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Silent film's last hurrah : the remarkable movies of the long 1928 / David Meuel.

by Meuel, David, 1950- author.

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Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company Inc., Publishers, [2023]

Silent films -- United States -- History and criticism.

9781476668956 (paperback)

1476668957 (paperback)

viii, 203 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

"This is a history and critical appreciation of an unusually fertile period for the production of great or near-great silent films: late 1927 through early 1929, in the midst of the tumult and upheaval of Hollywood's transition from silent to sound. The book offers in-depth looks at several of the best of these films and discusses the gifted artists such as Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, and Lillian Gish who helped bring them to life, even as the art they had taken to remarkable heights was about to be obliterated. It depicts some of the silent medium's most talented filmmakers and their efforts--in the face of inescapable technological change--to give their dying art a rousing last hurrah"--Page [4] of cover.

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