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GISH, LILLIAN
Call No: PERSONALITY CLIPPINGS FILE; PERSONALITY MICROFILM COLLECTIONPhysDes: Clippings; StillsSubject: GISH, LILLIAN
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Lillian Gish : the movies, Mr. Griffith and me / by Lillian Gish with Ann Pinchot London: W. H. Allen, 1969.
Call No: 81GIS GISAuthor: Gish, Lillian Source: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: W. H. AllenPubDate: 1969PhysDes: xiii, 388 p., 62 plates. : illus., ports. ; 24 cm.Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD ; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK ; GISH, LILLIAN ; BROKEN BLOSSOMS (US, David Wark Griffith, 1919) ; BIRTH OF A NATION, THE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1915) ; INTOLERANCE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1916) ; WAY DOWN EAST (US, David Wark Griffith, 1920) ; ORPHANS OF THE STORM (US, David Wark Griffith, 1921) ISBN: 0491001037
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Lillian Gish New York: Museum of Modern Art, c1980.
Call No: 81GIS LILCorpAuthor: Museum of Modern ArtSource: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: Museum of Modern ArtPubDate: c1980PhysDes: 32 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.Subject: GISH, LILLIAN Notes: Filmography: p. 31.Language: English
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Movie acting, the film reader / edited by Pamela Robertson Wojcik New York: Routledge, 2004.
Call No: 227 WOJPlace: New YorkPublisher: RoutledgePubDate: 2004PhysDes: viii, 240 p. ; 24 cm.Series: In focusSubject: ACTING ; ACTORS STUDIO METHOD ; CHARACTER ACTORS ; TYPE CHARACTERS IN FILMS ; GISH, LILLIAN ; TRUE HEART SUSIE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1919) ; ON THE WATERFRONT (US, Elia Kazan, 1954) ; DEAN, JAMES ; POITIER, SIDNEY ; MOOREHEAD, AGNES ; WATERS, ETHEL ; DANDRIDGE, DOROTHY Summary: A colelction of classic essays and recent scholarly articles about acting. A look at the history of screen acting and types of acting methods with some reference to specific actors and their styles.Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.ISBN: 0415310245
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Movie star : a look at the women who made Hollywood / by Ethan Mordden New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983.
Call No: 451-02 MORAuthor: Mordden, Ethan, 1947 Place: New YorkPublisher: St. Martin's PressPubDate: 1983PhysDes: xii, 296 p., [40] p. of plates : ports. ; 24 cmSubject: WOMEN IN FILMS ; STAR SYSTEM ; ACTORS ; BOW, CLARA ; SWANSON, GLORIA ; PICKFORD, MARY ; GISH, LILLIAN ; GAYNOR, JANET ; SHEARER, NORMA ; GARBO, GRETA ; Crawford, Joan ; LOY, MYRNA ; GARSON, GREER ; DIETRICH, MARLENE ; HARLOW, JEAN ; WEST, MAE ; Lombard, Carole ; DAVIES, MARION ; BALL, LUCILLE ; HEPBURN, KATHARINE ; RUSSELL, ROSALIND ; FAYE, ALICE ; Stanwyck, Barbara ; DAVIS, BETTE ; TEMPLE, SHIRLEY ; GARLAND, JUDY ; TAYLOR, ELIZABETH ; HAYWORTH, RITA ; GRABLE, BETTY ; GARDNER, AVA ; MONROE, MARILYN ; MANSFIELD, JAYNE ; NOVAK, KIM ; HOLLIDAY, JUDY ; HEPBURN, AUDREY ; DAY, DORIS ; ANDREWS, JULIE ; STREISAND, BARBRA ; MINNELLI, LIZA ; BERGMAN, INGRID ; WELCH, RAQUEL ; Keaton, Diane ; FONDA, JANE ; DRESSLER, MARIE ; DUNNE, IRENE ; LAWRENCE, FLORENCE ; BARA, THEDA ; MURRAY, MAE ; MOORE, COLLEEN ; ALLEN, GRACIE ; BLONDELL, JOAN ; TOMLIN, LILY Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. [285]-289ISBN: 0312550502 (pbk.); 0312550499LON: 83003024; 2457302
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Popcorn Venus / Marjorie Rosen New York: Avon, 1974, c1973.
Call No: 451-02 ROSAuthor: Rosen, Marjorie Place: New YorkPublisher: AvonPubDate: 1974, c1973PhysDes: 448 p. : ill. ; 18 cmSubject: WOMEN IN FILMS ; ACTORS ; ARZNER, DOROTHY ; BOW, CLARA ; Crawford, Joan ; DAVIS, BETTE ; DIETRICH, MARLENE ; GARBO, GRETA ; GISH, LILLIAN ; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK ; HAYWORTH, RITA ; Lupino, Ida ; MONROE, MARILYN ; NEGRI, POLA ; PICKFORD, MARY ; WEST, MAE Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p.412-424ISBN: 0380001772LON: 1231170
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The rise and fall of the matinee idol : past deities of stage and screen, their roles, their magic, and their worshippers / edited by Anthony Curtis; illustration consultants: Raymond Mander and Joe Mitchenson London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, [1974].
