American Film Cycles: The Silent Era

by Larry Langman

Examining 40 cycles or themes and more than 1,000 silent films, the author attempts to discern how the screen reflected contemporary social, political, and national trends during the silent years. The period has been divided into the early silent years (1900-1919), with films of one or two reels dominating for the first 15 years, and the later silent period (1920-1929), known as the Golden Age of the Silents, in which feature-length films dominated...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313306575
• ISBN13: 9780313306570
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"