 1923-4
Nosferatu
Page of Madness
Pandora's Box
Paris Qui Dort (1923)
Passion de Jeanne d'Arc (1928)
Patsy, The
People on Sunday
Perils of Pauline
Phantom Carriage (1921) Korkalen
Policeman
Poor Little Rich Girl
Queen of Spades Bauer
Regen
Revolutionshochzeit (1928) Sandberg
Rescued by Rover (1905)
Rien Que les Heures
Ring, The (1927)
Romeo and Juliet in the Snow (1920)
Safety Last (1923)
Scarecrow, The (1920)
Sex in Chains (1928)
Shakedown, The (1928)
Sheik, The
Smiling Madame Beudet, The
Stella Maris
Strike
Student of Prague (1913) Stellen Rye
Sunrise (1929)
Testimony (1920)
Tol'able David (1921)
Traffic in Souls (1913)
True Heart Susie (1919)
Umarete wa Mita Keredo (1932) aka I Was Born, But-
Underworld (1928)
Unknown (1927)
Vampyr - (1932)
Variete (1928)
Vie et Passion de Notre Seigneur Jesus Christ
Visages d'Enfants (1925)
Voyage a Travers L'Impossible (1904)
Warning Shadows (1923)
Waxworks(1924)
Wind, The (1928)
Woman of Paris, a (1923)

Rezensionen

This is no bluffer's guide. The enjoyment of silent cinema is Dixon's priority. As Dixon says when discussing Hell's Hinges (1916): "Nearly everything in current cinema can be traced back to the silent era." And that's why this guide is so valuable - anyone interested in how cinema became what it is today will find many of the answers here, both in Bryony Dixon's illuminating book and the films you will rush to watch the minute you put it down. Silent London