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Interim book		Bound and gagged : the story of silent serials / Kalton C. Lahue South Brunswick, N.J.: A.S. Barnes and Company, 1968. Call No: 725.33 LAH Author: Lahue, Kalton C. Source: US Place: South Brunswick, N.J. Publisher: A.S. Barnes and Company PubDate: 1968 PhysDes: 352 p. : illus., ports ; 27 cm Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; SERIALS; EXHIBITION OF SILENT FILMS More info
book		Burning passions : an introduction to the study of silent cinema / Paolo Cherchi Usai ; preface by Kevin Brownlow ; translated by Emma Sansone Rittle London: British Film Institute, 1994. Call No: 70"01" USA Author: Cherchi Usai, Paolo; Brownlow, Kevin; Rittle, Emma Sansone CorpAuthor: British Film Institute Place: London Publisher: British Film Institute PubDate: 1994 PhysDes: x, 119 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; ARCHIVES & INSTITUTES, FILM Notes: Translation of: Una passione infiammabile; Includes bibliographical references (p. 108-119) ISBN: 0851704085 (pbk.); 0851704077 (hard) LON: 11121128 More info
book		Cinema 1900/1906 Brussels, Belgium: Fiaf, 1982. Call No: 70"01" NAT Author: Holman, Roger CorpAuthor: International Federation of Film Archives; National Film Archive (Great Britain) Place: Brussels, Belgium Publisher: Fiaf PubDate: 1982 PhysDes: 2 v. : ill. ; 30 cm Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD Notes: English and French; "The Symposium of 1900-1906 followed the International Federation of Film Archives [sic] 34th Annual Congress which was held at Brighton, England in the Spring of 1978"--Vol. 1, p. 1 LON: 2506746 More info
book		Cinema is 100 years old / Emmanuelle Toulet, translated by Susan Emanuel London: Thames and Hudson, 1995. Call No: 70"01" TOU Author: Toulet, Emmanuelle Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Thames and Hudson PubDate: 1995 PhysDes: 175 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 18 cm Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD Notes: Translation from the French ISBN: 0500300518 More info
book		The Cinema of Fritz Lang / by Paul M. Jensen New York: A.S. Barnes, 1969. Call No: 81LAN JEN Author: Jensen, Paul M. Source: US/UK Place: New York Publisher: A.S. Barnes PubDate: 1969 PhysDes: 223 pages : illustrations ; 16 cm Series: The International film guide series Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1920's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; LANG, FRITZ Notes: "Filmography": pages 205-218 Bibliography: pages 219-223 ISBN: 498074158 Contents: -- 1 entering the field -- the silent era (1921-1924) -- 3 the silent era (1925-1929) -- 4 encounters with sound -- 5 the social trilogy -- 6 the west, the war and Diana -- 7 final fluctuations -- filmography -- references to books and periodicals -- More info
book		Classics of the silent screen : a pictorial treasury New York: Citadel Press, [1960, c1959]. Call No: 70"01" (084) FRA Author: Franklin, Joe Place: New York Publisher: Citadel Press PubDate: [1960, c1959] PhysDes: 255 p. illus., ports. 29 cm Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD LON: 639475 More info
book		The comedy of philosophy : sense and nonsense in early cinematic slapstick / Lisa Trahair Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007. Call No: 630 TRA Author: Trahair, Lisa Source: US Place: Albany Publisher: State University of New York Press PubDate: 2007 PhysDes: xi, 264 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Series: SUNY series, insinuations--philosophy, psychoanalysis, literature Subject: COMEDIES; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; BATAILLE, GEORGES; FREUD, SIGMUND Summary: "The Comedy of Philosophy brings modern debates in continental philosophy to bear on the historical study of early cinematic comedy. Through the films of Mack Sennett, Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, and the Marx Brothers, Lisa Trahair investigates early cinema's exploration of sense and nonsense by utilizing the contributions to the philosophy of comedy made by Freud and Bataille and by examining significant poststructuralist interpretations of their work. Trahair explores the shift from the excessive physical slapstick of the Mack Sennett era to the so-called structural comedy of the 1920s, and also offers a new perspective on the importance of psychoanalysis for the study of film by focusing on the implications of Freud's theory of the unconscious for our understanding of visuality."--BOOK JACKET. ISBN: 9780791472477 Donation: donated by Senses of Cinema, 2010 Contents: 1. The Philosophy of Laughter: Bataille, Hegel, and Derrida -- 2. Restricted and General Economy: Narrative, Gag, and Slapstick in One Week -- 3. The Machine of Comedy: Gunning, Deleuze, and Buster Keaton -- 4. Fool's Gold: Metamorphoses in Sherlock Jr. -- 5. Jokes and Their Relation to ... -- 6. The Comic: Degradation and Refinement in 1920's Cinematic Slapstick -- 7. From Words to Images (Gagging) -- 8. Figural Vision: Freud, Lyotard, and City Lights -- 9. Preposterous Figurality: Comic Cinema and Bad Metaphor. More info
Interim book		Continued next week : a history of the moving picture serial / by Kalton C. Lahue Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1964. Call No: 725.33 LAH Author: Lahue, Kalton C. Source: US Place: Norman Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press PubDate: 1964 PhysDes: 293 p. : plates. appendix Subject: SERIALS; HISTORY OF CINEMA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD Notes: Appendix: Serials from 1912 to 1930. Index of Names. Index of titles. General Index. More info
book		The dawn of cinema : 1894-1915 / devised, researched and written by Barrett Hodsdon Sydney: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1996. Call No: 70"01" HOD Copy Management: Copy 1; Copy 2 Author: Hodsdon, J. Barrett (John Barrett) CorpAuthor: Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney, N.S.W.) Place: Sydney Publisher: Museum of Contemporary Art PubDate: 1996 PhysDes: 140 p. : ill. ; 22 cm Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD Notes: Exhibition held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney from 2 April-4 June 1996; Bibliography: p. 140 ISBN: 1875632468 LON: 12128781 More info
book		A different kind of cinema : the silent years / Bruce Hodson [Canberra]: National Library of Australia, Australian Council of Film Societies, June 1995. Call No: 71(94) HOD Author: Hodsdon, Bruce Place: [Canberra] Publisher: National Library of Australia; Australian Council of Film Societies PubDate: June 1995 PhysDes: 24 p. : illus. ; 30 cm Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; CORRICK FAMILY; BIOGRAPH; ON OUR SELECTION (AT, Raymond Longford, 1920); KID STAKES, THE (AT, Tal Ordell, 1927); SUNRISE (US, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, 1927); BEN HUR (US, Fred Niblo, 1925); CAMERAMAN, THE (US, Edward Sedgwick, 1928); WIND, THE (US, Victor Sjostrom, 1928) Notes: Looseleaf sheets in A4 folio ISBN: 0642106487 More info
book		Early and silent cinema : a source book [England]: British Film Institute, 1996]. Call No: 70"01" EAR CorpAuthor: British Film Institute Place: [England] Publisher: British Film Institute PubDate: 1996] PhysDes: 123 p. : ill. ; 30 cm Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; HISTORY OF CINEMA Notes: Includes indexes LON: 96133718; 12865891 More info
book		The emergence of film art : the evolution and development of the motion picture as an art, from 1900 to the present New York: Hopkinson and Blake, [c1969]. Call No: 70 JAC Author: Jacobs, Lewis, comp Place: New York Publisher: Hopkinson and Blake PubDate: [c1969] PhysDes: 453 p. illus. 25 cm Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SOUND PERIOD; COLORIZATION; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA; GERMANY; ANIMATED FILMS; CINEMA VERITE; AUTEUR THEORY; NOUVELLE VAGUE; MUSIC IN FILMS; NEOREALISM; AVANT-GARDE FILMS; MELIES, GEORGES; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK; CLAIR, RENE; FORD, JOHN; PORTER, EDWIN S.; LESTER, RICHARD; DISNEY, WALT; BERGMAN, INGMAR; TRUFFAUT, FRANCOIS; SARRIS, ANDREW; KAEL, PAULINE; KUROSAWA AKIRA; RESNAIS, ALAIN; FELLINI, FEDERICO; ANTONIONI, MICHELANGELO; BASS, SAUL; MEKAS, JONAS; CITIZEN KANE (US, Orson Welles, 1941); BRONENOSETS POTEMKIN [BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN] (UR, Sergei Eisenstein, 1925); NANOOK OF THE NORTH (US, Robert Flaherty, 1922); BIRTH OF A NATION, THE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1915); PASSION DE JEANNE D'ARC, LA (FR, Carl Th. Dreyer, 1928) Notes: Bibliography: p. 438-439 LON: 5011 ID2: 291 More info
book		A few lectures on documentary film / by Jerzy Toeplitz [North Ryde, N.S.W.]: Australian Film and Television School, Open Program Resources, 1979. Call No: 761 TOE Author: Toeplitz, Jerzy CorpAuthor: Australian Film and Television School. Open Program Resources Place: [North Ryde, N.S.W.] Publisher: Australian Film and Television School, Open Program Resources PubDate: 1979 PhysDes: 39p. ; 29cm Subject: DOCUMENTARY FILMS; HISTORY OF CINEMA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; WORLD WAR II AND THE CINEMA; FLAHERTY, ROBERT; VERTOV, DZIGA; GRIERSON, JOHN; RIEFENSTAHL, LENI; RUTTMAN, WALTER; VEDRES, NICOLE; PARIS 1900 (FR, Nicole Vedres, 1948); MOANA (US, Robert Flaherty, 1926); GRASS (US, Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1926) Summary: "This booklet contains the edited transcripts of a series of lectures given by Professor Toeplitz during a six week full-time workshop on documentary film. The workshop was for documentary filmmakers in Australia and New Zealand." Notes: Documentary films. Lectures, speeches (ANB/PRECIS SIN 037718x); Bibliography: p.38-39 ISBN: 0642924759 : price unknown LON: 1664997 More info
