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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
June Mathis (2025)
The Rise and Fall of a Silent Film Visionary
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Subject: Others persons > June Mathis
Moving Pictures (2024)
Karl Struss and the Rise of Hollywood
Dir. Jonathan Frembling, Kristen Gaylord and Luci Marzola
Publisher: Hirmer Publishers
Subject: Others persons > Karl Struss
Beautiful (2024)
The Story of Julian Eltinge, America's Greatest Female Impersonator
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Actor > Julian Eltinge
Mabel Normand (2023)
The Life and Career of a Hollywood Madcap
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Actress > Mabel Normand
Theda Bara (2023)
Her Career, Life and Legend
by Roy Liebman
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Actress > Theda Bara
Pimple's Progress (2022)
Fred Evans, Britain's First Film Comedy Star
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Actor > Fred Evans
John Gilbert (2022)
The Last of the Silent Film Stars
by Eve Golden
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Subject: Actor > John Gilbert
Mary Nolan, Ziegfeld Girl and Silent Movie Star (2019)
A Biography Including Her 1941 Memoir
by Louise Carley Lewisson and Mary Nolan
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Actress > Mary Nolan
The Lives of Justine Johnstone (2018)
Follies Star, Research Scientist, Social Activist
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Actress > Justine Johnstone
Barbara La Marr (2017)
The Girl Who Was Too Beautiful for Hollywood
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Subject: Actress > Barbara La Marr
Harry Langdon (2017)
King of Silent Comedy
by Gabriella Oldham and Mabel Langdon
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Subject: Actor > Harry Langdon
Bebe Daniels (2016)
Hollywood's Good Little Bad Girl
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Actress > Bebe Daniels
She Could Be Chaplin! (2016)
The Comedic Brilliance of Alice Howell
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Actress > Alice Howell
Pola Negri (2016)
Temptress of Silent Hollywood
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Actress > Pola Negri
Buccaneer (2016)
James Stuart Blackton and the Birth of American Movies
by Donald Dewey
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Subject: Director > J. Stuart Blackton
Hollywood Pioneer (2016)
The Life and Times of Hal Roach
Publisher: Leprosy Association of Guru Nanak
Subject: Others persons > Hal Roach
Larry Semon, Daredevil Comedian of the Silent Screen (2015)
A Biography and Filmography
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Actor > Larry Semon
The Ice Cream Blonde (2015)
The Whirlwind Life and Mysterious Death of Screwball Comedienne Thelma Todd
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Subject: Actress > Thelma Todd
The First King of Hollywood (2015)
The Life of Douglas Fairbanks
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Subject: Actor > Douglas Fairbanks
Rex Ingram (2014)
Visionary Director of the Silent Screen
by Ruth Barton
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Subject: Director > Rex Ingram
Germaine Dulac (2014)
A Cinema of Sensations
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Subject: Director > Germaine Dulac
Douglas Fairbanks and the American Century (2014)
by John C. Tibbetts and James M. Welsh
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Actor > Douglas Fairbanks
Pola Negri (2014)
Hollywood's First Femme Fatale
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Subject: Actress > Pola Negri
Richard E. Norman and Race Filmmaking (2013)
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Subject: Director > Richard E. Norman
Allan Dwan and the Rise and Decline of the Hollywood Studios (2013)
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Director > Allan Dwan
Geraldine Farrar (2012)
Opera's Charismatic Innovator
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Actress > Geraldine Farrar
Margarita Fischer (2012)
A Biography of the Silent Film Star
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Actress > Margarita Fischer
Colleen Moore (2012)
A Biography of the Silent Film Star
by Jeff Codori
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Actress > Colleen Moore
Theda Bara (2012)
A Biography of the Silent Screen Vamp, With a Filmography
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Actress > Theda Bara
Thomas Ince (2012)
Hollywood's Independent Pioneer
by Brian Taves
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Subject: Director > Thomas H. Ince
Mary Pickford (2011)
Canada's Silent Siren, America's Sweetheart
Publisher: Dundurn Group Ltd
Subject: Actress > Mary Pickford
Laurette Taylor, American Stage Legend (2010)
by Lynn Kear
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Actress > Laurette Taylor
Irving Thalberg (2009)
Boy Wonder to Producer Prince
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Others persons > Irving Thalberg
Harold Lloyd (2009)
Magic in a Pair of Horn-Rimmed Glasses
Publisher: BearManor Media
