商品簡介
"A tribute to American silent film from the first-person perspective of one who grew up with the medium, the volume surveys the pre-feature and feature era of silent films from a distinctly literary standpoint. With nearly 90 illustrations from early films, fan magazines and brochures, indices of film titles and credits, and an appendix"--
作者簡介
Edward Wagenknecht (1900–2004) was the author of well over 60 titles, covering a wide variety of subjects, most notably British and American literary biography and criticism. In addition to his work on the early film, he wrote of still earlier actors and actresses from the legitimate stage, and of the history of New England and Chicago.