Sourcebook 100 Movies of the 1920s & Early Cinema, (Hardcover)

<p>From the <strong>first moving pictures </strong>(the Lumière brothers' 1895<em> L'arrivé d'un train</em>), <strong>early westerns, fantastic pictures, and nickelodeons </strong>all the way through the golden age of silent film in the 1920s, this book covers the first three decades of the moving picture around the world.<br><br> In America, we witness <strong>the birth of Hollywood</strong>, circa 1910, where film quickly became a powerful industry and D. W. Griffith put American cinema on the map; later, Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton developed a new language of visual comedy while eccentrics like Erich von Stroheim and Cecil B. DeMille turned cinema into a high art form and show biz respectively, and sex symbols like Rudolph Valentino and Greta Garbo heated up the screens.<br><br> Meanwhile, in Europe, German directors such as Ernst Lubitsch and Fritz Lang were establishing their careers and Russian greats Eisenstein and Pudovkin were already revolutionizing a nascent art form. At the end of the 1920s <strong>the very first "talkies,"</strong> albeit rudimentary ones, brutally crushed the silent art, but by 1930 sound masterpieces such as Sternberg's <em>The Blue Angel</em> and Milestone's <em>All Quiet on the Western Front </em>were produced.<br><br>This exploration of the founding years of cinema offers a fascinating perspective on a period in movie history that is far too often overlooked in our times.</p>

• Sourcebook 100 Movies of the 1920s & Early Cinema, (Hardcover)
• Author: Jürgen Müller
• ISBN: 9783836561037
• Format: Hardcover
• Publication Date: 2027-01-03
• Page Count: 804