Subject: Actor > Harold LLoyd
Ramon Novarro (2009)
A Biography of the Silent Film Idol, 1899–1968: With a Filmography
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Actor > Ramon Novarro
Lillian Gish (2009)
A Life on Stage and Screen
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Actress > Lillian Gish
Olive Thomas (2007)
The Life and Death of a Silent Film Beauty
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Actress > Olive Thomas
Sessue Hayakawa (2007)
Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom
Publisher: Duke University Press
Subject: Actor > Sessue Hayakawa
Marie Dressler (2006)
A Biography: With a Listing of Major Stage Performances, a Filmography and a Discography
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Actress > Marie Dressler
Dark Lover (2004)
The Life and Death of Rudolph Valentino
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Subject: Actor > Rudolph Valentino
Von (2004)
The Life & Films of Erich Von Stroheim
Publisher: Limelight
Subject: Director > Erich von Stroheim
The Mary Pickford Handbook (2000)
Everything You Need to Know About Mary Pickford
by Emily Smith
Publisher: Tebbo
Subject: Actress > Mary Pickford
Mary Pickford rediscovered (1999)
Rare pictures of a Hollywood legend
Publisher: Abrams Books
Subject: Actress > Mary Pickford
Without Lying Down (1998)
Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Others persons > Frances Marion
Pickford, The Woman Who Made Hollywood (1997)
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Subject: Actress > Mary Pickford
Vamp (1996)
The Rise and Fall of Theda Bara
by Eve Golden
Publisher: Vestal Press
Subject: Actress > Theda Bara
The Man You Loved To Hate (1983)
Erich Von Stroheim and Hollywood
Publisher: Oxford University Press
(previous edition)
Subject: Director > Erich von Stroheim
Hollywood Directors 1914-1940 (1976)
Dir. Richard Koszarski
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Countries > United States
Alma Rubens, Silent Snowbird (2006)
Her Complete 1930 Memoir, with a New Biography and Filmography
by Alma Rubens
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Actress > Alma Rubens
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
Eighty Silent Film Stars (2012)
Biographies and Filmographies of the Obscure to the Well Known
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Silent Cinema
The Universal Silents (2009)
A Filmography of the Universal Motion Picture Manufacturing Company, 1912–1929
Publisher: McFarland & Co
American Silent Film Comedies (2008)
An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Persons, Studios and Terminology
by Blair Miller
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Silent Cinema
Silent Lives (2008)
100 Biographies of the Silent Film Era
by Lon Davis
Publisher: BearManor Media
Subject: Silent Cinema
An Evening's Entertainment (1994)
History of American Cinema vol.3
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
French Cinema (1984)
The First Wave, 1915-1929
by Richard Abel
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Silent Film Performers (2012)
An Annotated Bibliography of Published, Unpublished and Archival Sources for More Than 350 Actors and Actresses
by Roy Liebman
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Silent Cinema
European Silent Films on Video (2011)
A Critical Guide
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Silent Cinema
Radicalism in American Silent Films, 1909–1929 (2011)
A Filmography and History
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Silent Cinema
A Biographical Dictionary of Silent Film Western Actors and Actresses (2009)
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Silent Cinema
Silent Mystery and Detective Movies (2009)
A Comprehensive Filmography
by Ken Wlaschin
Publisher: McFarland & Co
The Wampas Baby Stars (2009)
A Biographical Dictionary, 1922–1934
by Roy Liebman
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Silent Cinema
The Strong, Silent Type (2003)
Over 100 Screen Cowboys, 1903–1930
by Buck Rainey
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Silent Cinema
Silent Players (2002)
A Biographical and Autobiographical Study of 100 Silent Film Actors and Actresses
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Subject: Silent Cinema
Filmmakers in the Moving Picture World (1997)
An Index of Articles, 1907-1927
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Silent Cinema
Sweethearts of the Sage (1992)
Biographies and Filmographies of 258 Actresses Appearing in Western Movies
by Buck Rainey
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Silent Films/Loud Music (2023)
New Ways of Listening to and Thinking about Silent Film Music
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Silent Cinema
Performative Figures of Queer Masculinity (2022)
A Media History of Film and Cinema in Germany Until 1945
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Silent Renoir (2022)
Philosophy and the Interpretation of Early Film
by Colin Davis
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Director > Jean Renoir
Women in Medicine in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (2018)
