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Silent players
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Anthony Slide |
"Filled with little known facts and personal remembrances of the stars of the silent screen, Silent Players profiles the lives and careers of the hundred best, brightest, or most unusual silent film … |
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The book of illusions
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Paul Auster |
Professor David Zimmer is drinking himself to death over the death of his family in a plane crash when one night he sees a clip from a film by the silent comedian Hector Mann. Mann vanished in 1929, … |
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The book of illusions
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Paul Auster |
One man's obsession with the mysterious life of a silent film star takes him on a journey into a shadow-world of lies, illusions, and unexpected love. After losing his wife and young sons in a plane … |
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The Grin of the Dark
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Ramsey Campbell |
Once upon a time Tubby Thackeray's silent comedies were hailed as the equal of Chaplin's and Keaton's, but now his name has been deleted from the history of the cinema. Some of his music-hall perform… |
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Experimental film
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Gemma Files |
This is a contemporary ghost story in which former Canadian film history teacher Lois Cairns - jobless and depressed in the wake of her son's autism diagnosis - accidentally discovers the existence o… |
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The movies in the age of innocence
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Edward Wagenknecht |
OF FILM AND I, AND HOW THIS BOOK UN WITTINGLY GOT ITSELF STARTED
I remember once seeing a book described as the work of a good scholar on holiday. Whether I am a good scholar or not must be left fo… |
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The Age of Dreaming
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Nina Revoyr |
Jun Nakayama was a silent film star in the early days of Hollywood, but by 1964, he finds himself living in complete obscurity—until a young writer, Nick Bellinger, tracks him down for an interview. … |
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Silent film necrology
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Eugene Michael Vazzana |
"This greatly expanded and updated edition (over 18,500 entries versus 9,000 in the earlier) includes everyone from John Aasen, an 8-foot, 9-inch circus star who appeared in silent film comedies, to … |
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Man Without a World (Green Integer: 95)
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Eleanor Antin |
"This book represents the script and film stills from the major silent film of Eleanor Antin's invented Soviet film director Yevgeny Antinov. Throughout her career Antin has explored various persona … |
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Sanctuary Cinema
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Terry Lindvall |
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, rath… |
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Film form
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Sergei Eisenstein |
Director and filmmaker of Silent Movies who later worked in America, Sergei Eisenstein discusses the idea of montage in Russian Film and its compositional differences with films of D. W. Griffith |
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