492 Nabokov Noir (with Luke Parker)
The History of Literature
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Silent Film
Silent film is a cliche of what it means to be modern in the 1920s and 30s. It's been called a universal language, right? Silent Film kind of pitched itself as this international thing. Hollywood got behind this because it's a way of reaching different markets. These Russian emigres felt at home even with the languages,. I think they... yeah, I don't think they felt it was too foreign.
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