From Poisoners to Doctors, Harriet Beecher Stowe to Theda Bara
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Silent Cinema
When Women Wrote Hollywood (2018)
Essays on Female Screenwriters in the Early Film Industry
Dir. Rosanne Welch
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Silent Cinema
Golden Images (2000)
41 Essays on Silent Film Stars
by Eve Golden
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Silent Cinema
The Films of Paul Leni (2022)
Dir. Erica Tortolani and Martin F. Norden
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Silent Features (2018)
The Development of Silent Feature Films 1914 - 1934
Dir. Steve Neale
Publisher: University of Exeter Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
100 Essential Silent Film Comedies (2017)
by James Roots
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Subject: Silent Cinema
Silent Films 1877-1996 (2005)
A Critical Guide To 646 Movies
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Silent Cinema
The Films of D. W. Griffith (1993)
by Scott Simmon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Subject: Director > David W. Griffith
Velvet Curtains and Gilded Frames (2025)
The Art of Early European Cinema
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Danish and German Silent Cinema (2025)
Towards a Common Film Culture
Dir. Lars-Martin Sørensen and Casper Tybjerg
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
The Silents Go to War (2024)
American World War I Propaganda Films, 1915–1930
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Silent Cinema
King Vidor in Focus (2024)
On the Filmmaker's Artistry and Vision
by Kevin L. Stoehr and Cullen Gallagher
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Director > King Vidor
Silent Film Adaptations of Novels by British and American Women Writers, 1903-1929 (2024)
Viewer, I Married Him
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Silent Cinema
Designing Russian Cinema (2024)
The Production Artist and the Material Environment in Silent Era Film
by Eleanor Rees
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Countries > Russia / USSR
Historical Turns (2024)
Weimar Cinema and the Crisis of Historicism
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Silent Film and the Formations of U.S. Literary Culture (2024)
Literature in Motion
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
City Symphonies (2024)
Sound and the Composition of Urban Modernity, 1913–1931
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Death by Laughter (2024)
Female Hysteria and Early Cinema
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
The Oxford Handbook of Silent Cinema (2024)
Dir. Rob King and Charlie Keil
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Archival Film Curatorship (2023)
Early and Silent Cinema from Analog to Digital
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Subject: Economics
Transforming Faces for the Screen (2023)
Horror and Romance in the 1920s
by Karen Randell and Alexis Weedon
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Silent Cinema
The Othering of Women in Silent Film (2023)
Cultural, Historical, and Literary Contexts
Publisher: Lexington Books
Subject: Silent Cinema
How the Movies Got a Past (2023)
A Historiography of American Cinema, 1894-1930
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Vampires on the Silent Screen (2023)
Cinema's First Age of Vampires 1897-1922
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Beyond the Movie Theater (2023)
Sites, Sponsors, Uses, Audiences
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Economics
Silent Film's Last Hurrah (2023)
The Remarkable Movies of the Long 1928
by David Meuel
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Silent Cinema
A Queer Way of Feeling (2023)
Girl Fans and Personal Archives of Early Hollywood
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
The Life and Afterlife of Swedish Biograph (2022)
From Commercial Circulation to Archival Practices
by Jan Olsson
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Action, Action, Action (2022)
The Early Cinema of Raoul Walsh
by Tom Conley
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Subject: Director > Raoul Walsh
The Hygienic Apparatus (2022)
Weimar Cinema and Environmental Disorder
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
The Silent Feminists (2022)
America's First Women Directors, Rowman & Littlefield Edition
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Subject: Silent Cinema
The First True Hitchcock (2022)
The Making of a Filmmaker
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: One Film > The Lodger
Profit Margins (2021)
The American Silent Cinema and the Marginalization of Advertising
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Pictorial Affects, Senses of Rupture (2021)
On the Poetics and Culture of Popular German Cinema, 1910-1930
Publisher: De Gruyter
Acting for the Silent Screen (2021)
Film Actors and Aspiration between the Wars
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Silent Cinema
The Long Century's Long Shadow (2021)
Weimar Cinema and the Romantic Modern
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Silent Film Performance (2021)
