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Silent Lives: 100 Biographies of the Silent Film Era
by Lon Davis

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Will Rogers, Performer
by Richard J. Maturi and
Mary Buckingham Maturi

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Stereoscopic Cinema and the Origins of 3-D Film, 1838-1952 by Ray Zone

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Jackie Coogan, The World’s Boy King by Diana Serra Cary

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Edgar Kennedy: Master of the Slow Burn by Bill Cassara

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Out of the Inkwell: Max Fleischer and the Animation Revolution by Richard Fleischer

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Charlie Chaplin and His Times by Kenneth S. Lynn

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The First Female Stars:
Women of the Silent Era
by David W. Menefee

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digital edition of Pathé Films, Supplement 1, 1908
on CD-R

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digital edition of Photoplay Magazine, August 1918
on CD-R

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Cecil B. DeMille’s Hollywood by Richard S. Birchard

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Edmund Goulding’s Dark Victory: Hollywood’s Genius Bad Boy by Matthew Kennedy

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Sarah Bernhardt in the Theatre of Films and Sound Recordings by David W. Menefee

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Movie Star Homes:
The Famous to the Forgotten
by Judy Artunian and Mike Oldham

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Garbo by Barry Paris

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Love Rules: Silent Hollywood and the Rise of the Managerial Class by Mark Garrett Cooper

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Conrad Veidt on Screen
by John T. Soister

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Queen Kelly: The Complete Screenplay by Erich von Stroheim, edited by Bret Wood

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

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Comedy is a Man in Trouble by Alan Dale

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

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Silent Cinema: An Introduction by Paolo Cherchi Usai

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The Films of Lon Chaney
by Michael F. Blake

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Thomas Ince: Hollywood’s Independent Pioneer
by Brian Taves

“Brian Taves has written the first book length study in English of Thomas Ince, the unjustly forgotten producer-director responsible for creating the classical Hollywood studio system of production. Taves’ lucid account of a career cut short by a premature death, debunks the many myths surrounding Ince’s mysterious last days, while placing Ince in proper perspective as one of Hollywood’s greatest early pioneers.”
— Jan-Christopher Horak, director of UCLA Film and Television Archive.

REVIEWS
Buster Keaton: The Man Who Wouldn’t Lie Down
by Tom Dardis
Cecil B. DeMille’s Hollywood
by Richard S. Birchard
Charlie Chaplin and His Times
by Kenneth S. Lynn
Comedy is a Man in Trouble: Slapstick in American Movies
by Alan Dale
Conrad Veidt on Screen: A Comprehensive Illustrated Filmography
by John T. Soister
Edgar Kennedy: Master of the Slow Burn
by Bill Cassara
Edmund Goulding’s Dark Victory: Hollywood’s Genius Bad Boy
by Matthew Kennedy
The Films of Lon Chaney
by Michael F. Blake
The First Female Stars: Women of the Silent Era
by David W. Menefee
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
Garbo
by Barry Paris
Hollywood Outsiders: The Adaptation of the Film Industry 1913-1934
by Anne Morey
Jackie Coogan, The World’s Boy King: A Biography of Hollywood’s Legendary Child Star
by Diana Serra Cary
The Keystone Kid: Tales of Early Hollywood
by Coy Watson Jr.
Love Rules: Silent Hollywood and the Rise of the Managerial Class
by Mark Garrett Cooper
The Movies Are: Carl Sandburg’s Film Reviews and Essays, 1920-1928
edited by Arnie Bernstein
Movie Star Homes: The Famous to the Forgotten
by Judy Artunian and Mike Oldham
Out of the Inkwell: Max Fleischer and the Animation Revolution
by Richard Fleischer
Queen Kelly: The Complete Screenplay by Erich von Stroheim
edited by Bret Wood
Sarah Bernhardt in the Theatre of Films and Sound Recordings
by David W. Menefee
The Shocking Miss Pilgrim: A Writer in Early Hollywood
by Frederica Sagor Maas
Silent Cinema
by Brian J. Cobb
Silent Cinema: An Introduction
by Paolo Cherchi Usai
Silent Lives: 100 Biographies of the Silent Film Era
by Lon Davis
The Speed of Sound: Hollywood and the Talkie Revolution, 1926-1930
by Scott Eyman
Stereoscopic Cinema and the Origins of 3-D Film, 1838-1952
by Ray Zone
William S. Hart: Projecting the American West
by Ronald L. Davis
Will Rogers, Performer
by Richard J. Maturi and Mary Buckingham Maturi

BRIEF NOTES
American Silent Film
by William K. Everson
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
The Diary of a Lost Girl
by Margarete Böhme
Electric Edwardians: The Films of Mitchell and Kenyon
by Vanessa Toulmin
From Grain to Pixel: The Archival Life of Film in Transition
by Giovanna Fossati
George O’Brien: A Man’s Man in Hollywood
by David W. Menefee
King of the Movies: Francis X. Bushman
by Lon and Debra Davis
Mary Pickford: Queen of the Movies
edited by Christel Schmidt
The Mysteries of Myra
by Charles Goddard and Eustace Hale Ball
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
Rudolph Valentino: The Silent Idol: His Life in Pictures
by Donna L. Hill
Seductive Cinema: The Art of Silent Film
by James Card
Shell Shock Cinema: Weimar Culture and the Wounds of War
by Anton Kaes
Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton
by John Bengtson
Silent Film Stars on the Stages of Seattle: A History of Performances by Hollywood Notables
by Eric L. Flom
This Film is Dangerous: A Celebration of Nitrate Film
edited by Roger Smither
Thomas Ince: Hollywood’s Independent Pioneer
by Brian Taves
Wang Renmei: The Wildcat of Shanghai
by Richard J. Meyer
Weimar Cinema, 1919-1933: Daydreams and Nightmares
by Laurence Kardish

