New Silent Cinema
New Silent Cinema by Paul Flaig, published by Routledge in 2016, is a comprehensive exploration of the resurgence of silent film styles and forms in contemporary cinema. This edition spans 349 pages and is presented in English. The book examines the historical context of silent cinema and its influence on modern visual cultures, particularly in light of recent films like Martin Scorsese’s *Hugo* and Michel Hazanavicius’s *The Artist*.
Readers will find a collection of essays that delve into various fields of research, including early and silent cinema studies, experimental media, and historiography. The chapters connect the evolution of silent film scholarship with current trends in digital culture, addressing topics such as media ontology and epistemology. The volume concludes with an interview featuring acclaimed filmmaker Guy Maddin, providing further insight into the intersections of past and present in the realm of film and visual arts.
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With the success of Martin Scorsese’s Hugo (2011) and Michel Hazanavicius’s The Artist (2011) nothing seems more contemporary in recent film than the styles, forms, and histories of early and silent cinemas. This collection considers the latest return to silent film alongside the larger historical field of visual repetitions and affective currents that wind their way through 20th and 21st century visual cultures. Contributors bring together several fields of research, including early and silent cinema studies, experimental and new media, historiography and archive theory, and studies of media ontology and epistemology. Chapters link the methods, concerns, and concepts of early and silent film studies as they have flourished over the last quarter century to the most recent developments in digital culture–from YouTube to 3D–recasting this contemporary phenomenon in popular culture and new media against key debates and concepts in silent film scholarship. An interview with acclaimed Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin closes out the collection.
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