Notes on Literature, Film, and Jazz

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Notes on Literature, Film, and Jazz is written by Howard Eiland and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 194996602X (ISBN 10) and 9781949966022 (ISBN 13).

"There is the old debate about the difference between silent film and sound film. The former goes through a rapid development, freeing itself from the framework of the theater, and reaches a brief but rich maturity before yielding its audience to the latter, which, with its return to theater via spoken dialogue, initially entails a regression in artistry. The unique formal language of silent film at its best - a language of gestures and of faces in constant permutation, hieratic and mask-like at times, given to passages of extreme acceleration and of near paralysis, with spatial layering as a rule and the sometimes scarcely perceptible proliferation of decor"--