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Selected
Books on the
Silent Era

Books on the silent era of cinema.
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Updated 24 August 2003

American Silent Film
by William K. Everson

A-Z of Silent Film Comedy:
An Illustrated Companion
by Glenn Mitchell

Before the Nickelodeon:
Edwin S. Porter and the Edison Manufacturing Company
by Charles Musser

Behind the Mask of Innocence:
Films of Social Conscience in the Silent Era
by Kevin Brownlow

Belgian Cinema
edited by Marianne Thys

Buster Keaton Remembered
by Eleanor Keaton and Jeffrey Vance

Buster Keaton:
The Man Who Wouldn’t Lie Down
by Tom Dardis

Cecil B. DeMille and American Culture:
The Silent Era
by Sumiko Higashi

Edison Motion Pictures, 1890-1900:
An Annotated Filmography
by Charles Musser

The Emergence of Cinema:
The American Screen to 1907
by Charles Musser
Also in paperback

An Evening’s Entertainment:
The Age of the Silent Feature Picture, 1915-1928
by Richard Koszarski
Also in paperback

Family Secrets:
The Feature Films of D.W. Griffith
by Michael Allen

The Films of Lon Chaney
by Michael F. Blake

Fire and Desire:
Mixed-Race Movies in the Silent Era
by Jane M. Gaines
Also in paperback

Florence Lawrence, the Biograph Girl:
America’s First Movie Star
by Kelly R. Brown

Francis X. Bushman:
A Biography and Filmography
by Richard J. Maturi and Mary Buckingham Maturi

Frank Capra:
The Catastrophe of Success
by Joseph McBride

Fritz Lang ’s Metropolis:
Cinematic Visions of Technology and Fear
edited by Michael Minden and Holger Bachmann
Also in paperback

Golden Images:
41 Essays on Silent Film Stars
by Eve Golden

The Keystone Kid:
Tales of Early Hollywood
by Coy Watson Jr.

Lillian Gish:
Her Legend, Her Life
by Charles Affron

Metropolis: A Cinematic Laboratory for Modern Architecture
edited by Wolfgang Jacobsen and Werner Sudendorf

The Movies Are:
Carl Sandburg’s Film Reviews and Essays, 1920-1928
edited by Arnie Bernstein

Nickelodeon Theatres and Their Music
by Q. David Bowers

Nitrate Won ’t Wait:
A History of Film Preservation in the United States
by Anthony Slide

Oscar Micheaux and His Circle:
African-American Filmmaking and Race Cinema of the Silent Era
by Pearl Bowser, Jane Gaines and Charles Musser

The Parade’s Gone By . . .
by Kevin Brownlow

The Phantom of the Opera
by Philip J. Riley

Searching for John Ford
by Joseph McBride

Seductive Cinema:
The Art of Silent Film
by James Card

The Shocking Miss Pilgrim:
A Writer in Early Hollywood
by Frederica Sagor Maas

Silent Cinema:
An Introduction
by Paolo Cherchi Usai

The Silent Clowns
by Walter Kerr

Silent Echoes:
Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton
by John Bengtson

Silent Film and the Triumph of the American Myth
by Paula Marantz Cohen
Also in paperback

The Silent Screen & My Talking Heart
(2001 revised third edition)
by Nell Shipman

Silent Stars
by Jeanine Basinger
Also in paperback

Silent Stars Speak:
Interviews with Twelve Cinema Pioneers
by Tony Villecco

Soviet Cinema in the Silent Era: 1918-1935
by Denise J. Youngblood

The Speed of Sound:
Hollywood and the Talkie Revolution, 1926-1930
by Scott Eyman

Thomas A. Edison and His Kinetographic Motion Pictures
by Charles Musser

The Transformation of Cinema: 1907-1915
by Eileen Bowser
Also in paperback

The Ultimate Directory of Silent and Sound Era Performers
by Billy H. Doyle

Walt in Wonderland:
The Silent Films of Walt Disney
by Russell Merritt and J.B. Kaufman
Also in paperback

William S. Hart:
Projecting the American West
by Ronald L. Davis

Writing Himself Into History:
Oscar Micheaux, His Silent Films, and His Audiences
by Pearl Bowser and Louise Spence
Also in paperback

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