This text covers all aspects of the silent cinema, from its production to its life in books, magazines and in the heads of spectators. The author also leads readers through the problems of gauges, projection speeds and filmographies. A comprehensive bibliography lists the most reliable sources for information about silent cinema throughout the world, including libraries, archives and museums.

Burning Passions: Introduction to the Study of Silent Cinema

Humor & Entertainment

Usai, Paolo Cherchi

Movies

British Film Institute

This text covers all aspects of the silent cinema, from its production to its life in books, magazines and in the heads of spectators. The author also leads readers through the problems of gauges, projection speeds and filmographies. A comprehensive bibliography lists the most reliable sources for information about silent cinema throughout the world, including libraries, archives and museums.

This revised guide to silent film studies contains two new chapters that present an analysis of colour technology and aesthetics and look at how silent films are saved, restored and made accessible via archives. Aided by new material, it is a survey of the first 30 years in the history of film.

Silent Cinema, an Introduction (Distributed for the British Film Institute)

Science & Math

Silent film director D.W. Griffith is the subject of this study. Only a small group of his more than 500 films are subject to analysis. The creative output of Griffiths from "Professional Jealousy" (1907) to "The Struggle" (1931) is explored.

The Griffith Project, Volume 1: Films Produced 1907-1908 (The Griffith Project Vols 1-12)

The Griffith Project, Volume 2: Films Produced January - June, 1909 (The Griffith Project Vols 1-12)

The Griffith Project, Volume 3: Films Produced in July - December 1909 (The Griffith Project Vols 1-12)

The fourth volume of "The Griffith Project" looks at the films produced by D.W.Griffith at the Biograph Company in 1910. There were 86 films in all and they represent a period of creativity for the director, and they have been systematically analyzed in this volume.

The Griffith Project, Volume 4: Films Produced in 1910 (The Griffith Project Vols 1-12)

The Death of Cinema: History, Cultural Memory, and the Digital Dark Age

Provocative polemic on digital media; Features foreword by Martin Scorsese, extract overleaf; It is estimated that about one and a half billion hours of moving images were produced in 1999, twice as many as a decade before. If that rate of growth continues, one hundred billion hours of moving images will be made in the year 2025. In 1895 there was just above forty minutes of moving images to be seen, and most of them are now preserved. Today, for every film made, thousands of them disappear forever without leaving a trace. Meanwhile, public and private institutions are struggling to save the film heritage with largely insufficient resources and ever increasing pressures from the commercial world. Are they wasting their time? Is the much feared and much touted Death of Cinema already occurring before our eyes? Is digital technology the solution to the problem, or just another illusion promoted by the industry? In a provocative essay designed as a collection of aphorisms and letters, the author brings an impassioned scrutiny to bear on these issues with a critique of film preservation, an indictiment of the crimes perpetuated in its name, and a proposal to give a new analytical framework to a major cultural phenomenon of our time.

Scorsese, Foreward by Martin

Provocative polemic on digital media; Features foreword by Martin Scorsese, extract overleaf; It is estimated that about one and a half billion hours of moving images were produced in 1999, twice as many as a decade before. If that rate of growth continues, one hundred billion hours of moving images will be made in the year 2025. In 1895 there was just above forty minutes of moving images to be seen, and most of them are now preserved. Today, for every film made, thousands of them disappear forever without leaving a trace. Meanwhile, public and private institutions are struggling to save the film heritage with largely insufficient resources and ever increasing pressures from the commercial world. Are they wasting their time? Is the much feared and much touted Death of Cinema already occurring before our eyes? Is digital technology the solution to the problem, or just another illusion promoted by the industry? In a provocative essay designed as a collection of aphorisms and letters, the author brings an impassioned scrutiny to bear on these issues with a critique of film preservation, an indictiment of the crimes perpetuated in its name, and a proposal to give a new analytical framework to a major cultural phenomenon of our time.

No other silent film director has been so extensively studied as D. W. Griffith. However, only a small group of his more than 500 films has been the subject of a systematic analysis and the vast majority of his other works stills await proper examination. For the first time in film studies, the complete creative output of Griffith - from Professional Jealousy (1907) to The Struggle (1931) - will be explored in this multi-volume collection of contributions from an international team of leading scholars in the field. Created as a companion to the on-going retrospective held by the Pordenone Silent Film Festival, The Griffith Project is an indispensable guide to the work of a crucial figure in the arts of the nineteenth century. With contributions from Eileen Bowser, Tom Gunning, Kristin Thompson, Ben Brewster, Steven Higgins, Richard Koszarski, Scott Simmon, J.B. Kaufman, Russell Merritt, Patrick Loughney, Cooper Graham, Andre Gaudreault, Yuri Tsivian, Richard Allen.

The Griffith Project: Vol. 5: Films Produced in 1911

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Burning Passions: Introduction to the Study of Silent Cinema

Burning Passions: Introduction to the Study of Silent Cinema

Silent Cinema, an Introduction (Distributed for the British Film Institute)

The Griffith Project, Volume 1: Films Produced 1907-1908 (The Griffith Project Vols 1-12)

The Griffith Project, Volume 2: Films Produced January - June, 1909 (The Griffith Project Vols 1-12)

The Griffith Project, Volume 3: Films Produced in July - December 1909 (The Griffith Project Vols 1-12)

The Griffith Project, Volume 4: Films Produced in 1910 (The Griffith Project Vols 1-12)

The Death of Cinema: History, Cultural Memory, and the Digital Dark Age

The Death of Cinema: History, Cultural Memory, and the Digital Dark Age

The Griffith Project: Vol. 5: Films Produced in 1911