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Finding the End of Silent Film Finding the End of Silent Film
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Golden-Era Hollywood and the Idea of Silent Film Golden-Era Hollywood and the Idea of Silent Film
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Counter-narratives: Chaplin and Brooks Counter-narratives: Chaplin and Brooks
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Alternative Silent Cinema Alternative Silent Cinema
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New Silent Cinema New Silent Cinema
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Silent Film’s New Beginning Silent Film’s New Beginning
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34 Coda: Silent Film after Sound
Get accessDonna Kornhaber is Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin, where she teaches film. She is the author of Charlie Chaplin, Director (2014), Wes Anderson: A Collector’s Cinema (2017), Nightmares in the Dream Sanctuary: War and the Animated Film (2019), and Silent Film: A Very Short Introduction (2020). In 2016 she was named an Academy Film Scholar by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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Published:22 February 2024
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Abstract
This chapter explores the varied afterlife of silent film: in the long and often halting transition to synchronized sound beyond the Hollywood studio system; in sound-era depictions of silent filmmaking and their role in shaping the cultural memory of the form; and in numerous efforts across the later twentieth century to return to the conditions of silent filmmaking as either a new mode of aesthetic practice or a revival of historical forms. In the alternative silent cinema and the new silent cinema, filmmakers the world over have invested silence with newfound significance, following Rudolf Arnheim and Charlie Chaplin in treating the absence of sound as a deliberate artistic choice. As a thematic tool, a means of political commentary, or an oblique reference to new technological changes threatening further cinematic revolutions, silent filmmaking has continued to be an active and evocative form of cinematic practice into the twenty-first century.
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