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Julie K. Allen, Screening Europe in Australasia: Transnational silent film before and after the rise of Hollywood (University of Exeter Press, 2022)

February 8, 2023 9:55am Category: Research

Julie K. Allen, Screening Europe in Australasia: Transnational silent film before and after the rise of Hollywood (University of Exeter Press, 2022)

by Clara Auclair
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Through a detailed study of the circulation of European silent film in Australasia in the early twentieth century, this book challenges the historical myopia that treats Hollywood films as having always dominated global film culture. Before World War I, European silent feature films were ubiquitous…

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