Silent Film: A Very Short Introduction

by Donna Kornhaber

Encompassing the thirty-five year span between the initial development of film technology in the mid-1890s and the adoption of synchronized sound in the late 1920s, the cinema's silent era is both one of the most important epochs of film history and one of the most misunderstood within the popular imagination. In this brief and readable account, these formative decades come vividly to life.

Covering the full scope of the silent era-from the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190852526
• ISBN13: 9780190852528
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.4" x 6.8"