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Back to Film<\/a> index page<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abel, Richard, ed.\u00a0 Silent Film<\/em>.\u00a0 New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1996.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abel, Richard.\u00a0\u00a0The Red- Rooster Scare: Making American Cinema, 1900-1910.<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abel, Richard.  Americanizing the Movies and \u201cMovie-Mad\u201d Audiences, 1910\u20131914<\/em>.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abel, Richard.\u00a0\u00a0\u201c\u2018Zip!-Zam!-Zowie!\u2019:\u00a0A New Take on Institutional American Cinema\u2019s History before 1915.\u201d\u00a0Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television<\/em>\u00a0(Abingdon) 29 (December 2009): 421\u2013432.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Addison, Heather. “”Actor Denied Straight Nose”: Louis Wolheim and the Gendered Practice of Plastic Surgery in Silent-Era Hollywood.”\u00a0Journal of Cinema and Media Studies<\/em>\u00a058, no. 4 (2019): 1-20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Allen, Robert C.\u00a0\u00a0Vaudeville and Film, 1895-1915: A Study in Media Interaction<\/em>.\u00a0 New York: Arno Press, 1980.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anderson Wagner, Kristen. Comic Venus: Women and Comedy in American Silent Film<\/em>. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2018.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andree, Courtney. “Broncho Billy and the Problem of the Male Movie Fan.” Film History: An International Journal<\/em> 26, no. 3 (2014): 57-83.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ankerich, Michael G.  Broken Silence: Conversations with Twenty-three Silent Film Stars<\/em>.  Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1992.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Askari, Kaveh.  \u201cMoving Pictures before Motion Pictures: The Pictorial Tradition and American Media Aesthetics, 1890-1920.\u201d  PhD dissertation, University of Chicago, 2005.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Auerbach, Jonathan.\u00a0\u00a0Body Shots: Early Cinema\u2019s Incarnations.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>Berkley: University of California Press, 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Azlant, Edward. \u201cScreenwriting for the Early Silent Film: Forgotten Pioneers, 1897-1911.\u201d\u00a0Film History<\/em>\u00a09, no. 3 (1997): 228\u2013256.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Basinger, Jeanine.\u00a0 Silent Story<\/em>.\u00a0 Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1999.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bean, Jennifer. \u201cTechnologies of Early Stardom and the Extraordinary Body.\u201d  Camera Obscura<\/em> 16, no. 3 (2001): 8\u201357. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bean, Jennifer M., Anupampa Kapse, and Laura Horak, eds. Silent Cinema and the Politics of Space<\/em>. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bean, Shawn C.  The First Hollywood: Florida and the Golden Age of Silent Filmmaking<\/em>. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bilton, Alan. Silent Film Comedy and American Culture<\/em>. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bowser, Eileen.\u00a0\u00a0The Transformation of Cinema: 1907-1915<\/em>.\u00a0 History of the American Cinema, Volume 2.\u00a0 Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bowser, Pearl, and Louise Spence.\u00a0 Writing Himself Into History: Oscar Micheaux, His Silent Films, and His Audiences<\/em>.\u00a0 New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brownlow, Kevin.\u00a0 Behind the Mask of Innocence: Sex, Violence, Prejudice, Crime- Films of Social Conscience in the Silent Era<\/em>.\u00a0 New York: Knopf, 1990.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Butler, Ivan.\u00a0 Silent Magic: Rediscovering the Silent Film Era<\/em>.\u00a0 New York: Ungar, 1988.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Card, James.\u00a0 Seductive Cinema: The Art of Silent Film<\/em>.\u00a0 New York: Knopf, 1994.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ch\u00e1vez, Ernesto. “”Ramon is not one of these”: Race and Sexuality in the Construction of Silent Film Actor Ram\u00f3n Novarro’s Star Image.”\u00a0Journal of the History of Sexuality<\/em>\u00a020, no. 3 (2011): 520-544.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cohen, Paula M. Silent Film & the Triumph of the American Myth. <\/em>Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Curtis, Scott,\u00a0et. al.,\u00a0eds.\u00a0\u00a0The Image in Early Cinema: Form and Material<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Drew, William M.