Silent Film's Last Hurrah : The Remarkable Movies of the Long 1928.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meuel, David.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Silent films--United States--History and criticism.

Silent films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (212 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jefferson : McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers, 2023.

Summary:

This is a history and critical appreciation of an unusually fertile period for the production of great or near-great silent films: late 1927 through early 1929, in the midst of the tumult and upheaval of Hollywood's transition from silent to sound.

Contents:

Cover

Acknowledgments

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction: A Doomed Art's Glorious Last Days

1: At the Precipice: Mary Pickford and My Best Girl

2: "The maddest idea in the world": Gloria Swanson, Raoul Walsh, and Sadie Thompson

3: Tramp on a Tightrope: Charlie Chaplin and The Circus

4: "A lyricist of light and shadow": Josef von Sternberg, The Last Command, and The Docks of New Yor

5: "The highest reaches of the form": King Vidor and The Crowd

6: The End of an Amazing Run: Harold Lloyd and Speedy

7: In a Blaze of Windswept Glory: Buster Keaton and Steamboat Bill, Jr.

8: A Star Is Born: Joan Crawford and Our Dancing Daughters

9: "Astonishing elegance": William Wellman, Louise Brooks, Wallace Beery, and Beggars of Life

10: "Time was his

he owned it": Erich von Stroheim and The Wedding March

11: "I have a special confidence in you": Lillian Gish, Victor Sjöström, and The Wind

12: Partners in Perversity: Lon Chaney, Tod Browning, and West of Zanzibar

13: "To reach for the moon one last time": Douglas Fairbanks and The Iron Mask

14: ­Twenty-Eight Other Notable U.S. Silent and Hybrid Films Released During the Long 1928

Afterthoughts: Requiem and Reemergence

Where to Find the Films Featured in This Book

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Meuel, David Silent Film's Last Hurrah

ISBN:

9781476648590

OCLC:

1373345902