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1 online resource |
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BFI screen guides |
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BFI screen guides
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| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The Adventures of Dollie, D.W. Griffith, 1908; Alfred Butterworth & Sons, Leaving the Works, Glebe Mills, Hollinford, Mitchell & Kenyon, 1901; Alice in Wonderland, Percy Stow, 1903; Ballet mécanique, Fernand Léger, Dudley Murphy, 1924; The Battle of the Somme, William F. Jury, 1916; The Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands, Walter Summers, 1927; The Battleship Potemkin/Bronenosets Potyomkin, Sergei M. Eisenstein, 1925; Beggars of Life, William Wellman, 1928; Berlin, Symphony of a City/Berlin, die Sinfonie der Großstadt, Walter Ruttmann, 1927 |
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The Big Swallow, James Williamson, 1901The Birth of a Flower, F. Percy Smith, 1910; The Birth of a Nation, D.W. Griffith, 1915; Blackmail, Alfred Hitchcock, 1929; Body and Soul, Oscar Micheaux, 1925; The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari/Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari, Robert Wiene, 1920; Cabiria, Giovanni Pastrone, 1914; The Cameraman's Revenge/Mest' kinematografic. eskogo operatora, Ladislas Starewicz, 1912; Casanova, Alexandre Volkoff, 1927; The Cheat, Cecil B. DeMille, 1915; Un Chien andalou, Luis Buñuel, 1928; A Cottage on Dartmoor, Anthony Asquith, 1929; Daybreak/Tianming, Sun Yu, 1933 |
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Les Deux Timides/Two Timid Souls, Réne Clair, 1928Douro, faina fluvial/Labour on the Douro River, Manoel de Oliveira, 1931; Drifters, John Grierson, 1929; Earth/Zemlya, Aleksandr Dovzhenko, 1930; En dirigeable sur les champs de bataille, Lucien Le Sainte, 1918; The Fall of the House of Usher/La Chute de la maison Usher, Jean Epstein, 1928; Finis terrae, Jean Epstein, 1929; Flesh and the Devil, Clarence Brown, 1926; The General, Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton, 1926; The Gold Rush, Charles Chaplin, 1925 |
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Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam/The Golem: How He Came into the World, Paul Wegener, Carl Boese, 1920Gösta Berlings Saga, Mauritz Stiller, 1924; The Great Train Robbery, Edwin S. Porter, 1903; The Great White Silence, Herbert Ponting, 1924; Greed, Erich von Stroheim, 1924; The Heart of the World, Guy Maddin, 2000; Hell's Hinges, Charles Swickard, 1916; Les Hôtes de l'air/Glimpses of Bird Life, Oliver Pike, 1910; How a Mosquito Operates, Winsor McCay, 1912; I Was Born, But & Otona no miru ehon -- umarete wa mita keredo, Yasujiro Ozu, 1932; L'Inferno, Giuseppe Beradi, Arturo Busnego, 1911 |
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The Informer, Arthur Robison, 1929It, Clarence Badger, 1927; Japonaiseries, Gaston Velle, 1904; The Kid, Charles Chaplin, 1921; Lenin Kino-Pravda No. 21/Leninskaia Kino-Pravda, Dziga Vertov, 1925; Liberty, Leo McCarey, 1929; The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog, Alfred Hitchcock, 1926; The Lure of Crooning Water, A.H. Rooke, 1920; Man with a Movie Camera/Chelovek s kinoapparatom, Dziga Vertov, 1929; Manhatta, Charles Sheeler, Paul Strand, 1921; La Mariée du ch®teau maudit, Albert Capellani, 1910; The Marriage Circle, Ernst Lubitsch, 1924; Metropolis, Fritz Lang, 1927 |
| Summary |
Bryony Dixon's illuminating guide provides a selection of one hundred key films of the silent period (1895-1930), featuring films from a variety of countries, genres and directors, together with an introductory overview and useful filmographic and bibliographic information |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [244]-245) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Silent films -- History and criticism
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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Silent films.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2011500781 |
| ISBN |
1844575691 |
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9781844575695 |
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