• Biographies (10) • Autobiographies (1) • Encyclopedias (4) • Essays (5) • Studies (131) • Didactic (1) • Writings (3)
• Biographies (0) • Autobiographies (0) • Encyclopedias (0) • Essays (0) • Studies (0) • Didactic (0) • Writings (0)
• Biographies (10 books)(0 book)
Buccaneer (2016)
James Stuart Blackton and the Birth of American Movies
by Donald Dewey
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Subject: Director > J. Stuart Blackton
Alice & Eiffel (2016)
A New History of Early Cinema and the Love Story Kept Secret for a Century
Publisher: Independant
King Baggot (2010)
A Biography and Filmography of the First King of the Movies
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Director > King Baggot
Florence Lawrence, the Biograph Girl (2007)
America's First Movie Star
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Actress > Florence Lawrence
• Autobiographies (1 book)(0 book)
• Encyclopedias (4 books)(0 book)
The Ciné Goes to Town (1998)
French Cinema 1896 - 1914
by Richard Abel
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
The Transformation of Cinema 1907-1915 (1994)
History of the American Cinema vol.2
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
The Emergence of Cinema (1994)
History of the American Cinema vol.1
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
• Essays (5 books)(0 book)
What Made Cinema? (2025)
Essays on Visual Culture and Early Film
by Ian Christie
Publisher: Sticking Place Books
Subject: Silent Cinema
New Perspectives on Early Cinema History (2024)
Concepts, Approaches, Audiences
Dir. Mario Slugan and Daniel Biltereyst
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Silent Cinema
Charting Scottish Tourism and the Early Scenic Film (2020)
Access, Identity and Landscape
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Silent Cinema
Our Lady Cinema (2016)
How and Why I went into the Photo-play World and What I Found There
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Silent Cinema
Medieval and Early Modern Film and Media (2008)
Dir. Richard Burt
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Economics
• Studies (131 books)(0 book)
Velvet Curtains and Gilded Frames (2025)
The Art of Early European Cinema
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Popular Visual Shows 1800–1914 (2025)
Picturegoing from Peep Shows to Film
by Joe Kember and John Plunkett
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: History of Cinema
Finding Birt Acres (2025)
The Rediscovery of a Film Pioneer
by Deac Rossell, Barry Anthony and Peter Domankiewicz
Publisher: University of Exeter Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
The Enchanting Kinora (2025)
Domesticating Moving Images in Edwardian Britain
by Elizabeth Evans and Llewella Chapman
Publisher: BFI Publishing
Subject: History of Cinema
Screening Europe in Australasia (2024)
Transnational Silent Film Before and After the Rise of Hollywood
Publisher: University of Exeter Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Our Country/Whose Country? (2024)
Early Westerns and Travel Films as Stories of Settler Colonialism
by Richard Abel
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Countries > United States
A History of Early Film Volume 1 (2023)
Dir. Stephen Herbert
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Silent Cinema
How the Movies Got a Past (2023)
A Historiography of American Cinema, 1894-1930
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
A History of Early Film Volume 2 (2023)
An Established Industry
Dir. Stephen Herbert
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Silent Cinema
A History of Early Film Volume 3 (2023)
Dir. Stephen Herbert
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Silent Cinema
A History of Pre-Cinema (2023)
Volume 2
Dir. Stephen Herbert
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Silent Cinema
A History of Pre-Cinema (2023)
Volume 3
Dir. Stephen Herbert
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Silent Cinema
Nickelodeons and Black Vaudeville (2023)
The Forgotten Story of Amanda Thorp
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Hollywood in the Klondike (2023)
Dawson City's Great Film Find
Publisher: Lost Moose Books
Subject: History of Cinema
Transnational Trailblazers of Early Cinema (2023)
Sarah Bernhardt, Gabrielle Réjane, Mistinguett
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Endless Intervals (2022)
Cinema, Psychology, and Semiotechnics Around 1900
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Subject: Theory
Magnificent Méliès (2022)
The Authorized Biography
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Subject: Director > Georges Méliès
Early Cinema, Modernity and Visual Culture (2021)
The Imaginary of the Balkans
by Ana Grgic
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
The B&C Kinematograph Company and British Cinema (2021)
Early Twentieth-Century Spectacle and Melodrama
by Gerry Turvey
Publisher: University of Exeter Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Provenance and Early Cinema (2021)
by Joanne Bernardi, Paolo Cherchi Usai, Tami Williams and Joshua Yumibe
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Discovering Lost Films of Georges Méliès (2020)
