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McCrisken, Trevor B., and Andrew Pepper. American History and
Contemporary Hollywood Film. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers
University Press, 2005.
Mast, Gerald, ed. The Movies in Our Midst: Documents in the
Cultural History of Film in America. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1982.
Monaco, Paul. The Sixties, 1960–1969. History of the American
Cinema 8. New York: Scribner, 2001.
Musser, Charles. The Emergence of Cinema: The American Screen to
1907. History of the American Cinema 1. New York: Scribner,
1990.
Prince, Stephen. A New Pot of Gold: Hollywood under the Electronic
Rainbow, 1980–1989. History of the American Cinema 10. New
York: Scribner, 2000.
Sarris, Andrew. The American Cinema: Directors and Directions,
1929–1968.New York: Dutton, 1968.
———. “You Ain’t Heard Nothing Yet”: The American Talking Film,
History and Memory, 1929–1949.New York: Oxford University
Press, 1998.
Schatz, Thomas. Boom and Bust: The American Cinema in the 1940s.
History of the American Cinema 6. New York: Scribner, 1997.
Sklar, Robert. Movie-Made America: A Cultural History of American
Movies.Rev. and updated ed. New York: Vintage, 1994.
Thomson, David. The Whole Equation: A History of Hollywood.New
York: Knopf, 2005.


Major Stylistic Movements in Film History
The First Movies
Abel, Richard. Americanizing the Movies and “Movie-Mad”
Audiences, 1910–1914.Berkeley: University of California Press,
2006.
———. The Ciné Goes to Town: French Cinema, 1896–1914.Updated
and exp. ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.
———, ed. Encyclopedia of Early Cinema.New York: Routledge,
2005.
Abel, Richard. The Red Rooster Scare: Making Cinema American,
1900–1910.Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.
Acker, Ally. Reel Women: Pioneers of the Cinema, 1896 to the Present.
New York: Continuum, 1991.
Allen, Robert C. Vaudeville and Film, 1895–1915: A Study in Media
Interaction.New York: Arno, 1980.
Brewster, Ben, and Lea Jacobs. Theatre to Cinema: Stage
Pictorialism and the Early Feature Film. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1997.
Brownlow, Kevin. The War, the West, and the Wilderness. New York:
Knopf, 1979.
Chanan, Michael. The Dream That Kicks: The Prehistory and Early
Years of Cinema in Britain. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 1996.
Cherchi Usai, Paolo. Silent Cinema: An Introduction.London:
British Film Institute, 2000.
Cherchi Usai, Paolo, and Lorenzo Codelli, eds. Before Caligari:
German Cinema, 1895–1920. Pordenone, Italy: Edizioni
Biblioteca dell’Immagine, 1990.
Elsaesser, Thomas, ed. Early Cinema: Space, Frame, Narrative.
London: BFI, 1990.
Fell, John L., ed. Film before Griffith. Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1983.
Gabler, Neal. An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented
Hollywood. New York: Crown, 1988.
Hammond, Paul. Marvellous Méliès. New York: St. Martin’s, 1975.


Hendricks, Gordon. The Edison Motion Picture Myth.Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1961.
Keil, Charlie, and Shelley Stamp, eds. American Cinema’s
Transitional Era: Audiences, Institutions, Practices.Berkeley:
University of California Press, 2004.
Kobel, Peter. Silent Movies: The Birth of Film and the Triumph of
Movie Culture. Boston: Little, Brown, 2007.
Leyda, Jay, and Charles Musser. Before Hollywood: Turn-of-the-
Century Film from American Archives. New York: American
Federation of the Arts, 1986.
Mahar, Karen Ward. Women Filmmakers in Early Hollywood.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
Musser, Charles. Before the Nickelodeon: Edwin S. Porter and the
Edison Manufacturing Company.Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1991.
Rossell, Deac. Living Pictures: The Origins of the Movies.Albany: State
University of New York Press, 1998.
Youngblood, Denise J. The Magic Mirror: Moviemaking in Russia,
1908–1918.Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1999.

Classical Hollywood Style: The Silent Period
Balio, Tino, ed. The American Film Industry.Rev. ed. Madison:
University of Wisconsin Press, 1985.
Bean, Jennifer M., and Diane Negra, eds. A Feminist Reader in
Early Cinema. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2002.
Brownlow, Kevin. The Parade’s Gone By. New York: Knopf, 1968.
Card, James. Seductive Cinema: The Art of Silent Film. New York:
Knopf, 1994.
Cohen, Paula Marantz. Silent Film and the Triumph of the American
Myth. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
DeBauche, Leslie Midkiff. Reel Patriotism: The Movies and World
Wa r I. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1997.
Grieveson, Lee, and Peter Krämer, eds. The Silent Cinema Reader.
London: Routledge, 2004.
Gunning, Tom. D. W. Griffith and the Origins of American Narrative
Film: The Early Years at Biograph. Urbana: University of
Illinois Press, 1991.
Keil, Charlie. Early American Cinema in Transition: Story, Style, and
Filmmaking, 1907–1913.Madison: University of Wisconsin
Press, 2001.
Kobel, Peter, and the Library of Congress. Silent Movies: The Birth
of Film and the Triumph of Movie Culture.New York: Little,
Brown, 2007.
Morey, Anne. Hollywood Outsiders: The Adaptation of the Film
Industry, 1913–1934. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota
Press, 2003.
Negra, Diane, and Jennifer M. Bean, eds. Early Women Stars.
Special ed. of Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media
Studies48 (2001).
Pratt, George C. Spellbound in Darkness: A History of the Silent
Film.Greenwich, Conn.: New York Graphic Society, 1973.

German Expressionism
Barlow, John D. German Expressionist Film. Boston: Twayne, 1982.
Budd, Mike, ed. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari: Texts, Contexts, Histories.
New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1990.
Eisner, Lotte H. F. W. Murnau.Berkeley: University of California
Press, 1983.
———. Fritz Lang. Ed. David Robinson. Trans. Gertrud Mander.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1977.

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