eBOOKS FOR KINDLE
American Silent Film
by William K. Everson
The Big Parade and American World War I Film Genre
by Charles A. Mills
The Birth of Whiteness: Race and the Emergence of U.S. Cinema
by Daniel Bernardi
Body Shots: Early Cinema’s Incarnations
by Jonathan Auerbach
Cecil B. DeMille’s Hollywood
by Richard S. Birchard
The Decline of Sentiment: American Film in the 1920s
by Lea Jacobs
Empire of Dreams: The Epic Life of Cecil B. DeMille
by Scott Eyman
The First Female Stars: Women of the Silent Era
by David W. Menefee
A Guide to Silent Westerns
by Larry Langman
Guide to the Silent Years of American Cinema
by Christophe P. Jacobs and Donald McCaffrey
Irving Thalberg: Boy Wonder to Producer Prince
by Mark A. Vieira
King of the Movies: Francis X. Bushman
by Lon and Debra Davis
The Life and Work of Oscar Micheaux: Pioneer Black Author and Filmmaker 1884-1951
by Earl James Young Jr.
Lion of Hollywood: The Life and Legend of Louis B. Mayer
by Scott Eyman
Music and the Silent Film: Contexts and Case Studies, 1895-1924
by Martin Miller Marks
My Trip Abroad
by Charlie Chaplin
Olive Thomas: The Life and Death of a Silent Film Beauty
by Michelle Vogel
Paul Bern: The Life and Famous Death of the MGM Director and Husband of Harlow
by E.J. Fleming
Room 1219: The Life of Fatty Arbuckle, the Mysterious Death of Virginia Rappe, and the Scandal That Changed Hollywood
by Greg Merritt
Silent Film and the Triumph of the American Myth
by Paula Marantz Cohen
Silent Movies: The Birth of Film and the Triumph of Movie Culture
by Peter Kobel
Silent Players: A Biographical and Autobiographical Study of 100 Silent Film Actors and Actresses
by Anthony Slide
The Speed of Sound: Hollywood and the Talkie Revolution 1926-1930
by Scott Eyman
William Powell: The Life and Films
by Roger Bryant
Writing Himself into History: Oscar Micheaux, His Silent Films, and His Audiences
by Pearl Bowser and Louise Spence
ZaSu Pitts: The Life and Career
by Charles Stumpf

PUBLICATIONS
The Silent Film Quarterly, Volume 1, Issue I
The Silent Film Quarterly, Volume 1, Issue II
The Silent Film Quarterly, Volume 1, Issue III
The Silent Film Quarterly, Volume 1, Issue IV
The Silent Film Quarterly, Volume 1, Issues I-IV
The Silent Film Quarterly, Volume 1, Issue V

PUBLICATIONS ON CD-R
Edison’s Frankenstein by Frederick C. Wiebel Jr.
Motion Picture Magazine, May 1914
Motion Picture Magazine, October 1914
Motion Picture Magazine, July 1918
Motion Picture Magazine, April-May 1920
Motion Picture Magazine, June 1921
Motion Picture Magazine, July 1921
Motion Picture Magazine, February 1923
Motion Picture Magazine, June 1923
Motion Picture Magazine, December 1924
Motion Picture Magazine, April 1925
Motion Picture Magazine, September 1925
Motion Picture Magazine, May 1926
Motion Picture Magazine, September 1926
Motion Picture Magazine, January 1927
Motion Picture Magazine, June 1927
Motion Picture Magazine, October 1927
Motion Picture Magazine, November 1927
Motion Picture Magazine, October 1928
Motion Picture Magazine, December 1928
Motion Picture Magazine, April 1929
Motion Picture Magazine, September 1929
Motion Picture Story Magazine, February 1913
Motion Picture Story Magazine, October 1913
Pathé Films, Supplement 1, 1908
Photoplay Magazine, April 1915
Photoplay Magazine, January 1916
Photoplay Magazine, September 1916
Photoplay Magazine, February 1917
Photoplay Magazine, June 1918
Photoplay Magazine, July 1918
Photoplay Magazine, August 1918
Photoplay Magazine, October 1918
Photoplay Magazine, April 1919
Photoplay Magazine, March 1920
Photoplay Magazine, August 1920
Photoplay Magazine, August 1921
Photoplay Magazine, April 1922
Photoplay Magazine, November 1922
Photoplay Magazine, October 1923
Photoplay Magazine, December 1923
Photoplay Magazine, April 1924
Photoplay Magazine, January 1925
Photoplay Magazine, February 1925
Photoplay Magazine, March 1925
Photoplay Magazine, April 1925
Photoplay Magazine, February 1926
Photoplay Magazine, August 1927
Photoplay Magazine, September 1928
Photoplay Magazine, April 1929
Photoplay Magazine, July 1929
Picture-Play Magazine, April 1916
Picture-Play Magazine, November 1925
Screenland Magazine, December 1921
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