in Fin-de-siècle Flip Books (1896-1901)
by Thierry Lecointe, Pascal Fouché, Robert Byrne and Pamela Hutchinson
Publisher: John Libbey Publishing
Subject: Director > Georges Méliès
A Million Pictures (2020)
Magic Lantern Slides in the History of Learning
Dir. Sarah Dellmann and Frank Kessler
Publisher: John Libbey Publishing
Subject: Silent Cinema
Japonisme and the Birth of Cinema (2020)
Publisher: Duke University Press
Subject: Director > Lumière Brothers
Psychomotor Aesthetics (2020)
Movement and Affect in Modern Literature and Film
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Countries > Russia / USSR
Silent Serial Sensations (2020)
The Wharton Brothers and the Magic of Early Cinema
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Subject: History of Cinema
The Silents of Jesus in the Cinema (1897-1927) (2019)
Dir. David Shepherd
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Silent Cinema
Robert Paul and the Origins of British Cinema (2019)
by Ian Christie
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Subject: Countries > Great Britain
The Brighton School and the Birth of British Film (2019)
by Frank Gray
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Silent Cinema
The Modern Supernatural and the Beginnings of Cinema (2019)
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Silent Cinema
Queer Timing (2019)
The Emergence of Lesbian Sexuality in Early Cinema
by Susan Potter
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
The Origins of the Film Star System (2019)
Persona, Publicity and Economics in Early Cinema
by Andrew Shail
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Silent Cinema
Silent Cinema (2019)
A Guide to Study, Research and Curatorship
Publisher: BFI Publishing
Subject: Silent Cinema
Corporeality in Early Cinema (2018)
Viscera, Skin, and Physical Form
by Marina Dahlquist, Doron Galili, Jan Olsson and Valentine Robert
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Bitter Tastes (2018)
Literary Naturalism and Early Cinema in American Women's Writing
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Images of Dutchness (2018)
Popular Visual Culture, Early Cinema and the Emergence of a National Cliché, 1800-1914
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Subject: Countries > The Netherlands
Foundational Films (2018)
Early Cinema and Modernity in Brazil
by Maite Conde
Publisher: University of California Press
The Great Nadar (2018)
The Man Behind the Camera
by Adam Begley
Publisher: Tim Duggan
Subject: History of Cinema
Charles Urban (2018)
Pioneering the Non-Fiction Film in Britain and America, 1897 - 1925
Publisher: University of Exeter Press
Subject: Others persons > Charles Urban
The Colour Fantastic (2018)
Chromatic Worlds of Silent Cinema
Collective
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Subject: History of Cinema
The Image in Early Cinema (2018)
Form and Material
by Scott Curtis, Tom Gunning, Philippe Gauthier and Joshua Yumibe
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Early Cinema in Scotland (2018)
Dir. John Caughie, Trevor Griffiths and María A. Vélez-Serna
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Subject: Countries > Great Britain
The Dream That Kicks (2017)
The Prehistory and Early Years of Cinema in Britain
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Countries > Great Britain
Early Cinema in Asia (2017)
Dir. Nick Deocompo
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
The Kinetoscope (2017)
A British History
by Richard Brown and Barry Anthony
Publisher: John Libbey Publishing
Subject: History of Cinema
Early Film Theories in Italy 1896-1922 (2017)
The Little Magic Machine
Dir. Francesco Casetti, Silvio Alovisio and Luca Mazzei
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Subject: Theory
Politicking and Emergent Media (2016)
US Presidential Elections of the 1890s
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: History of Cinema
The Komedi Bioscoop (2016)
Early Cinema in Colonial Indonesia
by Dafna Ruppin
Publisher: John Libbey Publishing
Subject: Silent Cinema
Cecil Hepworth and the Rise of the British Film Industry 1899-1911 (2016)
by Simon Brown
Publisher: University of Exeter Press
Subject: Others persons > Cecil Hepworth
Early Cinema in Russia and its Cultural Reception (2015)
by Yuri Tsivian and Richard Taylor
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Countries > Russia / USSR
Menus for Movieland (2015)
Newspapers and the Emergence of American Film Culture 1913-1916
by Richard Abel
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
The Shape of Spectatorship (2015)
Art, Science, and Early Cinema in Germany
by Scott Curtis
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Studios Before the System (2015)
Architecture, Technology, and the Emergence of Cinematic Space
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Devices of Curiosity (2015)
Early Cinema and Popular Science
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Cine-Dispositives (2015)
Essays in Epistemology Across Media
Dir. François Albera and Maria Tortajada
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
High-Class Moving Pictures (2015)
Lyman H. Howe and the Forgotten Era of Traveling Exhibition, 1880-1920
