The CUTs Index

Mikhail L. Skoptsov

1 min readSep 24, 2022

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All my CUTs entries in chronological order

Welcome to "Cinema's Unstable Texts" (CUTs)

Like many cinephiles that grew up watching movies on home video, I often collected films in multiple versions. Once I…

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CUTs Chapter 1.01: “Sound On”

Unless specified, all highlights and italics, including those in quotes, in this text are my own. They are meant to…

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CUTs Chapter 1.02: “Sound Performance and the Silent Film”

Film scholars commonly point out that, contrary to its categorization, the silent film was not necessarily devoid of…

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CUTs 1.03: “How Filmmakers Influenced Exhibition of Silent Films”

The notion that projectionists destabilized film texts by not accurately reproducing a picture’s original taking speed…

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CUTs 1.04: “Export and Foreign Versions in the Silent Film Era”

Even though it rarely carries this status in media studies, translation is arguably the most prominent variation…

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CUTs 1.05: Vitaphone and The Beginning of 'Sound Versions'

In 1926, the introduction of the Vitaphone sound-on-disc system prompted the standardization of taking and projection…

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