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  • A Journey Through Film History
    Anthony Slide / Matthew Renoir
    With A Journey Through Film History, film historian Anthony Slide offers a detailed account of his life and career over the last 80 years. In a humorous and entertaining style, he speaks of his memories, both good and bad. Interviewer Matthew Renoir is the great grandson of Jean Renoir (and the great, great grandson of impressionist painter Pierre Auguste Renoir), and a perfect...
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    27,89 €

  • A Return To Deep Joy
    Anthony Slide
    Stanley Unwin was unique among British comedians in that he invented his own language, Unwinese,with which he entertained audiences from the 1940s until his death in 2002. Continuing his book-length studies of the British comedy fraternity, Anthony Slide discusses in detail Stanley Unwin’s life and career, including his years as a BBC engineer prior to embarking on a new career...
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    24,76 €

  • D. W. Griffith
    Anthony Slide
    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 the most controversial. He raised the cinema to a new level of art, entertainment, and innovation, and at the same time he illustrated, for the first time, its potential to influence an audience and propagandize a cause....
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    42,79 €

  • Bobbie Kimber
    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 Music Hall performer from the late 1930s onwards, displaying his skill as a ventriloquist with various dummies, most notably Augustus Peabody or 'Gussie,' while all the time dressed as a woman. He ne...
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    28,28 €

  • Just a Regular Bloke
    Anthony Slide
    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 Askey. Ted Ray became a star as British Music Hall came to an end, and continued into radio, television and motion pictures. He never stopped performing on stage as Music Hall morphed into Variety, and could always be...
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    26,97 €

  • Silent Feminists
    Anthony Slide
    A timely and captivating account of America’s first women directors who, with little recognition, helped pave the way for females in the film industry today. Originally published in 1977 as Early Women Directors, Anthony Slide’s The Silent Feminists was the first volume to recognize and honor the work of female directors in the American silent film industry. With a new foreword...
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    38,44 €

  • The Truth at Twenty-Four Frames per Second
    Anthony Slide
    Collected together here are Anthony Slide’s writings on film and television history from the 1960s through the present. Subjects and individuals discussed are varied, including Lillian Gish, Val Guest, Vivienne Segal, Wendy Richard, Elisabeth Welch, Lawrence Welk, and Betty White. All illustrate the author’s scholarship, dedication to the serious study of the history of popular...
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    26,74 €

  • I Thank You
    Anthony Slide
    A diminutive, frenetic comedian, known for catchphrases that were once part of the English language, Arthur Askey was one of Britain’s most popular entertainers throughout much of the 20th Century. Immediately after World War One, Askey made his professional debut in concert parties at British seaside resorts. He began to appear on the stage and on radio, and in 1938, with Rich...
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    24,65 €

  • Wake Up At The Back There
    Anthony Slide
    ‘‘ Jimmy Edwards was a Great British Entertainer ’’ Ken Dodd‘‘ Not merely a peculiarly British comedian but an authentic English character  ’’ The TimesComedians in 20th Century Britain might well be divided into two categories: those who gained international fame, particularly in the United States, and those whose comedic style was so resolutely British, so insular that recogn...
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    22,13 €

  • Ravished Armenia and the Story of Aurora Mardiganian
    Anthony Slide
    Ravished Armenia and the Story of Aurora Mardiganian is the real-life tale of a teenage Armenian girl who was caught up in the 1915 Armenian genocide, the first genocide in modern history. Mardiganian (1901-1994) witnessed the murder of her family and the suffering of her people at the hands of the Ottoman Empire. Forced to march over fourteen hundred miles, she was sold into s...
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    51,55 €

  • A Man Named Smith
    Anthony Slide
    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, and general debauchery. A Man Named Smith: The Novels and Screen Legacy of Thorne Smith is the first book-length study of Thorne Smith’s work. It provides background informat...
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    29,03 €

  • Frank Lloyd
    Anthony Slide
    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 1913 through 1955. Among the director’s greatest works are Oliver Twist with Jackie Coogan, The Sea Hawk with Milton Sills, The Divine Lady with Corinne Grifffith, and two Academy Award winners...
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    29,11 €

  • Incorrect Entertainment
    Anthony Slide
    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.Chapters on subjects as varied as CAMP, FASCISM in Hollywood, Hedda Hopper and the PORKY’S movies. The latest topical jokes on Helen Keller, Eleanor Roosevelt and the Challenger dis...
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    31,12 €

  • Silent Topics
    Anthony Slide
    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 the United States and the contribution of gays and lesbians to American silent film. Other essays examine the cost of silent film production, the 'Great Events' series produced b...
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    108,77 €

  • New Historical Dictionary of the American Film Industry
    Anthony Slide
    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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    49,25 €

  • Nitrate Won’t Wait
    Anthony Slide
    This study looks at the preservation process: newsreel, television, and color preservation; the often controversial issue of colorization; and commercial film archives. It provides detailed histories of the major players in the preservation battle including the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, the American Film Institute, the Museum of Modern Art, t...
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    43,41 €