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<p><P>An eminent film historian illuminates the stars of silent film.</p> <h3>Salon - Steve Vineberg</h3> <p><P>The heyday of silent movies began in 1915, when D.W. Griffith released <i>The Birth of a Nation</i>; not quite a decade and a half later they were shoved into an early grave by the invention of talkies. Watching them now, you enter a coded, embroidered world that feels as remote as the Middle Ages. It's easy for a novice to get discombobulated -- as a college freshman, I wandered into a screening of Griffith's great <i>Intolerance</i> and was so thrown by the rhythms that I fled, dazed, at intermission. <P>At the outset of her nearly 500-page volume, <i>Silent Stars</i>, Jeanine Basinger, a much-published scholar who teaches film at Wesleyan University, attempts to define the world of the silent screen, where <blockquote> stars look rounder. Their faces aren't shadowed or hawkish, with razor-sharp cheekbones, but romantic and soft, with apparently no bones at all The women are often barely five feet tall, and the men are short, compact, and well proportioned It's an Ur-world, full of strong emotion, and you seem to be constantly sharing lives in secret ways, looking on at

Who reads Silent Stars?

Author

Basinger, Jeanine

Publisher

Wesleyan University Press published by University Press of New England

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780819564511

Category

history

Subjects

Sports, Literary Fiction, Fiction

Rating

4.09 / 5 (261 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14