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Cinema ratings & types of film
15
18
action movie
actioner
animated
computer-animated
crime
feature-length
G, g
hate-watch
hip-hopera
PG-13
pg.
R-rated
screwball
sexploitation
skin flick
U, u
X, x
X-rated

Examples of silent film

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Opera may even reveal silentfilm not to be voiceless at all.
The subjects were asked to recount the story of a silentfilm.
Theater musicians went from stage productions to making live music for the silentfilm.
It is tempting to see these arias as the most obvious way for a silentfilm truly to have a voice.
The musical accompaniment of silentfilm has a venerable tradition.
However, he fails to see that even in a silentfilm the visual language of cinema can be equally vacillating and ambiguous.
However, this film goes far beyond the short story, play, opera and silentfilm by considerably fleshing out the narrative.
Surprisingly then, silentfilm is uniquely suited to revealing opera's tendency to go beyond song, in its fascination with and anxiety about silence.
Would a silentfilm of or about opera have any meaning?
Tambling mentions a few prima donnas who were lent to silentfilm, but does not account for their silence.
They also suggest, perhaps, some essential quality of silentfilm itself.
In both silentfilm and in opera, moments of generic anxiety, so to speak, are signified by the gesture of the cry.
Silentfilm is a specific construction of images in relation to the absence of speech; it struggles with expression in conditions lacking speech.
The only language included in the silentfilm was the speech of the actors that was presented in the titles (see footnote 5).
Silentfilm representing the voice of opera wishes to emit a cry, yet the very essence of that cry is that it will not be heard.
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