Full name: Seductive Cinema: The Art of Silent Film

Author: James Card Year: 1994 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Movies Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780816633906 0816633908

In Seductive Cinema, James Card -- pioneer collector of silents since the twenties, founder of the motion-picture archive at the George Eastman House, and co-founder of the Telluride Film Festival -- offers an exhilarating and richly illustrated celebration of silent movies. His lively reevaluation sheds new light on the art, directors, cinematographers, and stars of the great silent films. Similar books: The Parade's Gone By by Kevin Brownlow The Silent Clowns by Walter Kerr An Evening's Entertainment by Richard Koszarski Film History by Kristin Thompson The Classical Hollywood Cinema by David Bordwell Silent Stars by Jeanine Basinger Story by Robert McKee Sculpting in Time by Andrei Tarkovsky Easy riders, raging bulls by Peter Biskind Nightmare USA by Stephen Thrower The Great Movies by Roger Ebert Lynch on Lynch by David Lynch In the Blink of an Eye by Walter Murch The Genius of the System by Thomas Schatz All I Need to Know about Filmmaking I Learned from the Toxic Avenger by Lloyd Kaufman Awake in the Dark by Roger Ebert This Is Orson Welles by Orson Welles On Film-making by Alexander Mackendrick Film Directing Shot by Shot by Steven D. Katz Dark City by Eddie Muller