American film cycles : the silent era / by Langman, Larry

Shakespeare in the movies : from the silent era to Shakespeare in love / by Brode, Douglas, 1943-

Cecil B. DeMille and American culture : the silent era / by Higashi, Sumiko

Fire & desire : mixed-race movies in the silent era / by Gaines, Jane, 1946-

Carl Sandburg at the movies : a poet in the silent era, 1920-1927 / by Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967

Hollywood biblical epics : Camp Spectacle and Queer Style from the silent era to the modern day / by Lindsay, Richard A.

Oscar Micheaux and his circle : African-American filmmaking and race cinema of the silent era /

Ladies of the western : interviews with fifty-one more actresses from the silent era to the television westerns of the 1950s and 1960s / by Fitzgerald, Michael G., 1950-

The complete history of American film criticism / by Roberts, Jerry, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…The beginnings : the silent era --…”

The motion picture serial : an annotated bibliography / by Schutz, Wayne, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…The Silent Era (1912-1929).…”

Making sense of cinema : empirical studies into film spectators and spectatorship /

Table of Contents: “…In Search of the Child Spectator in the Late Silent Era /…”

Silent film : a very short introduction / by Kornhaber, Donna, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: All film is silent film -- The three ages of silent film -- A global cinema -- Making films in the silent era -- Watching films in the silent era -- The secret afterlife of silent film.…”

Law enforcement in American cinema, 1894-1952 / by Beck, George M.

Table of Contents: “…Early twentieth-century law enforcement and cinema -- Just the facts the police in the short early silent-era film -- Cops in silent-era feature film: Traffic in souls (1913), Easy street (1917) and Cops (1922) -- Enforcing the law in the "talkies" -- Shadows of law enforcement in film noir -- Coda: Law enforcement in early twentieth-century film: from subject of suspicion to a power for the common good.…”

The Hollywood story / by Finler, Joel W.

Piracy in the motion picture industry / by Segrave, Kerry, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…Vaudeville and the Copy Act -- The silent era, to 1929 -- Jackrabbits and star stealing, 1930-1945 -- Larceny in the box office, butchery in TV's grindhouse, 1945-1974 -- Domestic piracy, 1975-2001 -- Foreign piracy, 1975-2001 -- Conclusion.…”

The gangster film : fatal success in American cinema / by Wilson, Ronald, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…A silent era: from gangs to gangsters -- The racketeer and the outlaw: gangster archetypes of the 1930s -- Murder, incorporated: post-war developments in the gangster film -- La famiglia: Coppola, Scorsese, and Gangster Ethnicity.…”

The Colored cartoon : Black representation in American animated short films, 1907-1954 / by Lehman, Christopher P.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The Blackness of animation -- The silent era -- The arrival of sound -- Black characterizations -- Fred "Tex" Avery and "Trickster" animation -- Black representation and World War II political concerns -- African American representation and changing race relations -- United productions and the end of animated Black representation -- Conclusion: The legacy of animated African American expression.…”

Film : the critics' choice : 150 masterpieces of world cinema selected and defined by the experts /

Table of Contents: “…The silent era / David Bordwell -- America : the studio years / David Thomson -- America : years of change / Philip French -- America : the modern era / Amy Taubin and Kent Jones -- Europe : the golden age / Gilbert Adair -- Europe : new waves / Jonathan Rosenbaum -- Europe : a new fin de siècle / Jonathan Romney -- British cinema / Peter Wollen -- International cinema / Tony Rayns -- The art of the impossible / Paul Wells.…”

A hidden history of film style : cinematographers, directors, and the collaborative process / by Beach, Christopher

Black manhood on the silent screen / by Butters, Gerald R., 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Racialized Masculinity and the Politics of Difference -- The Preformed Image: Watermelon, Razors, and Chicken Thievery, 1896-1915 -- Black Cinematic Ruptures and Ole Uncle Tom -- African-American Cinema and The Birth of a Nation -- The Defense of Black Manhood on the Screen -- Oscar Micheaux: From Homestead to Lynch Mob -- Within Our Gates -- Blackface, White Independent All-Black Productions, and the Coming of Sound: The Late Silent Era, 1915-1931.…”