The “High Sign” Andrew Grossman September 2013 CTEQ Annotations on Film Buster Keaton and Eddie Cline’s The “High Sign” (1921) is not only among Keaton’s most breathlessly inventive two-reelers – it is also, along with his nearly nihilistic Cops (1922), among his most subversive, p...
Encyclopedia of Early Cinema edited by Richard Abel Mike Walsh October 2011 Book Reviews If I had to claim one area of development that signified the importance of cinema studies in the last two decades of the twentieth century, I would argue for the work done on early cinema. Film history once ski...
Moving Forward, Looking Back: The European Avant-garde and the Invention of Film Culture, 1919-1939 by Malte Hagener Paul Fileri July 2009 Book Reviews Malte Hagener’s Moving Forward, Looking Back: The European Avant-garde and the Invention of Film Culture, 1919-1939 offers a remarkably multifaceted and compelling historical study of the European cinematic ava...
The Decline of Sentiment: American Film in the 1920s by Lea Jacobs John Fidler April 2009 Book Reviews “I should have been a pair of ragged claws, scuttling across the floors of silent seas…” Too sentimental! – Boris (Woody Allen), as he throws out one of his poems (which is from T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of ...
