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Father goose / Gene Flower New York: Avon, c1934; c1961 1974.
Call No: 81SEN FOWAuthor: Flower, Gene Source: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: AvonPubDate: c1934; c1961 1974PhysDes: 288p. ; 18cmSubject: COMEDIANS ; SENNETT, MACK ISBN: 38015966195Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006
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Film : a montage of theories N.Y.: Dutton, 1966.
Call No: 62 MACAuthor: MacCann, Richard Dyer Edition: 1st edPlace: N.Y.Publisher: DuttonPubDate: 1966PhysDes: 384 p. : movie stills ; 18 cmSubject: THEORY ; AESTHETICS ; DOCUMENTARIES ; CINEMASCOPE ; NEOREALISM ; PUDOVKIN, VSEVELOD ; CLAIR, RENE ; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED ; KNOX, ALEXANDER ; NICHOLS, DUDLEY ; BERGMAN, INGMAR ; BALAZS, BELA ; SENNETT, MACK ; VORKAPICH, SLAVKO ; RICHTER, HANS ; Grierson, John ; ZAVATTINI, CESARE ; KRACAUER, SIEGFRIED ; ROEMER, MICHAEL ; BACHMANN, GIDEON ; DREW, ROBERT ; LEACOCK, RICHARD ; PENNEBAKER, D. A. ; DREYER, CARL TH. ; VANDERBEEK, STAN ; MEKAS, JONAS ; KAEL, PAULINE ; TRUFFAUT, FRANCOIS ; Fellini, Federico ISBN: 0525471812LON: 21441213
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Film makers on film making : Statements on their art by thirty directors / Geduld, Harry M. (editor) Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1967.
Call No: 802.25 FILPlace: HarmondsworthPublisher: PenguinPubDate: 1967PhysDes: 18 cm; 303 p.Subject: AUTHORSHIP ; LUMIERE, LOUIS ; PORTER, EDWIN S. ; SENNETT, MACK ; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK ; FLAHERTY, ROBERT ; CHAPLIN, CHARLES ; VON STROHEIM, ERICH ; VERTOV, DZIGA ; DREYER, CARL TH. ; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED ; RICHARDSON, TONY ; COCTEAU, JEAN ; RESNAIS, ALAIN ; ROBBE-GRILLET, ALAIN ; BUNUEL, LUIS ; BERGMAN, INGMAR ; FELLINI, FEDERICO ; VON STERNBERG, JOSEF ; ANTONIONI, MICHELANGELO ; LANG, FRITZ ; WAJDA, ANDRZEJ ; WELLES, ORSON ; RAY, SARYAJIT ; KUROSAWA AKIRA ; ANDERSON, LINDSAY ; LEAN, DAVID ; RENOIR, JEAN ; BARDEM, JUAN ANTONIO ; ANGER, KENNETH Summary: Does the making of films – a group activity – permit anything that can be called self-expression? Can a director, as the conductor of an orchestra of writers, actors, cameramen and technicians, stamp his personal vision on the films he makes? This and related questions are raised by this collection of statements made by famous directors about their art. Harry Geguld’s anthology of “patristic writings” runs from the days (in 1895) when Louis Lumiere filmed a train entering a station, by way of Charlie Chaplin’s knockabout ad-libbing, to the sophisticated ruminations of Antonioni and Bergman and the ideas behind the nouvelle vague. Here is D.W. Griffith’s scouting the very idea of talking pictures; Mack Sennett on custard pies; Eisenstein on three-dimensional film; Cocteau on the raw materials of illusion; Kurosawa on filming in Japan; Hitchcock on the macabre; and some other twenty leading directors on aspects of their work. In his introduction, Harry Geguld assesses the unique characteristics of motion pictures and comments refreshingly on the eternal controversy of “book into film”. [Taken from back cover.]ID2: 291
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Focus on Chaplin / Donald W. McCaffrey New Jersey: Prentice Hall, [1971].
