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.
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]