book		Film : an international history of the medium / by Robert Sklar London: Thames & Hudson, 1993. Call No: 70 SKL Author: Sklar, Robert, 1936- Place: London Publisher: Thames & Hudson PubDate: 1993 PhysDes: 560 p. : ill.(some col.) ; 30 cm Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SOUND PERIOD; HOLLYWOOD; EUROPEAN COUNTRIES; AVANT-GARDE FILMS; NOUVELLE VAGUE; WORLD WAR II AND THE CINEMA; EASTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES Notes: Bibliography: p. 518-522; Includes index and glossary; Filmography: P. 528-539 ISBN: 0500016011 LON: 10361074 More info
book		Film 1900 : technology, perception, culture / edited by Annemone Ligensa and Klauss Kreimeier New Barnet, Herts: John Libbey ; Chatswood, N.S.W. : Distributed in Australia by Elsevier, c2009. Call No: 70 (04) FIL Author: Ligensa, Annemone; Kreimeier, Klaus Place: New Barnet, Herts Publisher: John Libbey ; Chatswood, N.S.W. : Distributed in Australia by Elsevier PubDate: c2009 PhysDes: vi, 250 p. : ill., tables, maps, ports ; 23 cm Subject: CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; HISTORY OF CINEMA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; HISTORY OF CINEMA. ENGLAND; MUNSTERBERG, HUGO Summary: "The current digital revolution has sparked a renewed interest in the origins and trajectory of modern media, particularly in the years around 1900 when the technology was rapidly developing. This collection aims to broaden our understanding of early cinema as a significant innovation in media history. Joining traditional scholarship with fresh insights from a variety of disciplines, this book explains the aesthetic and institutional characteristics in early cinema within the context of the contemporary media landscape. It also addresses trans-cultural developments such as scientific revolutions, industrialization, urbanization, and globalization, as well as differing attitudes toward modernization. Film 1900 is an important reassessment of early cinema's position in cultural history."--BACK COVER ISBN: 9780861966967 Contents: Introduction. Triangulating a turn: Film 1900 as technology, perception and culture / Annemone Ligensa -- Chapter 1. Archaeologies of interactivity: early cinema, narrative and spectatorship / Thomas Elsaessar -- Chapter 2. Viewing change, changing views: the 'history of vision' debate / Frank Kessler -- Chapter 3. The ambimodernity of early cinema: problems and paradoxes of the film-and-modernity discourse / Ben Singer -- Chapter 4. Mind, the gap: the discovery of physiological time / Henning Schmidgen -- Chapter 5. 'Is everything relative?': cinema and the revolution of knowledge around 1900 / Harro Segeberg -- Chapter 6. The aesthetic idealist as efficiency engineer: Hugo Munsterberg's theories of perception, psychotechnics and cinema / Jorg Schweinitz -- Chapter 7. Between observation and spectatorship: medicine, movies and mass culture in imperial Germany / Scott Curtis -- Chapter 8. The scene of the crime: psychiaztric discourses on the film audience in early twentieth century Germany / Andreas Killen -- Chapter 9. Seen through the eyes of Simmel: The cinema programme as a 'modern' experience / Andrea Haller -- Chapter 10. 'Under the sign of the cinematograph': urban mobility and cinema location in Wilhelmine Berlin / Pelle Snickars -- Chapter 11. Perceptual environments for films: the development of cinema in Germany, 1895-1914 / Joseph Garncarz -- Chapter 12. 'Fumbling towards some new form of art?': the changing composition of film programmes in Britain, 1908-1914 / Ian Christie and John Sedgwick -- Chapter 13. The attraction of motion: modern representation and the image of movement / Tom Gunning -- Chapter 14. 'Dashing down upon the audience': notes on the genesis of filmic perception / Laus Kreimeier -- Chapter 15. German Tonbilder of the 1900s: advanced technology and national brand / Martin Loiperdinger -- Chapter 16. Sculpting with light: early film style, stereoscopic vision and the idea of a 'plastic art in motion' / Michael Wedel -- Chapter 17. 'A cinematograph of feminine thought': the dangerous age, cinema and modern women / Annemone Ligensa -- Chapter 18. Cinema as a mode(l) of perception: Dorothy Richardson's novels and essays / Nicola Glaubitz More info
book		Film and reality : an historical survey / Roy Armes Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1974. Call No: 62 ARM Author: Armes, Roy Place: Harmondsworth, Middlesex Publisher: Penguin PubDate: 1974 PhysDes: 254 p. ; 18 cm Subject: MODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; REALISM IN FILMS; DOCUMENTARIES; DOCUMENTARY FILMS; CINEMA VERITE; NEOREALISM; EXPRESSIONISM; SURREALISM AND THE CINEMA; UNDERGROUND FILMS; ANIMATION; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; STUDIO SYSTEM; NARRATIVE IN FILMS; STARS; AUTHORSHIP; WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS; WESTERNS; LUMIERE, AUGUSTE & LOUIS; MELIES, GEORGES; FLAHERTY, ROBERT; VERTOV, DZIGA; VON STROHEIM, ERICH; RENOIR, JEAN; ROSSELLINI, ROBERTO; EDISON, THOMAS ALVA; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED; BUNUEL, LUIS; RESNAIS, ALAIN; GODARD, JEAN-LUC; ANGER, KENNETH; LOACH, KENNETH; CHAPLIN, CHARLES Summary: Explores the history of cinema by looking at three broad areas - Film Realism, Film Illusion, and Film Modernism, and describes within these areas the most important film-makers, directors and companies within the film industry. Notes: contains index; contains bibliography with descriptions and recommendations for the books sourced. ISBN: 0140217010 URL status: URL: 'http://-' Checked: 31/08/2021 1:12:28 PM Status: Error Details: Failed to send HTTP request (WinHttpSendRequest) More info
book		Film and the narrative tradition / John L. Fell Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986. Call No: 632.2 FEL Author: Fell, John L. (John Lewis), 1927 Edition: 1st ed Place: Berkeley Publisher: University of California Press PubDate: 1986 PhysDes: xx, 284 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm Subject: NARRATIVE IN FILMS; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; BIRTH OF A NATION, THE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1915); COMIC STRIPS AND THE CINEMA; GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY, THE (US, Edwin S. Porter, 1903); MELIES, GEORGES Notes: Previously published: Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, 1974. -- Includes appendices -- Bibliography: p. 258-271 -- Index: p. 273 -284 -- c1974 ISBN: 0520053680 (paper) LON: abn90010427; 6864524 Contents: Introduction -- I. VERBAL ARTS : 1. Mise en scene -- 2. Dissolves by gaslight -- 3. It is not a good book, my son -- 4. Space, time, and Victorian prose -- II. GRAPHIC ARTS : 5. Mr. Griffith, meet Winsor McCay -- 6. The picture in our heads -- 7. Art, photography, and the shape of things to come -- III. THE MOVIES : 8. Ten cent palace life -- 9. A particular phase of perception -- APPENDICES : I. Early development of American sheet music -- II. Twenty representative British and American melodramas -- III. Subliterature in the Nineteenth Century -- IV. Lenses -- V. The phasmatrope -- VI. Nineteenth-century developments in printing -- VII. Winsor McCay -- VIII. Musical machines -- IX. Chronological listing in Niver In the Beginning Collection. More info
book		The film and the public / Roger Manvell Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1955. Call No: 62(081) MAN Author: Manvell, Roger Place: Harmondsworth, Middlesex Publisher: Penguin PubDate: 1955 PhysDes: 352 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 18 cm Subject: TELEVISION AND THE CINEMA; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA; INDUSTRY, FILM; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SOUND PERIOD Notes: contains supplements and index Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006 URL status: URL: 'http://-' Checked: 31/08/2021 1:12:35 PM Status: Error Details: Failed to send HTTP request (WinHttpSendRequest) More info
book		Film before Griffith / edited by John L. Fell Berkeley: University of California Press, c1983. Call No: 70"01" FIL Author: Fell, John L. (John Lewis), 1927 Place: Berkeley Publisher: University of California Press PubDate: c1983 PhysDes: xii, 395 p. : ill. ; 22 cm Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD Notes: Includes indexes; Bibliography: p. 375-381 ISBN: 0520047583 (pbk.); 0520047389 LON: 2240070 More info
book		Film history : an introduction / Kristin Thompson, David Bordwell New York: McGraw-Hill, 1994. Call No: 70 THO Author: Thompson, Kristin, 1950; Bordwell, David, 1947 Place: New York Publisher: McGraw-Hill PubDate: 1994 PhysDes: xliv, 857 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SOUND PERIOD Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 0070064490 (alk. paper); 0070064458 (softcover : alk. paper) LON: 10678362 More info
Old collection book		Le film muet sovietique 1965. Call No: F023(47) FIL CorpAuthor: Musee du cinema Source: BE PubDate: 1965 Subject: RUSSIA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD Notes: catalogue of the Soviet silent cinema retrospective held at the Musee du Cinema, Brussels Language: French More info
Interim festival catalogue		Le giornate del cinema muto : Pordneone Silent Film Festival IT: 2005. Call No: FESTIVAL CATALOGUE SHELVES held 2005 Place: IT PubDate: 2005 Subject: FESTIVALS. PORDENONE GIORNATE DEL CINEMA MUTO; ANTOINE, ANDRE; FESTIVALS; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; JAPAN; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK More info
