New Silent Cinema by Katherine Groo, Paul Flaig - 9780415735278

New Silent CinemaAuthor(s): Katherine Groo, Paul Flaig\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780415735278, 978-0415735278\nSynopsis\nWith the success of Martin Scorseses Hugo [tel] and Michel Hazanaviciuss The Artist [tel] 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 digit.