Dramatic Bodies on Screen
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Silent Cinema
Special Effects and German Silent Film (2021)
Techno-Romantic Cinema
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Struggles for Recognition (2021)
Melodrama and Visibility in Latin American Silent Film
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Countries > Latin America
Clothes Make the Character (2021)
The Role of Wardrobe in Early Motion Pictures
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Silent Cinema
The Slapstick Camera (2021)
Hollywood and the Comedy of Self-Reference
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Sunrise (2020)
A Song of Two Humans
by Lucy Fischer
Publisher: BFI Publishing
Subject: One Film > Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
The Modernist Screenplay (2020)
Experimental Writing for Silent Film
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Silent Cinema
Damsels and Divas (2020)
European Stardom in Silent Hollywood
by Agata Frymus
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Early Race Filmmaking in America (2019)
Dir. Barbara Lupack
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Countries > United States
Silent Film and U.S. Naturalist Literature (2019)
Time, Narrative, and Modernity
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Silent Cinema
The Silents of Jesus in the Cinema (1897-1927) (2019)
Dir. David Shepherd
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Silent Cinema
Starring Red Wing! (2019)
The Incredible Career of Lilian M. St. Cyr, the First Native American Film Star
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
The Disappearing Christ (2019)
Secularism in the Silent Era
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Medieval Art and the Look of Silent Film (2019)
The Influence on Costume and Set Design
Publisher: McFarland & Co
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
The Movies as a World Force (2019)
American Silent Cinema and the Utopian Imagination
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Early British Animation (2019)
From Page and Stage to Cinema Screens
by Malcolm Cook
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Silent Cinema > Grande-Bretagne
Music and Sound in Silent Film (2018)
From the Nickelodeon to The Artist
Dir. Ruth Barton and Simon Trezise
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Silent Cinema
Black and White Bioscope (2018)
Making Movies in Africa 1899 to 1925
by Neil Parsons
Publisher: Intellect Books
Subject: Silent Cinema
Film Serials and the American Cinema, 1910-1940 (2018)
Operational Detection
by Ilka Brasch
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Subject: Countries > United States
Abel Gance and the End of Silent Cinema (2018)
Sounding out Utopia
by Paul Cuff
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: One Film > La Fin du monde
D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (2018)
A Guide for Filmmakers, Critics, and Scholars
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Subject: One Film > The Birth of a Nation
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 Place of Darkness (2018)
The Rhetoric of Horror in Early American Cinema
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Pink-Slipped (2018)
What Happened to Women in the Silent Film Industries?
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Subject: History of Cinema
Early Cinema in Scotland (2018)
Dir. John Caughie, Trevor Griffiths and María A. Vélez-Serna
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Subject: Countries > Great Britain
A Companion to D. W. Griffith (2018)
by Charlie Keil
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Subject: Director > David W. Griffith
The British Cinema Boom, 1909-1914 (2017)
A Commercial History
by Jon Burrows
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Silent Cinema
Monitoring the Movies (2017)
The Fight over Film Censorship in Early Twentieth-Century Urban America
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Beyond Free Speech and Propaganda (2017)
The Political Development of Hollywood, 1907–1927
Publisher: Lexington Books
Subject: Silent Cinema
The Dream That Kicks (2017)
The Prehistory and Early Years of Cinema in Britain
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Countries > Great Britain
Slapstick Divas (2017)
The Women of Silent Comedy
by Steve Massa
Publisher: BearManor Media
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Eleonora Duse and Cenere (Ashes) (2017)
Centennial Essays
Dir. Maria Pia Pagani and Paul Fryer
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Actress > Eleonora Duse
Women in Silent Cinema (2017)
Histories of Fame and Fate
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Cinema by Design (2017)
Art Nouveau, Modernism, and Film History
by Lucy Fischer
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Subject: Technique > Aesthetics
Queer Sexualities in Early Film (2016)
Cinema and Male-Male Intimacy
by Shane Brown
Publisher: I.B.Tauris
Subject: Silent Cinema
When the Cock Crows (2016)
A History of the Pathé Exchange
