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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Silent Cinema"”.
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The Cinematic Treatment of <i>Tableaux Vivants</i> in D.W. Griffith’s <i>Broken Blossoms</i>
… of the iconic American film directors of early silent cinema, felt his film <em>Broken</em> <em>Blossoms (1919)</em> to be his one art film and is considered to be an exemplary film in <em>Tableaux Vivants</em><a title="">[1]</a> usage. When this <em>Tableau </em>skillfully employed, the effect …
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Notions of the Gothic in the films of Alfred Hitchcock.
… of the 'Gothic' and the German Expressionist cinema of the 1920s as key influences upon Hitchcock's work in general and on some of his films in particular. Part of the work consists of an overview of Gothic literature in its many forms with specific attention to the classic English Gothic. A …
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Sounds without Borders: Industry, Society and the Voice in Giallo Cinema
… the Crystal Plumage (1970) uses the model of the cinematic voice-over to explore the subjective experience of urban space in post-war Italy. The film suggests that by 1970 the ability to vocally ‘narrate’ and thus control space had become a fundamental assumption of the modern, cosmopolitan …
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A Brief History of Live Cinema and Rehearsal Considerations for Metropolis Triptych by Nathan Jones
… in the music that accompany films from the Silent Film Era (1895–1930), sparking both the revival of original scores and the composition of new scores for silent films. These modern scores involve a diverse collection of artists, musical styles, and venues that—in combination with the silent …
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THE MULTI-IMAGE: The Origin and Possibilities of Visual Collage in Cinema
… and collage. This thesis explores the cinematic origins of the technique and examines a selection of its various possible uses. It covers the silent pioneers, the early avant-garde, 1920s narrative cinema (such as Jean Epstein, Abel Gance, Sergei Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov), modern …