This, I'm sure, is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to books on silents. These books are listed not only because they are an invaluable resource for silent film fans but because they are available for purchase through (you guessed it!) Amazon.com! I am always open to new suggestions, so if you have any recommendations, please e-mail me.
I also want to take a moment and thank everyone who has ordered from the Bookshelf or stops to take a look at some of the recommended reading. I appreciate your support; many thanks.
Adair, Gilbert Flickers: An Illustrated Celebration of 100 Years of Cinema
Affron, Charles Lillian Gish: Her Legend, Her Life(Review)
Basinger, Jeanine Silent Stars
Beauchamp, Cari Withouth Lying Down: Frances Marion and The Early Powerful Women of Hollywood
Bengtson, et. al. Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton
Berg, A. Scott Goldwyn: A Biography
Birchard, Robert S. King Cowboy: Tom Mix & the Movies
Blake, Michael F. Lon Chaney: The Man Behind the Thousand Faces A Thousand Faces: Lon Chaney's Unique Artistry in Motion Pictures The Films of Lon Chaney
Bordwell, David The Cinema of Eisenstein
Bowers, Q. David Nickelodeon Theatres and Their Music
Bowser, Eileen The Transformation of Cinema 1907-1915
Brownlow, Kevin Mary Pickford Rediscovered: Rare Pictures of a Hollywood Legend The Parade's Gone By Behind the Mask of Innocence
Card, James Seductive Cinema: The Art of Silent Film(Review)
Carey Jr., Harry Company of Heroes: My Life as an Actor in the John Ford Stock Company
Dardis, Tom Keaton, the Man Who Wouldn't Lie Down
Drew, William At the Center of the Frame: Leading Ladies of the Twenties and Thirties Speaking of Silents: First Ladies of the Screen
Dwyer, Ruth Anne Malcolm St. Clair, His Films 1915 - 1948
Edwards, Larry Buster: A Legend in Laughter
Eisner, Lotte Fritz Lang
Everson, William K. American Silent Film
Eyman, Scott Print the Legend: The Life and Times of John Ford (Review) The Speed of Sound: Hollywood and the Talkie Revolution Five American Cinematographers: Interviews with Karl Struss, Joseph Rutteneberg, James Wong Howe, Linwood Dunn, and William H. Clothier
Finler, Joel Silent Cinema
Gifford, Denis American Animated Films: The Silent Era 1897-1929
Gish, Lillian An Actor's Life for Me
Golden, Eve Platinum Girl hardback paperback Vamp: The Rise and Fall of Theda Bara Golden Images: 41 Essays on Silent Film
Hake, Sabine Passions and Deceptions: The Early Films of Ernst Lubitsch
Hale, Georgia Charlie Chaplin: Intimate Close-Ups
Hansen, Miriam Babel & Babylon: Spectatorship in American Silent Film
Haskell, Molly Holding My Own in No Man's Land: Women & Men & Film & Feminists From Reverance to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies
Hertogs, Dan (Ed.) Disorderly Order: Colours in Silent Film
Higashi, Sumiko Cecil B. DeMille and American Culture: The Silent Era
Horton, Andrew Buster Keaton's Sherlock, Jr.