Call No: 802.27 RISAuthor: Curtis, Anthony Place: LondonPublisher: Weidenfeld & NicolsonPubDate: [1974]PhysDes: 215 p. illus. 26 cmSubject: ACTORS ; BEATON, CECIL ; COWARD, NOEL ; AXELROD, GEORGE ; GIELGUD, JOHN ; GISH, LILLIAN ; VALENTINO, RUDOLPH ; WYNDHAM, CHARLES ; ALEXANDER, GEORGE ; DU MAURIER, GERALD ; DU MAURIER, DAPHNE ; NOVELLO, IVOR ; BUCHANAN, JACK ; COCHRAN, CHARLES ; ELSIE, LILY ISBN: 0297765426LON: 324463
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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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Star acting : Gish, Garbo, Davis / Charles Affron New York: Dutton, 1977.
Call No: 802.27 AFFAuthor: Affron, Charles Place: New YorkPublisher: DuttonPubDate: 1977PhysDes: x, 354 p. : ill. ; 27 cmSubject: GISH, LILLIAN ; GARBO, GRETA ; DAVIS, BETTE Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. [345]-347ISBN: 0525209689 : $16.95LON: 76008039; 1016357
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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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Who the hell's in it : portraits and conversations / Peter Bogdanovich London: Faber and Faber Limited, 2004.
Call No: 802.27 BOGAuthor: Bogdanovich, Peter Edition: 2005Place: LondonPublisher: Faber and Faber LimitedPubDate: 2004PhysDes: 528 pages ; illustrated ; 20 cmSubject: ACTING ; BOGDANOVICH, PETER ; GISH, LILLIAN ; BOGART, HUMPHREY ; BRANDO, MARLON ; ADLER, STELLA ; CLIFT, MONTGOMERY ; GRANT, CARY ; LEMMON, JACK ; LEWIS, JERRY ; MARTIN, DEAN ; MINEO, SAL ; Stewart, James ; WAYNE, JOHN ; FONDA, HENRY ; KARLOFF, BORIS ; CASSAVETES, JOHN ; CHAPLIN, CHARLES ; CAGNEY, JAMES ; DIETRICH, MARLENE ; Perkins, Anthony ; SINATRA, FRANK ; GAZARRA, BEN ; HEPBURN, AUDREY ; POITIER, SIDNEY ; PHOENIX, RIVER ; MONROE, MARILYN Summary: From Peter Bogdanovich - director, screenwriter, actor, and cinema scholar - 26 fascinating portraits of Hollywood's most acclaimed movie actors and actresses: stars whom he has known, admired, and occasionally worked with.
Within these pages is Bogdanovich on Charlie Chaplin, Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, James Cagney, John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Marlene Dietrich, Jack Lemmon, Boris Karloff, Dean Martin, Marilyn Monroe, James Stewart, Frank Sinatra, and many more. With an acute and affectionate eye, Bogdanovich shows us Lillian Gish, the first virginal hearth goddess of the silver screen; Marlon Brando, refusing to play the same from one picture to the next, yet ever recognisable as the great actor, in spite of himself; Jerry Lewis, whose goofy comedy represented the nine-year-old in all of us; and Cary Grant, the epitome of screen elegance, benignly aware that in life even he could never live up to his own legend. Bogdanovich captures brilliantly - in their own words and his - the personality, the work, the style and the enduring iconic appeal of America's movie greats. -- publisher's web siteISBN: 9780571224319Donation: James Sabine
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Woman and film : a bibliography / Rosemary Ribich Kowalski Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1979.
Call No: NEW HOLDINGS SHELVES; 722-02KOWAuthor: Kowalski, Rosemary Ribich Source: USPlace: Metuchen, NJPublisher: Scarecrow PressPubDate: 1979PhysDes: ix, 278 p. ; 23 cmSubject: WOMEN AND THE CINEMA ; ARZNER, DOROTHY ; BOW, CLARA ; BROOKS, LOUISE ; CLARKE, SHIRLEY ; DAVIS, ANDREW ; DEREN, MAYA ; FONDA, JANE ; GARBO, GRETA ; GARLAND, JUDY ; GISH, LILLIAN ; HAYES, HELEN ; HARLOW, JEAN ; HEPBURN, KATHARINE ; HORNE, LENA ; KAEL, PAULINE ; KAPLAN, NELLY ; KELLY, GRACE ; LEIGH, VIVIEN ; LITTLEWOOD, JOAN ; LODEN, BARBARA ; LOOS, ANITA ; LOREN, SOPHIA ; LOVE, BESSIE ; Lupino, Ida ; MCDANIEL, HATTIE ; MANSFIELD, JAYNE ; MEYER, RUSS ; MICHELSON, ANNETTE ; MINNELLI, LIZA ; MONROE, MARILYN ; MOORE, COLLEEN ; MOOREHEAD, AGNES ; MOREAU, JEANNE ; NEGRI, POLA ; NELSON, GUNVOR ; PERRY, ELEANOR ; PICKFORD, MARY ; REICHERT, JULIA ; RIEFENSTAHL, LENI ; ROGERS, GINGER ; ROTHSCHILD, AMALIE R. ; SCHLONDORFF, VOLKER ; SONTAG, SUSAN ; SWANSON, GLORIA ; TAYLOR, ELIZABETH ; VARDA, AGNES ; WEBER, LOIS ; WEILL, CLAUDIA ; WEST, MAE Notes: Includes indexISBN: 0810809745
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