Interim book		Going to the pictures : Scottish memories of cinema : with bonnie Scotland: on the big screen / Andrew Martin Edinburgh: NMS Publishing Limited, Royal Museum, 2000. Call No: 71(411) MAR Author: Martin, Andrew CorpAuthor: NMS Publishing Limited; Royal Museum Source: UK Place: Edinburgh Publisher: NMS Publishing Limited; Royal Museum PubDate: 2000 PhysDes: viii, 134 p. : ill. ; 20 cm Series: Scotland's Past in Action Subject: SCOTLAND; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SCOTLAND; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SOUND PERIOD; HISTORY OF CINEMA. TRANSITION SILENT-SOUND; HISTORY OF EXHIBITION. SCOTLAND; ORAL HISTORIES; CHILDREN AND THE CINEMA. SCOTLAND; CINEMAS. SCOTLAND; EXHIBITION. SCOTLAND; EXHIBITION OF SILENT FILMS. SCOTLAND; MEMORABILIA; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; EALING STUDIOS; BRIGADOON (US, Vincente Minnelli, 1954) Summary: "Take your seat ... sit back and relax ... as we whisk you back to the days of art deco palaces and local fleapits. To celebrate the 20th century's most popular art form, we feature the voices of cinema-goers from all over Scotland as they recollect the Silent days, the novelty of Talkies, secretive courting in the balconies, noisy children at matinees - and through it all, the sheer glamour of the Stars. We take you from Holyrood to Hollywood, starring Claudette Colbert, Gary Cooper and Betty Grable, and Odeons and Regals the length and breadth of Scotland." (Taken from back cover) Notes: Includes filmography, further reading ISBN: 1901663442 More info
book		Grandma's scrapbook of silent movie stars / by John M. Kaduck Des Moines, Iowa: Wallace-Homestead Book Co., 1976. Call No: 802.27(73) KAD Author: Kaduck, John M. Edition: c1976 Source: US Place: Des Moines, Iowa Publisher: Wallace-Homestead Book Co. PubDate: 1976 PhysDes: 116 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm Subject: USA. 1895-1930; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; STARS. USA Summary: A collection of images of cinema actors from the silent period of American cinema Notes: Includes index. -- Bibliography: page 115 Levy Notes: AFI R&I book not yet catalogued - AG 23/10/2017 More info
Interim book		The hero of the Dardanelles and other world war 1 silent dramas Canberra: National Film & Sound Archive, 2005. Call No: 71(94) REY Author: Reynaud, Daniel Place: Canberra Publisher: National Film & Sound Archive PubDate: 2005 PhysDes: 33 p. ; ill. ; 21 cm Series: National Film & Sound Archive monograph Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; AUSTRALIA; WORLD WAR I AND THE CINEMA Summary: “This monograph discusses a selection of Australia’s silent era narrative features, which drew their scenarios from real and imagined events, and the characters of The Great War of 1914-1918.” (preface) ISBN: 0642365148 More info
book		The history of British film : 1906- 1914 / by Rachael Low and Roger Manvell; based upon research of the History Committee of the British Film Institute [New York]: [Distributed in the United States by Bowker], [1973]. Call No: 71(41)"01" LOW Author: Low, Rachael Source: US Place: [New York] Publisher: [Distributed in the United States by Bowker] PubDate: [1973] PhysDes: 309 p. : ill. ; 25 cm Subject: UNITED KINGDOM; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD ISBN: 0047910029 Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006 More info
book		The history of British film : 1918- 1929 / by Rachael Low London: George Allen & Unwin, 1971. Call No: 71(41) LOW Author: Low, Rachael Source: UK Place: London Publisher: George Allen & Unwin PubDate: 1971 PhysDes: [7]-544 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 25 cm Subject: UNITED KINGDOM; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD ISBN: 0047910216 Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006 More info
subject clippings file		HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD More info
book		A history of narrative film / David A. Cook New York: Norton, c1981. Call No: 70 COO Author: Cook, David A Edition: 1st ed Place: New York Publisher: Norton PubDate: c1981 PhysDes: xxiii, 721 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1950's; NARRATIVE IN FILMS; STAR SYSTEM; EXPRESSIONISM; MOTION PICTURE PRODUCERS AND DISTRIBUTORS OF AMERICA; STUDIO SYSTEM; ITALY; NEOREALISM; WAR AND THE CINEMA; FILM NOIR; NOUVELLE VAGUE; WIDE-SCREEN SYSTEMS; EASTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES; JAPAN; THIRD WORLD; GERMAN FEDERAL REPUBLIC; USSR; MELIES, GEORGES; PORTER, EDWIN S.; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK; PUDOVKIN, VSEVELOD; CHAPLIN, CHARLES; Keaton, Buster; VON STROHEIM, ERICH; CITIZEN KANE (US, Orson Welles, 1941); CABINET DES DR. CALIGARI, DAS (G, Robert Wiene, 1920) Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 671-692 ISBN: 0393090221 (pbk.); 0393013707 LON: 1583335 1583335 More info
book		The history of world cinema New York: Stein and Day, [1973]. Call No: 70 ROB Author: Robinson, David, 1930 Place: New York Publisher: Stein and Day PubDate: [1973] PhysDes: xv, 440 p. illus. 24 cm Subject: PRE-CINEMA HISTORY; HISTORY OF CINEMA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; REALISM IN FILMS Notes: "Selected filmographies": p. [356]-417; Bibliography: p. [418]-422 ISBN: 0812814762 LON: 780224 More info
book		Hollywood : the pioneers / Kevin Brownlow London: Collins, 1979. Call No: 71(73) BRO Author: Brownlow, Kevin Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Collins PubDate: 1979 PhysDes: 268 p. ; 26 cm Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; PIONEER FILM WORKERS; HOLLYWOOD ISBN: 0002160471 Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006 More info
journal article		The Hollywood Reporter. Hollywood 100 Years in The Hollywood Reporter (03/03/1987) vol.296 iss.10 p.S1-S140 PhysDes: Focus Issue Subject: HOLLYWOOD; INDUSTRY, FILM. USA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1920's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1930's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1940's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1950's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1960's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1970's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1980's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; HISTORY OF CINEMA. TRANSITION SILENT-SOUND; HISTORY OF CINEMA. USA; ACTORS. USA; COSTUMES; MUSIC, FILM; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; UNITED ARTISTS; PARAMOUNT STUDIOS; TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX; COLUMBIA PICTURES Summary: A special edition of The Hollywood Reporter dedicated to Hollywood's centenary. Magazine looks at the formation of Hollywood, silent cinema, the Studio system, noted personalities, and the current industry. Articles focus on changing attitudes, costumes, actors, the coming of sound and musical scores and industry modernisation. More info
book		The image of librarians in cinema 1917-1999 Jefferson, North Carolina, and London: McFarland & Company Inc., 2005. Call No: 757-0 TEV Author: Ray Tevis & Brenda Tevis Place: Jefferson, North Carolina, and London Publisher: McFarland & Company Inc. PubDate: 2005 PhysDes: 25 cm ; 230 pp. Subject: CAREERS IN FILMS; TYPE CHARACTERS IN FILMS; WOMEN IN FILMS; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SOUND PERIOD Summary: The onscreen image of the librarian has changed little through the century. A silent 1921 film set the precedent for two female librarian characters: a dowdy spinster wears glasses and a bun hairstyle, and an attractive young woman is overworked and underpaid. Silent films did, however, give a variety of characteristics to librarians, showing them at work on many different tasks, and featuring them in a range of dramatic, romantic, and comedic situations. The sound era (during which librarians appeared in more than 200 films) frequently exaggerated these characteristics and situations, strongly influencing the general image of librarians. This monograph (with filmographies at the back) analyzes the stereotypical image of librarians, male and female, in primarily American and British motion pictures from 1917 through 1999. The work briefly describes each film, offers critical commentary, and then examines its librarian character, from socioeconomic conditions and motivations to personal attributes (clothing, hair, age) and romantic entanglements to common props and plots. [Taken from back cover.] ISBN: 0786421509 More info
book		"Image" on the art and evolution of the film : photographs and articles from the magazine of the International Museum of Photography / edited by Marshall Deutelbaum New York: Dover Publications, 1979. Call No: 70"01" IMA Author: Deutelbaum, Marshall CorpAuthor: International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House; Image (Rochester, N.Y.) Place: New York Publisher: Dover Publications PubDate: 1979 PhysDes: viii, 248 p. : ill. ; 29 cm Subject: PRE-CINEMA HISTORY; PROJECTION; EDISON, THOMAS ALVA; LUMIERE, AUGUSTE & LOUIS; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; DENMARK; STILLS; NIELSEN, ASTA; EDISON, THOMAS ALVA; SWEET, BLANCHE; KEYSTONE; LUBITSCH, ERNST; DEMILLE, CECIL B.; PICKFORD, MARY; BROOKS, LOUISE; PABST, GEORG WILHELM; TITLING; RIEFENSTAHL, LENI; Keaton, Buster; LLOYD, HAROLD; HOWE, W.J.; MOHR, HAL; TERRY, ALICE; NOVARRO, RAMON; ANDERSON, BRONCHO BILLY; MIX, TOM; HART, WILLIAM S.; MUYBRIDGE, EADWEARD; INCE, THOMAS HARPER; LONEDALE OPERATOR, THE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1911); WHITE ROSE, THE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1923); PAINTED LADY, THE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1912); CHAMBER MYSTERY, THE (US, Abraham S. Schomer, 1920); SMOULDERING FIRES (US, Clarence Brown, 1925); BLAUE LICHT, DAS (G, Leni Riefenstahl, 1932); BUCHSE DER PANDORA, DIE (G, Georg Wilhelm Pabst, 1929); GREED (US, Erich von Stroheim, 1925); CROWD, THE (US, King Vidor, 1928) Notes: "Consists substantially of articles originally published in Image between 1952 and 1977."; Includes index ISBN: 048623777X : $8.95 LON: 1468042 More info
