Description: The Oxford Handbook of Silent Cinema is a collection of new scholarship that investigates the first decades of motion-picture history from diverse perspectives and methodologies. Featuring over thirty essays by leading scholars in the field, the Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of cinema's earliest years while also illuminating how cinema derived strength from competing cultural forms, becoming in the process the most influential mass medium of the early twentieth century.
Review Quotes: "The breadth of coverage in this anthology is remarkable in terms of both methodologies and subjects of study, resulting in a comprehensive and exhaustively researched engagement with the issues animating early film studies. This volume is required reading for film scholars and anyone seeking to understand early cinema's production, reception, and historical development." -- Choice