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Silent Comedians
Richard Dyer Maccann
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Description for Silent Comedians
Hardback. MacCann features Mack Sennett, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, and Harry Langdon in this guide to the lives and works of the most important silent comedy movie-makers in America. Series: American Movies: The First Thirty Years S. Num Pages: 257 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 148 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
MacCann features Mack Sennett, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, and Harry Langdon in this guide to the lives and works of the most important silent comedy movie-makers in America_the fourth in his acclaimed series, American Movies: The First Thirty Years. In twenty-eight articles reprinted from various sources, twenty-five contributors show how these five artists struggled in early years to find themselves, rise above limited circumstances, and make their entries into production at a time when Hollywood was the new frontier of the twentieth century. For each artist, MacCann includes some kind of statement by the artist himself about ... Read more
MacCann features Mack Sennett, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, and Harry Langdon in this guide to the lives and works of the most important silent comedy movie-makers in America_the fourth in his acclaimed series, American Movies: The First Thirty Years. In twenty-eight articles reprinted from various sources, twenty-five contributors show how these five artists struggled in early years to find themselves, rise above limited circumstances, and make their entries into production at a time when Hollywood was the new frontier of the twentieth century. For each artist, MacCann includes some kind of statement by the artist himself about ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
257
Condition
New
Series
American Movies: The First Thirty Years S.
Number of Pages
257
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810827257
SKU
V9780810827257
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About Richard Dyer Maccann
Richard Dyer MacCann (Kansas, Stanford, Harvard) has taught at USC, Kansas, and Iowa. From 1951 to 1960 he was Hollywood correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor, and from 1967 to 1976 editor of Cinema Journal. He is the author of forty published articles and twelve books, including Hollywood in Transition, Film: A Montage of Theories, and The People's Films. He ... Read more
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