book		Inventing film studies / Lee Grieveson and Haidee Wasson, editors Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. Call No: 670 INV GRI Author: Grieveson, Lee; Wasson, Haidee Source: UK Place: Durham Publisher: Duke University Press PubDate: 2008 PhysDes: xxxii, 446 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Subject: American Film Institute; AVANT-GARDE FILMS; COMPUTER GENERATED IMAGERY; CRITICISM; FILM ART MEDIA; FILM CULTURE; FILM NOIR; FILM STUDY AND RESEARCH; FILMOGRAPHIES; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; MARXISM AND THE CINEMA; MOTION PICTURE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA; MUSEUM OF MODERN ART [NEW YORK]; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA; REALISM IN FILMS; SOCIETIES, FILM; SOCIOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; SPECTATORSHIP; ALTHUSSER, LOUIS; BACHMANN, GIDEON; BARRY, IRIS; BAZIN, ANDRE; BELLOUR, RAYMOND; BERGSTROM, JANET; BORDWELL, DAVID; BRAKHAGE, STAN; BURGESS, ERNEST; BUSCOMBE, ED; CHAPLIN, CHARLES; COOK, PAM; DEREN, MAYA; FOUCAULT, MICHEL; FULLER, SAMUEL; GODARD, JEAN-LUC; GRIERSON, JOHN; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK; GRIFFITHS, RICHARD; HAWKS, HOWARD; HAYS, WILL; HEATH, STEPHEN; HUFF, THEODORE; MACCABE, COLIN; METZ, CHRISTIAN; PARK, ROBERT; PATTERSON, FRANCES TAYLOR; PENLEY, CONSTANCE; RAINER, YVONNE; RAMSAYE, TERRY; RICHTER, HANS; ROTHA, PAUL; SARRIS, ANDREW; SCORSESE, MARTIN; SELDES, GILBERT; SHORT, REV WILLIAM H; STERN, SEYMOUR; THRASHER, FREDRICK; VOGEL, AMOS; VON STROHEIM, ERICH; WEINBERG, HERMAN G; WHANNEL, PADDY; WOLLEN, PETER Summary: Inventing Film Studies offers original and provocative insights into the institutional and intellectual foundations of cinema studies. Many scholars have linked the origins of the discipline to late-1960s developments in the academy such as structuralist theory and student protest. Yet this collection reveals the broader material and institutional forces—both inside and outside of the university—that have long shaped the field. Beginning with the first investigations of cinema in the early twentieth century, this volume provides detailed examinations of the varied social, political, and intellectual milieus in which knowledge of cinema has been generated. The contributors explain how multiple instantiations of film study have had a tremendous influence on the methodologies, curricula, modes of publication, and professional organizations that now constitute the university-based discipline. Extending the historical insights into the present, contributors also consider the directions film study might take in changing technological and cultural environments. -- Publisher description Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 9780822342892 Contents: The Academy and Motion Pictures / Lee Grieveson, Haidee Wasson -- Making Cinema Knowable -- Cinema Studies and the Conduct of Conduct / Lee Grieveson Taking Liberties: The Payne Fund Studies and the Creation of the Media Expert / Mark Lynn Anderson "Reaching the Multimillions": Liberal Internationalism and the Establishment of Documentary Film / Zoe Druick Young Art, Old Colleges: Early Episodes in the American Study of Film / Dana Polan -- Making Cinema Educational -- Studying Movies at the Museum: The Museum of Modern Art and Cinema's Changing Object / Haidee Wasson Classrooms, Clubs, and Community Circuits: Cultural Authority and the Film Council Movement, 1946-1957 / Charles R. Acland Experimental Film and the Development of Film Study in America / Michael Zryd From Cinephilia to Film Studies / Laura Mulvev, Peter Wollen -- Making Cinema Legible -- Experimentation and Innovation in Three American Film Journals of the 1950s / Haden Guest Screen and 1970s Film Theory / Philip Rosen (Re)Inventing Camera Obscura / Amelie Hastie, Lynne Joyrich, Patricia White, Sharon Willis Little Books / Mark Betz -- Making and Remaking Cinema Studies -- Footstool Film School: Home Entertainment as Home Education / Alison Trope Dr. Strange Media, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Film Theory / D. N. Rodowick More info
book		Italy in early American cinema : race, landscape, and the picturesque / Giorgio Bertellini Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010. Call No: 757-054(=1.45) BER Author: Bertellini, Giorgio Source: US Place: Bloomington Publisher: Indiana University Press PubDate: 2010 PhysDes: xiii, 443 p. : ill. ; 25 cm Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; ITALY IN FILMS; SICILY IN FILMS Summary: "Once associated with landscape painting in Northern Europe, the picturesque painting style came to symbolize Mediterranean Europe through comforting views of distant landscapes and exotic characters. Showing readers how this aesthetic traveled to America and was transferred from nineteenth-century painters to early twentieth-century photographers and filmmakers, Bertellini moves from Western films and travelogues to urban melodramas featuring Southern Italians, the picturesque's original characters" - TAKEN FROM BACK COVER Donation: donated by Senses of Cinema, 2012 Contents: Transatlantic racial culture and modern visual reproductions -- Picturing Italy's natural and social landscapes. Picturesque mode of difference -- The picturesque Italian south as transnational commodity -- Picture-perfect America. Picturesque views and American natural landscapes -- Picturesque New York -- Black hands, white faces -- White hearts -- Performing geography -- "A mirror with a memory" More info
Interim book		J.P. McGowan : biography of a Hollywood pioneer / John J. McGowan Jefferson, North Carolina, and London: McFarland & Company Inc., 2005. Call No: 81MCG MCG Author: McGowan, John J. Source: US Place: Jefferson, North Carolina, and London Publisher: McFarland & Company Inc. PubDate: 2005 PhysDes: 330 p. ; 25 cm Subject: McGOWAN, JOHN PATERSON; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; ACTORS. AUSTRALIA Summary: J.P. McGowan (1880-1952) was one of Hollywood’s most prolific pioneers: actor, director, screenwriter, producer and industrial advocate for the motion picture industry. Known as the “Railroad Man” for his specialization in action movies involving railroads, he made common the image of the terrified beauty tied to a track – his first wife was Helen Holmes, of his iconic silent series The Hazards of Helen. This work, the first biography of the Australian-born adventurer, covers a screen career spanning 30 years and over 600 productions from the dawn of the silent era. It chronicles his entire life and places him within the context of the times in which he lived and worked. Previously unknown details are unearthed on his family background and early life, as well as his participation in the Boer War and his move to the United States. The work concludes with a comprehensive filmography of McGowan’s work. [Taken from back cover]. ISBN: 0786419946 More info
book		The Jew in American cinema / Patricia Erens Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press, 1984. Call No: 757-054(=924) ERE Author: Erens, Patricia Source: US Place: Bloomington IN Publisher: Indiana University Press PubDate: 1984 PhysDes: 455 p.; 22cm Subject: JEWS IN FILMS. USA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; NAZIS IN FILMS; SOCIAL GROUPS IN FILMS; ISRAEL; HOLOCAUST IN FILMS Summary: Patricia Erens looks at over 800 feature films , produced by either Hollywood or independent studios, from the early primitive years to the present, and presenting Jewish characters or themes. She looks at all types of film: melodramas, dramas, comedies, biblical epics, and gangster films, and identifies persistent Jewish stereotypes and themes:which constantly appear in these film: the benevolent physician, the neurotic, or prodigal son, the scheming merchant, or the Jewish ugly duckling. She looks at individual films, producers, writers, and actors, and shows how the values of the wide American community and those of the Jewish community are reflected in their work.Films such as "Ben Hur", "The Pawn Broker", "The Jazz Singer" or "The diary Of Anne Frank," to name a few ,are examined ISBN: 0253145007 ID2: 27 More info
Interim book		Journeys of desire : European actors in Hollywood / a critical companion / Alastair Phillips and Ginette Vincendeau (eds) London: British Film Institute, 2006. Call No: 802.27(4) JOU CorpAuthor: BFI Source: UK Place: London Publisher: British Film Institute PubDate: 2006 PhysDes: 512 p. ; 25 cm Subject: ACTORS; ACTORS. FRANCE; GLOBALISATION; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; EXTRAS; STUDIOS, FILM. USA; CHEVALIER, MAURICE; PARAMOUNT STUDIOS; JEWS AND THE CINEMA. USA; NAZIS IN FILMS; GABIN, JEAN; ACTORS. UK; HOLLYWOOD; TYPE CHARACTERS IN FILMS Summary: Journeys of Desire offers for the first time a comprehensive critical guide to European Actors in American film, bringing together 15 overview chapters and a-z entries on over 900 individuals in one accessible and scholarly volume. Since the early days of the US film industry, European actors have consistently been a major force in Hollywood. Screen idols such as Charlie Chaplin, Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Boyer, Audrey Hepburn, Maurice Chevalier, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Antonio Banderas, as well as scores of more modest players, have profoundly shaped ‘American’ cinema. They have also contributed to the propagation of European types and stereotypes such as the ‘Russian’ and Nordic queens played by Garbo and Dietrich, the French Roues popularized by Chevalier, the fiery Latinos depicted by Banderas and the British arch-villain played by Steven Berkoff, Anthony Hopkins and Tim Roth. Films such as Casablanca (1942), Gigi (1958), Green Card (1990) and Vanilla Sky (2001), among many others, would not be the same without them. Contributions from a team of 70 international experts provide ground-breaking case studies of prominent individuals and phenomena associated with the émigrés, such as the retired Russian officers who played crowds in silent films, the stereotyping of European actresses in ‘bad women’ roles, and the ultimate irony of Jewish actors playing Nazis. Individual entries chart the careers and performances of the European actors – from Victoria Abril to Mai Zetterling – who appeared in American movies. [Taken from back cover]. ISBN: 1844571246 More info