\u00a0 The Last Silent Picture Show: Silent Films on American Screens in the 1930s<\/em>.\u00a0 New York: Scarecrow Press, 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enstad, Nan. \u201cDressed for Adventure: Working Women and Silent Movie Serials in the 1910s.\u201d\u00a0Feminist Studies<\/em>\u00a021, no. 1 (1995): 67\u201390.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everson, William K.  American Silent Film<\/em>.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1978.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finamore, Michelle\u00a0Tolini.\u00a0Hollywood Before Glamour: Fashion in American Silent Film<\/em>. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friedman, Ryan Jay.\u00a0\u00a0 The Movies as a World Force: American Silent Cinema and the Utopian Imagination<\/em>.\u00a0 New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Frykholm, Joel.\u00a0 George Kleine and American Cinema: The Movie Business and Film Culture in the Silent Era<\/em>.\u00a0 New York: Palgrave, 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Frymus, Agata.\u00a0 Damsels and Divas: European Stardom in Silent Hollywood<\/em>.\u00a0 New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fusco, Katherine. “Squashing the Bookworm: Manly Attention and Male Reading in Silent Film.”\u00a0Modernism\/modernity<\/em>\u00a022, no. 4 (2015): 627-650.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Garcia, Desir\u00e9e J. “Subversive Sounds: Ethnic Spectatorship and Boston’s Nickelodeon Theatres, 1907\u20131914.” Film History: An International Journal<\/em> 19, no. 3 (2007): 213-227.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Glick, Josh. “Mixed Messages: D.W. Griffith and the Black Press, 1916-1931.”\u00a0Film History: An International Journal<\/em>\u00a023, no. 2 (2011): 174-195.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graff, Peter. “Lobbyology and the Role of Lobby Spectacles in Silent-Film Exhibition.”\u00a0Film History: An International Journal<\/em>\u00a030, no. 4 (2018): 48-83.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grant, Kevin.\u00a0 Roots of Film Noir: Precursors from the Silent Era to the 1940s<\/em>.\u00a0 Jefferson: McFarland, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Green, Denise N. “Fashion and Fearlessness in the Wharton Studio’s Silent Film Serials, 1914\u20131918.”\u00a0Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media<\/em>\u00a060, no. 1 (2019): 83-115.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grieveson, Lee and Peter Kr\u00e4mer, eds.\u00a0The Silent Cinema Reader.<\/em>\u00a0New York: Routledge, 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guiralt, Carmen. \u201cSelf-Censorship in Hollywood during the Silent Era:\u00a0A Woman of Affairs<\/em>\u00a0(1928) by Clarence Brown.\u201d\u00a0Film History<\/em>\u00a028, no. 2 (2016): 81\u2013113.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gunckel, Colin. “Ambivalent Si(gh)tings: Stardom and Silent Film in Mexican America.”\u00a0Film History: An International Journal<\/em>\u00a029, no. 1 (2017): 110-139.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hansen, Miriam.\u00a0\u00a0Babel & Babylon: Spectatorship in American Silent Film<\/em>.\u00a0 Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hennefeld, Maggie. “Women\u2019s Hats and Silent Film Spectatorship: Between Ostrich Plume and Moving Image.”\u00a0Film History<\/em> 28, no. 3 (2016): 24-53.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hennefeld, Maggie. Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes.<\/em> New York: Columbia University Press, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Higashi, Sumiko.\u00a0Cecil B. DeMille and American Culture: The Silent Era.\u00a0<\/em>Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jancovich, Mark, and Shane Brown.\u00a0 \u201cMost Stories of this Type: Genre, Horror, and Mystery in the Silent Cinema.\u201d Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television<\/em> 42:2 (2022): 168-190.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keil, Charlie and Shelley Stamp, eds. Early American Cinema in Transition: Story, Style, and Filmmaking, 1907-1913<\/em>. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

