{"product_id":"100-movies-of-the-1920s-early-cinema","title":"100 Movies of the 1920s \u0026 Early Cinema","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the \u003cstrong\u003efirst moving pictures \u003c\/strong\u003e(the Lumière brothers’ 1895\u003cem\u003e L'arrivé d'un train\u003c\/em\u003e), \u003cstrong\u003eearly westerns, fantastic pictures, and nickelodeons \u003c\/strong\u003eall the way through the golden age of silent film in the 1920s, this book covers the first three decades of the moving picture around the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In America, we witness \u003cstrong\u003ethe birth of Hollywood\u003c\/strong\u003e, circa 1910, where film quickly became a powerful industry and D. W. Griffith put American cinema on the map; later, Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton developed a new language of visual comedy while eccentrics like Erich von Stroheim and Cecil B. DeMille turned cinema into a high art form and show biz respectively, and sex symbols like Rudolph Valentino and Greta Garbo heated up the screens.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Meanwhile, in Europe, German directors such as Ernst Lubitsch and Fritz Lang were establishing their careers and Russian greats Eisenstein and Pudovkin were already revolutionizing a nascent art form. At the end of the 1920s \u003cstrong\u003ethe very first \"talkies,\"\u003c\/strong\u003e albeit rudimentary ones, brutally crushed the silent art, but by 1930 sound masterpieces such as Sternberg’s \u003cem\u003eThe Blue Angel\u003c\/em\u003e and Milestone’s \u003cem\u003eAll Quiet on the Western Front \u003c\/em\u003ewere produced.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis exploration of the founding years of cinema offers a fascinating perspective on a period in movie history that is far too often overlooked in our times.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57509963268469,"sku":"9783836561037","price":40.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/100-movies-of-the-1920s-early-cinema","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}