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Oscar Micheaux, A Biography (1999)
Dakota Homesteader, Author, Pioneer Film Maker
Publisher: Dakota West Books
Subject: Director > Oscar Micheaux
Oscar Micheaux and His Circle (2016)
African-American Filmmaking and Race Cinema of the Silent Era
Dir. Pearl Bowser, Jane Gaines and Charles Musser
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Subject: Director > Oscar Micheaux
With a Crooked Stick - The Films of Oscar Micheaux (2004)
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Subject: Director > Oscar Micheaux
Thinking Media Aesthetics (2013)
Media Studies, Film Studies and the Arts
Dir. Liv Hausken
Publisher: Peter Lang
Subject: General
Cinephilia (2005)
Movies, Love and Memory
Dir. Marijke de Valck and Malte Hagener
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Sociology
Films of Tod Browning (2006)
Dir. Bernd Herzogenrath
Publisher: Black Dog Press
Subject: Director > Tod Browning
Cultural Sutures (2004)
Medicine and Media
Dir. Lester D. Friedman
Publisher: Duke University Press
Subject: Sociology
From the Arthouse to the Grindhouse (2010)
Highbrow and Lowbrow Transgression in Cinema's First Century
Dir. John Cline and Robert G. Weiner
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
The Complete Films of Cecil B. DeMille (1969)
by Gene Ringgold and DeWitt Bodeen
Publisher: Citadel Press
Subject: Director > Cecil B. DeMille
Silent Film Stars on the Stages of Seattle (2009)
A History of Performances by Hollywood Notables
by Eric L. Flom
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: History of Cinema
Fun With Fritz (1986)
Adventures in Early Redlands, Big Bear & Hollywood With John H. Fritz Fisher
Dir. William G. Moore
Publisher: Moore Historical Foundation
Subject: Director > Cecil B. DeMille
Cecil B. DeMille, Classical Hollywood, and Modern American Mass Culture (2018)
1910–1960
by David Blanke
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Director > Cecil B. DeMille
The DeMilles (1988)
An American FAmily
by Anne Edwards
Publisher: Abrams
Subject: Director > Cecil B. DeMille
Cecil B. De Mille (1985)
A Guide to References and Resources
Publisher: G.K. Hall
Subject: Director > Cecil B. DeMille
DeMille (1970)
The Man and His Pictures
by Gabe Essoe and Raymond Lee
Publisher: Castle Books
Subject: Director > Cecil B. DeMille
The Autobiography of Cecil B. DeMille (1959)
Publisher: Prentice-Hall
Subject: Director > Cecil B. DeMille
Cecil B. DeMille (1973)
A Biography Of The Most Successful Film Maker Of Them All
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
Subject: Director > Cecil B. DeMille
Silver Lake Chronicles (2014)
Exploring an Urban Oasis in Los Angeles
by Michael Locke and Vincent Brook
Publisher: History Press Library
Silent Film Comedy and American Culture (2013)
by Alan Bilton
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Silent Cinema
Early Charlie Chaplin (2011)
The Artist as Apprentice at Keystone Studios
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Subject: Director > Charlie Chaplin
Mabel and Me (2014)
a Novel About the Movies
by Jon Boorstin
Publisher: Angel City Press
Subject: Others persons > Mack Sennett
King of Comedy (2000)
The Lively Arts
by Mack Sennett and Cameron Shipp
Publisher: iUniverse
Subject: Others persons > Mack Sennett
Mack Sennett's Keystone (1971)
The man, the myth and the comedies
Publisher: A. S. Barnes
Subject: Others persons > Mack Sennett
The Films of Mack Sennett (1998)
Credit Documentation from the Mack Sennett Collection at the Margaret Herrick Library
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Subject: Others persons > Mack Sennett
Victor Sjostrom (1988)
His Life and His Work
Publisher: New York Zoetrope
Subject: Director > Victor Sjöström
Reach for the Top (2003)
The Turbulent Life of Laurence Harvey
by Anne Sinai
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Subject: Actor > Laurence Harvey
Perpetually Cool (2003)
The Many Lives of Anna May Wong (1905-1961)
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Subject: Actress > Anna May Wong
Jackie Coogan, The World's Boy King (2003)
A Biography of Hollywood's Legendary Child Star
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Subject: Actor > Jackie Coogan
Ready When You Are, Mr. Coppola, Mr. Spielberg, Mr. Crowe (1999)
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Subject: Director > Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Spielberg
Life is Beautiful, But Not for Jews (2003)
Another View of the Film by Benigni
by Kobi Niv
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Subject: One Film > Life is Beautiful (Benigni)
Straight from the Horse's Mouth (2003)
by Ronald Neame
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Subject: Director > Ronald Neame
Hitchcock and the Making of Marnie (2002)
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
The Films of Steven Spielberg (2002)
Dir. Charles L. P. Silet
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Subject: Director > Steven Spielberg
Order in the Universe (2000)
The Films of John Carpenter
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Subject: Director > John Carpenter
The Divine Comic (2001)
The Cinema of Roberto Benigni
by Carlo Celli
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Subject: Director > Roberto Benigni
My Only Great Passion (2000)
The Life and Films of Carl Th. Dreyer
by Jean Drum and Dale D. Drum
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Subject: Director > Carl Theodor Dreyer
Charlie Chaplin (1999)
Intimate Close-Ups
by Georgia Hale
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Subject: Director > Charlie Chaplin
Wife of the Life of the Party (1998)
by Lita Grey Chaplin and Jeffrey Vance
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Subject: Director > Charlie Chaplin
Smile When the Raindrops Fall (1997)
The Story of Charley Chase
by Brian Anthony and Andy Edmonds
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Subject: Actor > Charley Chase
Twentieth Century-Fox (2001)