Call No: 81CHA MCCAuthor: McCaffrey, Donald W. (ed.) Source: USPlace: New JerseyPublisher: Prentice HallPubDate: [1971]PhysDes: 174 p. : ill. ; 21 cmSeries: Film FocusSubject: TYPE CHARACTERS IN FILMS ; CHAPLIN, CHARLES ; SENNETT, MACK ; KID, THE (US, Charles Chaplin, 1921) ; GOLD RUSH, THE (US, Charles Chaplin, 1925) ; GENERAL, THE (US, Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman, 1927) ; CIRCUS, THE (US, Charles Chaplin, 1928) ; CITY LIGHTS (US, Charles Chaplin, 1931) ; MODERN TIMES (US, Charles Chaplin, 1936) ; GREAT DICTATOR, THE (US, Charles Chaplin, 1940) ; MONSIEUR VERDOUX (US, Charles Chaplin, 1947) ; LIMELIGHT (US, Charles Chaplin, 1952) ISBN: 131282077Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006Contents: Introduction - Donald W. McCaffrey -- CAREER -- A brief overall view - John Montgomery -- Creating the role of Dr. Body in Casey's Court Circus - Charlie Chaplin -- Acting-directing apprenticeship with Mack Sennett - Charlie Chaplin -- WORKING METHOD -- Development of the comic story and the Tramp character - Charlie Chaplin -- What people laugh at - Charlie Chaplin -- Max Linder's and Elsie Codd's views on the working method - Louis Delluc -- A rejection of the talkies - Charlie Chaplin -- ESSAYS -- The art of Charlie Chaplin - Minnie Maddern Fiske -- Is the Charlie Chaplin vogue passing? - Harcourt Farmer -- Everybody's Language - Winston Churchill -- A reaction to the praise given to Chaplin's artistry - George Jean Nathan -- An evaulation of Chaplin's silent comedy films, 1916-36 - Donald W. McCaffrey -- REVIEWS -- Impressions of two early comedy films - Louis Delluc -- An early detailed account of the action in The Pawnshop - Gilbert Seldes -- The Kid - Francis Hackett -- The Pilgrim - Robert E. Sherwood -- With the bunk left out - Charles W. Wood -- The idea in The Gold Rush: a study of Chaplin's use of the comic technique of pathos-humor - Timothy J. Lyons -- A comparison of The Gold Rush and The General - Gerald Mast -- The Circus - Alexander Bakshy -- City Lights and Modern Times: skirmishes with romance, pathos, and social significance - Donald W. McCaffrey -- The Great Dictator - Herman G. Weinberg -- Monsieur Verdoux - Roger Manvell -- The lineage of Limelight - Walter Kerr
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A history of the movies / Benjamin B. Hampton London: Noel Douglas, 1932.
Call No: 71(73) HAMAuthor: Hampton, Benjamin B. (Benjamin Bowles), 1875-1932 Place: LondonPublisher: Noel DouglasPubDate: 1932PhysDes: 456 p., 125 p. of illus. 23 cmSubject: BIOGRAPH ; BIRTH OF A NATION, THE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1915) ; CHAPLIN, CHARLES ; DEMILLE, CECIL B. ; FAIRBANKS, DOUGLAS ; GOLDWYN, SAMUEL ; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK ; HART, WILLIAM S. ; HOLLYWOOD MEMORY IN FILMS ; LAEMMLE, CARL ; LASKY, JESSE ; PARAMOUNT STUDIOS ; PICKFORD, MARY ; SCHENCK, JOSEPH M ; SELZNICK, DAVID O. ; SENNETT, MACK ; ZUKOR, ADOLPH LON: 13776404 13776404
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The Hollywood cage / Charles Hamblett New York: Hart Publishing Company, 1969.
Call No: 46(794) HAMAuthor: Hamblett, Charles Source: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: Hart Publishing CompanyPubDate: 1969PhysDes: 435 p. : ill., ports ; 24 cmSeries: Includes indexSubject: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; TYPE CHARACTERS IN FILMS ; TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX ; WARNER BROS. ; ANDERSON, ERNIE ; ARMSTRONG, LOUIS ; BACALL, LAUREN ; BARRYMORE, JOHN ; BOGART, HUMPHREY ; BRANDO, MARLON ; BURTON, RICHARD ; CLIFT, MONTGOMERY ; DAVIS, SAMMY, Jr. ; DEAN, JAMES ; FLYNN, ERROL ; GABLE, CLARK ; HATHAWAY, HENRY ; HUSTON, JOHN ; LOREN, SOPHIA ; MONROE, MARILYN ; MILLER, ARTHUR ; NOVAK, KIM ; PECK, GREGORY ; PONTI, CARLO ; SENNETT, MACK ; SINATRA, FRANK ; TAYLOR, ELIZABETH ; THALBERG, IRVING ; WARNER, JACK L. ; WAYNE, JOHN ; WOOD, NATALIE ; WOODWARD, JOANNE Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006
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Hollywood directors, 1914-1940 / [compiled by] Richard Koszarski New York: Oxford University Press, 1976.
