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Lonesome Luke's Lively Life (2025)
Hal Roach, Harold Lloyd and the Rolin Film Co.
Dir. Steve Massa
Publisher: Split Reel
Subject: Actor > Harold LLoyd
Camera Man (2023)
Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century
by Dana Stevens
Publisher: Atria Books
Subject: Director > Buster Keaton
The Ritz Brothers (2021)
The Films, Television Shows and Other Career Highlights of the Famous Comedy Trio
by Roy Liebman
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Actor > Ritz Brothers
The Rise & Fall of Max Linder (2021)
The First Cinema Celebrity
Publisher: BearManor Media
Subject: Actor > Max Linder
Laurel & Hardy (2019)
The Magic Behind the Movies
Publisher: Bonaventure Press
Subject: Actor > Laurel & Hardy
Charlie Chaplin (2017)
A Political Biography from Victorian Britain to Modern America
by Richard Carr
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Director > Charlie Chaplin
Harry Langdon (2017)
King of Silent Comedy
by Gabriella Oldham and Mabel Langdon
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Subject: Actor > Harry Langdon
Larry Semon, Daredevil Comedian of the Silent Screen (2015)
A Biography and Filmography
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Actor > Larry Semon
Another Nice Mess (2010)
The Laurel & Hardy Story
Publisher: BearManor Media
Subject: Actor > Laurel & Hardy
Harold Lloyd (2009)
Magic in a Pair of Horn-Rimmed Glasses
Publisher: BearManor Media
Subject: Actor > Harold LLoyd
Lloyd Hamilton (2009)
Poor Boy Comedian of Silent Cinema
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Actor > Lloyd Hamilton
Marie Dressler (2006)
A Biography: With a Listing of Major Stage Performances, a Filmography and a Discography
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Actress > Marie Dressler
Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle (2005)
A Biography of the Silent Film Comedian, 1887–1933
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Actor > Fatty Arbuckle
Keaton (2004)
The Man Who Wouldn't Lie Down
by Tom Dardis
Publisher: Limelight
Subject: Director > Buster Keaton
Harold Lloyd (2002)
Master Comedian
by Suzanne LLoyd and Jeffrey Vance
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Subject: Actor > Harold LLoyd
Buster Keaton Remembered (2001)
by Eleanor Keaton and Jeffrey Vance
Publisher: Abrams Books
Subject: Director > Buster Keaton
King of Comedy (2000)
The Lively Arts
by Mack Sennett and Cameron Shipp
Publisher: iUniverse
Subject: Others persons > Mack Sennett
Smile When the Raindrops Fall (1997)
The Story of Charley Chase
by Brian Anthony and Andy Edmonds
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Subject: Actor > Charley Chase
Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy (1997)
An Affectionate Biography
by John McCabe
Publisher: Robson Books
Subject: Actor > Laurel & Hardy
Buster Keaton (1995)
Cut to the Chase
by Marion Meade
Publisher: HarperCollins
Subject: Director > Buster Keaton
Harold Lloyd (1977)
The King of Daredevil Comedy
by Adam Reilly
Publisher: Macmillan
Subject: Actor > Harold LLoyd
Harold Lloyd (1974)
The shape of laughter
Publisher: New York Graphic Society
Subject: Actor > Harold LLoyd
Laurel & Hardy (1967)
by Charles Barr
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Actor > Laurel & Hardy
My Wonderful World Of Slapstick (1982)
by Buster Keaton and Charles Samuels
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Subject: Director > Buster Keaton
The Charlie Chaplin Archives (2021)
by Paul Duncan
Publisher: Taschen
Subject: Director > Charlie Chaplin
The Charlie Chaplin Archives (2015)
by Paul Duncan
Publisher: Taschen
(previous edition)
Subject: Director > Charlie Chaplin
The Funsters (1979)
by James Robert Parish and William T. Leonard
Publisher: Arlington House
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
The Routledge Comedy Studies Reader (2019)
Dir. Ian Wilkie
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
The Comedy of Charlie Chaplin (2008)
Artistry in Motion
by Dan Kamin
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Subject: Director > Charlie Chaplin
Comedy Incarnate (2007)
Buster Keaton, Physical Humor, and Bodily Coping
by Noel Carroll
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Subject: Director > Buster Keaton
Why the French Love Jerry Lewis (2002)
From Cabaret to Early Cinema
by Rae Gordon
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Subject: Countries
Death by Laughter (2024)
Female Hysteria and Early Cinema
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
The Slapstick Camera (2021)
Hollywood and the Comedy of Self-Reference
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Too Funny for Words (2019)
A Contrarian History of American Screen Comedy from Silent Slapstick to Screwball
