The Cambridge companion to Shakespeare on screen /
The arrival of the film industry's sound era in the late 1920s quickly consigned silent film to being 'yesterday's thing.' As a result, the cans containing gently crumbling or spontaneously combusting prints of silent films were not a mainstream archiving priority for some time.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2020.
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| Series: | Cambridge companions to literature.
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| Summary: | The arrival of the film industry's sound era in the late 1920s quickly consigned silent film to being 'yesterday's thing.' As a result, the cans containing gently crumbling or spontaneously combusting prints of silent films were not a mainstream archiving priority for some time. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 280 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781108421164 1108421164 9781108431552 1108431550 |