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A critical look at the films and career of Buster Keaton by David Robinson. Number 10 in Secker and Warburg/BFI's ...
#15897 Book / Films
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Authoritative and comprehensive biography of Charlie Chaplin, drawing heavily on the actor-director's archives and with valuable appendices including chronology, Who's ...
#34433 Book / Biography
As the only author granted access to Chaplin's own closely guarded archive, Robinson shares a wealth of written sources and ...
#46041 Book / Biography
Robinson surveys Chaplin's career as is it mirrored in the opinion of passing time - writings of several generations of ...
#11421 Book / Biography
#20835 Book / Biography
Charting the story of Charlie Chaplin: his brilliant career as an actor, writer, producer and director, the book also follows ...
#29995 Book / Biography
A brochure published in celebration of 75 years of British films. An overview of the British film industry, its films, ...
#39090 Book / Criticism/History
A study of Soviet filmmakers of the 1920 including Yutkevitch, Eisenstein, Alexandrov, Kuleshov, Vertov, Kozintsev, Gerassimov, Podovkin, Golovnya, Dovzhenko, Gabrilovitch, ...
#15343 Book / Criticism/History
Introduction to the life and work of George Melies, produced to accompany the 1993 exhibition at the Museum of the ...
#55994 Book / Biography
Topics: the American nation in the 1920s, the film industry, the transition to sound, foreign film imports, the beginning of ...
#44979 Book / Criticism/History
Signed copy of David Robinson's short BFI biography of actor and director Richard Attenborough, with detailed filmography, revised for a ...
#79629 Book / Biography
Cinema history and critical interpetations: "The origins of the cinema" "Fifty years of sound cinema" "The Dream Industry" "Film Making ...
#33592 Book / Criticism/History
Topics: comic postcard jokes of the 1890s; music halls; Chaplin; Langdon; Keaton; Harold Lloyd; Laurel and Hardy; W.C. Fields; Etaix; ...
#15847 Book / Criticism/History
From proto-cinema to the 1980s. Looks at individual filmmakers and films from around the world.
#15872 Book / Criticism/History
'This book records almost 300 pictorial representations of the magic lantern that appeared between 1420 and the last quarter of ...
#42643 Book / Magic Lantern
Supplement to item 42643, containing further representations of the magic lantern. Illustrations are mainly black and white, some coloured.
#36913 Book / Magic Lantern
A short history of world cinema from 1895-1980 that includes selected filmographies of 500 directors.
#35121 Book / Criticism/History
#35124 Book / Criticism/History