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Anthony Slide
The Bobbie Kimber story is a fascinating one, involving the art of ventriloquism, female impersonation, and gender variance. It is the story of a man who became a prominent British…
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Interviews with one of the great early film directors, maestro of The Birth of a Nation, Intolerance, and Hearts of the World
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Just a Regular Bloke: The Ted Ray Story is the third in a trilogy of volumes on legends of British comedy, that began with Jimmy Edwards and continued with Arthur…
Like the majority of Dixon’s films, The Fall of a Nation has been lost, but had it survived, it might well have taken its place alongside The Birth of a…
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Searching for an introduction to the shadowy, intriguing world of early 20th century gay-themed fiction?
In Lost Gay Novels, respected pop culture historian Anthony Slide resurrects fifty early 20th century…
In addition, there is a program index, providing the reader with speedy information as to which company or distributor is responsible for which series. The Television Industry will serve as…
Complete with appendices providing distributors from the 1920s-1940s and current names and addresses of non-theatrical film sources, this book-length study of the history of this film genre is both important…
This guide provides biographical essays, complete with bibliographies, on 100 of the best-known and loved British actors and actresses. Not only are serious dramatic actors and actresses to be found…
“ Jimmy Edwards was a Great British Entertainer ” Ken Dodd “ Not merely a peculiarly British comedian but an authentic English character ” The Times
Jimmy Edwards was a Great British Entertainer - Ken Dodd Not merely a peculiarly British comedian but an authentic English character - The Times
This study looks at the preservation process, the issue of colourisation, and commercial film archives. It also provides detailed histories of the major players in the preservation battle and the…
From his unique perspective of friendship with many of the actors and actresses about whom he writes, silent film historian Anthony Slide creates vivid portraits of the careers and often…
American women who contributed their talents to the silent film industry are still largely unrecognized, in spite of their great influence. This book details the lives and careers of America’s…
Provides not only a historical overview of the British in Hollywood, but also a detailed study of the contributions made by American individuals and companies to British cinema from the…
Cultural Historian Anthony Slide, who has been described by the Los Angeles Times as a one-man publishing phenomenon, strikes again with a book guaranteed to contain something OFFENSIVE for everyone…
Frank Lloyd: Master of Screen Melodrama is the first book-length study of one of the most prominent of studio directors from Hollywood’s golden age, whose career spanned the years from…
Thorne Smith is a unique figure in American literature, one who thrived during prohibition creating comic novels that ridiculed the morality of the times and involved extensive drinking, nudity, frivolity…
As an arbiter of good and bad taste, as a source of knowledge, and as a gateway to the fabled land of Hollywood and its stars, the American fan magazine…
Provides a record of what was once America’s pre-eminent form of popular entertainment from the late 1800s through the early 1930s. This title includes entries not only on the entertainers…
Extras, bit players, and stand-ins have been a part of the film industry almost from its conception. On a personal and a professional level, their stories are told in Hollywood…
Collected together here are Anthony Slide’s writings on film and television history from the 1960s through the present.
Searching for an introduction to the shadowy, intriguing world of early 20th century gay-themed fiction In Lost Gay Novels, respected pop culture historian Anthony Slide resurrects fifty early 20th century…
Slide provides a unique pictorial record of America’s preeminent entertainment medium in the late 1800s through the early 1930s. Through the photographs and the capsule biographies, the reader is transported…
Arthur Askey’s life and career is presented here in informative and readable fashion. I Thank You: The Arthur Askey Story is the first book-length biography of a great British comedian…
Provides a cross-section of contemporary American film criticism from 1896-1960. The volumes reprint reviews in their entirety from periodicals such as Photoplay, Film Reports, The Moving Picture World, Variety, and…
Now in Paperback! A unique reference work, a ‘what’s what’ of the history of filmmaking not only in Hollywood but throughout the United States. More than 750 entries document the…
Examines the lives and careers of twelve entertainers whose comedic styles were distinctly eccentric: Milton Berle, Ed Brendel, Bobby Clark, Phyllis Diller, the Duncan Sisters, Edward Everett Horton, Alice Howell…
Filled with page after page of lavish artwork and detailed text, Now Playing is the first comprehensive, groundbreaking and original research on the hand-painted movie posters from the 1910s to…
Making use of the files of the US Production Code Administration, this is a film-by-film study of the way in which British films were censored in the USA between 1933…
From author Anthony Slide, Hollywood’s most celebrated and prolific scholar, cames a wonderfully comprehensive dictionary of American producing and releasing companies, technical innovations, industry terms, studios, genres, and organizations.
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Collects together Knox’s writings, published and unpublished, on various performers with whom he worked or was familiar, and on the art and craft of acting.
The anti-Communist hysteria that began in the 1930s was further empowered in 1938 when the House of Representatives established the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities. Soon thereafter, the creation of…
In Silent Topics, film historian Anthony Slide looks at various under-discussed and generally undocumented areas of silent film. The two lengthiest essays discuss the release of British silent films in…
D.W. Griffith (1875-1948) is one of the most influential figures in the history of the motion picture. As director of The Birth of a Nation, he is also one of…
Looks at the way film has dominated the minds and lives of film buffs, film collectors, film academics, and just plain fans of past movies. Based on the author’s more…
An intriguing anthology… -FILM QUARTERLY
Complete reprints of reviews of New York stage productions for the first half of the 20th century contained in three volumes.
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