What we have always called “mute” cinema, has never really been mute but what Michel Chion calls as “deaf” cinema since: “[] the reason for using the term ‘deaf cinema’ for films that gave the moviegoer a deaf person’s viewpoint on the action depicted.” (Chion 8). He even mentions that the characters in these films did speak, they even had to gesticulate a lot in order to be better understood by an audience who was not able to hear them. Chion also discusses that a phenomenon used to happen that allowed the audience to confer a voice to the Continue reading...