Table of Contents: “…Stephen Wright -- Tumult, battle, and blaze / Rudy Behlmer -- Performing with silent films / Dennis James -- What were musicians saying about movie music during the first decade of sound? …”

Table of Contents: “…/ Reimar Volker ; Alban Berg, Lulu, and the silent film / Marc Weiner ; From revolution to mystic mountains : Edmund Meisel and the politics of modernism / Christopher Morris ; New technologies and old rites : dissonance between picture and music in readings of Joris Ivens's Rain / Ed Hughes ; "Composition with film" : Mauricio Kagel as filmmaker / Björn Heile -- The USSR. …”
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Table of Contents: “…A Good Mystery -- A Suspiciously Normal Childhood: Chicago, 1925-44 -- Mauve Sunsets: Dugway, 1944-46 -- "Terribly Intellectual and Avant-Garde and All That Jazz": Harvard, 1946-50 -- Sacred Monsters: Cambridge, 1950-53 -- "Like a Captive Balloon, Motionless Between Sky and Earth": New York, 1953 -- Hobbies Odd: Ballet, the Gotham Book Mart, Silent Film, Feuillade: 1953 -- Épater le Bourgeois: 1954-58 -- "Working Perversely to Please Himself": 1959-63 -- Nursery Crimes: The Gashlycrumb Tinies and Other Outrages: 1963 -- Worshipping in Balanchine's Temple: 1964-67 -- Mail Bonding: Collaborations: 1967-72 -- Dracula: 1973-78 -- Mystery!…”

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Table of Contents: “…Editing choreography in an autobiographical musical : All that jazz -- The ultimate period film : Barry Lyndon -- The origin of the creative jump cut : Breathless -- Surrealism David Lynch style : Eraserhead -- Non-fiction, diary, essay filmmaking, and editing as a magician's tool : F for fake -- Remakes : The flight of the Phoenix (1964), Flight of the Phoenix -- The documentary as an investigative tool : Gimme shelter -- Time and space : Hiroshima mon amour -- Fantasy as reality : King Kong -- Destruction of the well-made Hollywood movie : The last movie -- The adult film as art film : The lickerish quartet -- Birth of the independent cinema : Little fugitive -- Parallel storytelling, character connections : Magnolia -- Mental state as narrative : Memento -- Teamwork on and off the screen : Our daily bread -- Tempo, content, and directorial style : Pickpocket -- Non-linear structure : Pulp fiction -- The camera as instigator : Seconds -- The graphic novel comes cinematically alive : Sin city -- The perfect silent film : Sunrise -- Tatami camera style : Tokyo story -- The tall tale : The treasure of the Sierra Madre -- The essential road movie : Two-lane blacktop -- The 42 minute and 56 second shot : Wavelength -- Stranger in a strange land : exploring the possibilities of the detective film : Witness.…”

Table of Contents: “…Film and media: a chronology : To 1895: prehistory ; 1896-1915: the birth of film ; 1916-1930: silent film, the births of radio and sound film ; 1931-1945: the great age of Hollywood and radio ; 1946-1960: the growth of television ; 1961-1980: the media world ; 1981-present: the digital world -- II. …”
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