American Silent Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Feature Films, 1913-1929 (Paperback)

from goudsward

The Silent Era of films is not noted as a hotbed of horror. Most of the silent horror films most often cited and recalled are foreign imports such as Nosferatu (1922), The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) or The Golem (1920). American films, cognizant of the fact they were competing with vaudeville...

from mrsfiskeandco

A 9x11" 810 page two volume set, the authors clearly set out to write the definitive work on American horror and fantasy films in the silent era and have admirably suceeded. Each film profiled in the book receives approximately two pages with a full credits list, synopsis, a critique if the film ...

from bukwurm2

There are two things that clued me in to the massive amount of work put into this two-volume set. First, forgetting this was 'American' silent movies, I went pouring through looking for 'Cabinet of Dr. Caligari', 'Der Golem' and a few others, and only came up with a few mentions in critiques of o...

from Thomas64

A detailed overview of silent-era horror, fantasy, and sci-fi movies which covers classic silent films as well as turkeys. The coverage also includes a wide variety of lost films. The authors also take some unexpected positions, arguing, for example, that the long-lost Lon Chaney/Tod Browning fil...

from

This is two massive volumes topping out at a 810 pages of material. When first skimming the work, I was pleased that they had chosen a videography format with an index over the encyclopedic approach. In these types of reference books, I prefer to read about each individual film and those involved...