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028 _a;Variety Books Publishers & Distributors
_b:B-10 Street No 2 West Vinod Nagar Delhi 110092
_c:IM2614
_d:22/11/2019
082 _a791.430 BEA
100 _aBean, Jennifer M.
245 _aSilent cinema and the politics of space
_c/ Jennifer M Bean
260 _aBloomington, Indiana
_b: Indiana University Press,
_c©2014
300 _ax, 346 pages
_c24cm.
365 _b1495
505 _a Introduction / Jennifer M. Bean -- Picturing Space. Introduction / Anupama Kapse -- Location, "Location": On the Plausibility of Place Substitution / Mark B. Sandberg -- Insurgent Place as Visual Space: Location Shots and Rival Geographies of 1857 Lucknow / Priya Jaikumar -- Prints in Motion. Introduction / Jennifer M. Bean -- An Afterlife for Junk Prints: Serials and other 'Classics' in late 1920s Tehran / Kaveh Askari -- Robespierre Has Been Lost: D.W. Griffith's Movies and the Soviet Twenties / Yuri Tsivian -- Translations and Transportation: Toward a Transnational History of the Intertitle / Laura Isabel Serna -- Impertinent Appropriations Introduction / Anupama Kapse -- From "Misemono" to Zigomar: A Discursive History of Early Japanese Cinema / Aaron Gerow -- The Crisscrossed Stare: Chinese Protest and Propaganda in the Not-So-Silent Era / Yiman Wang -- Around the World in 80 Minutes: Douglas Fairbanks and the Indian Stunt Film / Anupama Kapse -- Cosmopolitan Sexualities and Female Stars. Introduction / Jennifer M. Bean -- National Soul/Cosmopolitan Skin: Swedish Cinema at a Crossroads / Jan Olsson -- Queer Crossings: Greta Garbo, National Identity, and Gender Deviance / Laura Horak -- Cosmopolitan Women: Marlene Dietrich, Anna May Wong, and Leni Riefenstahl / Patrice Petro
520 _a In this cross-cultural history of narrative cinema and media from the 1910s to the 1930s, leading and emergent scholars explore the transnational crossings and exchanges that occurred in early cinema between the two world wars. Drawing on film archives from around the world, this volume advances the premise that silent cinema freely crossed national borders and linguistic thresholds in ways that became far less possible after the emergence of sound. These essays address important questions about the uneven forces-geographic, economic, political, psychological, textual, and experiential-that un.
650 _aArts
650 _a Sports, games & entertainment
650 _aPublic performances
650 _aSilent films -- History and criticism
650 _aPERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
650 _aPERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism
650 _aSilent films.
700 _aBean, Jennifer M
700 _aHorak, Laura;
700 _aKapse, Anupama
942 _cBOOK