Table of Contents

Preface                  
1 An Industry and an Art 
z Going to the Movies    
3 Corporate Organization 
4 Making Movies          
5 Technology             
6 The Show               
7 Watching the Screen    
8 The Filmmakers         
9 The Stars              
10 The Envelope, Please  
List of Abbreviations    
Notes                    
Bibliography             
Picture Sources          
General Index            
Index of Films           

 

About the Author

Richard Koszarski is Head of Collections and Exhibitions at the American Museum of the Moving Image. He is author of The Man You Loved to Hate: Erich von Stroheim and Hollywood (1983) and editor of Film History.

Reviews

"[Koszarski] brings to the period not only a secure awareness of its motion pictures and major players, but also a joy in the appreciation of movies. His book is alive with the flavor of the great silent film era, its people, its products, even its advertisements."--Jeanine Basinger, "New York Times Book Review

"[Koszarski] brings to the period not only a secure awareness of its motion pictures and major players, but also a joy in the appreciation of movies. His book is alive with the flavor of the great silent film era, its people, its products, even its advertisements."--Jeanine Basinger, "New York Times Book Review