LAME BRAINS AND LUNATICS - new book on silent comedy
Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 11:12 pm
Hi guys
Wanted to announce that my book on silent comedy, LAME BRAINS AND LUNATICS: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE FORGOTTEN OF SILENT COMEDY, is now available on amazon.com.
http://www.amazon.com/Lame-Brains-Lunat ... teve+Massa
Devoted to unsung practitioners such as Billie Ritchie, Marcel Perez, Lige Conley, and George Rowe, with special focus on the neglected comediennes Alice Howell, Gale Henry, Fay Tincher, and Josie Sadler, detailed histories of silent comedy teams and kid's comedies are also offered. Popular icons such as Mack Sennett, Marie Dressler, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, and W.C. Fields are re-examined, plus looks are taken at Charles Parrott's career as a director, Max Linder's forays to America, Al St John's solo comedies, and Max Davidson and his screen family.
The book also contains over 225 rare photos from the collections of Sam Gill, Robert Arkus, Bob Birchard, Louie Despres, Cole Johnson, Mark Johnson, Jim Kerkhoff, Bruce Lawton, and Steve Rydzewski, plus frame scans from one of a kind nitrate prints courtesy of Elif Rongen-Kaynakci and The Film Institute, Netherlands.
Wanted to announce that my book on silent comedy, LAME BRAINS AND LUNATICS: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE FORGOTTEN OF SILENT COMEDY, is now available on amazon.com.
http://www.amazon.com/Lame-Brains-Lunat ... teve+Massa
Devoted to unsung practitioners such as Billie Ritchie, Marcel Perez, Lige Conley, and George Rowe, with special focus on the neglected comediennes Alice Howell, Gale Henry, Fay Tincher, and Josie Sadler, detailed histories of silent comedy teams and kid's comedies are also offered. Popular icons such as Mack Sennett, Marie Dressler, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, and W.C. Fields are re-examined, plus looks are taken at Charles Parrott's career as a director, Max Linder's forays to America, Al St John's solo comedies, and Max Davidson and his screen family.
The book also contains over 225 rare photos from the collections of Sam Gill, Robert Arkus, Bob Birchard, Louie Despres, Cole Johnson, Mark Johnson, Jim Kerkhoff, Bruce Lawton, and Steve Rydzewski, plus frame scans from one of a kind nitrate prints courtesy of Elif Rongen-Kaynakci and The Film Institute, Netherlands.