by Charles Musser and Carol Nelson
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Fantasia of Color in Early Cinema (2015)
by Tom Gunning, Giovanna Fossati, Joshua Yumibe and Jonathan Rosen
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
The Parisian Avant-Garde in the Age of Cinema, 1900-1923 (2015)
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Flickering Empire (2015)
How Chicago Invented the U.S. Film Industry
by Michael Glover Smith and Adam Selzer
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Subject: History of Cinema
Gender, Culture, and Performance (2014)
Marathi Theatre and Cinema before Independence
Publisher: Routledge
The Beginnings of the Cinema in England, 1894-1901 (2014)
Volume 1: 1894-1896
by John Barnes
Publisher: University of Exeter Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
The Beginnings of the Cinema in England, 1894-1901 (2014)
Volume 2: 1897
by John Barnes
Publisher: University of Exeter Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
The Beginnings of the Cinema in England, 1894-1901 (2014)
Volume 3: 1898
by John Barnes
Publisher: University of Exeter Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
The Beginnings of the Cinema in England, 1894-1901 (2014)
Volume 4: 1899
by John Barnes
Publisher: University of Exeter Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
The Beginnings of the Cinema in England, 1894-1901 (2014)
Volume 5: 1900
by John Barnes
Publisher: University of Exeter Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Silent Cinema and the Politics of Space (2014)
Dir. Jennifer M. Bean, Laura Horak and Anupama Kapse
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Screen Culture and the Social Question, 1880-1914 (2014)
Dir. Ludwig Vogl-Bienek and Richard Crangle
Publisher: John Libbey Publishing
Subject: Silent Cinema
Photography, Early Cinema and Colonial Modernity (2013)
Frank Hurley's Synchronized Lecture Entertainments
by Robert Dixon
Publisher: Anthem Press
Cinema and Community (2013)
Progressivism, Exhibition, and Film Culture in Chicago, 1907-1917
by Moya Luckett
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
The Cinema and Its Shadow (2013)
Race and Technology in Early Cinema
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Beyond the Screen (2012)
Institutions, Networks, and Publics of Early Cinema
Collective
Publisher: John Libbey Publishing
Subject: History of Cinema
Moving Color (2012)
Early Film, Mass Culture, Modernism
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Subject: Technique > Aesthetics
Early Cinema Today (2012)
The Art of Programming and Live Performance
Dir. Martin Loiperdinger
Publisher: John Libbey Publishing
Subject: Silent Cinema
Seeing the American Woman, 1880–1920 (2011)
The Social Impact of the Visual Media Explosion
by Katherine H. Adams, Michael L. Keene and Jennifer C. Koella
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Sociology
The History of the British Film 1896 - 1906 (2011)
Volume I
Dir. Rachael Low
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Countries > Great Britain
The History of British Film 1906 - 1914 (2011)
Volume II
Dir. Rachael Low
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Countries > Great Britain
The History of the British Film 1914 - 1918 (2011)
Volume III
Dir. Rachael Low
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Countries > Great Britain
Fantastic Voyages of the Cinematic Imagination (2011)
Georges Méliès's Trip to the Moon
Dir. Matthew Solomon
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Subject: One Film > A Trip to the Moon
Reading the Cinematograph (2011)
The Cinema in British Short Fiction, 1896-1912
Dir. Andrew Shail
Publisher: University of Exeter Press
Subject: Countries > Great Britain
Cinema Beyond Film (2010)
Media Epistemology in the Modern Era
Dir. François Albera and Maria Tortajada
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Visions of Japanese Modernity (2010)
Articulations of Cinema, Nation, and Spectatorship, 1895-1925
by Aaron Gerow
Publisher: University of California Press
Disappearing Tricks (2010)
Silent Film, Houdini, and the New Magic of the Twentieth Century
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Marketing Modernity (2009)
Victorian Popular Shows and Early Cinema
by Joe Kember
Publisher: University of Exeter Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Italy in Early American Cinema (2009)
Race, Landscape, and the Picturesque
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
American cinema, 1890-1909 (2009)
themes and variations
Dir. Andre Gaudreault
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Los Angeles Before Hollywood (2009)
Journalism and American Film Culture, 1905 to 1915
by Jan Olsson
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Subject: History of Cinema
Early Cinema and the National (2008)
Dir. Richard Abel, Giorgio Bertellini and Rob King
Publisher: John Libbey Publishing
Subject: Silent Cinema
Fight Pictures (2008)
A History of Boxing and Early Cinema
by Dan Streible
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Now Playing (2008)
Early Moviegoing and the Regulation of Fun
