Results for: Film
Oscar Micheaux & His Circle : African-American Filmmaking and Race Cinema of the Silent Era.
Bowser, Pearl; Jane Gaines; and Charles Musser, editors and curators.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001.
Quarto-sized (oversized). Light wear to edges of boards. Dj has light wear along edges and minor scuffing to covers with light blue mark on back cover. 353 pages with illustrations, 4 appendices (including 2 filmographies), endnotes, bibliography, and index. A collection of essays on the noted Afro-American filmmaker Oscar Micheaux and his contemporaries during the era of silent films.
Price: $25.00
Cinema Jean A. Mercier : Affiches 1926 - 1937 Volume 2. 30 Films 43 Affiches - 27 Maquettes.
Camard, Florence and Jean A. Mercier.
Paris: Gallimard, 1995.
Thin quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. Slight scuffing to covers. 70 p. w/many color illustrations. An attractive book of numerous Mercier posters, with full page reproductions. Uncommon.
Price: $95.00
Early American Cinema in Transition : Story, Style, and Filmmaking, 1907 - 1913.
Keil, Charles.
Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001.
Octavo. Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. A bit of scuffign to covers. Bar code sticker to back board. 306 p. w/illustrations, notes, filmography, bibliography, index. A scholary study of changes in the early era of silent film, covering style, time, space, narrative and the business itself.
Price: $45.00
Guide to the Silent Years of American Cinema.
McCaffrey, Donald W. and Christopher P. Jacobs.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999.
Octavo. Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. Front board has a small scuffmark above the title. Mass produced bookplate of former owner on pastedown. Barcode sticker to back board. 343 p. w/some illustrations, bibiography, index. A useful academic dictionary of silent era films and film makers, with additional scholarly essays on the development of cinema and the legacy of the silent screen.
Price: $60.00
The Emergence of Cinema : the American Screen to 1907.
Musser, Charles.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.
Oversized with some wear to edges and corners of books. Wear to covers. generic book plate to inside cover. No writing or highlighting in book. 613 p. w/illustrations, notes, bibliography, general and film index. A survey of very early American filmaking, a standard in the field.
Price: $25.00