King, Rob. “‘Uproarious Inventions’: The Keystone Film Company, Modernity, and the Art of the Motor.”\u00a0Film History: An International Journal<\/em>\u00a019, no. 3 (2007): 271-291.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kirby, Lynne. \u201cGender and Advertising in American Silent Film: From Early Cinema to the Crowd.\u201d\u00a0Discourse<\/em>\u00a013:2 (1991): 3\u201320.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kirby, Lynne.\u00a0Parallel Tracks: The Railroad and Silent Cinema<\/em>. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1997.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Koszarski, Richard.\u00a0 An Evening\u2019s Entertainment: The Age of the Silent Feature Picture, 1925-1928.<\/em> New York: Scribner\u2019s, 1990.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Louvish, Simon.\u00a0Keystone: The Life and Clowns of Mack Sennett.\u00a0<\/em>New York: Faber & Faber, 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lupack, Barbara Tepa.\u00a0 The Othering of Women in Silent Film: Cultural, Historical, and Literary Contexts<\/em>.\u00a0 Lanham: Lexington Books, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maciak, Philip.\u00a0 The Disappearing Christ: Secularism in the Silent Era<\/em>.\u00a0 New York: Columbia University Press, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Massa, Steve.\u00a0Slaptstick Divas: The Women of Silent Film Comedy.\u00a0<\/em>Bear Manor Media, 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maurice, Alice. \u201cThe Essence of Motion: Figure, Frame, and the Racial Body in Early Silent Cinema.\u201d\u00a0The Moving Image<\/em> 1, no. 2 (2001): 124\u2013145.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Musser, Charles. “Why Did Negroes Love Al Jolson and The Jazz Singer?: Melodrama, Blackface and Cosmopolitan Theatrical Culture.” Film History: An International Journal<\/em> 23, no. 2 (2011): 196-222.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Olsson, Jan. “Pressing Matters: Media Crusades before the Nickelodeons.”\u00a0Film History: An International Journal<\/em>\u00a027, no. 2 (2015): 105-139.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Petersen, Christina Gail. \u201cParadise for the Young: Youth Spectatorship in the American Silent Film Era, 1904\u20131933.\u201d PhD dissertation, University of Chicago, 2010.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pratt, George.\u00a0\u00a0Spellbound in the Darkness: A History of the Silent Film<\/em>.\u00a0 Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prigge, Matthew J. “Dangers in the Dark: Motion Picture Reform in Progressive-Era Milwaukee.”\u00a0Film History: An International Journal<\/em>\u00a024, no. 1 (2012): 74-81.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read, Paul. “‘Unnatural Colours’: An Introduction to Colouring Techniques in Silent Era Movies.”\u00a0Film History <\/em>21, no. 1 (2009): 9-46.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ross, Steven.\u00a0Working-Class Hollywood: Silent Film and the Shaping of Class in America<\/em>. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Serna, Laura Isabel. “Atmosphere: Mexican Extras and the Production of Race in Silent Hollywood.”\u00a0Journal of Cinema and Media Studies<\/em>\u00a063, no. 1 (2023): 100-123.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shull, Michael Slade.\u00a0Radicalism in American Silent Films, 1909-1929: A Filmography and History.\u00a0<\/em>Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2000.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Slater, Thomas J.\u00a0 June Mathis: The Rise and Fall of a Silent Film Visionary<\/em>. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Slide, Anthony.\u00a0The Silent Feminists: America’s First Women Directors<\/em>. Lanham, M.D: Scarecrow Press, 1996.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sloan, Kay.\u00a0 The Loud Silents: Origins of the Social Problem Film<\/em>.\u00a0 Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Smith, Andrew B.\u00a0Shooting Cowboys and Indians: Silent Western Films, American Culture, and the Birth of Hollywood.\u00a0<\/em>Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2003.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stanciu, Cristina. \u201cMaking Americans: Spectacular Nationalism, Americanization, and Silent Film.\u201d\u00a0Journal of American Studies<\/em>\u00a056:1 (2022): 1-37.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sullivan, Sara. \u201cChild Audiences in America\u2019s Nickelodeons, 1900-1915: The Keith\/Albee Managers\u2019 Reports.\u201d\u00a0Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television\u00a0<\/em>30:2 (2010): 155-168.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wagner, Kristen Anderson.\u00a0Comic Venus: Women and Comedy in American Silent Film.\u00a0<\/em>Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2018.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whissel, Kristen.\u00a0\u00a0Picturing American Modernity: Traffic, Technology and the Silent Cinema<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0Durham: Duke University Press, 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wlaschin, Ken, and Stephen Bottomore. “Moving Picture Fiction of the Silent Era, 1895\u20131928.” Film History: An International Journal<\/em> 20, no. 2 (2008): 217-260.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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