The heyday of silent film soon became quaint with the arrival of "talkies." As early as 1929, critics and historians were writing of the period as though it

 The heyday of silent film soon became quaint with the arrival of "talkies." As early as 1929, critics and historians were writing of the period as though it

This collection of original essays presents new scholarship on nearly three dozen feature-length films, including silent films, animated films, films in black a

"Clothes make the man" (or woman). This is especially true in early Hollywood silent films where a character's appearance could show an immense number of differ

In this groundbreaking account of film history, Bettina Bildhauer shows how from the earliest silent films to recent blockbusters, medieval topics and plots hav