Silent cinema

Before the appearance of synchronized sound, and before movies were introduced into a new world, there was no need to classify silent cinema as a separate cinematic style; rather, it was simply "cinema," complete in itself, thriving and modern, reflecting the highest means of mass communication, most popular, eloquent, and dazzling in its era. Silent cinema was a special language, a language of eyes and faces, speaking in silence with a more eloquent language than words could convey. It was a cinema that lacked nothing, but was, with all its beauty and magic, a platform for its era, shining in the sky of art. This book focuses on late silent cinema, specifically from the period after World War I, when this phase witnessed significant transformations in the world of cinema, aiming to provide an introduction for new audiences to this type of cinema, offering them the historical and theoretical context of famous and less famous examples from four countries in the film industry.