>From: IN%"[log in to unmask]" "Film and TV Studies Discussion List" >To: Multiple recipients of list SCREEN-L <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Intertitles in silent cinema > >Greetings! > >I am doing research on the use of intertitles and other titles in silent >films. I could not find much on this subject in recent bibliographies >(read past 20 years). Can anyone help? > >I am interested in theory behind the use of intertitles: classification, >aesthetic functions, narrative functions etc. A historical background of >how the form developed, people who wrote and designed titles would also be >of interest. I would appreciate references to European as well as >American works on the subject. > Kristin Thompson has a section on intertitles in *The Classical Hollywood Cinema: Film Style &Mode of Production to 1960*, by David Bordwell, Janet Staiger, and Kristin Thompson, New York: columbia U Press, 1985 (also possibly Routledge). Particularly useful for your interests is Chapter 15, although there are other references to the uses of titles. Michael Quinn UW-Madison