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Nanook of the North - From 1922 to Today (2016)
The Famous Arctic Documentary and Its Afterlife
Publisher: Peter Lang
Subject: One Film > Nanook of the North
Expressionism and Film (2016)
by Rudolf Kurtz, Christian Kiening and Ulrich Johannes Beil
Publisher: John Libbey Publishing
Subject: Technique > Aesthetics
The Promise of Cinema (2016)
German Film Theory, 1907–1933
Dir. Anton Kaes, Nicholas Baer and Michael Cowan
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Theory
Shakespeare on Silent Film (2016)
A Strange Eventful History
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Silent Cinema
Afterlives (2016)
Allegories of Film and Mortality in Early Weimar Germany
by Steve Choe
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Silent Cinema
Borderland Films (2015)
American Cinema, Mexico, and Canada during the Progressive Era
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
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 Maciste Films of Italian Silent Cinema (2015)
Publisher: Indiana University Press
New Silent Cinema (2015)
Dir. Katherine Groo and Paul Flaig
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Silent Cinema
The Shape of Spectatorship (2015)
Art, Science, and Early Cinema in Germany
by Scott Curtis
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Seeing Sarah Bernhardt (2015)
Performance and Silent Film
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Subject: Actress > Sarah Bernhardt
Reframing Culture (2014)
The Case of the Vitagraph Quality Films
by William Uricchio and Roberta E. Pearson
Publisher: Princeton University 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
The Bible on Silent Film (2013)
Spectacle, Story and Scripture in the Early Cinema
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
DADA, Surrealism, and the Cinematic Effect (2013)
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Exporting Perilous Pauline (2013)
Pearl White and Serial Film Craze
Dir. Marina Dahlquist
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Subject: Actor > Pearl White
Buster Keaton's Silent Shorts (2013)
1920-1923
by James L. Neibaur and Terri Niemi
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Subject: Director > Buster Keaton
Hollywood Before Glamour (2013)
Fashion in American Silent Film
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Silent Cinema
The Sounds of the Silents in Britain (2012)
Dir. Julie Brown and Annette Davison
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
The Comic Mind (2012)
Comedy and the Movies
by Gerald Mast
Publisher: Ward & Balkin Agency
Subject: Silent Cinema
American Silent Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Feature Films, 1913–1929 (2012)
by John T. Soister and Henry Nicolella
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Silent Cinema
The Funny Parts (2011)
A History of Film Comedy Routines and Gags
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Silent Visions (2011)
Discovering Early Hollywood and New York Through the Films of Harold Lloyd
Publisher: Santa Monica Press
Subject: Actor > Harold LLoyd
The History of the British Film 1918 - 1929 (2011)
Volume IV
Dir. Rachael Low
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Countries > Great Britain
Film and Attraction (2011)
From Kinematography to Cinema
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Subject: Director > Georges Méliès
Twilight of the Idols (2011)
Hollywood and the Human Sciences in 1920s America
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Sociology
Hitchcock's British Films (2010)
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Subject: Director > Alfred Hitchcock
The Tenth Muse (2010)
Writing about Cinema in the Modernist Period
by Laura Marcus
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: History of Cinema
Visions of Japanese Modernity (2010)
Articulations of Cinema, Nation, and Spectatorship, 1895-1925
by Aaron Gerow
Publisher: University of California Press
Harmony and Dissent (2010)
Film and Avant-garde Art Movements in the Early Twentieth Century
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Slapstick Comedy (2010)
Dir. Tom Paulus and Rob King
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Universal Women (2010)
Filmmaking and Institutional Change in Early Hollywood
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
American cinema, 1890-1909 (2009)
themes and variations
Dir. Andre Gaudreault
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
American Cinema of the 1920s (2009)
Themes and Variations
Dir. Lucy Fischer
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Berlin Alexanderplatz (2009)
Radio, Film, and the Death of Weimar Culture
Publisher: University of California Press
From Silents to Sound (2009)
A Biographical Encyclopedia of Performers Who Made the Transition to Talking Pictures
by Roy Liebman
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Silent Cinema
American Cinema of the 1910s (2009)
Themes and Variations
Dir. Charlie Keil and Ben Singer
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
The Silent Cinema in Song, 1896–1929 (2008)
