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The book examines how Danish and German film interacted with one another from 1910 through World War I till the advent of sound around 1930. The film businesses of the two countries were closely connected, and many film professionals crossed back and forth across national borders. The studies in this book include production and distribution history, censorship, celebrity studies, and aesthetic analysis. They contribute to European film and cultural history through extensive empirical investigation of films, persons and companies. The underlying perspective is that of entangled film history, an approach that stresses cross-border interchanges and mutual influences. Written by an international team of scholars, the book marks the conclusion of a four-year collective research project running alongside the stumfilm.dk initiative to digitise the entire Danish silent film heritage.

Silent films --- Silent films --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism.

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This book highlights the significant role that production artists played when Russian cinema was still in its infancy. It uncovers Russian cinema's connections with other art forms, examining how production artists drew on both aesthetic traditions and modernist experiments in architecture, painting and theatre as they explored the new medium of cinema and its potential to engender new models of perception and forms of audience engagement. Drawing on set design sketches, archival documents and film-makers' memoirs, Eleanor Rees reveals how less-canonical films such as Behind the Screen (Kulisy ekrana, 1919) and Palace and Fortress (Dvorets i krepost´, 1923), were remarkable from a design perspective, and also provides new readings of well-known films, such as Children of the Age (Deti veka, 1915) and Strike (Stachka, 1925). Rees brings to light information on significant but understudied figures such as Vladimir Egorov and Sergei Kozlovskii, and highlights the involvement of well-known figures such as Lev Kuleshov and Aleksandr Rodchenko. Unlike the majority of late Imperial directors and camera operators, many early-Russian production artists continued to work in cinema in the Soviet era and to draw on practices forged before the 1917 Revolution. In spanning the entire silent era, this book highlights the often overlooked continuities between the late-Imperial and early-Soviet periods of cinema, thus questioning traditional historical periodisations.

Motion pictures --- Art direction --- History --- Silent films --- History.

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Archival Film Curatorship is the first book-length study that investigates film archives at the intersection of institutional histories, early and silent film historiography, and archival curatorship. It examines three institutions at the forefront of experimentation with film exhibition and curatorship. The Eye Film Museum in Amsterdam, the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, NY, and the National Fairground and Circus Archive in Sheffield, UK serve as exemplary sites of historical mediation between early and silent cinema and the digital age. A range of elements, from preservation protocols to technologies of display and from museum architectures to curatorial discourses in blogs, catalogs, and interviews, shape what the author innovatively theorizes as the archive’s hermeneutic dispositif. Archival Film Curatorship offers film and preservation scholars a unique take on the shifting definitions, histories, and uses of the medium of film by those tasked with preserving and presenting it to new digital-age audiences

Film archives --- Motion pictures --- Silent films --- Curatorship. --- Motion picture film --- History --- History and criticism. --- Preservation.

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Peu explorées par la recherche, les années 1908-1919 constituent pourtant une période charnière de l’histoire du cinéma en France et dans ses colonies. Durant cette décennie se met en effet en place le cinéma tel qu’on le connaissait au XXe siècle, en termes de structures économiques, industrielles et de diffusion. Cette phase de «transition» vers le cinéma classique est ici enfin appréhendée à travers des perspectives et des sources devenues accessibles grâce au travail de centres d’archives et de conservation publics et pri­vés. Scrutés par des chercheurs, des universitaires et des représentants d’institutions patrimoniales, ces documents permettent d’éclairer nos con­naissances et nos réflexions sur l’invention de la salle de cinéma, la circulation des copies sur le marché international, les mutations formelles des films, la réception du spectacle cinématographique portée par les premières vedettes.

Silent films --- Motion picture theaters --- Motion picture industry --- History and criticism --- History --- Cinéma --- Films muets --- Histoire du cinéma --- Distribution des films --- Silent films. --- Motion pictures --- History. --- Distribution.

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Le surgissement de la danse dans les films muets engendre la création d'espaces-temps et de corporéités singuliers. Il en découle une expérience spectatorielle particulière, analysée ici en s'appuyant sur l'attention au geste portée par les écrits critiques de l'époque, principalement ceux de Louis Delluc et Jean Epstein. Mêlant la lecture du geste issue des études en danse à celle des images, voire des sons, venant des études cinématographiques, articulant l'esthétique à l'histoire culturelle, le parcours proposé dans cet ouvrage esquisse le portrait d'une époque moderne en mutation, traversée par des problématiques esthétiques et politiques liées aux bouleversements industriels, à la guerre, aux relations à l'autre et à la place des femmes dans la société; une époque modelée par une transformation profonde du regard sur le monde et de l'expérience de l'art. Tel est le projet de ce livre : proposer une vue d'ensemble des rapports qui se nouent entre le cinéma et la danse sur les écrans français, de la naissance du cinéma jusqu'à l'institutionnalisation du son synchrone.

Histoire du cinéma --- Danse --- Au cinéma --- Histoire --- Epstein, Jean --- Delluc, Louis --- Critique et interprétation --- Gesture in motion pictures --- Dance in motion pictures, television, etc. --- Choreography --- Human body in motion pictures --- Silent films. --- Erotica. --- Gestes --- Chorégraphie --- Corps humain --- Films muets --- Cinéma --- Modernité. --- Érotisme. --- In motion pictures --- Au cinéma. --- Thèmes, motifs. --- Chorégraphie --- Modernité --- Érotisme --- In motion pictures. --- Dance in motion pictures, television, etc --- Silent films --- Dance in television