Product Description: Book by Slide, Anthony

Product Description: Book by Slide, Anthony

Product Description: Book by Slide, Anthony

Product Description: This album chronicles [the radio] era nostalgically and informatively...— TheNew York Times Book Review

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Product Description: Provides a cross-section of contemporary American film criticism from 1896-1960. The volumes reprint reviews in their entirety from periodicals such as Photoplay, Film Reports, The Moving Picture World, Variety, and The New York Times...read more

Product Description: Provides a cross-section of contemporary American film criticism from 1896-1960. The volumes reprint reviews in their entirety from periodicals such as Photoplay, Film Reports, The Moving Picture World, Variety, and The New York Times...read more

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Offers portraits and profiles of nearly 200 stars of American vaudeville, including Fred Allen, Fanny Brice, W.C. Fields, Bert Lahr, Sophie Tucker, and Ed Wynn

Product Description: Provides a cross-section of contemporary American film criticism from 1896-1960. The volumes reprint reviews in their entirety from periodicals such as Photoplay, Film Reports, The Moving Picture World, Variety, and The New York Times...read more

Product Description: Rob Wagner's Script was a small, intellectual magazine―perhaps best described as a lesser, West Coast version of The New Yorker―published in Beverly Hills from 1929 to 1947. It was notable for the quality of its articles and essays and the celebrity status of many of its contributors...read more

Product Description: Provides original reviews, reprinted in their entirety, of New York stage productions for the first half of the twentieth century. Each volume includes a name index and an index by critics and the final volume also features a cumulative index to all productions included in the three volumes...read more

Product Description: Provides original reviews, reprinted in their entirety, of New York stage productions for the first half of the twentieth century. Each volume includes a name index and an index by critics and the final volume also features a cumulative index to all productions included in the three volumes...read more

Product Description: Provides original reviews, reprinted in their entirety, of New York stage productions for the first half of the twentieth century. Each volume includes a name index and an index by critics and the final volume also features a cumulative index to all productions included in the three volumes...read more

Product Description: Book by Slide, Anthony

Product Description: "This authoritative What's What' of the film companies, processes, and organizations that have enabled stars and directors to populate the Who's Who' books, belongs beside them in reference collections." Wilson Library Bulletin "Written by a film archivist and historian whose previous books have covered a wide range of topics, this historical dictionary will provide some much needed help for students trying to understand the business, legal, and technological aspects of the American film industry...read more

Provides an original, first-hand view of the potential that motion pictures offered women from the Victorian era, and how, ultimately, the industry rejected one of its first and most important pioneers. Alice Guy Blaché was not only the world's first female director, but in 1896, she became the first of either sex to direct a fictional film. As the first director with the Gaumont Company in Paris, Alice Guy Blaché served as an influential figure in French film history, making more than 300 films, including some of the earliest sound subjects from the turn of the century. She continued her career in the United States, founding the Solax Company in 1910, and producing and directing 350 more films. Complementing the text are reprints of contemporary articles on Alice Guy Blaché from the American trade press, a reminiscence by her daughter, a brief evaluation of the career of her husband, Herbert Blaché and a complete filmography.