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Film and fairy tales : the birth of modern fantasy / by Moen, Kristian

Table of Contents: “…"A dream we make wide awake": the nineteenth-century féerie -- A cinema of transformations: the film féerie and Georges Méliès -- Fairy-tale aesthetics: early film theory and The blue bird (1918) -- Mary Pickford and the fantasies of stardom -- Sites of enchantment and The thief of Bagdad (1924) -- Delimiting fairy tales: Snow White and the seven dwarfs (1937) -- Afterword: Mutability lessons.…”
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Film and fairy tales : the birth of modern fantasy / by Moen, Kristian

Table of Contents: “…"A dream we make wide awake": the nineteenth-century féerie -- A cinema of transformations: the film féerie and Georges Méliès -- Fairy-tale aesthetics: early film theory and The blue bird (1918) -- Mary Pickford and the fantasies of stardom -- Sites of enchantment and The thief of Bagdad (1924) -- Delimiting fairy tales: Snow White and the seven dwarfs (1937) -- Afterword: Mutability lessons.…”
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Silent players a biographical and autobiographical study of 100 silent film actors and actresses / by Slide, Anthony

Table of Contents: “…Warren Kerrigan -- Laura la Plante -- The legends -- Lon Chaney, Charlie Chaplin, Greta Garbo, Buster Keaton, Rudolph Valentino -- Harold Lloyd -- Babe London -- Bessie Love -- Dorothy Mackaill -- Mary MacLaren -- Percy Marmont -- Mae Marsh -- James Morrison -- Jack Mulhall -- Mae Murray -- Conrad Nagel -- Nita Naldi -- Mabel Normand -- Jane Novak -- George O'Brien -- Gertrude Olmstead -- Seena Owen -- Jean Paige -- Kathryn Perry -- Olga Petrova -- Mary Philbin -- Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks -- Arline Pretty -- Esther Ralston -- Charles Ray -- Wallace Reid -- Billie Rhodes -- Charles "Buddy" Rogers -- Clarine Seymour -- Lowell Sherman -- Pauline Starke -- Gloria Swanson -- Blanche Sweet -- Constance Talmadge -- Norma Talmadge -- Alice Terry -- Florence Turner -- The Vamps -- Theda Bara, Louise Glaum, Kitty Gordon, Olga Grey, Alice Hollister, and Valeska Suratt -- George Walsh -- Henry B. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Silent players a biographical and autobiographical study of 100 silent film actors and actresses / by Slide, Anthony

Table of Contents: “…Warren Kerrigan -- Laura la Plante -- The legends -- Lon Chaney, Charlie Chaplin, Greta Garbo, Buster Keaton, Rudolph Valentino -- Harold Lloyd -- Babe London -- Bessie Love -- Dorothy Mackaill -- Mary MacLaren -- Percy Marmont -- Mae Marsh -- James Morrison -- Jack Mulhall -- Mae Murray -- Conrad Nagel -- Nita Naldi -- Mabel Normand -- Jane Novak -- George O'Brien -- Gertrude Olmstead -- Seena Owen -- Jean Paige -- Kathryn Perry -- Olga Petrova -- Mary Philbin -- Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks -- Arline Pretty -- Esther Ralston -- Charles Ray -- Wallace Reid -- Billie Rhodes -- Charles "Buddy" Rogers -- Clarine Seymour -- Lowell Sherman -- Pauline Starke -- Gloria Swanson -- Blanche Sweet -- Constance Talmadge -- Norma Talmadge -- Alice Terry -- Florence Turner -- The Vamps -- Theda Bara, Louise Glaum, Kitty Gordon, Olga Grey, Alice Hollister, and Valeska Suratt -- George Walsh -- Henry B. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view