100 Silent Films by Bryony Dixon

100 Silent Films by Bryony Dixon

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Zusammenfassung

?100 Silent Films provides an authoritative and accessible history of silent cinema through one hundred of its most interesting and significant films.

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100 Silent Films by Bryony Dixon

?100 Silent Films provides an authoritative and accessible history of silent cinema through one hundred of its most interesting and significant films.
This is no bluffer's guideThe 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
David Thomson is arguably the doyen of "film list" authors and Dixon shares both his rare ability to justify a choice with a single cinematic trump card and his lucid prose style - her description of Dziga Vertov's radical montage as "visual Esperanto" is inspired. She captures some of silent cinema's most sublime moments - Charlie Chaplin mournfully eating his shoelaces in The Gold Rush (1925) or the woodland chase in People on Sunday (1930) - with an infectious joy. -- The Times Literary Supplement * Lucian Robinson *
BRYONY DIXON is a curator at the BFI National Archive responsible for the collections of silent film. She has researched and written on many aspects of early and silent film and co-directs the annual British Silent Film Festival as well as programming for a variety of film festivals and events worldwide.
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ISBN 13 9781844573080
ISBN 10 1844573087
Titel 100 Silent Films
Autor Bryony Dixon
Serie Bfi Screen Guides
Buchzustand Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart Paperback
Verlag Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Erscheinungsjahr 2011-06-21
Seitenanzahl 288
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