A Corporate and Financial History
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Subject: Studio > 20th Century Fox
William Desmond Taylor (1991)
A Dossier
by Bruce Long
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Subject: Director > William Desmond Taylor
Music from the House of Hammer (1996)
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Artificially Arranged Scenes (1979)
The Films of Georges Melies
by John Frazer
Publisher: G.K. Hall
Subject: Director > Georges Méliès
Jean Desmet and the Early Dutch Film Trade (2003)
by Ivo Blom
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
The Sensory Child of Contemporary Cinema (2026)
Sight, Sound, Touch
by Nonie May
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Subject: Theory
Shaping Film Festivals In a Changing World (2025)
Practice and Methods
Dir. Dorota Ostrowska and Tamara Falicov
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Festivals
The West in Early Cinema (2006)
After the Beginning
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Precarity in Western European Cinema (2025)
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Mapping the Moving Image (2010)
Gesture, Thought and Cinema circa 1900
by Pasi Väliaho
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Subject: Theory
Transition and Transformation (2012)
Victor Sjöström in Hollywood 1923-1930
by Bo Florin
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Subject: Director > Victor Sjöström
Alexander Kluge (2011)
Raw Materials for the Imagination
by Tara Forrest
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Subject: Director > Alexander Kluge
Figuring the Past (2012)
Period Film and the Mannerist Aesthetic
by Belén Vidal
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Subject: Genre > Historical films
Between Stillness and Motion (2012)
Film, Photography, Algorithms
Dir. Eivind Røssaak
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Subject: Theory
New Mythological Figures in Spanish Cinema (2012)
Dissident Bodies under Franco
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Playing the Waves (2007)
Lars von Trier´s Game Cinema
by Jan Simons
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Subject: Director > Lars von Trier
Moving Forward, Looking Back (2007)
The European Avant-garde and the Invention of Film Culture, 1919-1939
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Film Remakes as Ritual and Disguise (2007)
From Carmen to Ripley
by Anat Zanger
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Subject: Film Analysis
Herr Lubitsch Goes to Hollywood (2005)
German and American Film after World War I
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Subject: Director > Ernst Lubitsch
Harun Farocki (2004)
Working on the Sight-Lines
Dir. Thomas Elsaesser
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Subject: Director > Harun Farocki
The Film Spectator (1995)
From Sign to Mind
Dir. Warren Buckland
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Subject: Theory
Camera Obscura, Camera Lucida (2003)
Essays in Honor of Annette Michelson
by Malcolm Turvey and Richard Allen
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Subject: Theory
Film Front Weimar (2002)
Representations of the First World War in German Films from the Weimar Period (1919-1933)
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Malaysian Cinema, Asian Film (2002)
Border Crossings and National Cultures
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Subject: Countries > Southeast Asia
Micropolitics of Media Culture (2001)
Reading the Rhizomes of Deleuze and Guattari
Dir. Patricia Pisters
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Subject: Theory
Joris Ivens and the Documentary Context (1999)
Dir. Kees Bakker
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Subject: Director > Joris Ivens
Audiovisions (1999)
Cinema and Television as Entr'actes in History
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Subject: Sociology
Between Stage and Screen (1996)
Ingmar Bergman Directs
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Subject: Director > Ingmar Bergman
Cinema Futures, Cain, Abel or Cable? (1998)
The Screen Arts in the Digital Age
Dir. Thomas Elsaesser and Kay Hoffmann
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Subject: Sociology
Fassbinder's Germany (1996)
History, Identity, Subject
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Subject: Director > Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Film Architecture and the Transnational Imagination (2007)
Set Design in 1930s European Cinema
by Tim Bergfelder, Sue S. Harris and Sarah Street
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Subject: Technique > Set Design
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1984)
by Robert Wiene
Publisher: HarperCollins
Subject: One Film > The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1972)
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Subject: One Film > The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Focus on The Birth of a Nation (1971)
by Fred Silva
Publisher: Prentice-Hall
Subject: One Film > The Birth of a Nation
Focus on Film and Theatre (1974)
by James Hurt
Publisher: Prentice-Hall
Subject: Technique > Adaptation
Stanley Kwan's Center Stage (2006)
by Mette Hjort
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Subject: One Film > Center Stage
Fruit Chan's Durian Durian (2005)
by Wendy Gan
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Subject: One Film > Durian Durian
John Woo's A Better Tomorrow (2004)
by Karen Fang
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Subject: One Film > A Better Tomorrow
Wong Kar-wai's Happy Together (2003)
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Subject: One Film > Happy Together
Mabel Cheung Yuen-Ting's An Autumn's Tale (2008)
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Subject: One Film > An Autumn's Tale
Ann Hui's Song of the Exile (2010)
by Audrey Yue
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Subject: One Film > Song of the Exile