Houston, Penelope Keepers of the Frame: The Film Archives
Jura, Jean-Jacques Balboa Films: A History and Filmography of the Silent Film Studio
Kamin, Dan Charlie Chaplin's One-Man Show
Keaton, Eleanor, Jeffrey Vance, Kevin Brownlow Buster Keaton Remembered
Keesey, Pam Vamps: An Illustrated History of the Femme Fatale
Kerr, Walter The Silent Clowns
Kirby, Lynne Parallel Tracks: The Railroad and Silent Cinema
Koszarski, Richard An Evening's Entertainment: The Age of the Silent Feature Picture, 1915-1928 Great American Film Directors in Photographs
Lambert, Gavin Nazimova
Langman, Larry A Guide to Silent Westerns
Langman, Larry and Daniel Finn A Guide to American Silent Crime Films
Lee, Betty Marie Dressler: The Unlikeliest Star
Leider, Emily W. Dark Lover: The Life and Death of Rudolph Valentino (Review)
Lennig, Arthur Stroheim(Review)
Long, Bruce William Desmond Taylor: A Dossier
Mann, William J. Wisecracker: The Life and Times of William Haines, Hollywood's First Openly Gay Star
Marks, Martin Miller Music and the Silent Film: Contexts and Case Studies, 1895-1924
MacCann, Richard Dyer The Silent Comedians The First Film Makers The Silent Screen (American Movies) Films of the 1920s The Stars Appear: American Movies, the First 30 Years
Meade, Marion Buster Keaton: Cut To The Chase
McCaffrey, Donald W. and Christopher P. Jacobs Guide to the Silent Years of American Cinema (Reference Guides to the World's Cinema)
McGilligan, Patrick Fritz Lang: The Nature of the Beast
Merritt, Russell and J.B. Kaufman Walt in Wonderland: The Silent Films of Walt Disney
Mitchell, Glen A-Z of Silent Film Comedy: An Illustrated Companion
Musser, Charles The Emergence of Cinema: The American Screen to 1907 Thomas A. Edison and His Kinetographic Motion Pictures High-Class Moving Pictures: Lyman H. Lowe and the Forgotten Era of Traveling Exhibitions 1880-1920 Before the Nickelodeon: Edwin S. Porter and the Edison Manufacturing Company
Musser, Charles [Ed.] Waller, Gregory Main Street Amusements: Movies and Commercial Entertainment in a Southern City 1896-1930
Myers, Jeffrey Gary Cooper: An American Hero
Oderman, Stuart Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle: A Biography of the Silent Film Comedian 1887-1933
Oldham, Gabriella Keaton's Silent Shorts: Beyond the Laughter
Paris, Barry Garbo Louise Brooks
Pearson, Roberta E. Eloquent Gestures: The Transformation of Performance Style in the Griffith Biograph Films
Petro, Patrice Joyless Streets: Women and Melodramatic Representation in Weimar Germany
Quirk, Lawrence The Films of Gloria Swanson
Ralston, Esther Some Day We'll Laugh
Ross, Steven J. Working-Class Hollywood: Silent Film and the Shaping of Class in America
Schickel, Richard D.W. Griffith: An American Life
Schneider, Rex and Christopher Buchman Movie Posters of the Silent Film Era
Sinyard, Neil Classic Movie Comedians Silent Movies The Films of Afred Hitchcock
Skal, David J. and Elias Savada Dark Carnival: The Secret World of Tod Browning
Sklar, Robert and Charles Musser Resisting Images: Essays on Cinema and History (Critical Perspective on the Past Series)
Slide, Anthony with Alan Grevinson The Big V: A Hisotry of the Vitagraph Company, A New and Revised Edition
Slide, Anthony [Ed.] Before, In and After Hollywood: The Life of Joseph E. Henabery
Slide, Anthony [Ed.], Translated by Roberta and Simone Blache The Memoirs of Alice Guy Blache
Soares, Andre Beyond Paradise: The Life of Ramon Novarro
Swenson, Karen Greta Garbo: A Life Apart
Thompson, Frank Lost Films: Important Movies That Disappeared
Tierney, Tom Greta Garbo Paper Dolls in Full Color
Tryster, Hillel Israel Before Israel: Silent Cinema in the Holy Land
Usai, Paolo Cherchi Burning Passions: An Introduction to the Study of Silent Cinema
Vance, Jeffrey, Suzanne Lloyd and Jack Lemmon(Review) Harold Lloyd: Master Comedian
Vidor, King A Tree Is A Tree King Vidor (The Directors Guild of America Oral History Series Number 4)
Vitone, R.J. and Roy Kinnard The American Films of Michael Curtiz
Wagenknecht, Edward Movies In The Age of Innocence
Whitfield, Eileen Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood
Youngblood, Denise J. Soviet Cinema in the Silent Era, 1918-1935
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