Edmund Goulding's Dark Victory is the first biography ever written on one of the great talents of early twentieth century filmmaking. He is most remembered today as the director of Grand Hotel, the great Event Movie of the Depression. He wrote the story for the first musical, the Academy Award-winning The Broadway Melody and collaborated memorably ...
This book attempts to correct the distortions, for the silent era was the richest in the cinema's history. The author has tried to recapture the spirit of era through the words of those who created it. Linking chapters provide a context for the interviews has led to gaps, and I cannot claim that his book is definitive.
Kevin Brownlow makes use of his broad knowledge of the art and industry of film--as a historian of silent film and a film editor in his own right--to present the career of, arguably, the most famous and successful of all British film directors.
"America's Sweetheart" is the subject of this lavish tribute, illustrated with fabulous film stills, rare production shots, and personal photographs--most never before published. 232 illustrations.
A unique illustrated survey of Keaton's life and films, recalled by his wife of 26 years, Eleanor Keaton, and film historian Jeffrey Vance. Keaton's career was fascinating and dramatic, spanning the history of twentieth-century American comedy, both in vaudeville and in cinema.
This is the final segment of Kevin Brownlow's trilogy, of which the first two volumes were "The Parade's Gone By...", about the entertainment movies of the twenties, and "The War, The West And The Wilderness". During the first twenty years of this century, crime, drugs, alcohol, prostitution, venereal disease, abortion, poverty and racism were ...
"A truly delightful, interesting and informative volume - with a nice (and very mixed) choice of subjects." Anthony Slide Silent Lives contains 100 biographical sketches of the great--and near great--of the silent film era. Each vividly written profile is illustrated by exquisite photographs, many of which have not been seen in decades. Kevin ...
How It Happened Here tells the story of the making of a film and the subsequent reception that the film received and the controversy and alarm that it stirred up when it was first released. The film-makers were two teenagers (18 and 16) and they started out with no budget and a borrowed 16 mm camera. The project took 8 years to complete. Part of ...
Diana Serra Cary's well-wrought, empathetic narrative presents the underside of the glittering stage and screen world: frightened children, merchants who buy and sell childhood as a commodity, rapacious stage mothers and fathers whose ambition and avarice make them willing to sacrifice their children to fulfill their own dreams. The first part of ...
A guide to the faces behind the camera. Hailed for their personal and distinctive approaches to moviemaking, filmmakers and directors are now as popular as the actors in their films. This work profiles the most influential people involved behind the camera. Each entry provides a biographical portrait of the filmmaker, including a look at his or ...
Exhaustive research in every major archive of the world has created this compilation of information and images focusing on Bernhardt's films and twenty early wax-cylinder and disc recordings. Detailed analyses of the motion pictures include plot synopses, casts, production notes, and contemporary reviews. Complete records of Bernhardt's work on ...
Uncovering tidbits of the history of Los Angeles and the early film industry that are hidden within Charlie Chaplin's timeless films, this stunning work of cinematic archeology combines Chaplin's movie images with archival photographs, vintage maps, contemporary photographs, and scores of then-and-now comparison photographs to conjure up the ...
Rex Ingram established his reputation in the 1920s with the success of such films as "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" and "Scaramouche". This book follows his career from his formative years in Dublin through his apprenticeship in New York, his years in Hollywood, and his periods in Nice, North Africa and elsewhere. It features stills from ...
When he was fifteen, Kevin Brownlow saw two reels of the 1927 "Napoleon", and it changed his life. The film was more daring, both technically and artistically, than anything he had ever seen. How could it have been forgotten? Brownlow got in touch with the film's director and tracked down members of its cast and crew. He discovered that the making ...
In two volumes, this reference provides a survey that profiles more than 350 filmmakers from every branch of the industry, including independent films, French new wave, documentaries, Hollywood blockbusters, silent films, and more. Filmmakers have been chosen for the strength of their cinematic vision. Each entry features a biographical portrait ...
Combining film history and social history, the author surveys the treatment of contemporary social problems by film directors and producers in the early part of the century. This is the history of silent films, documenting many that have been lost or forgotten. The author is the winner of a Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History.
"A truly delightful, interesting and informative volume - with a nice (and very mixed) choice of subjects." Anthony Slide Silent Lives contains 100 biographical sketches of the great--and near great--of the silent film era. Each vividly written profile is illustrated by exquisite photographs, many of which have not been seen in decades. Kevin ...
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