journal article		The life and films of Stanley Stadler Crick in Lumiere (March, 1973) iss.21 p.22-26 Author: Shirley, Graham PhysDes: Article Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; EXPORT OF FILMS. AUSTRALIA; IMPORT OF FILMS; INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA; PATHE; CRICK, STANLEY; GAVIN, JOHN Summary: Article on early Australian film director Stanley Crick, who began his career as a manager at the Melbourne branch of the Pathe Freres company and eventually became the Australasian director of the Fox Film Corporation. His films included CALOOLA, IN THE NICK OF TIME, MATES OF THE MURRUMBIDGEE, WAY OUTBACK, WHAT WOMEN SUFFER More info
book		Life to those shadows / by Noe¨l Burch ; translated and edited by Ben Brewster Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. Call No: 62 BUR Author: Burch, Noe¨l; Brewster, Ben Source: US Place: Berkeley Publisher: University of California Press PubDate: 1990 PhysDes: 317 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm Subject: THEORY; BURCH, NOEL; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; BIOGRAPH; LUMIERE, LOUIS; DEMILLE, CECIL B.; DREYER, CARL TH.; DOCUMENTARIES; DICKSON, W. K. L.; EDISON, THOMAS ALVA; GANCE, ABEL; GORKY, MAXIM; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK; GUY-BLACHE, ALICE; HEPWORTH, CECIL; PATHE; PORTER, EDWIN S.; VITAGRAPH; ZECCA, FERDINAND Summary: "Noel Burch's new book is a critique of the assumptions underlying 'classical' approaches to film history: the assumption that what we call the language of film was a natural, organic development, that it lay latent from the outset in the basic technology of the camera, waiting for the prescient pioneers to bring it into being; and the assumption that this language was a unversal, neutral medium, innocent of any social or historical meaning in itself. His major thesis is that, on the contrary, film language has a social and economic history, that it evolved in the way it did because of when and where it was constructed - in the capitalist and imperialist west between 1892 and 1929. The book examines the chronology of the emergence of what it defines as cinema's Institutional Mode of Representation and the socio-historical circumstances in which this took place. It examines the principles of visualisation - camera placement and movement, lighting, editing, mise-en-scene - that film-makers and audiences came to internalize over the first three decades. Special emphasis is laid on the all-important change that occurred in the imaginary placing of the spectator, from a position of exteriority to the film image, implicit in both film-form and viewing conditions during the primitive era (pre-1909), to the imaginary centering of the spectator-subject, completed only with the generalisation of lip-synch sound after 1929. It is the contention of this book that this imaginary centering of a sensorily isolated spectator is the keystone of the cinematic illustion of reality, still achieved today by the same means as it was sixty years ago." - taken from back cover Notes: Revised versions of papers written 1976-1981, some of which have appeared in English and French magazines -- Includes bibliographical references (p. 274-283) and index -- Filmography: p. 284-305. ISBN: 0520071441 Contents: Introduction -- Charles Baudelaire versus Doctor Frankenstein -- Life to Those Shadows -- The Wrong Side of the Tracks -- Those Gentlemen of the Lantern and the Parade -- Business is Business: An Invisible Audience -- Passions and Chases-A Certain Linearisation -- Building a Haptic Space -- A Primitive Mode of Representation? -- The Motionless Voyage: Constitution of The Ubiquitous Subject -- Beyond the Peephole, the Logos -- Narrative, Diegesis: Thresholds, Limits -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Index More info
book		Light and shadows : a history of motion pictures / Thomas W. Bohn, and Richard L. Stromgren, with the assistance of Daniel H. Johnson Port Washington, N.Y.: Alfred Pub. Co., [1975]. Call No: 70 BOH Author: Bohn, Thomas W., 1941; Stromgren, Richard L., 1932-, joint author; Johnson, Daniel H., 1940-, joint author Place: Port Washington, N.Y. Publisher: Alfred Pub. Co. PubDate: [1975] PhysDes: xvii, 537 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA; NEOREALISM; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; PRODUCTION COMPANIES & STUDIOS. USA; DOCUMENTARIES; PRE-CINEMA HISTORY; NOUVELLE VAGUE; COMEDIANS Notes: Includes indexes; Bibliography: p. 513-520 ISBN: 088284024X : $8.00 LON: 737594 More info
Old collection book		Lillian Gish : the movies, Mr. Griffith and me / by Lillian Gish with Ann Pinchot London: W. H. Allen, 1969. Call No: 81GIS GIS Author: Gish, Lillian Source: UK Place: London Publisher: W. H. Allen PubDate: 1969 PhysDes: 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 More info
book		The lost world of Mitchell and Kenyon : Edwardian Britain on film / Vanessa Toulmin, Simon Popple & Patrick Russell (eds) London: bfi Publishing, 2004. Call No: 70"01"(41) LOS CorpAuthor: British Film Institute Place: London Publisher: bfi Publishing PubDate: 2004 PhysDes: 23 cm, 210pp Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; UNITED KINGDOM; PRESERVATION OF FILMS; TRAVELLING EXHIBITION; FOOTBALL FILMS Summary: The discovery of the Peter Worden Mitchell and Kenyon collection has been described as film’s equivalent of Tutankhamen’s tomb. This treasure trove of 800 films has now been preserved for the nation by the BFI and is the subject of a BBC television series. The extraordinary actuality footage contained in the collection provides an unparalleled social record of everyday life in early twentieth-century Britain, featuring street and transport scenes, sporting events, parades, local industries. The Lost World of Mitchell and Kenyon contains essays from leading historians covering film history, popular entertainment, the seaside, transport, the earliest sporting events and the social and economic context of Edwardian Britain. Together they provide a vivid commentary on an unparalleled collection. [Taken from back cover.] ISBN: 1844570460 More info
book		Making pictures : a century of European cinematography / created by IMAGO, the Federation of European Cinematography London: Aurum, 2003. Call No: 633.3(4) MAK Author: Michael Leitch (ed.) CorpAuthor: Imago Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Aurum PubDate: 2003 PhysDes: 481 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm Subject: CINEMATOGRAPHY; EUROPEAN COUNTRIES; HISTORY OF CINEMA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SOUND PERIOD; NEOREALISM; ITALY; FRANCE; GERMANY; HUNGARY; CZECHOSLOVAKIA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1930's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1940's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1950's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1960's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1970's; NOUVELLE VAGUE; MOVEMENTS IN FILM HISTORY; NYKVIST, SVEN; ROTUNNO, GIUSEPPE; Cardiff, Jack; BERTOLUCCI, BERNARDO; MASTROIANNI, MARCELLO; TOVOLI, LUCIANO Summary: Making Pictures is the first book systematically to examine and document the technical and creative role of the cinematographer in European cinema over the past 100 years. Individual contributions cover a wide range of themes, periods and genres and combine to provide a thorough and authoritative treatment of the subject. At the heart of the book is a section containing a film-by-film analysis of the 100 European films which, according to a jury of contemporary cinematographers, represent the very best examples of their art and demonstrate technical or creative mastery on the part of the cinematographer concerned. [Taken from inside cover] Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes. ISBN: 1854108891 Language: English Contents: "Coming from afar" is written by Luciano Tovoli. Chapter:"The cinematographers' view" is written by Jack Cardiff, Sven Nykist & Giuseppe Rotunno. Chapter: "The director and the cinematographer" is written by Bernado Bertolucci. Chapter: "The actor's view" is written by Marcello Mastroianni. Other chapter contributions made by Michael Leitch, Cathy Greenhalgh, Zoe Bicat & Barry Salt More info
Old collection book		The matinee idols / David Carroll New York: Galahad Books, 1972. Call No: 465.1 CAR Author: Carroll, David Source: US Place: New York Publisher: Galahad Books PubDate: 1972 PhysDes: 159 p. ; 26 cm. Subject: MEN AND THE CINEMA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; STARS; BARRYMORE, JOHN; VALENTINO, RUDOLPH; FAIRBANKS, DOUGLAS ISBN: 0883651017 More info
