Research Catalog

Title

Silent cinema and the politics of space / edited by Jennifer M. Bean, Anupama Kapse, and Laura Horak.

Publication

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2014]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bean, Jennifer M., 1968-
• Kapse, Anupama
• Horak, Laura

Description

x, 346 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Series Statement

New directions in national cinemas

Uniform Title

New directions in national cinemas.

Subject

• Silent films > History and criticism
• Space in motion pictures

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-329) and index.

Contents

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 -- Robespierre Has Been Lost: D. W. Griffith's Movies and the Soviet Twenties / Yuri Tsivian -- An Afterlife for Junk Prints: Serials and other 'Classics' in late-1920s Tehran / Kaveh Askari -- 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 China's 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.

Call Number

MFL 14-4539

ISBN

• 9780253012265 (cloth)
• 0253012260 (cloth)
• 9780253012302 (pbk.)
• 0253012309 (pbk.)

LCCN

2013043181

OCLC

843859597

Title

Silent cinema and the politics of space / edited by Jennifer M. Bean, Anupama Kapse, and Laura Horak.

Publisher

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2014]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

New directions in national cinemas

New directions in national cinemas.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-329) and index.

Added Author

Bean, Jennifer M., 1968- editor.

Kapse, Anupama, editor.

Horak, Laura, editor.

Research Call Number

MFL 14-4539