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Going to the Movies (2008)
Dir. Richard Maltby, Melvyn Stokes and Robert C. Allen
Publisher: University of Exeter Press
Subject: Sociology
Networks of Entertainment (2008)
Early Film Distribution 1895-1915
Dir. Frank Kessler
Publisher: John Libbey Publishing
Subject: Silent Cinema
Body Shots (2007)
Early Cinema's Incarnations
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Americanizing the Movies and Movie-Mad Audiences (2006)
1910-1914
by Richard Abel
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Manly Arts (2006)
Masculinity and Nation in Early American Cinema
Publisher: Duke University Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Shooting Cowboys and Indians (2004)
Silent Western Films, American Culture, and the Birth of Hollywood
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Subject: Silent Cinema
A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema (2002)
Dir. Jennifer M. Bean and Diane Negra
Publisher: Duke University Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Early American Cinema in Transition (2001)
Story, Style, and Filmmaking, 1907-1913
by Charlie Keil
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
The Sounds of Early Cinema (2001)
by Richard Abel
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Movie-Struck Girls (2000)
Women and Motion Picture Culture After the Nickelodeon
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
The Red Rooster Scare (1999)
by Richard Abel
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Early Cinema in Russia (1998)
and Its Cultural Reception
by Yuri Tsivian
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Subject: Countries > Russia / USSR
For the Love of Pleasure (1998)
Women, Movies, and Culture in Turn-the-Century Chicago
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Subject: History of Cinema
Living Pictures (1998)
The Origins of the Movies
by Deac Rossell
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Subject: History of Cinema
The Beginnings of the Cinema In England, 1894-1901 (1998)
Volume 1: 1894-1896
by John Barnes
Publisher: University of Exeter Press
(previous edition)
Subject: Silent Cinema
Theatre to Cinema (1998)
Stage Pictorialism and the Early Feature Film
by Benjamin Robert Brewster and Lea Jacobs
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
From Peepshow to Palace (1997)
The Birth of American Film
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Subject: History of Cinema
Reel Patriotism (1997)
The Movies and World War I
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Subject: History of Cinema
Parallel Tracks (1997)
The Railroad and Silent Cinema
by Lynne Kirby
Publisher: Duke University Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
The Beginnings of the Cinema In England, 1894-1901 (1997)
Volume 5: 1900
by John Barnes
Publisher: University of Exeter Press
(previous edition)
Subject: Silent Cinema
The Beginnings of the Cinema In England, 1894-1901 (1996)
Volume 4: 1899
by John Barnes
Publisher: University of Exeter Press
(previous edition)
Subject: Silent Cinema
The Birth of Whiteness (1996)
Race and the Emergence of United States Cinema
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
The Beginnings of the Cinema In England, 1894-1901 (1996)
Volume 3: 1898
by John Barnes
Publisher: University of Exeter Press
(previous edition)
Subject: Silent Cinema
Cinema and the Invention of Modern Life (1996)
Dir. Leo Charney and Vanessa Schwartz
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: History of Cinema
The Beginnings of the Cinema In England, 1894-1901 (1996)
Volume 2: 1897
by John Barnes
Publisher: University of Exeter Press
(previous edition)
Subject: Silent Cinema
The Dream That Kicks (1995)
The Prehistory and Early Years of Cinema in Britain
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Silent Cinema
Bad Women (1995)
Regulating Sexuality in Early American Cinema
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
The Last Machine (1995)
Early Cinema and the Birth of the Modern World
by Ian Christie
Publisher: BFI Publishing
Subject: Silent Cinema
Playing Out the Empire (1994)
Ben-Hur and Other Toga Plays and Films, 1883-1908. A Critical Anthology
Dir. David Mayer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Genre > Historical films
Before the Nickelodeon (1991)
Edwin S. Porter and the Edison Manufacturing Company
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Director > Edwin S. Porter
Life to Those Shadows (1990)
by Noël Burch
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: History of Cinema
Early Cinema (1990)
Space, Frame, Narrative
Dir. Thomas Elsaesser
Publisher: BFI Publishing
Subject: Silent Cinema
Film Before Griffith (1984)
by John L. Fell
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
• Didactic (1 book)(0 book)
Early Cinema (2004)
From Factory Gate to Dream Factory
by Simon Popple and Joe Kember
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
• Writings (3 books)(0 book)
Movie Mavens (2021)
US Newspaper Women Take on the Movies, 1914-1923
Dir. Richard Abel
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Subject: On Films > Movie magazines
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