Anthony Slide has published over fifty pioneering works on film history, among them the first volumes dealing exclusively with early American cinema, the Vitagraph Company, the Fine Arts Company, filmmaking in Ireland, film preservation, and a non-theatrical film. He edits the Scarecrow Filmmakers Series and has produced a series of documentary films on silent screen personalities. In 1990 he was awarded an honorary doctorate of letters by Bowling Green University; Lillian Gish called him "our preeminent historian of the silent film."
Part 1 Introduction Chapter 2 1 Pre-Cinema Chapter 3 2 The Motion Picture
Patents Company and the Film Establishment Chapter 4 3 The Independents and
a New Establishment Chapter 5 4 The Feature Film Chapter 6 5 Thomas H. Ince
Chapter 7 6 D. W. Griffith Chapter 8 7 Sound and Music Chapter 9 8 The Star
System Chapter 10 9 The Role of Women Chapter 11 10 New Technologies
Chapter 12 11 Genres Chapter 13 12 The Language, Business, and Art of the
Film Part 14 General Bibliography Part 15 D. W. Griffith Bibliography Part
16 Thomas H. Ince Bibliography Part 17 Index