book		Motion pictures : the development of an art from silent films to the age of television Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [1960]. Call No: 70 FUL Author: Fulton, A. R. (Albert Rondthaler), 1902 Edition: [1st ed.] Place: Norman Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press PubDate: [1960] PhysDes: 320 p. illus. 24 cm Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; HISTORY OF TV Notes: Includes bibliography LON: 1178247 1178247 More info
Interim book		Motion pictures from the Library of Congress paper print collection 1894-1912 / Kemp R. Niver Bebe Bergstein (ed.) Berkley: University of California Press, 1967. Call No: F026(73) LC NIV Author: Niver, Kemp R. Source: US Place: Berkley Publisher: University of California Press PubDate: 1967 PhysDes: 29 cm ; 402 p. Subject: LIBRARY OF CONGRESS; FILMOGRAPHIES; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD Notes: Catalogue More info
book		The movies begin : making movies in New Jersey 1887-1920 / Paul C. Spehr Newark, New Jersey: Newark Museum, 1977. Call No: 70"00:01" SPE Author: Spehr, P.C. Source: US Place: Newark, New Jersey Publisher: Newark Museum PubDate: 1977 PhysDes: 191 p. : illustrations ; 26 cm Subject: HISTORY AND THE CINEMA. USA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; HISTORY OF CINEMA. USA; HISTORY OF EXHIBITION; EDISON, THOMAS ALVA; DICKSON, W. K. L.; DICKSON EXPERIMENTAL SOUND FILM (US, W. K. L. Dickson, 1894) Summary: "Stills, production photographs, and rare portraits are featured in a study of Edison's development of movie equipment and the stars, studios, and events that marked the growth of the movie industry in New Jersey" -- From Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/moviesbeginmakin0000speh Notes: Includes bibliography; Includes index ISBN: 0871001217 Contents: Introduction: Samual C. Miller -- Acknowledgement: Paul C. Spehr -- Pre-Cinema: The Times and the man, Making pictures move, Photography and motion -- Invention and early development: Thomas A. Edison and William K. Dickson, THomas A. Edison: the first films, Edison and Dickson: what did they contribute to movies?, Film theatres and early filmmaking -- Early filmmaking in New Jersey: On location in New Jersey, The Motion Picture Patents Co. and The Independents -- The Studios -- The Personalities More info
book		The movies in the age of innocence Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [1962]. Call No: 70"01" WAG Author: Wagenknecht, Edward, 1900 Edition: [1st ed.] Place: Norman Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press PubDate: [1962] PhysDes: xii, 280 p. illus., ports. 24 cm Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD Notes: Bibliographical footnotes LON: 712220 More info
book		Movies of the twenties : and early cinema / Jurgen Muller (ed) Koln: Taschen GMBH, 2007. Call No: 70"192" MUL Author: Muller, Jurgen Edition: 2007 Place: Koln Publisher: Taschen GMBH PubDate: 2007 PhysDes: 482 pgaes : illustrated ; 26 cm Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1920's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; TRIP TO THE MOON [VOYAGE DANS LA LUNE] (FR, George Melies, 1902); GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY, THE (US, Edwin S. Porter, 1903); STUDENT VON PRAG, DER (G, Stellan Rye, 1913); CABIRIA (IT, Giovanni Pastrone, 1914); BIRTH OF A NATION, THE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1915); INTOLERANCE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1916); MADAME DUBARRY (G, Ernst Lubitsch, 1919); CABINET DES DR. CALIGARI, DAS (G, Robert Wiene, 1920); EROTIKON (SW, Mauritz Stiller, 1920); GOLEM, WIE ER IN DIE WILT KAM, DER (G, Paul Wegener & Carl Bose, 1920); KID, THE (US, Charles Chaplin, 1921); FOOLISH WIVES (US, Erich Von Stroheim, 1922); FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE, THE (US, Rex Ingram, 1921); THREE MUSKETEERS, THE (US, Fred Niblo, 1921); ABENTEUER DES PRINZEN ACHMED, DIE (GE/GG, Carl Koch & Lotte Reiniger, 1925); TOL'ABLE DAVID (US, Henry King, 1921); NOSFERATU - EINE SYMPHONIE DES GRAUENS (G, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, 1922); NANOOK OF THE NORTH (US, Robert Flaherty, 1922); HAXAN [WITCHCRAFT THROUGH THE AGES] (SW/DK, Benjamin Christensen, 1922); [DOKTOR] DR. MABUSE DER SPIELER (G, Fritz Lang, 1922); SAFETY LAST (US, Fred Newmayer/Sam Taylor, 1923); HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME (US, Wallace Worsley, 1923); TEN COMMANDMENTS, THE (US, Cecil B. DeMille, 1923); WACHSFIGURENKABINETT, DAS (G, Paul Leni, 1924); THIEF OF BAGDAD (US, Raoul Walsh, 1924); SHERLOCK, JR. (US, Buster Keaton, 1924); NIBELUNGEN, DIE (G, Fritz Lang, 1922-24); LETZIE MANN, DER (G, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, 1924); NAVIGATOR, THE (US, Buster Keaton & Donald Crisp, 1924); GREED (US, Erich von Stroheim, 1925); IRON HORSE, THE (UK, John Ford, 1924); GOLD RUSH, THE (US, Charles Chaplin, 1925); BEN HUR (US, Fred Niblo, 1925); BRONENOSETS POTEMKIN [BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN] (UR, Sergei Eisenstein, 1925); VARIETE (G, E.A. Dupont, 1925); BIG PARADE, THE (US, King Vidor, 1925); FREUDLOSE GASSE, DIE (G, Wilhelm Pabst, 1925); PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, THE (US, Rupert Julian, 1925); SON OF THE SHEIK, THE (US, George Fitzmaurice, 1926); LODGER, THE (UK, Alfred Hitchcock, 1926); GENERAL, THE (US, Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman, 1927); BLACK PIRATE, THE (US, Albert Parker, 1926); FAUST (G, Friedrich Wilhelm Marnau, 1926); ABENTEUER DES PRINZEN ACHMED, DIE (GE/GG, Carl Koch & Lotte Reiniger, 1925); METROPOLIS (G, Fritz Lang, 1926); KONETS SANKT-PETERSBURGA (UR, Vsevolod Pudovkin, 1927); BERLIN DIE SINFONIE DER GROSSTADT (G, Walter Ruttman, 1927); NAPOLEON (FR, Abel Gance, 1927); CHAPEAU DE PAILLE D'ITALIE, UN (FR, Rene Clair, 1927); SUNRISE (US, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, 1927); JAZZ SINGER, THE (US, Alan Crosland, 1927); PASSION DE JEANNE D'ARC, LA (FR, Carl Th. Dreyer, 1928); CROWD, THE (US, King Vidor, 1928); WIND, THE (US, Victor Sjostrom, 1928); CIRCUS, THE (US, Charles Chaplin, 1928); CELOVEK S KINOAPPARATOM (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1929); BLACKMAIL (UK, Alfred Hitchcock, 1929); BUCHSE DER PANDORA, DIE (G, Georg Wilhelm Pabst, 1929); CHIEN ANDALOU, UN (FR, Luis Bunuel, 1928); LITTLE CAESAR (US, Mervyn LeRoy, 1931); BLAUE ENGEL, DER (G, Josef von Sternberg, 1930); ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (US, Lewis Milestone, 1930); SOUS LES TOITS DE PARIS (FR, Rene Clair, 1929); MOROCCO (US, Josef von Sternberg, 1930); WESTFRONT 1918 (G, Georg Wilhelm Pabst, 1930); AGE D'OR, L' (FR, Luis Bunuel, 1930) Notes: From the invention of the moving picture to the first sound movies From the first moving pictures (the Lumiere brothers' 1895 L'arrive d'un train), early westerns, fantastic pictures, and nickelodeons all the way through the golden age of silent film in the 1920s, this book covers the first three decades of the moving picture around the world. In America, we witness the birth of Hollywood, circa 1910, where film quickly became a powerful industry and D. W. Griffith put American cinema on the map; later, Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton developed a new language of visual comedy while eccentrics like Erich von Stroheim and Cecil B. DeMille turned cinema into a high art form and show biz respectively, and sex symbols like Rudolph Valentino and Greta Garbo heated up the screens. Meanwhile, in Europe, German directors such as Ernst Lubitsch and Fritz Lang were establishing their careers and Russian greats Eisenstein and Pudovkin were already revolutionizing a nascent art form. At the end of the 1920s the very first "talkies", albeit rudimentary ones, brutally crushed the silent art, but by 1930 sound masterpieces such as Sternberg's The Blue Angel and Milestone's All Quiet on the Western Front were produced. This exploration of the founding years of cinema offers a fascinating perspective on a period in movie history that is far too often overlooked in our times. -- jacket blurb ISBN: 9783822846131 Donation: Megan McMurchy More info
book		The Oxford history of world cinema / edited by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith Oxford New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. Call No: 70 OXF REF Author: Nowell Smith, Geoffrey Place: Oxford New York Publisher: Oxford University Press PubDate: 1996 PhysDes: xxii, 824 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SOUND PERIOD Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 767-784) and index ISBN: 0198112572 (alk. paper) : ¦25.00 LON: 94036359; 11212940 URL status: URL: 'http://-' Checked: 31/08/2021 12:36:51 PM Status: Error Details: Failed to send HTTP request (WinHttpSendRequest) More info
book		The parade's gone by ... / Kevin Brownlow Berkeley: University of California Press, c1968. Call No: 70"01" BRO Author: Brownlow, Kevin Place: Berkeley Publisher: University of California Press PubDate: c1968 PhysDes: 577 p. : ill. ; 26 cm Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SOUND PERIOD; PICKFORD, MARY; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK; DWAN, ALLAN; BROWN, CLARENCE; WELLMAN, WILLIAM; DEMILLE, CECIL B.; VON STERNBERG, JOSEF; FAIRBANKS, DOUGLAS; MELODRAMA; BOOTH, MARGARET; SWANSON, GLORIA; MAYER, LOUIS B.; SELZNICK, DAVID O.; Keaton, Buster; CHAPLIN, CHARLES; GANCE, ABEL; ROSHER, CHARLES G.; BLYTHE, BETTY; THALBERG, IRVING; DENNY, REGINALD; HORNBECK, WILLIAM; FARRAR, GERALDINE; KING, HENRY; SLOMAN, EDWARD; LLOYD, HAROLD; BEN HUR (US, Fred Niblo, 1925); ROBIN HOOD (US, Allan Dwan, 1922) Notes: Includes index ISBN: 0520030680 : $9.95 LON: 740138 740138 More info
book		A pictorial history of the silent screen / by Daniel Blum New York: Putnam, c1953. Call No: 70"01" BLU; FOLIO Author: Blum, Daniel Place: New York Publisher: Putnam PubDate: c1953 PhysDes: 334 p. (chiefly ill.) : 32 cm Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD ISBN: 0399110984 LON: 1081395 1081395 More info