Call No: 802.25(73) KOSAuthor: Koszarski, Richard Place: New YorkPublisher: Oxford University PressPubDate: 1976PhysDes: xx, 364 p. : ill. ; 22 cmSubject: DIRECTORS. USA ; PORTER, EDWIN S. ; GUY-BLACHE, ALICE ; BLACKTON, J. STUART ; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK ; HART, WILLIAM S. ; WEBER, LOIS ; SENNETT, MACK ; INCE, THOMAS HARPER ; INGRAM, REX ; NEILAN, MARSHALL ; CHAPLIN, CHARLES ; FLAHERTY, ROBERT ; LLOYD, HAROLD ; Keaton, Buster ; DWAN, ALLAN ; DEMILLE, CECIL B. ; VON STROHEIM, ERICH ; LANGDON, HARRY ; CAPRA, FRANK ; FORD, JOHN ; MURNAU, FRIEDRICH WILHELM ; BORZAGE, FRANK ; LUBITSCH, ERNST ; VIDOR, KING ; ROACH, HAL ; MAMOULIAN, ROUBEN ; DEMILLE, WILLIAM ; MILESTONE, LEWIS ; CUKOR, GEORGE ; VAN DYKE, W.S. ; HOWARD, WILLIAM K. ; TUTTLE, FRANK ; SCHOEDSACK, ERNEST B. ; GARNETT, TAY ; CROMWELL, JOHN ; OLCOTT, SIDNEY ; HORNE, JAMES W. ; FITZMAURICE, GEORGE ; PARK, IDA MAY ; TOURNEUR, MAURICE ; FLOREY, ROBERT ; MENZIES, WILLIAM CAMERON ; VORKAPICH, SLAVKO ; BRENNON, HERBERT ; CAREWE, EDWIN ; NIBLO, FRED ; GOULDING, EDMUND ; FEJOS, PAUL ; BELL, MONTA Notes: Includes indexISBN: 0195020855 : $13.95LON: 761206
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King of comedy / Mack Sennett ; as told to Cameron Shipp London: Peter Davies, 1955.
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A short history of the movies / Gerald Mast Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, c1976.
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The silent clowns / by Walter Kerr New York: Knopf, 1975.
Call No: 732 KER; FOLIOAuthor: Kerr, Walter, 1913 Edition: 1st edPlace: New YorkPublisher: KnopfPubDate: 1975PhysDes: 372 p. : ill. ; 31 cmSubject: COMEDIANS ; COMEDIES ; Keaton, Buster ; HARDY, OLIVER ; LAUREL, STAN ; GRIFFITH, RAYMOND ; LANGDON, HARRY ; SENNETT, MACK ; LLOYD, HAROLD ; CHAPLIN, CHARLES Notes: Includes indexISBN: 0394469070 : $17.95LON: 384380
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Specters of slapstick & silent film comediennes / Maggie Hennefeld New York: Columbia University Press, 2018.
Call No: 732.1-02 HENAuthor: Hennefeld, Maggie Edition: 2018Place: New YorkPublisher: Columbia University PressPubDate: 2018PhysDes: xvii, 364 pages : illustrated ; 23 cmSeries: Film and cultureSubject: HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD ; WOMEN AND THE CINEMA ; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK ; DRESSLER, MARIE ; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; GENDER AND THE CINEMA ; GISH, LILLIAN ; NORMAND, MABEL ; PATHE ; SENNETT, MACK ; TURNER, FLORENCE ; VITAGRAPH Summary: Women explode out of chimneys and melt when sprayed with soda water. Feminist activists play practical jokes to lobby for voting rights, while overworked kitchen maids dismember their limbs to finish their chores on time. In early slapstick films with titles such as Saucy Sue, Mary Jane’s Mishap, Jane on Strike, and The Consequences of Feminism, comediennes exhibit the tensions between joyful laughter and gendered violence. Slapstick comedy often celebrates the exaggeration of make-believe injury. Unlike male clowns, however, these comic actresses use slapstick antics as forms of feminist protest. They spontaneously combust while doing housework, disappear and reappear when sexually assaulted, or transform into men by eating magic seeds—and their absurd metamorphoses evoke the real-life predicaments of female identity in a changing modern world.
Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes reveals the gender politics of comedy and the comedic potentials of feminism through close consideration of hundreds of silent films. As Maggie Hennefeld argues, comedienne catastrophes provide disturbing but suggestive images for comprehending gendered social upheavals in the early twentieth century. At the same time, slapstick comediennes were crucial to the emergence of film language. Women’s flexible physicality offered filmmakers blank slates for experimenting with the visual and social potentials of cinema. Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes poses major challenges to the foundations of our ideas about slapstick comedy and film history, showing how this combustible genre blows open age-old debates about laughter, society, and gender politics. -- publisher's web siteISBN: 9780231179478Donation: Senses of CinemaContents: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Early Film Combustion -- 1. Early Cinema and the Comedy of Female Catastrophe -- 2. Female Combustion and Feminist Film Historiography -- Part II. Transitional Film Metamorphosis -- 3. Slapstick Comediennes in Transitional Cinema: Between Body and Medium -- 4. The Geopolitics of Transitional Film Comedy: American Vitagraph Versus French Pathé-Freres -- 5. D. W. Griffith’s Slapstick Comediennes: Female Corporeality and Narrative Film Storytelling -- Part III. Feminist Slapstick Politics -- 6. Film Comedy Aesthetics and Suffragette Social Politics -- 7. Radical Militancy and Slapstick Political Violence -- Postscript: Haunted Laughter at Late Comediennes -- Annotated Filmography -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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Stardom : the hollywood phenomenon / Alexander Walker London: Michael Joseph, 1970.
Call No: 465 WALAuthor: Walker, Alexander Source: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: Michael JosephPubDate: 1970PhysDes: 392 p. ; 23 cm.Subject: STARS ; HISTORY OF CINEMA ; RACIAL ISSUES AND THE CINEMA ; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK ; GISH, LILLIAN ; CHAPLIN, CHARLES ; FAIRBANKS, DOUGLAS ; SENNETT, MACK ; VALENTINO, RUDOLPH ; DAVIS, BETTE ; Crawford, Joan ; GABLE, CLARK ; WAYNE, JOHN ISBN: 0718100832
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Stunt : the story of the great movie stunt men / John Baxter London: MacDonald & Jane's, 1973.
Call No: 802.275 BAXAuthor: Baxter, John, 1939- Source: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: MacDonald & Jane'sPubDate: 1973PhysDes: 320 pages including 8 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 25 cmSubject: STUNTS ; CANUTT, YAKIMA ; SENNETT, MACK ; MIX, TOM ; FAIRBANKS, DOUGLAS Summary: Examining the use of stunts in American and British film from the silent era until the early 1970s. Many films are mentioned (including: Ben-Hur, Vanishing Point, Stagecoach), key stunt people are profiled (Yak Canutt), and a wide range of stunt types and techniques are looked at (including driving, sword fighting, stunts involving animals).ISBN: 0356043576Levy Notes: AFI R&I book not yet catalogued - AG 23/10/2017Contents: Acknowledgements -- 1 Hypnotists and drunken Indians -- 2 Sennett's Psychopaths -- 3 Cliffhangers -- 4 Tom (Mix) and Douglas (Fairbanks) -- 5 I'm still alive -- 6 Yak -- 7 The Squadron of Death -- 8 I don't want to die in Africa -- 9 Magicians -- 10 Nightmares -- 11 Breezy -- 12 Swash -- 13 The Driver -- 14 The honoured society -- 15 A new breed -- Towards a biography -- Notes -- Index of film titles -- Index of people
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Young film makers / Sidney Rees and Don Waters London: Society for Education in Film and Television, 1963.
Author: Rees, Sidney ; Waters, Don CorpAuthor: Society for Education in Film and TelevisionEdition: rev.Source: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: Society for Education in Film and TelevisionPubDate: 1963PhysDes: 20 p. ; 20 cmSubject: DICKSON, W. K. L. ; EDISON, THOMAS ALVA ; CHAPLIN, CHARLES ; EDISON, THOMAS ALVA ; HEPWORTH, CECIL ; PAUL, ROBERT ; PICKFORD, MARY ; REYNAUD, EMILE ; SENNETT, MACK Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006
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