Steve Neale is professor emeritus of film studies at the University of Exeter and academic director of the Bill Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture.

Silent Features is a collection of essays on seventeen feature-length silent films and two silent serial features, their diverse stylistic, generic and structural characteristics, and the national, historical and industrial contexts from which they emerged. Of the 17 films discussed, 15 are still currently available on DVD. 200 b&w illustrations.