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Framework : a history of screenwriting in the American film / Tom Stempel ; foreword by Philip Dunne New York: Continuum, 1988.
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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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"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" IMAAuthor: Deutelbaum, Marshall CorpAuthor: International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House; Image (Rochester, N.Y.)Place: New YorkPublisher: Dover PublicationsPubDate: 1979PhysDes: viii, 248 p. : ill. ; 29 cmSubject: 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 indexISBN: 048623777X : $8.95LON: 1468042
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Motion picture directing : the facts and theories of the newest art New York: Falk Publishing Co, [c1922].
Call No: 225 MILAuthor: Milne, Peter, 1896 CorpAuthor: New York institute of photographyPlace: New YorkPublisher: Falk Publishing CoPubDate: [c1922]PhysDes: 234 p. illus. 24 cmSubject: DIRECTION ; DEMILLE, CECIL B. ; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK ; BORZAGE, FRANK ; INCE, THOMAS HARPER ; LUBITSCH, ERNST ; DEMILLE, WILLIAM ; INGRAM, REX ; MAY, JOE ; NEILAN, MARSHALL Notes: "Used as a supplementary text in New York institute of photography."LON: 1091908
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Spellbound in darkness : a history of the silent film / [by] George C. Pratt Greenwich, Conn.: New York Graphic Society, [1973].
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The western : from silents to the seventies / George N. Fenin and William K. Everson Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1977.
Call No: 736.1 FENAuthor: Fenin, George N.
Everson, William K. Edition: RevisedSource: UKPlace: Harmondsworth, MiddlesexPublisher: Penguin BooksPubDate: 1977PhysDes: 396 p., ill ; 22cmSubject: 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 JapanNotes: Reprint of the 1973 ed. published by Grossman, New York.ISBN: 0140044167Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006Contents: 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
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