Category: Audience Preservation

I teach a silent film course at Wesleyan University’s College of Film and the Moving Image, which has been offering it to students since 2015. On the first day of my class, I go around the room and ask everyone for their name, why they’re taking the class, and whether they’ve had any experience seeing…

When it comes to silent film, university students are an important group of younger viewers to aim for of when it comes to “audience preservation”. The live accompaniment makes a huge difference with students, since they’ll be seeing silent film with recorded tracks in their other class sessions. This isn’t just a theory of mine,…