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The Silent Cinema Reader
Editor: Lee Grieveson and Peter Krämer | Reference: P3579 | Type: Publication

A comprehensive resource of key writings on early cinema, addressing filmmaking practice, film form, style and content, and the ways in which silent films were exhibited and understood by their audiences, from the beginnings of film in the late nineteenth century to the coming of sound in the late 1920s. 

audience Ben Brewster Ben Singer Birth of a Nation Buster Keaton Cecil B. DeMille censorship Chaplin Charles Maland Charles Musser Charlie Chaplin class D. W. Griffith David Bordwell editing Eisenstein Europe Frank Gray genre history Hollywood Joseph Garncarz morality narrative plot projection publicity Richard Abel Roberta E. Pearson Rudolph Valentino studio Sumiko Higashi Tom Gunning variety shows

The Theatre of Protest and Paradox-Development in the Avant-Garde Drama
Artist/Author: Gerge E. Wellwarth | Reference: P1053 | Type: Publication

Analyses the dramatic works of modern German, American, English, French, and Spanish writers within their historical and cultural contexts.

absurd action Alfred Jarry angry young Antonin Artaud audience avant-garde Biedermann Brendan Behan conflict death defiance Diirrenmatt drama Edward Albee English Esslin Eugène Ionesco French Gelber German Harold Pinter Henry Bérenger iconoclasm illusion influence intellectual Jean Genet John Osborne Look Back in Anger Max Frisch Michel de Ghelderode N. F. Simpson paradox Pataphysics play playwrights plot protest Quare Fellow reality rebel Romulus Samuel Beckett satire society stage symbolism Tardieu theatre theatrical Tulane Drama Review Ubu Roi Waiting for Godot Wesker

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