Jacqueline Najuma Stewart’s Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban Modernity is a great starting place for anyone interested in learning about African American experiences with and in silent film. In the book, Stewart examines how “the urban and northern immigration of African Americans …
Continue Reading1897: The Cinema Spreads
To deepen my knowledge of the silent era on the European continent, I created the European Silent Cinema Project. I review two European silent films each year starting in 1895 and ending in 1930. Visit the project’s main page for a comprehensive list of …
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To deepen my knowledge of the silent era on the European continent, I created the European Silent Cinema Project. I review two European silent films each year starting in 1895 and ending in 1930. Visit the project’s main page for a comprehensive list of …
Continue Reading1895: The First European Films Find An Audience
To deepen my knowledge of the silent era on the European continent, I created the European Silent Cinema Project. I review two European silent films each year starting in 1895 and ending in 1930. Visit the project’s main page for a comprehensive list of …
Continue ReadingThe European Silent Cinema Project
As a silent film fan, I’ve recently realized that I spend most of my time watching silent films made in America in the 1920s. While there is a wide variety of films from different genres and filmmakers in Hollywood 20s films, these films are only …
Continue ReadingHarold Lloyd: The Boy with Glasses’ Silent Movies Ranked
Harold Lloyd has always been one of my favorite filmmakers. I fondly remember watching Safety Last on my dinky laptop in my college apartment trying my best to keep my laughter at a minimum to not disturb my studying roommate. I knew from that moment …
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