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The Silent Era of Film Studies

There is a strain of thought in film studies and film criticism that upholds the silent era as this like, like the democratic, I would almost say like bordering on like communistic. So because there was no, you know, you weren't list, there was music playing maybe, but there wasno, like listening didn't matter. Like if you talk in the sound film, I'm going to report you to the, to the authority frame. But in the silent film, people talked all the time. He might have authorized that excision because he saw film turning in a way that he didn't like right?

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