Anthony Slide: 17 books
by Anthony Slide
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Cultural Historian Anthony Slide, who has been described by the Los Angeles Times as a one-man publishing phenomenon, strikes again with a book guaranteed to contain something "offensive" for everyone.Chapters on subjects as varied as camp and fascism in Hollywood, Hedda Hopper and the PORKY'S...
American Racist
The Life and Films of Thomas Dixon
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2002
" Thomas Dixon has a notorious reputation as the writer of the source material for D.W. Griffith's groundbreaking and controversial 1915 feature film The Birth of a Nation. Perhaps unfairly, Dixon has been branded an arch-conservative and a racist obsessed with what he viewed as "the Negro...
by Anthony Slide
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
Frank Lloyd: Master of Screen Melodrama is the first book-length study of one of the most prominent of studio directors from Hollywood's "golden age," whose career spanned the years from 1913 through 1955. Among the director's greatest works are Oliver Twist with Jackie Coogan, The Sea Hawk...
Hollywood Unknowns
A History of Extras, Bit Players, and Stand-Ins
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
Extras, bit players, and stand-ins have been a part of the film industry almost from its conception. On a personal and a professional level, their stories are told in Hollywood Unknowns, the first history devoted to extras from the silent era through the present. Hollywood Unknowns discusses the...
Lost Gay Novels
A Reference Guide to Fifty Works from the First Half of the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Searching for an introduction to the shadowy, intriguing world of early 20th century gay-themed fiction?
In Lost Gay Novels, respected pop culture historian Anthony Slide resurrects fifty early 20th century American novels with gay themes or characters and discusses them in carefully researched,...
Inside the Hollywood Fan Magazine
A History of Star Makers, Fabricators, and Gossip Mongers
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2010
The fan magazine has often been viewed simply as a publicity tool, a fluffy exercise in self-promotion by the film industry. But as an arbiter of good and bad taste, as a source of knowledge, and as a gateway to the fabled land of Hollywood and its stars, the American fan magazine represents a fascinating...
Silent Players
A Biographical and Autobiographical Study of 100 Silent Film Actors and Actresses
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
" From his unique perspective of friendship with many of the actors and actresses about whom he writes, silent film historian Anthony Slide creates vivid portraits of the careers and often eccentric lives of 100 players from the American silent film industry. He profiles the era's shining stars...
Magnificent Obsession
The Outrageous History of Film Buffs, Collectors, Scholars, and Fanatics
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
In Magnificent Obsession: The Outrageous History of Film Buffs, Collectors, Scholars, and Fanatics, author Anthony Slide looks at the way film has dominated the minds and lives of film buffs, film collectors, film academics, and just plain fans of past movies. Based on the author's more than fifty...
by Anthony Slide
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
The New Historical Dictionary of the American Film Industry is a completely revised and updated edition of Anthony Slide's The American Film Industry, originally published in 1986 and recipient of the American Library Association's Outstanding Reference Book award for that year. More than 200 new...
by Anthony Slide
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2015
"Gay" is the word in most common usage to identify a homosexual male. But since the 1700s, and even earlier, there have been many other words and phrases in use -- the majority of them derogatory. Gay's the Word is a carefully researched, informative and entertaining history of the "gay" language....
Nitrate Won't Wait
A History of Film Preservation in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2013
This study looks at the preservation process: newsreel, television, and color preservation; the often controversial issue of colorization; and commercial film archives. It provides detailed histories of the major players in the preservation battle including the International Museum of Photography...
by Anthony Slide
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2006
New York City Vaudeville provides a unique pictorial record of America�s preeminent entertainment medium in the late 1800s through the early 1930s. New York�s Palace Theatreserved as the flagship for vaudeville, on which stage everyvaudevillian aspired to perform. New York City Vaudevillefeatures...
Fifty Classic British Films, 1932-1982
A Pictorial Record
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
200 striking photographs, in-depth commentaries, plot synposes, contemporary reviews, and more — about 50 British classics from yesterday and today. Preface. Text. Alphabetical list of films. Bibliography.
The Encyclopedia of British Film
Fourth edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
With well over 6,300 articles, including over 500 new entries, this fourth edition of The Encyclopedia of British Film is a fully updated invaluable reference guide to the British film industry. It is the most authoritative volume yet, stretching from the inception of the industry to the present day,...
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