An Illustrated History and Catalog of Songs Inspired by the Movies and Stars, with a List of Recordings
by Ken Wlaschin
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Silent Cinema
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
Early Cinema and the National (2008)
Dir. Richard Abel, Giorgio Bertellini and Rob King
Publisher: John Libbey Publishing
Subject: Silent Cinema
Picturing American Modernity (2008)
Traffic, Technology, and the Silent Cinema
Publisher: Duke University Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
The Haunted Screen (2008)
Expressionism in the German Cinema and the Influence of Max Reinhardt
Publisher: University of California Press
German Expressionist Cinema (2008)
The World of Light and Shadow
by Ian Roberts
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Possessed (2008)
Hypnotic Crimes, Corporate Fiction, and the Invention of Cinema
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
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
Diva (2008)
Defiance and Passion in Early Italian Cinema
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Forgeries of Memory and Meaning (2007)
Blacks and the Regimes of Race in American Theater and Film before World War II
Publisher: University of of North Carolina Press
Subject: Countries > United States
Between Two Worlds (2007)
The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933
by S. S. Prawer
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Balboa Films (2007)
A History and Filmography of the Silent Film Studio
by Jean-Jacques Jura and Rodney Norman Bardin II
Publisher: McFarland & Co
The Body in Hollywood Slapstick (2007)
by Alex Clayton
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
New Women of the Silent Screen (2006)
China, Japan, Hollywood Volume 20
Dir. Catherine Russell
Publisher: Duke University Press
Women Filmmakers in Early Hollywood (2006)
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University 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
Silent Traces (2006)
Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Charlie Chaplin
Publisher: Santa Monica Press
Subject: Director > Charlie Chaplin
Manly Arts (2006)
Masculinity and Nation in Early American Cinema
Publisher: Duke University Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Murder in Hollywood (2006)
Solving a Silent Screen Mystery
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Subject: Director > William Desmond Taylor
An Amorous History of the Silver Screen (2006)
Shanghai Cinema, 1896-1937
by Zhang Zhen
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
The Opera Singer and the Silent Film (2005)
by Paul Fryer
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Silent Cinema
A Culture Of Light (2005)
Cinema And Technology In 1920s Germany
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Zones Of Anxiety (2005)
Movement, Musidora, and the crime serials of Louis Feuillade
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Shooting Cowboys and Indians (2004)
Silent Western Films, American Culture, and the Birth of Hollywood
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Subject: Silent Cinema
The Girl from God's Country (2003)
Nell Shipman and the Silent Cinema
by Kay Armatage
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Subject: Actor > Nell Shipman
Love Rules (2003)
Silent Hollywood and the Rise of the Managerial Class
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Legitimate Cinema (2003)
Theatre Stars in Silent British Films, 1908-1918
by Jon Burrows
Publisher: University of Exeter Press
Subject: Countries > Great Britain
American Silent Film (2002)
Discovering Marginalized Voices
by Gregg Paul Bachman and Thomas J. Slater
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
D.W. Griffith's Intolerance (2002)
Its Genesis and Its Vision
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: One Film > Intolerance
Young And Innocent? (2002)
The Cinema in Britain, 1896-1930
Publisher: University of Exeter Press
Subject: Countries > Great Britain
Picture Personalities (2001)
The Emergence of the Star System in America
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Subject: History of Cinema
At the Picture Show (2001)
Small-Town Audiences and the Creation of Movie Fan Culture
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Subject: History of Cinema
Silent Film and the Triumph of the American Myth (2001)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Melodrama and Modernity (2001)
Early Sensational Cinema and Its Contexts
by Ben Singer
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Fire and Desire (2001)
Mixed-Race Movies in the Silent Era
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Hollywood Destinies (2001)
European Directors in America 1922-1931
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Subject: Countries > United States
Writing Himself Into History (2000)
Oscar Micheaux, His Silent Films, and His Audiences
by Pearl Bowser and Louise Spence
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Subject: Director > Oscar Micheaux
Movie-Struck Girls (2000)
Women and Motion Picture Culture After the Nickelodeon
