Donna Kornhaber is associate professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Nightmares in the Dream Sanctuary: War and the Animated Film, Wes Anderson: A Collector's Cinema, and Charlie Chaplin, Director.
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Encompassing the thirty-five year span between the initial development of film technology in the mid-1890s and the adoption of synchronized sound in the late 1920s, the cinema's silent era is both one of the most important epochs of film history and one o... SEE MORE