Autore	Roots James <1955->
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2017
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (301 pages)
Disciplina	016.79143/617
Soggetto topico	Comedy films Comedy films - Evaluation Silent films Silent films - Evaluation
ISBN	1-4422-7825-0
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Altri titoli varianti	One hundred essential silent film comedies
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910792951103321

Autore	Dixon Bryony
Edizione	[First edition.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	London : , : British Film Institute : , : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), , 2011
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (270 pages) : illustrations, photographs
Disciplina	791.43/61
Collana	Screen Guides
Soggetto topico	Silent films - History and criticism Silent films Film & Media Films, cinema
Soggetto genere / forma	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ISBN	1-83871-062-0 1-83871-410-3 1-84457-569-1
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	The Nibelungen Saga (Die Nibelungen Saga) -- Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horrors (Nosferatu: Eine Symphonie des Grauens) -- The Oyster Princess (Die Austernprinzessin) -- Page of Madness (Kurutta ippeiji) -- Pandora's Box (Die Büchse der Pandora) -- Panorama du Grand Canal vu d'un bateau -- Paris qui dort (The Crazy Ray) -- The Passion of Joan of Arc (La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc) -- People on Sunday (Menschen am Sonntag) -- The Perils of Pauline -- The Phantom Carriage (Körkarlen) -- Policeman (Keisatsukan) -- Poor Little Rich Girl -- Premier prix de violoncelle -- The Queen of Spades (Pikovaya dama) -- Regen (Rain) -- Revolutionshochzeit (The Last Night) -- Safety Last! -- The Scarecrow -- Sex in Chains (Geschlecht in Fesseln) -- The Smiling Madame Beudet (La Souriante Madame Beudet) -- The Son of the Sheik -- The Spirit of His Forefathers -- Stachka (Strike) -- Stage Struck -- The Student of Prague (Der Student von Prag) -- Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans -- Suspense -- The Talisman (Pied de mouton) -- The Thief of Bagdad -- The Three-Must-Get-Theres -- Tol'able David -- Topical Budget 93-1 The Derby 1913 -- Underworld -- The Unknown -- Les Vampires -- Voyage à travers l'impossible (The Impossible Voyage) -- Way Down East -- The White Slave Trade (Den hvide slavehandel) -- The Wind -- Witchcraft through the Ages (Häxan) -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Altri titoli varianti	One hundred silent films Hundred silent films
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910794822703321

Autore	O'Rourke Chris
Edizione	[First edition.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	London, England : , : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, , 2016
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (xiv, 200 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina	791.430280922
Collana	Cinema and society series
Soggetto topico	Motion picture actors and actresses - Great Britain Silent films
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-350-98521-X 1-78672-059-0
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Introduction : Winifred Hopcroft's story -- 1. In and out of the studio : the silent film actor in Britain -- 2. Learn to act for the cinema in your own home : instructional guides to film acting -- 3. The common round : finding film work in interwar London -- 4. Stand forth, Mary Pickford the second! Searching for British stars -- Epilogue : from silence to sound.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910155202803321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Bloomington : , : Indiana University Press, , [2001]
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (384 p.)
Disciplina	791.430233092
Soggetto topico	African Americans in motion pictures Race films Silent films
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-253-02155-3
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Machine generated contents note: I. OVERVIEWS -- 1. Black Silence and the Politics of Representation CLYDE R. TAYLOR -- 2. The Notion of Treatment: Black Aesthetics and Film, -- based on an interview with Peter Hessli and additional -- discussions with Pearl Bowser ARTHUR JAFA -- 3. From Shadows 'n Shufflin' to Spotlights and Cinema: -- The Lafayette Players, 1915-1932 SISTER FRANCESCA THOMPSON -- 4. The African-American Press and Race Movies, 1909-1929 -- CHARLENE REGESTER -- II. OSCAR MICHEAUX -- 5. Oscar Micheaux's Within Our Gates: -- The Possibilities for Alternative Visions MICHELE WALLACE -- 6. Within Our Gates: From Race Melodrama to Opportunity Narrative -- JANE GAINES -- 7. Oscar Micheaux's The Symbol of the Unconquered: Text and Context -- PEARL BOWSER AND LOUISE SPENCE -- 8. To Redream the Dreams of White Playwrights: Reappropriation -- and Resistance in Oscar Micheaux's Body and Soul CHARLES MUSSER -- 9. Black Patriarch on the Prairie: National Identity and Black -- Manhood in the Early Novels of Oscar Micheaux JAYNA BROWN -- 10. Telling White Lies: Oscar Micheaux and Charles W. Chesnutt -- COREY K. CREEKMUR -- III. MICHEAUX'S CONTEMPORARIES -- 11. Planes, Trains, and Automobiles: The FlyingAce, the Norman -- Company, and the Micheaux Connection PHYLLIS R. KLOTMAN -- 12. Colored Players Film Corporation -- An Alternative to Micheaux CHARLES MUSSER -- Lost, Then Found: The Wedding Scene -- from The Scar of Shame (1929) PEARL BOWSER -- 13. Richard D. Maurice and the Maurice Film Company -- PEARL BOWSER AND CHARLES MUSSER -- 14. Cinematic Foremothers: -- Zora Neale Hurston and Eloyce King Patrick Gist GLORIA J. GIBSON -- APPENDIX A The Reemergence of Oscar Micheaux: -- A Timeline and Bibliographic Essay j. RONALD GREEN -- APPENDIX B An Oscar Micheaux Filmography: From the Silents through His -- Transition to Sound, 1919-1931 COMPILED BY CHARLES MUSSER, COREY K. -- CREEKMUR, PEARL BOWSER, J. RONALD GREEN, CHARLENE REGESTER, AND LOUISE SPENCE -- APPENDIX C A Colored Players Film Corporation Filmography -- COMPILED BY CHARLES MUSSER -- APPENDIX D Norman Film Manufacturing Company: Production and -- Theatrical Release Dates for All-Black-Cast Films COMPILED BY PHYLLIS R. KLOTMAN -- Notes -- Bibliography COMPILED BY KRISTEN BARNES, JANE GAINES, FRED NEUMANN, -- AND HANK OKAZAKI -- About the Contributors -- Credits -- Index.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910466002503321