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My interest in this essay will be focused on the studying of an original score written near to the end of the silent period: Edmund Meisel’s score for the first release in Berlin of Battleship Potemkin (1926) and abrief commentary on a... more
The database FILM-SHOT-COUNTER assembles and offers results of my own „cinemetric“ measurements of films and television episodes. I achieved those measurements by counting film shots by hand-clicker, processing the number of shots in... more
Discussions of “silent cinema” have generally focused on films made during the silent era (1894–1929). Even after the spread of synchronized sound, however, several experimental filmmakers created films without soundtracks, purely visual... more
Metropolis, the dystopian epic by the visionary German filmmaker Fritz Lang, is generally considered the first great sci-fi film. But despite the spectacular sets and the technological advancements, its contemporary reception was mixed.... more
A History of Italian Cinema, 2nd edition is the much anticipated update from the author of the bestselling Italian Cinema – which has been published in four landmark editions and will celebrate its 35th anniversary in 2018. Building upon... more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwkDJJIeb3I R. Canudo, yedinci sanat kuramı, sessiz sinema estetiği, A. Schopenhauer, G. W. F. Hegel. Ricciotto Canudo’ya göre “yedinci sanat” olarak sinema: Arthur Schopenhauer ve Georg Wilhelm... more
The philosophical and aesthetic questions explored in Nemesio M. Sobrevila’s 1929 film _El sexto sentido_ are also central to the film criticism of Walter Benjamin. This essay looks at three closely interrelated concepts which interested... more
This essay examines a particular class of ghost movies: those where the ghost is ultimately refused and relegated to the realm of human imagination and trickery. It focuses on the case of Paul Leni’s 1927 The Cat and the Canary, to show... more
The text explores the historicаl dialogue between Bulgaria and Asia in the context of moving pictures, as the theoretical focus is set on the earliest silent period of a “cinema of attractions”. The main question is: what is the stepping... more
Examples taken from the short silent films of Charles Chaplin, specifically the two-reelers he made for Mutual Films in 1916 and 1917, will suggest that slapstick can be usefully understood as a quasi-ritualized and socially-sanctioned... more
Resumen: La influencia de la prensa ilustrada sobre los primeros films de no-ficción es hoy más que evidente. Estas películas no sólo repitieron algunas de las elecciones estéticas popularizadas por la prensa gráfica sino que retomaron... more
Resumo Este artigo propõe uma reflexão sobre A Dança dos Paroxismos (1929), de Jorge Brum do Canto (1910-1994), motivada por diversas pistas de interpretação lançadas nos intertítulos iniciais, designadamente a apresentação da obra como... more
Analiza “Der Hund von Baskerville” Richarda Oswalda z 1929 r. Piszę o tym, co odróżnia film Oswalda od pozostałych ekranizacji przygód Sherlocka Holmesa. Wyjaśniam, czemu ten film zaginął na ponad pół wieku. Opisuję rolę, jaką odegrał... more
La electrificación de avenidas, calles, plazas y parques de la Ciudad de México, iniciada a fines del siglo XIX, continuó con la de los teatros y otros espacios privados. En el mismo periodo, el invento del cinematógrafo, practicado por... more
"El cine argentino en sus primeros años de vida sirvió como portavoz de una idea de país que se quería difundir y exportar y, por lo tanto, no había lugar en él para ningún tipo de crítica social o política. Ciertas temáticas de acuciante... more
Despite being one of Ernst Lubitsch’s early works, he considered the silent film comedy DIE PUPPE (THE DOLL, DE 1919) to be one of his most inspiring movies (Weinberg 1977, 264–265). Created in an era of many technical developments,... more
Book review of Alice Guy Blaché: Cinema Pioneer.by Joan Simon (Yale University Press, in cooperation with the Whitney Museum, 2009)
Program note for 2014 Pordenone Silent Film Festival.
The case of Umanità by Elvira Giallanella, a 1919 silent film rediscovered in 2007. The analysis of the film reveals an interesting text.
This essay explores one of the first prolonged public relations battles faced by the Hays Office: a crusade by a Los Angeles-based humane society, the American Animal Defense League, which accused the industry of countless cruelties to... more
Desde sus orígenes, la historia del cine está indisolublemente unida a la fotografía. En el cruce de estas dos disciplinas, la Sociedad Fotográfica Argentina de Aficionados, primer club fotográfico argentino, fue en nuestro país, una... more
Sarah Bernhardt spearheaded a productive and even surprising intermingling of the theatre and the visual arts in theatrical modernism. Although an established theatrical celebrity, Bernhardt can contribute to how and what we study in... more
La fortuna critica di Cabiria dal dibattito che ne precedette l'uscita fino alla "Storia del Cinema Muto Italiano" di Adriano Prolo
HUFFINGTON POST BEST FILM BOOK OF 2016, FINALIST FOR RICHARD WALL MEMORIAL AWARD, LONGLISTED FOR KRASZNA-KRAUSA BEST MOVING IMAGE BOOK OF 2016. Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, and Katharine Hepburn all made lasting impressions with the... more
Cet article raconte les différentes phases de l'histoire du Max Linder Panorama : sa création par un entrepreneur norvégien du nom d'Halfdan Nobel Roede, sa reprise par l'acteur Max Linder, l'ère Siritzky, la reprise par l'équipe de... more
Chinese Films in Focus II, ed. Chris Berry (BFI/Palgrave MacMillan, 2008)
En 'Historias de luz y papel', pretendo demostrar que el cine español entre 1921 y 1930 tuvo en la adaptación de obras narrativas españolas una de sus principales estrategias constitutivas. Esto es así no solo por haber dado lugar a un... more
A short essay for the Library of Congress's National Film Registry website.
The paper explores Tati's use of new film media in 'Playtime' in ways that reveal more fundamental modes of social, mimetic and situational mediation as performed in the film by architects, and architect-like characters, and by the... more