Silent Movies & Early Sound Films on DVD: New Expanded Edition

Silent Movies & Early Sound Films on DVD: New Expanded Edition
Title Silent Movies & Early Sound Films on DVD: New Expanded Edition PDF eBook
Author John Howard Reid
Publisher Lulu.com
Pages 442
Release 2011-08-01
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 0557433355

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Thanks to DVD, a great number of silent films and early talkies are now available for home viewing. In fact, so many of these wonderful movies can now be purchased, rented or borrowed by classic motion picture fans that an up-to-date reference work to the best (and the middling and the worst) has become essential. In this comprehensive guide, fans and enthusiasts will find not only familiar titles like Lon Chaney's "Phantom of the Opera" or Douglas Fairbanks' "Thief of Bagdad" or Harold Lloyd's "Safety Last"; but the less familiar "Down to the Sea in Ships" (starring a young Clara Bow), "Evangeline" (Dolores Del Rio), "Stella Dallas" (Belle Bennett), "Monsieur Beaucaire" (Rudolph Valentino), Ford Sterling's "The Show-Off," and Al Jolson's "Big Boy," to mention just a few of the many hundreds of titles detailed in this massive book. 440 pages of insightful text! Over 110 wonderful photos!

Silent Movies

Silent Movies
Title Silent Movies PDF eBook
Author Peter Kobel
Publisher Little, Brown
Pages 607
Release 2009-02-28
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 0316069590

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Drawing on the extraordinary collection of The Library of Congress, one of the greatest repositories for silent film and memorabilia, Peter Kobel has created the definitive visual history of silent film. From its birth in the 1890s, with the earliest narrative shorts, through the brilliant full-length features of the 1920s, Silent Movies captures the greatest directors and actors and their immortal films. Silent Movies also looks at the technology of early film, the use of color photography, and the restoration work being spearheaded by some of Hollywood's most important directors, such as Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola. Richly illustrated from the Library of Congress's extensive collection of posters, paper prints, film stills, and memorabilia -- most of which have never been in print -- Silent Movies is an important work of history that will also be a sought-after gift book for all lovers of film.

The Oxford Handbook of Film Music Studies

The Oxford Handbook of Film Music Studies
Title The Oxford Handbook of Film Music Studies PDF eBook
Author David Neumeyer
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Pages 697
Release 2014
Genre Music
ISBN 0195328493

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The Oxford Handbook of Film Music Studies gathers two dozen original essays that chart the history and current state of interdisciplinary scholarship on music in audiovisual media, focusing on four areas: history, genre and medium, analysis and criticism, and interpretation.

150 Finest Films of the Fifties

150 Finest Films of the Fifties
Title 150 Finest Films of the Fifties PDF eBook
Author John Howard Reid
Publisher Lulu.com
Pages 352
Release 2015-10-11
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 1329613112

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The 1950's saw a major revolution on the movie front. In order to combat TV, the size of movies screens was changed forever. Unfortunately, there was no standard agreement as to what dimensions, the preferred new sized screen should be.

Silent Movies Plus! More Silent Films & Early Talkies on DVD

Silent Movies Plus! More Silent Films & Early Talkies on DVD
Title Silent Movies Plus! More Silent Films & Early Talkies on DVD PDF eBook
Author John Howard Reid
Publisher Lulu.com
Pages 208
Release 2015-07-27
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 1329414241

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Almost all the CLASSIC HOLLYWOOD MOVIES discussed in this book are currently available on DVD. Many are sold by specialist stores such as Oldies. And now that vintage titles are being pressed on demand, theoretically they will never go out of print! However, an attempt has been made to include some of the classics that are not so well-known, as well as those that are more frequently aired on TV or are prominently featured in retail and mail order stores. Here, for example, are a few of the movie titles that begin with the letter "S" Seven Keys to Baldpate (1917), Seven Keys to Baldpate (1947), She Goes To War (1929), the Shining Adventure (1925), the Ship of Lost Men (1929), Show-Off (1926), Silent Enemy (1930), Sky Bride (1932), Sky High (1922), Slums of New York (1932), the Smart Set (1928), Son of the Gods (1930), Speedway (1929), Spite Marriage (1929), the Squall (1929), Square Shoulders (1929), Stranger in Town (1932), Strictly Unconventional (1930), Sunset Trail (1932), Svengali (1931).

New Silent Cinema

New Silent Cinema
Title New Silent Cinema PDF eBook
Author Katherine Groo
Publisher Routledge
Pages 358
Release 2015-09-16
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1317819446

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With the success of Martin Scorsese’s Hugo (2011) and Michel Hazanavicius’s The Artist (2011) nothing seems more contemporary in recent film than the styles, forms, and histories of early and silent cinemas. This collection considers the latest return to silent film alongside the larger historical field of visual repetitions and affective currents that wind their way through 20th and 21st century visual cultures. Contributors bring together several fields of research, including early and silent cinema studies, experimental and new media, historiography and archive theory, and studies of media ontology and epistemology. Chapters link the methods, concerns, and concepts of early and silent film studies as they have flourished over the last quarter century to the most recent developments in digital culture—from YouTube to 3D—recasting this contemporary phenomenon in popular culture and new media against key debates and concepts in silent film scholarship. An interview with acclaimed Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin closes out the collection.

Doug Pratt's DVD

Doug Pratt's DVD
Title Doug Pratt's DVD PDF eBook
Author Douglas Pratt
Publisher UNET 2 Corporation
Pages 676
Release 2004
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 1932916008

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The ultimate guide to DVD by the world's leadding authority on the medium.