Books on Silent Film
American Animated Films: The Silent Era, 1897-1929 by Denis Gifford (McFarland - 1990)
Aspects of American Film History Prior to 1920 by Anthony Slide (The Scarecrow Press - 1978)
Classics of the Silent Screen by Joe Franklin (The Citadel Press - 1959. My copy: eighth paperbound printing, 1976)
Eighty Silent Film Stars by George A. Katchmer (McFarland - 1991)
Hollywood: The Pioneers by Kevin Brownlow (Alfred A. Knopf - 1979)
In the Kingdom of Shadows: A Companion to Early Cinema by Colin Harding and Simon Popple (Cygnus Arts - 1996)
Lost Films: Important Movies That Disappeared by Frank Thompson (Citadel Press - 1996)
The Parade's Gone By by Kevin Brownlow (University of California Press - 1968)
Seductive Cinema: The Art of Silent Film by James Card (Alfred A. Knopf - 1994)
The Silent Clowns by Walter Kerr (Alfred A. Knopf - 1975)
Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton by John Bengtson (Santa Monica Press - 2000)
Silent Film Necrology by Eugene Michael Vazzana (McFarland - 1995)
Silent Films, 1877-1996 by Robert K. Klepper (McFarland - 1999)
Silent Movies: A Picture Quiz Book by Stanley Appelbaum (Dover Publications - 1974)
Silent Stars by Jeanine Basinger (Alfred A. Knopf - 1999)
The Speed of Sound: Hollywood and the Talkie Revolution 1926-1930 by Scott Eyman (Simon & Schuster - 1997)
Twenty Years of Silents 1908 - 1928 compiled by John T. Weaver (The Scarecrow Press - 1971)
The War, the West, and the Wilderness by Keven Brownlow (Alfred A. Knopf - 1979)
Books on Individual Silent Stars and Filmmakers
Buster Keaton: Cut to the Chase by Marion Meade (HarperCollins Publishers - 1995)
Buster Keaton: The Man Who Wouldn't Lie Down by Tom Dardis (Penguin Books - 1980. First published Charles Scribner's Sons, 1979)
Buster Keaton: My Wonderful World of Slapstick by Buster Keaton and Charles Samuels (Da Capo Paperback - 1982. Originally published Doubleday, 1960)
Chaplin: His Life and Art by David Robinson (McGraw-Hill - 1985)
Charlie Chaplin: Intimate Close-Ups by Georgia Hale (Scarecrow Press - 1999)
Clara Bow: Runnin' Wild by David Stenn (Cooper Square Press - 2000)
The Complete Films of Buster Keaton by Jim Kline (Citadel Press - 1993)
D.W. Griffith: An American Life by Richard Schickel (Simon and Schuster - 1984)
Eisenstein At Work by Jay Leyda & Zina Voynow (Pantheon Books / The Museum of Modenr Art - 1982)
The Films of Charlie Chaplin by Gerald D. McDonald, Michael Conway, and Mark Ricci (Citadel Press - 1965)
The Films of Laurel and Hardy by William K. Everson (Citadel Press - 1980. First published 1967.)
Harold Lloyd: Master Comedian by Jeffrey Vance and Suzanne Lloyd (Harry N. Abrams, Inc. - 2002)
Harold Lloyd: The King of Daredevil Comedy by Adam Reilly (Collier Books - 1977)
Harold Lloyd: The Man On the Clock by Tom Dardis (The Viking Press - 1983)
King of Comedy by Mack Sennett (Mercury House - 1990 paperback edition. Originally published Doubleday, 1954)
Laurel and Hardy: The Magic Behind the Movies by Randy Skretvedt (Moonstone Press - 1987)
Lillian Gish: Her Legend, Her Life by Charles Affron (Scribner - 2001)
Louise Brooks: Portrait of an Anti-Star edited by Roland Jaccard, English translation by Gideon Y. Schein (New York Zoetrope - 1986. Originally published 1982 Editions Pehbus)
Lulu in Hollywood by Louise Brooks (Alfred A. Knopf - 1982)
Mabel: Hollywood's First I-Don't-Care Girl by Betty Harper Fussell (Ticknor & Fields - 1982)
Marion Davies by Fred Lawrence Guiles (McGraw-Hill - 1972)
Mary Pickford: America's Sweetheart by Scott Eyman (Donald I. Fine, Inc. - 1990)
Mary Pickford Rediscovered by Kevin Brownlow (Harry N. Abrams - 1999)
Mr. Laurel & Mr. Hardy by John McCabe (Plume - 1985. First published Doubleday, 1961.)
My Autobiography by Charles Chaplin (Simon and Schuster - 1964)
Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood by Eileen Whitfield (The University Press of Kentucky - 1997)
Ramon Novarro by Allan R. Ellenberger (McFarland - 1999)
Sunshine and Shadow by Mary Pickford (Doubleday & Company - 1955)
Swanson On Swanson by Gloria Swanson (Random House - 1980)
They Still Call Me Junior by Frank "Junior" Coghlan (McFarland - 1993)
Three Classic Silent Screen Comedies Starring Harold Lloyd by Donald W. McCaffrey (Associated University Presses - 1976)
Tramp: The Life of Charlie Chaplin by Joyce Milton (HarperCollins - 1996)
Valentino by Irving Shulman (Trident Press - 1967)
Vamp: The Rise and Fall of Theda Bara by Eve Golden (Emprise Publishing, Inc. - 1996)
All-Era Histories
The Story of Cinema by David Shipman (St. Martin's Press - 1982)
I've Got More! Workin' on it.
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