Volume 3 of A History of Early Film examines critical responses to early cinema, including
the impassioned thoughts of one of the first film critics, the American poet Vachel Lindsay …

Evanescent monuments and dazzling world pictures: object lessons in modernity s the study
of early cinema broadens, it reveals itself less as a narrow, spe-cialized field than as a …

Part of the problem in America and in England is that film historiography has never been
considered a serious profession. Yet to write film history one needs more than money and …

The history of film cannot be credited to one individual as an oversimplification of any history
often tries to do. Each inventor added to the progress of other inventors, culminating in …

The year 2003. Is anyone going to celebrate the centennial of Edwin S. Porter's THE GREAT
TRAIN RoBBERY this year? I have not yet heard of any planned conferences or special …

By general agreement, 1939 was the cinema's greatest year. But what about the silent era? I
would select either 1925-the year of Ben-Hur, The Big Parade, The Gold Rush, Stella Dallas …