100 silent films / Bryony Dixon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dixon, Bryony.

Contributor:

British Film Institute.

Series:

BFI screen guides

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Silent films--History and criticism.

Silent films.

Physical Description:

ix, 258 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm.

Other Title:

One hundred silent films

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan on behalf of the British Film Institute, 2011.

Summary:

This illuminating guide provides a selection of one hundred key films of the silent period (1895-1930), featuring films from a variety of countries, genres and directors, together with an introductory overview and usefull filmographic and bibliographic information.

Contents:

Aelita (1924)

Airship Destroyer (1909)

Arsenal (1929)

Ballet Mecanique (1924)

Battles of the Coronel and Falkland Islands (1928)

Battleship Potemkin (1925)

Berlin Symphony of a City (1927)

Big Parade (1925)

Big Swallow (1901)

Birth of a Nation (1916)

Black Pirate (1926)

Blackmail (1929)

Brasier Ardent (1923)

Broken Blossoms (1919)

By the Law (1926)

Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1919)

Cabiria (1914)

Cameraman (1928)

Cameraman's Revenge (Starevitch)

Casanova (1928)

Circus (1928)

Coeur Fidele (1923)

Cottage on Dartmoor (1929)

Crossways (1928)

Cursed Be War (1913)

Deux Timides (1928)

Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)

Docks of New York (1928)

Douro, Faine Fluvial (1931) late silent

Earth (1939)

En Rade (1929)

Erotikon (1929)

Fall of the House of Usher (1928)

Fantomas series (1920)

Faust (1926)

Finis Terrae (1928)

Fire! (1901)

Four Devils (1911)

Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)

The Fugitive (1915)

A Girl in Every Port (1928)

Der Golem (1915)

Gosta Berlings Saga (1928)

Great Train Robbery (1903)

Greed (1924)

Haxan (1922)

Hirondelle et la Mesange (1920)

Hotes de L'Air aka Glimpses of Bird Life (1910)

Inferno (1911)

Informer (1929)

Ingeborg Holm (1913)

Intolerance (1916)

Italian Straw Hat (1927)

Japonaiserie (1904)

Joyless Street (1925)

Kean (1921)

The Kid (1921)

La Belle Nivernais (1923)

The Last Laugh (1924)

Les Miserables (1925)

The Lodger (1926)

The Lure of Crooning Water (1920)

Maldone (1928)

Man with a Movie Camera (1929)

Manhatta (1921)

Mantrap (1926)

Marie du Chateau Maudit (1910)

Marriage Circle (1924)

Max Toreador (1913)

Menilmontant (1926)

Metropolis (1927)

Nanook of the North (1922)

Napoleon (1927)

Nibelungen Saga 1923-4

Nosferatu (1922)

Page of Madness (1926)

Pandora's Box (1929)

Paris Qui Dort (1923)

Passion de Jeanne d'Arc (1928)

The Patsy (1928)

People on Sunday (1930)

Perils of Pauline (1914)

Phantom Carriage (1921)

Policeman (1933)

Poor Little Rich Girl (1917)

Queen of Spades Bauer

Regen (1929)

Revolutionshochzeit (1928)

Rescued by Rover (1905)

Rien Que les Heures (1930)

The Ring (1927)

Romeo and Juliet in the Snow (1920)

Safety Last (1923)

The Scarecrow (1920)

Sex in Chains (1928)

The Shakedown (1928)

The Sheik (1921)

The Smiling Madame Beudet (1923)

Stella Maris (1918)

Strike (1925)

Student of Prague (1913)

Sunrise (1929)

Testimony (1920)

Tol'able David (1921)

Traffic in Souls (1913)

True Heart Susie (1919)

Umarete wa Mita Keredo aka I was Born, But" (1932)

Underworld (1928)

Unknown (1927)

Vampyr (1932)

Variete (1928)

Vie et Passion de Notre Seigneur Jesus Christ (1903)

Visages d'Enfants (1925)

Voyage a Travers L'Impossible (1904)

Warning Shadows (1923)

Waxworks (1924)

The Wind (1928)

A Woman of Paris (1923).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [244]-245) and index.

ISBN:

9781844573080

1844573087

9781844573097

1844573095

OCLC:

719415465