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"Charlie Keil is a professor in the Cinema Studies Institute and the Department of History at the University of Toronto, where he also serves as Principal of Innis College. He has published seven books, the majority focusing on early and silent cinema, with an emphasis on the transitional era of American cinema. He is currently working on a study of the origins of Hollywood, both as a filmmaking center and a concept, co-authored with Denise McKenna. Rob King is a professor at Columbia University's School of the Arts. He is the author of Hokum! The Early Sound Slapstick Short and Depression-Era Mass Culture and the award-winning The Fun Factory: The Keystone Film Company and the Emergence of Mass Culture. He has also edited or coedited the volumes Cornell Woolrich and Transmedial Noir, Beyond the Screen: Institutions, Networks, and Publics of Early Cinema, Slapstick Comedy, and Early Cinema and the ""National."" King is currently working on a monograph on the adult filmmaker Radley Metzger."
The breadth of coverage in this anthology is remarkable in terms of both methodologies and subjects of study, resulting in a comprehensive and exhaustively researched engagement with the issues animating early film studies. This volume is required reading for film scholars and anyone seeking to understand early cinema's production, reception, and historical development. * Choice *
