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By Charles Musser (contributor)

Hardcover:

9780300152500 | Yale Univ Pr, November 17, 2009, cover price $40.00

Product Description: Musser takes us into the long-forgotten world of early cinema—unexpectedly sophisticated and yet radically different from current movie-making. Focusing on Edwin S. Porter, most often remembered as the producer of The Great Train Robbery, Musser situates Porter’s achievements within the vibrant context of turn-of-the-century popular culture and the commercial pragmatics of the Edison Manufacturing Company—the leading American film-producing entity from 1894 to 1908...read more

Hardcover:

9780520060807 | Univ of California Pr, June 1, 1991, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Musser takes us into the long-forgotten world of early cinema—unexpectedly sophisticated and yet radically different from current movie-making.

Paperback:

9780520069862 | Univ of California Pr, May 1, 1991, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Musser takes us into the long-forgotten world of early cinema—unexpectedly sophisticated and yet radically different from current movie-making.

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Rescued from a band of ravagers in the dark alleys of London, Lauren de Fanchon is seduced and secretly married to her rescuer, Julian Grey, Earl of Keaton, who needs this clandestine marriage for reasons of his own

Hardcover:

9780300189902 | Yale Univ Pr, February 17, 2015, cover price $50.00

Paperback:

9780380750184, titled "Midnight's Lady" | Avon Books, February 1, 1986, cover price $3.50 | also contains Midnight''s Lady | About this edition: Rescued from a band of ravagers in the dark alleys of London, Lauren de Fanchon is seduced and secretly married to her rescuer, Julian Grey, Earl of Keaton, who needs this clandestine marriage for reasons of his own

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By Charles Musser (foreword by)

Hardcover:

9780199739646 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, February 18, 2016, cover price $125.00

Paperback:

9780199739653 | Oxford Univ Pr, February 18, 2016, cover price $65.00

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Product Description: This book provides essential documentation for all known Edison films made between 1890 and 1900. Thomas Edison and his associates invented the first system of commercial motion pictures. Making the historical framework predominate while retaining traditional cataloging features, Edison Motion Pictures 1890-1900 is of value to a wide range of scholars interested in American life at the turn of the century...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Hardcover:

9781560985679 | Smithsonian Inst Pr, February 1, 1998, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: This book provides essential documentation for all known Edison films made between 1890 and 1900.

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Hardcover:

9780684184135 | Charles Scribners Sons/Reference, February 1, 1991, cover price $174.00

Paperback:

9780520085336 | Reprint edition (Univ of California Pr, March 1, 1994), cover price $41.95

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Product Description: The entrepreneur of phonograph concerts and motion-picture programs Lyman H. Howe was the leading traveling exhibitor of his time and the exemplar of an important but until now little examined aspect of American popular culture. This work, with its numerous and lively illustrations, uses his career to explore the world of itinerant showmen, who exhibited all motion pictures seen outside large cities during the 1890s and early 1900s...read more

Hardcover:

9780691047812 | Princeton Univ Pr, August 1, 1991, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: The entrepreneur of phonograph concerts and motion-picture programs Lyman H.

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By Marta Braun, Ellery Foutch (contributor), Tom Gunning (contributor), Erica Hirshler (contributor), Nancy Mowll Mathews and Charles Musser

Hardcover:

9781555952280 | Har/dvdr edition (Hudson Hills Pr, September 30, 2005), cover price $65.00

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Oscar Micheaux-the most prolific African-American filmmaker to date and a filmmaking giant of the silent period-has finally found his rightful place in film history. Both artist and showman, Micheaux stirred controversy in his time as he confronted issues such as lynching, miscegenation, peonage and white supremacy, passing, and corruption among black clergymen. He emphasized the importance of education and the rights of citizenship (the vote, equal protection under the law) for racial uplift, to advance race progress, to awaken black consciousness, and to correct negative behavior within black communities. These films spoke to black moviegoers in ways that were completely different from Hollywood pictures.In this important new collection, prominent scholars examine Micheaux’s surviving silent films, his fellow producers of race films who alternately challenged or emulated his methods, and the cultural activities that surrounded and sustained these achievements. The essays shed new light on the feature filmmaking of Richard Maurice (Detroit), David Starkman and the Colored Players Film Corporation (Philadelphia), and Richard Norman (Florida), as well as the stardom of Evelyn Preer, Lucia Lynn Moses, Paul Robeson, Charles Gilpin, and Lawrence Chenault. Studies of the shorter films shot in 16mm by ethnographer Zora Neale Hurston and religious reformers James and Eloyce Gist (Washington, D.C.) fill out the complex picture of an era.Authors examine Micheaux’s films (and novels) from a range of perspectives, including his radical aesthetic strategies, his uses of stereotypes, his powerful critiques of D. W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation and Eugene O’Neill’s race plays, his radical uses of other texts (notably the novels of Charles Chesnutt), and his work with such genres as the Western. The relationship between black film and both the stage (particularly the Lafayette Players) and the black press, issues of underdevelopment, and a genealogy of Micheaux scholarship, as well as extensive and more accurate filmographies, give a richly textured portrait of this era. The essays will fascinate the general public as well as scholars in the fields of film studies, cultural studies, and African American history. This thoroughly readable collection is a superb reference work lavishly illustrated with rare photographs.Contributors include Pearl Bowser, Jayna Brown, Corey Creekmur, Jane Gaines, Gloria J. Gibson, J. Ronald Green, Arthur Jafa, Phyllis Klotman, Charles Musser, Charlene Regester, Louise Spence, Clyde R. Taylor, Sr. Francesca Thompson, and Michele Wallace.
By Pearl Bowser (editor), Jane Gaines (editor) and Charles Musser (editor)

Hardcover:

9780253339942, titled "Oscar Micheaux & His Circle: African-American Filmmaking and Race Cinema of the Silent Era" | Indiana Univ Pr, September 1, 2001, cover price $44.95

Paperback:

9780253021359, titled "Oscar Micheaux & His Circle: African-American Filmmaking and Race Cinema of the Silent Era" | Reprint edition (Indiana Univ Pr, March 28, 2016), cover price $40.00
9780253214843 | Indiana Univ Pr, December 1, 2001, cover price $22.01 | About this edition: Oscar Micheaux-the most prolific African-American filmmaker to date and a filmmaking giant of the silent period-has finally found his rightful place in film history.

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Hardcover:

9780520292727 | Univ of California Pr, October 4, 2016, cover price $85.00

Paperback:

9780520292734 | Reprint edition (Univ of California Pr, October 4, 2016), cover price $29.95

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Hardcover:

9780877227311 | Temple Univ Pr, January 1, 1991, cover price $44.95

Paperback:

9780877227380 | Temple Univ Pr, December 1, 1990, cover price $22.95

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Paperback:

9780813522104 | Rutgers Univ Pr, September 1, 1995, cover price $19.00
9780963487902 | Friends of Edison Natl, April 1, 1995, cover price $12.95

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