book		Les pionniers du cinema, 1897-1909 / [par] Georges Sadoul Paris [France]: DenoFel, 1947. Call No: 70 SAD Author: Sadoul, Georges, 1904-1967 Place: Paris [France] Publisher: DenoFel PubDate: 1947 PhysDes: 626 p. : ill. ; 23 cm Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD Notes: Includes index LON: 1717423 1717423 More info
book		Railways in the cinema / John Huntley London: Ian Allan, 1969. Call No: 754.22 HUN Author: Huntley, John Place: London Publisher: Ian Allan PubDate: 1969 PhysDes: 168 p., 48 p. of plates ; 24 cm Subject: RAILWAYS IN FILMS; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SOUND PERIOD; SHORT FILMS; DOCUMENTARY FILMS; CHILDREN, FILMS FOR; NEWSREELS Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006 More info
book		Sanctuary cinema : origins of the Christian film industry / Terry Lindvall New York: New York University Press, c2007. Call No: 743.6 LIN Author: Lindvall, Terry Source: US Place: New York Publisher: New York University Press PubDate: c2007 PhysDes: x, 303 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm Subject: HISTORY AND THE CINEMA; RELIGION AND THE CINEMA; RELIGIOUS FILMS; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD Summary: " Sanctuary Cinema provides the first history of the origins of the Christian film industry. Focusing on the early days of film during the silent era, it traces the ways in which the Church came to adopt film making as a way of conveying the Christian message to adherents. Surprisingly, rather than separating themselves from Hollywood or the American entertainment culture, early Christian film makers embraced Hollywood cinematic techniques and often populated their films with attractive actors and actresses. But they communicated their sectarian message effectively to believers, and helped to shape subsequent understandings of the Gospel message, which had historically been almost exclusively verbal, not communicated through visual media. While radio eclipsed the motion picture as the Christian communication media of choice by then1920s, the early film makers had laid the foundations for the current re-emergence of Christian film and entertainment, from Veggie Tales to The Passion of the Christ. " -- BOOK BLURB ISBN: 9780814752500 Contents: -- acknowledgements -- introduction -- The Brazen serpent -- Sanctuary cinema -- Divine shows -- Better films -- conclusion: Film as religion -- notes -- bibliography -- index -- about the author -- More info
book		Sexualität und widerstand [= sexuality and resistance] : Internationale Filmkulturen / Aylin Basaran, Julia B. Köhne, Klaudija Sabo, Christina Wieder (Hg.) Berlin: Mandelbaum, 2018. Call No: 749.0 SEX Author: Basaran, Aylin ; Köhne, Julia B ; Sabo, Klaudija ; Wieder, Christina Place: Berlin Publisher: Mandelbaum PubDate: 2018 PhysDes: 400 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Subject: SEX IN FILMS; PORNOGRAPHIC FILMS; PORNOGRAPHY AND THE CINEMA; PORNOGRAPHY IN FILMS; SCIENTISTS IN FILMS; SCIENCE IN FILMS; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1920's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1930's; EKSTASE (CZ/A, Gustav Machaty, 1933); BERKELEY, BUSBY; EISENSTEIN, SERGEI M.; JOHNNY GUITAR (US, Nicholas Ray, 1954); SUNA NO ONNA (JA, Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1964); RANI RADOVI (YU, Zelmir Zilnik, 1969); YUGOSLAVIA; REPRODUCTION IN FILMS; TANGOS - L'EXIL DE GARDEL (FR/AG, Fernando E. Solanas, 1985); ZOMBIES IN FILMS AND TV; BLACK PANTHER (US, Ryan Coogler, 2018) Summary: "Wie inszeniert das Medium Film das Zusammenspiel von Sexualität, Widerstand und Körperpolitiken? Welche Formen von Sexualität und erotischer Sinnlichkeit, die entweder als widerständige Handlungsweisen oder als Teil von politischem Widerstand adressiert werden können, wurden in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten in internationalen Filmkulturen visualisiert und damit hervorgehoben? Kann die Darstellung des sexualisierten Körpers oder sexuellen Akts in bestimmten Kontexten zu einer politischen Waffe werden? Welchen Raum erhalten dabei divergierende sexuelle Orientierungen und Praktiken etwa im Verbund mit homosexuellem Begehren? Der Sammelband vereint eine Mischung aus interdisziplinären und künstlerischen Zugängen zum Thema Sexualität und Widerstand und spürt seinen (audio-)visuellen Vermittlungen aus lokaler und transnationaler Perspektive nach. Das breite Spektrum an Textgenres reicht von akademischen Reflexionen über Malerei bis hin zu Dichtkunst und Bildcollagen. Fragen der Film-, Medien-, Kultur- und Literaturwissenschaft sowie Geschlechterforschung und Zeitgeschichte treffen in diesem Band auf sexualwissenschaftliche und medizinhistorische Ansätze." -- FROM BLURB Notes: In German and English ISBN: 9783854768265 Language: German and English Donation: Senses of Cinema Contents: Sexualität und Widerstand : Internationale Filmkulturen / Aylin Basaran, Julia B. Köhne, Klaudija Sabo, Christina Wieder -- "Aufklärung? Abschreckung? in der mit Sexualität gespannten Atmosphäre des Kinos?" : Sexualität in Wiener klinischen und populärwissenschaftlichen Filmen der Moderne / Katrin Pilz -- 'Die neue Frau' oder 'die verlorene Rebellion' / Karin Moser -- Experiment : Projektionenserie / Barbara Eichinger -- From Siegfried Kracauer to Busby Berkeley : Ornamental Bodies in 1930 's film / Isabel Capeloa Gil -- Eisensteins sexuelle Politiken / Peter Grabher -- Sex als Tauschmittel : Beispiele aus Mauthausen / Helga Amesberger und Brigitte Halbmayr -- "That's big talk for a little gun" : Geschlechterrollenwechsel in Nicholas Rays "Johnny Guitar" (1954) / Klaus S. Davidowicz -- Treibsand und Abgrund : Sexualität und Geschlechterkampf in Hiroshi Teshigaharas "Die Frau in den Dünen" (1964) / Gerda Klingenböck -- Erotik, Gewalt und Folklore : die Inszenierung geschlechtlicher und ethnischer Differenz im jugoslawischen Kino um 1968 / Anna Schober -- Die Revolution nach der Revolution : die jugoslawische Jugend im Aufbruch im Film "Rani Radovi" (1961 von Želimir Žilnik / Klaudija Sabo -- Absentes vergegenwärtigen : Schwangerschafisabbruch und Fötalimagologie in westlichen Filmkulturen seit den 1960er Jahren / Julia Barbara Köhne -- Ästhetische Grenzüberschreitungen und widerständige Körper in Fernando Solanas' "Tangos : El Exilio de Gardel" (1985) / Christina Wieder -- Vor der Vertreibung aus dem Paradies : Živko Nikolic' "Lepota Poroka" ["Die Schönheit der Sünde"] (1986) / Andreas Filipovic -- Sexy Zombies? : On the Improbable Possibility of Loving the Undead / Kobi Kabalek -- Goldene Zitronen : Körperpolitiken in Beyoncés "Lemonade" (2016) / Marietta Kesting -- Figurationen der Unkalkulierbarkeit : Maren Ades "Toni Erdmann" (2016) / Monika Bernold -- Wie man Körper wahrnimmt : eine Einübung nach Lukrez / Thomas Ballhausen -- What If the Revolution could be Televised? : "Black Panther" (2018) and the Utopia of Wakanda / Aylin Basaran and Justin Leggs -- Come on Baby, Light my Fire / Sonja Gassner -- Frank Stern zum 75sten / Andreas Huyssen -- Verzeichnis der Autorinnen und Autoren. More info
Old collection book		Der sichtbare mensch eine film-dramaturgie / Béla Balázs Call No: 62 BAL Author: Balázs, Béla ; Auflage, Zwette PhysDes: 166 p. ; 24 cm. Subject: DRAMAS; MOTION PICTURES - HISTORY; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD Language: German (Hungarian?) More info
book		The silent cinema [London: Studio Vista, 1965]. Call No: 70"01" OLE Author: O'Leary, Liam Place: [London Publisher: Studio Vista PubDate: 1965] PhysDes: 160 p. illus., facsim. 19 cm Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD LON: 1350265 1350265 More info
book		Silent cinema : an introduction / Paolo Cherchi Usai ; preface to the first English edition by Kevin Brownlow London: BFI Pub, 2000. Call No: 70"01" CHE Author: Cherchi Usai, Paolo; Cherchi Usai, Paolo. Burning passions CorpAuthor: British Film Institute Edition: [Rev. and expanded ed.] / new preface by David Robinson Place: London Publisher: BFI Pub PubDate: 2000 PhysDes: xix, 212 p., [20] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; ARCHIVES & INSTITUTES, FILM; PRESERVATION OF FILMS; MUSIC FOR SILENT FILMS; TECHNICOLOR; COLOUR SYSTEMS Notes: Previous ed.: (i.e. 1st English ed.) published as Burning passions. 1994; Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 0851707467 (pbk.) : ¦13.99; 0851707459; 0851707467 (pbk.) ¦13.99; 0851707459 (cased) : ¦40.00 Language: Translated from the Italian LON: 21931416 More info
