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Silent film and the politics of space

Silent film and the politics of space [electronic resource] / edited by Jennifer M. Bean, Anupama Kapse, and Laura Horak. - Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2014. - 1 online resource (pages cm) - New directions in national cinemas . - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references.

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

9780253015075 0253015073


Space in motion pictures.
Silent films--History and criticism.


Electronic books.

PN1995.75 / .S557 2014

791.4302/5