The Troubled History of Silent Film Pandora's Box
Its lesbian love interest was once modified and a saccharine ending tacked on, but a new controversy arises with G.W. Pabst's silent film classic Pandora's Box.
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Its lesbian love interest was once modified and a saccharine ending tacked on, but a new controversy arises with G.W. Pabst's silent film classic Pandora's Box.
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‘Going to the pictures is nothing to be ashamed of,’ insisted the film writer Iris Barry in 1926. But it certainly wasn’t something to be proud of, either. To the cultural cognoscenti of the 1920s, Barry admitted, the cinema was barely an art at all – about as aesthetically significant as ‘passport photography’. And for
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