Silent Features

Silent FeaturesSilent Features is a collection of essays on seventeen feature length silent films and two silent serial features, their diverse stylistic, generic and structural characteristics, and the national, historical and industrial contexts from which they emerged. Of the 17 films discussed, 15 are still currently available on DVD. 200 b&w illustrations.

which could engage visual systems both along and beyond the Nile

the book explores many important issues in women's studies

Envisioning a life of adventure and romance

Clinton DeBevoise Corcoran examines the use of place in Plato's dialogues

One of the earliest visual records of the Hajj and the holy cities of Mecca and Medina

opening up a dialogue with contemporary philosophical and ecological significance that will be of special interest to philosophers working in phenomenology and German idealism

a conflict developed between the culture they inherited from their parents and the new official culture taught in schools

especially as they relate to the aesthetic dimension of his work

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It develops an approach to hospitality work as a form of affective labour that produces value in the form of ‘vibes’

Nigel Fletcher-Jones explains the main features of both temples

critical of the Confucian and Mohist discourses of their time