by David Kalat
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes (2018)
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Comic Venus (2018)
Women and Comedy in American Silent Film
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
A Companion to Film Comedy (2015)
Dir. Andrew Horton and Joanna E. Rapf
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Buffoon Men (2013)
Classic Hollywood Comedians and Queered Masculinity
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Silent Film Comedy and American Culture (2013)
by Alan Bilton
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Silent Cinema
Buster Keaton's Silent Shorts (2013)
1920-1923
by James L. Neibaur and Terri Niemi
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Subject: Director > Buster Keaton
Stan Without Ollie (2012)
The Stan Laurel Solo Films, 1917–1927
by Ted Okuda and James L. Neibaur
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Actor > Laurel & Hardy
The Funny Parts (2011)
A History of Film Comedy Routines and Gags
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Keaton's Silent Shorts (2010)
Beyond the Laughter
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Subject: Director > Buster Keaton
Slapstick Comedy (2010)
Dir. Tom Paulus and Rob King
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
The Fun Factory (2008)
The Keystone Film Company and the Emergence of Mass Culture
by Rob King
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Chaplin at Essanay (2008)
A Film Artist in Transition, 1915–1916
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Director > Charlie Chaplin
The Comedy of Philosophy (2008)
Sense and Nonsense in Early Cinematic Slapstick
by Lisa Trahair
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
The Comic World of the Marx Brothers' Movies (2007)
"Anything Further Father?"
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Subject: Actor > Marx Brothers
Arbuckle and Keaton (2006)
Their 14 Film Collaborations
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Director > Buster Keaton
A History of the Hal Roach Studios (2006)
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Subject: Studio > Hal Roach Studios
The Art of Laurel and Hardy (2006)
Graceful Calamity in the Films
by Kyp Harness
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Actor > Laurel & Hardy
Keystone (2004)
The Life and Clowns of Mack Sennett
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Subject: Others persons > Mack Sennett
Comedy Is a Man in Trouble (2002)
Slapstick in American Movies
by Alan Dale
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Wheeler & Woolsey (2001)
The Vaudeville Comic Duo and Their Films, 1929–1937
by Edward Watz
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Actor > Wheeler & Woolsey
The Boys (2001)
The Cinematic World of Laurel and Hardy
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Actor > Laurel & Hardy
The Theater and Cinema of Buster Keaton (1999)
by Robert Knopf
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Subject: Director > Buster Keaton
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
Buster Keaton (1995)
A Bio-Bibliography
by Joanna Rapf
Publisher: Greenwood
Subject: Director > Buster Keaton
The Complete Films of Buster Keaton (1993)
by Jim Kline
Publisher: Citadel Press
Subject: Director > Buster Keaton
Charlie Chaplin's One-Man Show (1991)
by Dan Kamin
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Subject: Director > Charlie Chaplin
Laurel before Hardy (1984)
by Jenny Owen-Pawson and Bill Mouland
Publisher: Westmorland Gazette
Subject: Actor > Laurel & Hardy
The Look of Buster Keaton (1983)
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
(in English and French)
Subject: Director > Buster Keaton
Buster Keaton and the Dynamics of Visual Wit (1976)
by George Wead
Publisher: Arno Press
Subject: Director > Buster Keaton
Three Classic Silent Screen Comedies Starring Harold Lloyd (1976)
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Subject: Actor > Harold LLoyd
Mack Sennett's Keystone (1971)
The man, the myth and the comedies
Publisher: A. S. Barnes
Subject: Others persons > Mack Sennett
Silent Visions (2011)
Discovering Early Hollywood and New York Through the Films of Harold Lloyd
Publisher: Santa Monica Press
Subject: Actor > Harold LLoyd
Silent Traces (2006)
Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Charlie Chaplin
Publisher: Santa Monica Press
Subject: Director > Charlie Chaplin
Silent Echoes (2000)
Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton
Publisher: Santa Monica Press
Subject: Director > Buster Keaton
The Best of Buster (1976)
The classic comedy scenes direct from the films of Buster Keaton
Publisher: Crown
Subject: Director > Buster Keaton
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