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Working-Class Hollywood (2000)
Silent Film and the Shaping of Class in America
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Silent Echoes (2000)
Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton
Publisher: Santa Monica Press
Subject: Director > Buster Keaton
Cinema and Urban Culture in Shanghai, 1922-1943 (1999)
Dir. Yingjin Zhang
Publisher: Stanford University Press
The Red Rooster Scare (1999)
by Richard Abel
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Sunrise (1998)
A Song of Two Humans
by Lucy Fischer
Publisher: BFI Publishing
(previous edition)
Subject: One Film > Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Music and the Silent Film (1997)
Contexts and Case Studies, 1895-1924
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
This Mad Masquerade (1996)
Stardom and Masculinity in the Jazz Age
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
The Birth of Whiteness (1996)
Race and the Emergence of United States Cinema
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
The Birth of a Nation (1994)
by Robert Lang
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Subject: One Film > The Birth of a Nation
Southern Mountaineers in Silent Films (1994)
Plot Synopses of Movies About Moonshining, Feuding and Other Mountain Topics, 1904-1929
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Silent Cinema
D.W. Griffith and the Origins of American Narrative Film (1993)
The Early Years at Biograph
by Tom Gunning
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Subject: Director > David W. Griffith
Before the Nickelodeon (1991)
Edwin S. Porter and the Edison Manufacturing Company
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Director > Edwin S. Porter
Soviet Cinema in the Silent Era (1991)
1918-1935
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Subject: Countries > Russia / USSR
Babel and Babylon (1991)
Spectatorship in American Silent Film
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Early Cinema (1990)
Space, Frame, Narrative
Dir. Thomas Elsaesser
Publisher: BFI Publishing
Subject: Silent Cinema
Behind the Mask of Innocence (1990)
Sex, Violence, Prejudice, Crime
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Subject: History of Cinema
Screening Out the Past (1983)
The Birth of Mass Culture and the Motion Picture Industry
by Lary May
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
The Astoria Studio and Its Fabulous Films (1983)
A Picture History with 227 Stills and Photographs
Publisher: Dover Publications
Subject: Silent Cinema
The Comic Mind (1979)
Comedy and the Movies
by Gerald Mast
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
(previous edition)
Subject: Silent Cinema
Embattled shadows (1978)
a history of Canadian cinema, 1895-1939
by Peter Morris
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
D. W. Griffith (2012)
Interviews
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Director > David W. Griffith
The Sound of Silence (2011)
Conversations With 16 Film and Stage Personalities Who Bridged the Gap Between Silents and Talkies
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Silent Cinema
Silent Stars Speak (2001)
Interviews with Twelve Cinema Pioneers
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Actor
Pass the Gravy (2024)
Serving Up the Lives, Careers and Recipes of 196 Silent Film Stars
Publisher: BearManor Media
Subject: Silent Cinema
Lucy Thurston and Linda Arvidson (2022)
by Lucy Thurston and Linda Arvidson
Publisher: Standish Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Film's First Family (2021)
The Untold Story of the Costellos
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Subject: Actress > Helene Costello, Maurice Costello, Dolores Costello
The Man Who Made the Movies (2017)
The Meteoric Rise and Tragic Fall of William Fox
by Vanda Krefft
Publisher: HarperCollins
Subject: Others persons > William Fox
Pola Negri (2017)
The Hollywood Years
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Subject: Actress > Pola Negri
Moving Performances (2016)
Divas, Iconicity, and Remembering the Modern Stage
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Ravished Armenia and the Story of Aurora Mardiganian (2014)
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: One Film > Ravished Armenia
D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (2008)
A History of 'The Most Controversial Motion Picture of All Time'
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: One Film > The Birth of a Nation
Still (2013)
American Silent Motion Picture Photography
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Mary Pickford (2012)
Queen of the Movies
Dir. Christel Schmidt
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Subject: Actress > Mary Pickford
The Silent Film Universe (2025)
by Ben Model
Publisher: Undercrank Productions LLC
Subject: Silent Cinema
Early Cinema (2004)
From Factory Gate to Dream Factory
by Simon Popple and Joe Kember
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Silent Cinema (1999)
An Introduction
Publisher: BFI Publishing
(previous edition)
Subject: Silent Cinema
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