By Christophe P. Jacobs, Donald McCaffrey
ISBN-10: 0313303452
ISBN-13: 9780313303456
The newest providing from the Reference courses to the World's Cinema sequence, this serious survey of key motion pictures, actors, administrators, and screenwriters throughout the silent period of the yankee cinema deals a broad-ranging portrait of the movie creation of silent movie. specific yet concise alphabetical entries comprise over a hundred movie titles and one hundred fifty body of workers. An introductory bankruptcy explores the early development of the recent silent medium whereas the ultimate bankruptcy of this encyclopedic learn examines the sophistication of the silent cinema. those chapters define movie heritage from its beginnings until eventually the perfection of synchronized sound, and mirror upon the topics and methods validated with the silent cinema that persisted into the sound period via sleek times.The annotated entries, alphabetically prepared through movie name or group of workers, comprise short bibliographies and filmographies. An appendix lists secondary yet vital videos and their creators. movie and pop culture students will savour the big volume of data that has been culled from quite a few assets and that builds upon the elevated reports and examine of the previous ten years.
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Twinkle, Twinkle, Movie Star! New York: E. P. , 1930. Hanson, Patricia King, executive editor. The American Film Institute Catalog 19111920. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988. Katz, Ephraim. The Film Encyclopedia. New York: Harper and Row, 1979. Liebman, Roy. Silent Film Performers. , 1996. , executive editor. The American Film Institute Catalog 19211930. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. Spehr, Paul C. American Film Personnel and Company Credits, 1908-1920. , 1996. Vazzana, Eugene Michael.
And William K. Everson, The Western from Silents to Cinerama. ), 1962. " Born Roscoe Conkling Arbuckle March 24, 1887, in South Center, Kansas. Died June 29, 1933, in New York City. Stage actor in stock companies, vaudeville, burlesque. Film actor, director, writer. Arbuckle's contribution to the film medium proved to be greater than his acting skills. While he was an excellent comic actor with the physical dexterity necessary for a player in the humorous movie in its formative period, he also became an effective director and writer.
W. Griffith's most important films, Broken Blossoms (1919) and Way Down East (1920). In Tol'able David he is an adolescent boy who is violently thrust into the responsibilities of manhood. Broken Blossoms features him as a sensitive Chinese shopkeeper in a London slum who tries to help an abused girl in the face of extreme racial prejudice. In Way Down East he is a more conventional hero, defying puritanical family members to love a young woman who has been seduced and abandoned. Barthelmess was the son of an actress and performed in college plays, entering films at the urging of family friend Alia Nazimova in 1916, appearing in her production, War Brides, that year.
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