The Parade's Gone By
Title | The Parade's Gone By PDF eBook |
Author | Kevin Brownlow |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 614 |
Release | 1968 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9780520030688 |
Well illustrated book on history of silent movies
Silent Movies
Title | Silent Movies PDF eBook |
Author | Neil Sinyard |
Publisher | Smithmark Publishers |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9780831778002 |
Traces the evolution of the medium and the evolution of celebrities, including such pioneers as Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Mary Pickford, Valentino, Fairbanks, and the Gish sisters
Flickering Empire
Title | Flickering Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Glover Smith |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 233 |
Release | 2015-01-20 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0231850794 |
Flickering Empire tells the fascinating yet little-known story of how Chicago served as the unlikely capital of American film production in the years before the rise of Hollywood (1907–1913). As entertaining as it is informative, Flickering Empire straddles the worlds of academic and popular nonfiction in its vivid illustration of the rise and fall of the major Chicago movie studios in the mid-silent era (principally Essanay and Selig Polyscope). Colorful, larger-than-life historical figures, including Thomas Edison, Charlie Chaplin, Oscar Micheaux, and Orson Welles, are major players in the narrative—in addition to important though forgotten industry titans, such as "Colonel" William Selig, George Spoor, and Gilbert "Broncho Billy" Anderson.
100 Silent Films
Title | 100 Silent Films PDF eBook |
Author | Bryony Dixon |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 270 |
Release | 2017-10-07 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1844575691 |
100 Silent Films provides an authoritative and accessible history of silent cinema through one hundred of its most interesting and significant films. As Bryony Dixon contends, silent cinema is not a genre; it is the first 35 years of film history, a complex negotiation between art and commerce and a union of creativity and technology. At its most grand – on the big screen with a full orchestral accompaniment – it is magnificent, permitting a depth of emotional engagement rarely found in other fields of cinema. Silent film was hugely popular in its day, and its success enabled the development of large-scale film production in the United States and Europe. It was the start of our fascination with the moving image as a disseminator of information and as mass entertainment with its consequent celebrity culture. The digital revolution in the last few years and the restoration and reissue of archival treasures have contributed to a huge resurgence of interest in silent cinema. Bryony Dixon's illuminating guide introduces a wide range of films of the silent period (1895–1930), including classics such as The Birth of a Nation (1915), The General (1926), Metropolis (1927), Sunrise (1927) and Pandora's Box (1928), alongside more unexpected choices, and represents major genres and directors of the period – Griffith, Keaton, Chaplin, Murnau, Sjöström, Dovzhenko and Eisenstein – together with an introductory overview and useful filmographic and bibliographic information.
Silent Film Sound
Title | Silent Film Sound PDF eBook |
Author | Rick Altman |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 492 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780231116633 |
Silent films were, of course, never silent at all. However, the sound that used to accompany the screen picture in the early days of cinema has been neglected as an area of study. Altman explores the various musical, narrative, and even synchronized sound systems that enriched cinema before Jolson spoke.
Silent Cinema, an Introduction
Title | Silent Cinema, an Introduction PDF eBook |
Author | Paolo Cherchi Usai |
Publisher | British Film Institute |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 2000-11-26 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9780851707464 |
This revised guide to silent film studies contains two new chapters that present an analysis of color technology and aesthetics. They look at how silent films are saved, restored and made accessible via archives. Aided by new material, this book is a survey of the first 30 years in the history of film.
Movies of the Silent Years
Title | Movies of the Silent Years PDF eBook |
Author | Ann Lloyd |
Publisher | |
Pages | 234 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
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