Early Motion Pictures
Author: Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division
Publisher:
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 540
ISBN-13:
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The 1931-1940: American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States
Author: American Film Institute
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 1198
ISBN-13: 9780520079083
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The entire field of film historians awaits the AFI volumes with eagerness."--Eileen Bowser, Museum of Modern Art Film Department Comments on previous volumes: "The source of last resort for finding socially valuable . . . films that received such scant attention that they seem 'lost' until discovered in the AFI Catalog."--Thomas Cripps "Endlessly absorbing as an excursion into cultural history and national memory."--Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States
Author: American Film Institute
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 962
ISBN-13: 9780520209695
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter more than fifteen years, this initial volume of the American Film Institute Catalog series is again in print. The 1920s set covers the important filmmaking period when "movies" became "talkies," and the careers of many influential directors and actors were launched. Films such as Wings, The Phantom of the Opera, All Quiet on the Western Front, and The Jazz Singer are included in this volume.
Hollywood War Films, 1937-1945
Author: Michael S. Shull
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2015-09-03
Total Pages: 495
ISBN-13: 1476621780
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom 1937 through 1945, Hollywood produced over 1,000 films relating to the war. This enormous and exhaustive reference work first analyzes the war films as sociopolitical documents. Part one, entitled "The Crisis Abroad, 1937-1941," focuses on movies that reflected America's increasing uneasiness. Part two, "Waging War, 1942-1945," reveals that many movies made from 1942 through 1945 included at least some allusion to World War II.
The American Theatrical Film
Author: John C. Tibbetts
Publisher: Popular Press
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780879722890
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides needed information on the collaborations between filmmakers and theater personnel before 1930 and completes our understanding of how two art forms influenced each other. It begins with the vaudeville and "faerie" dramas captured in brief films by the Edison and Biograph companies; follows the development of feature-length Sarah Bernhardt and James O'Neill films after 1912; examines the formation of theater/film combination companies in 1914-15; and details later collaborations during the talking picture revolution of 1927. Includes detailed analyses of important theatrical films like The Count of Monte Cristo, The Virginian, Coquette, and Paramount on Parade.
Alice Guy Blaché
Author: Alison McMahan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2014-08-22
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 1501302698
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlice Guy BlachT (1873-1968), the world's first woman filmmaker, was one of the key figures in the development of narrative film. From 1896 to 1920 she directed 400 films (including over 100 synchronized sound films), produced hundreds more, and was the first--and so far the only--woman to own and run her own studio plant (The Solax Studio in Fort Lee, NJ, 1910-1914). However, her role in film history was completely forgotten until her own memoirs were published in 1976. This new book tells her life story and fills in many gaps left by the memoirs. Guy BlachT's life and career mirrored momentous changes in the film industry, and the long time-span and sheer volume of her output makes her films a fertile territory for the application of new theories of cinema history, the development of film narrative, and feminist film theory. The book provides a close analysis of the one hundred Guy BlachT films that survive, and in the process rewrites early cinema history.
Ford Sterling
Author: Wendy Warwick White
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2010-06-28
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 0786482206
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVaudeville, burlesque, Shakespeare, baseball--in the course of his career, Ford Sterling performed them all. The well-educated son of a middle-class Chicago family, Sterling succumbed to the acting bug and left school at the age of 18. After trying a variety of performing activities--including working as an aerobatic circus clown--Sterling found his true niche in comedy. Best known for his role as the Keystone Kops villain, Sterling was a comedy legend as great as Charlie Chaplin in the opening decades of the twentieth century. He left his mark on silent film and effortlessly made the transition to sound, becoming one of the most sought-after character actors of the 1920s. From A Dutch Gold Mine to Many Unhappy Returns, this biography chronicles the life and times of George Ford Stich, Jr. (aka Ford Sterling). It follows Sterling from his childhood to his college days at Notre Dame, where he got his first taste of acting. The main focus of the work is Sterling's career, from 1911 to 1937, which is unfortunately largely forgotten today. With an emphasis on correcting inaccuracies and restoring Sterling's legacy, this volume examines his on-screen work, his production ventures, his reputation as a world renowned photographer and his final debilitating illness. A detailed filmography provides all known production, cast and crew information as well as a synopsis for each film when available. The work is also indexed.
Encyclopedia of Early Cinema
Author: Richard Abel
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 824
ISBN-13: 0415234409
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne-volume reference work on the first twenty-five years of the cinema's international emergence from the early 1890s to the mid-1910s.
United States Government Organization Manual
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Total Pages: 1760
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom Caligari to Hitler
Author: Siegfried Kracauer
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2019-04-02
Total Pages: 433
ISBN-13: 0691192081
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn essential work of the cinematic history of the Weimar Republic by a leading figure of film criticism First published in 1947, From Caligari to Hitler remains an undisputed landmark study of the rich cinematic history of the Weimar Republic. Prominent film critic Siegfried Kracauer examines German society from 1921 to 1933, in light of such movies as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, M, Metropolis, and The Blue Angel. He explores the connections among film aesthetics, the prevailing psychological state of Germans in the Weimar era, and the evolving social and political reality of the time. Kracauer makes a startling (and still controversial) claim: films as popular art provide insight into the unconscious motivations and fantasies of a nation. With a critical introduction by Leonardo Quaresima which provides context for Kracauer’s scholarship and his contributions to film studies, this Princeton Classics edition makes an influential work available to new generations of cinema enthusiasts.
