The Oxford Handbook of Silent Cinema

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The Oxford Handbook of Silent Cinema is written by Rob King and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 019049669X (ISBN 10) and 9780190496692 (ISBN 13).

The Oxford Handbook of Silent Cinema is a collection of new scholarship that investigates the first decades of motion-picture history from diverse perspectives and methodologies. Featuring over thirty essays by leading scholars in the field, the Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of cinema's earliest years while also illuminating how cinema derived strength from competing cultural forms, becoming in the process the most influential mass medium of the early twentieth century.