book		The silent cinema reader / edited by Lee Grieveson and Peter Kramer London: Routledge, 2004. Call No: 70"01"SIL Author: Grieveson, Lee (ed); Kramer, Peter (ed) Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Routledge PubDate: 2004 PhysDes: xvii, 423 p. : ill. ; 26 cm Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; CHAPLIN, CHARLES; DEMILLE, CECIL B.; EDISON, THOMAS ALVA; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK; Keaton, Buster; SWANSON, GLORIA; VALENTINO, RUDOLPH Summary: The Silent Reader offers a wide-ranging and accessible guide to the development of cinema from its emergence in the 1890s to the introduction of sound in the late 1920s. Combining key essays from leading scholars in the field with extensive introductory chapters written by the editors, the reader covers international developments in film aesthetics, the growth of the American film industry and its interaction with foreign competitors at home and abroad. It also discusses the wider cultutal, social, and political contexts of film production and consumption in the Uniyed States as well as Britain, Russia, France, and Germany. Notes: Includes index; Includes bibliographical references (p. [401]-415) and index ISBN: 0415252830 Contents: Prologue -- 1. At the beginning: motion picture production, representation and ideology at the Edison and Lumiere Companies / Charles Musser -- Part I. Film projection and variety shows -- 2. "Now you see it, now you don't": the temporality of the cinema of attractions / Tom Gunning -- 3. The Kiss in the tunnel (1899), G.A. Smith and the emergence of the edited film in England / Frank Gray -- 4. The cinema of attractions in France, 1896-1904 / Richard Abel -- pt. II. Storytelling and the nickelodeon -- 5. Moving towards fictional narratives: story films become the dominant product, 1903-1904 / Charles Musser -- 6. Pathe goes to town: French films create a market for the nickelodeon, 1903-1906 / Richard Abel -- 7. Manhattan nickelodeons: new data on audiences and exhibitors / Ben Singer -- pt. III. Cinema and reform -- 8. From the opium den to the theatre of morality: moral discourse and the film process in early American cinema / Tom Gunning -- 9. How many times shall Caesar bleed in sport: Shakespeare and the cultural debate about moving pictures / Roberta E. Pearson and William Uricchio -- 10. Fighting films: race, morality, and the governing of cinema, 1912-1915 / Lee Grieveson -- pt IV Feature films and cinema programmes -- 11. A star is born: American culture and the dynamics of Charlie Chaplin's star image, 1913-1916 / Charles J. Maland -- 12. An awful struggle between love and ambition: serial heroines, serial stars and their female fans / Shelley Stamp -- 13. Traffic in Souls (1913): an experiment in feature-length narrative construction / Ben Bewster -- 14. Race, melodrama and the Birth of a Nation (1915) / Linda Williams -- 15. The international exploration of cinematic expressivity / Kristin Thompson -- Part V: Classical Hollywood Cinema -- 16. The making of a comic star: Buster Keaton and The Saphead (1920) / Peter Kramer -- 17. "The Perfect lover?": Valentino and ethnic masculinity in the 1920s / Gayln Studlar -- 18. The new woman and consumer culture: Cecil B. Demille's sex comedies / Sumiko Higashi -- 19. The open door: Hollywood's public relations at home and abroad, 1922-1928 / Ruth Vasey -- Part VI: European Cinemas -- 20. New notes on Russian film culture between 1908 and 1919 / Yuri Tsivian -- 21. Early alternatives to the Hollywood mode of production: implications for Europe's avant-gardes / Kristin Thompson -- 22. Monumental heroics: form and style in Eisenstein's silent films / David Bordwell -- 23. Art and industry: German cinema of the 1920s -- Bibliogrpahy -- Index -- More info
book		Silent magic : rediscovering the silent film era / Ivan Butler ; foreword by Kevin Brownlow London: Columbus, 1987. Call No: 70"01" BUT Author: Butler, Ivan, 1909 Place: London Publisher: Columbus PubDate: 1987 PhysDes: 208 p. : ill., ports. ; 28 cm Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD Notes: Silent cinema films,. 1915-1925 (BNB/PRECIS); Includes bibliography and index ISBN: 0862873150 : ª14.95 LON: 5335380 More info
book		Spellbound in darkness : a history of the silent film / [by] George C. Pratt Greenwich, Conn.: New York Graphic Society, [1973]. Call No: 70"01" PRA Author: Pratt, George C Edition: [Rev. ed.] Place: Greenwich, Conn. Publisher: New York Graphic Society PubDate: [1973] PhysDes: xi, 548 p. illus. 28 cm Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK; INCE, THOMAS HARPER; CHAPLIN, CHARLES; LUBITSCH, ERNST Notes: Includes bibliographical references ISBN: 0821204866; 0821204890 (pbk.) LON: 586019 More info
book		Sublime silents : the art of silent cinema / [by Jonathan Dennis] Sydney, N.S.W.: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1995. Call No: 70"01" SUB Author: Dennis, Jonathan CorpAuthor: Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney, N.S.W.); National Film and Sound Archive (Australia) Place: Sydney, N.S.W. Publisher: Museum of Contemporary Art PubDate: 1995 PhysDes: 31, [2] p. : ill. ; 22 x 25 cm Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; ON OUR SELECTION (AT, Raymond Longford, 1920); FAUST (G, Friedrich Wilhelm Marnau, 1926); KISS, THE (US, Jacques Feyder, 1929); TAKI NO SHIRAITO (JA, Kenji Mizoguchi, 1933); MOULIN ROUGE (UK, E.A. Dupont, 1928); MACISTE ALL'INFERNO (IT, Guido Brignone, 1926) Notes: Cover title; "by Jonathan Dennis, [copyright] Museum of Contemporary Art and National Film and Sound Archive, September 1995"--P. [2]; "The Museum is delighted to be working with the National Film and Sound Archive in presenting Sublime Silents. "--Foreword; "Australian Centenary of Cinema" ISBN: 1875632417 LON: 11853704 More info
book		The theatre in my time / by St. John Ervine London: Rich & Cowan, 1933. Call No: 67 ERV Author: Ervine, St. John Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Rich & Cowan PubDate: 1933 PhysDes: 253 p. ; 19 cm Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1930's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD Summary: A history of the theatre from the late nineteenth century into the twentieth century and commentary about the effect of cinema and radio on entertainment and theatre going. Includes a survey on the effect of moving pictures on children and adolescents by the Edinburgh Cinema Enquiry Committee in 1933 More info
book		The western : from silents to the seventies / George N. Fenin and William K. Everson Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1977. Call No: 736.1 FEN Author: Fenin, George N. Everson, William K. Edition: Revised Source: UK Place: Harmondsworth, Middlesex Publisher: Penguin Books PubDate: 1977 PhysDes: 396 p., ill ; 22cm Subject: WESTERNS; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; B-MOVIES; PORTER, EDWIN S.; INCE, THOMAS HARPER; FORD, JOHN; WELLMAN, WILLIAM; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK; FAIRBANKS, DOUGLAS; HOPALONG CASSIDY (US, Howard Bretherton, 1935) Summary: The book covers the history of the western movie, from the silent period to the 70s, and from the bmovie to the "adult" western of the 70s .It presnts such heros as Hopalong Cassidy, or Gene Autry, and directors such as John Ford. It looks at the costumes, fist and gun fights, and the landscapes of the westerns. The book also looks at the westerns (spaghetti ) made in Italy and Japan Notes: Reprint of the 1973 ed. published by Grossman, New York. ISBN: 0140044167 Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006 Contents: Western History and the Hollywood version -- Contents and moral influence of the western -- The primitives: Edwin S. Porter and Broncho Billy Anderson -- David W. Griffith and Thomas H. Ince: 1909-1913 -- William Surrey Hart and Realism -- Tom Mix and showmanship -- Douglas Fairbanks and John Ford: 1913-1920 -- James Cruze's The Covered Wagon and John Ford's The Iron Horse -- The Twenties -- The Western costume -- The Thirties -- The Western serial: its birth and demise -- The Forties -- Trends in the postwar Western -- The stuntman and the second unit director -- Exeunt the "B"s, enter television -- The Western's international audience and the international western -- Into the Sixties -- The spaghetti western and the western "made in Japan" -- After maturity: a projection into the future More info
book		Women film-makers in Australia : (1920 - 1933) / Sally Speed [Australia] : [s.n.], 1984: Call No: 462-02(94) SPE Author: Speed, Sally Place: [Australia] : [s.n.], 1984 PhysDes: 64 leaves ; 30 cm Subject: WOMEN FILMMAKERS. AUSTRALIA; LYELL, LOTTIE; LOVELY, LOUISE; MCDONAGH, PAULETTE; MCDONAGH, ISABEL; PAVIS, YVONNE; HOWARD, KATE; MALLON, MARY; DE LA RUZE, JULIETTE; KELLERMAN, ANNETTE; SENTIMENTAL BLOKE, THE (AT, Raymond Longford, 1919); THOSE WHO LOVE (AT, Paulette McDonagh, 1926); FAR PARADISE, THE (AT, Paulette McDonagh, 1928); CHEATERS, THE (AT, Paulette McDonagh, 1931); TWO MINUTES SILENCE (AT, Paulette McDonagh, 1933); POSSUM PADDOCK (AT, Kate Howard, 1921); BLUE MOUNTAINS MYSTERY, THE (AT, Raymond Longford & Lottie Lyell, 1921); DINKUM BLOKE, THE (AT, Raymond Longford, 1923); FISHERS GHOST (AT, Lottie Lyell, 1924); PETER VERNON'S SILENCE (AT, Lottie Lyell, 1925); CIRCUMSTANCE (AT, Yvonne Pavis, 1922); DAUGHTER OF AUSTRALIA (AT, Yvonne Pavis, 1922); SUNSHINE SALLY (AT, Yvonne Pavis, 1922); JEWELLED NIGHTS (AT, Louise Lovely & Wilton Welch, 1925); CHEATERS, THE (AT, Paulette McDonagh, 1929); HISTORY OF CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; HISTORY OF CINEMA. TRANSITION SILENT-SOUND; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1920's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1930's; EXHIBITION OF SILENT FILMS LON: abn98267376; 14063689 More info
book		A world of movies : 70 years of film history / by Richard Lawton ; with captions by Hugo Leckey ; and an introduction by Ella Smith London : New York: Sundial, 1974. Call No: 71(73) LAW Author: Lawton, Richard Place: London : New York Publisher: Sundial PubDate: 1974 PhysDes: 383 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA. USA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SOUND PERIOD; HOLLYWOOD; AWARDS. ACADEMY ISBN: 070640386 Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006 More info
Interim book		Young and innocent? the cinema in Britain, 1896-1930 / Andrew Higson Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2002. Call No: 71(41) HIG Author: Higson, Andrew Source: UK Place: Exeter Publisher: University of Exeter Press PubDate: 2002 PhysDes: [xii], 420 p. ill. 24cm Subject: UNITED KINGDOM; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA. UK; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; HISTORY OF CINEMA Notes: Bibliography: p.371-404. - Includes index ISBN: 0859897176. v. pbk More info

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