Behind the Mask of Innocence: Films of Social Conscience in the Silent Era

Combining film history and social history, Kevin Brownlow surveys the treatment of contemporary social problems by film directors and producers in the early part of the century. This is the definitive history of silent films, documenting many that have been lost or forgotten.

• Author
• Kevin Brownlow

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 579

• Publisher
• University of California Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780520076266

• Genres
• film, history, art

• Release date
• 1992