TY - GEN T1 - Studying early and silent cinema A1 - Withall, Keith LA - English PP - Leighton Buzzard, England PB - Auteur YR - 2014 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn889240648 AB - In this accessible introduction to early and silent cinema, which is currently enjoying a renaissance, both academically and in the popular imagination thanks to The Artist, Keith Withall provides both a comprehensive chronology of the period until the birth of sound and also a series of detailed case studies on the key films from the period? some well known (including Griffith's The Birth of a Nation, Eisenstein's Strike and Chaplin's The Kid), some perhaps less well familiar (including Murnau's The Last Laugh and Oscar Micheaux's Within Our Gates). As well as covering in detail the major fi. OP - 177 CN - PN1993.7 .W584 2014eb SN - 9781906733872 SN - 1906733872 SN - 9781800346918 SN - 1800346913 SN - 9781906733698 KW - Motion pictures : Study and teaching. KW - Silent films : History. KW - Silent films : Study and teaching. KW - Films muets : Histoire. KW - Films muets : Étude et enseignement. KW - Cinéma : Étude et enseignement. KW - PERFORMING ARTS : Reference. KW - Motion pictures : Study and teaching KW - Silent films KW - Silent films : Study and teaching KW - History ER -