Suggestions for Further Reading

Those who wish to read more about silent film fiction and about silent cinema as reflected in other media and arts of the period may be interested in the following sources (in chronological order of publication):

Peter A. Soderbergh, “Birth of a Notion: Edward Strate-meyer and the Movies”, Midwest Quarterly 14.1 (October 1972): 81–94.

Ludwig Greve, et al (eds.), Hätte ich das Kino! : die Schriftsteller und der Stummfilm (Stuttgart: Schiller-Nationalmuseum, 1976).

C. B. Morris, This Loving Darkness: the Cinema and Spanish Writers, 1920–1936 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980).

John T. Dizer, Tom Swift and Company: “Boys’ Books” by Stratemeyer and Others (Jefferson: McFarland, 1982).

Fritz Güttinger (ed.), Kein Tag ohne Kino: Schriftsteller über den Stummfilm: Textsammlung (Frankfurt am Main: Deutsches Filmmuseum, 1984).

Franz-Josef Albersmeier, Die Herausforderung des Films an die Französische Literatur: Entwurf Einer “Literaturgeschichte des Films”, Band I: Die Epoche des Stummfilms (1895–1930) (Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, 1985).

Nancy Brooker-Bowers, The Hollywood Novel and Other Novels About Film, 1912–1982: An Annotated Bibliography (New York; London: Garland, 1985).

Jerry Heil, “Russian Writers and the Cinema in the Early 20th Century – a Survey”, Russian Literature 19.2 (1986): 143–74.

Anthony Slide (ed.), The Picture Dancing on a Screen: Poetry of the Cinema (Vestal, N.Y.: Vestal Press, 1988).

Donald Crafton, Emile Cohl, Caricature, and Film (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990).

Peter John Keating, “‘Novels in nutshells’: British Novelists and the Cinematograph”, in D. Fraser (ed.), Cities, Class and Communication: Essays in Honour of Asa Briggs (London: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1990), 200–15.

Philip French and Ken Wlaschin (eds.), The Faber Book of Movie Verse (London: Faber and Faber, 1993).

Sabine Hake (ed.), The Cinema’s Third Machine: Writing on Film in Germany, 1907–1933 (Lincoln/London: University Nebraska Press, 1993).

Jerome Prieur (ed.), Le Spectateur Nocturne: les Ecrivains au Cinéma (Paris: Cahiers du Cinéma, 1993).

Ben Singer, “Fiction Tie-Ins and Narrative Intelligibility 1911–18”, Film History 5.4 (1993): 489–504.

Andrea Capovilla, Der Lebendige Schatten: Film in der Literatur bis 1938 (Köln, Weimar, Wien: Böhlau Verlag, 1994).

Tremblay Micheline, “La Présence du Cinéma Dans le roman Canadien-français de 1896 à 1970,” Thesis, ANRT, Lille, 1994.

Yuri Tsivian, Early Cinema in Russia and its Cultural Reception (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994).

Stephen Bottomore, “Reflet du Cinéma dans la Fiction littéraire française”, Archives, no. 61–62 (April/May 1995): 12–20.

Stephen Bottomore, I Want to See This Annie Mattygraph: a Cartoon History of the Coming of the Movies / Voglio Vedere Quest’annie Matografo: Le Origini del Cinema nei Disegni Umoristici dell’Epoca (Gemona/Bloomington: Le Giornate del Cinema Muto: Indiana University Press, 1995).

Manuel González Casanova (ed.), Los Escritores Mexicanos y los Inicios del Cine, 1896–1907 (Culiacan: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 1995).

Anthony Slide, The Hollywood Novel: a Critical Guide to Over 1200 Works With Film-Related Themes or Characters, 1912 Through 1994 (Jefferson: McFarland, 1995).

Colin Harding and Simon Popple (eds.), In the Kingdom of Shadows: a Companion to Early Cinema (London/Madison: Cygnus Arts/Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1996).

Ken Wlaschin, Opera on Screen [CD-ROM] (Los Angeles: Beachwood Press, 1997/2008).

A. G. Litton, “The Kinetoscope in McTeague”, Studies in American Fiction 19.1 (1999): 107–12.

Anne Morey, “Acting Naturally: Juvenile Series Fiction About Moviemaking”, Aura 6.2 (2000): 90–112.

Leonardo Quaresima and Laura Vichi (eds.), La Decima Musa: Il Cinema e le Altre Arti; The Tenth Muse: Cinema and Other Arts (Udine: Forum, 2001).

Patricia McDonnell and Robert C. Allen (eds.), On the Edge of Your Seat: Popular Theater and Film in Early Twentieth-Century American Art (New Haven/Minneapolis: Yale University Press/Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, 2002).

Frank Kessler, Sabine Lenk and Martin Loiperdinger, “Wort und Bild”, issue of KINtop no.13 (2004).

Richard Crangle, Mervyn Heard and Ine Van Dooren (eds.), Realms of Light: Uses and Perceptions of the Magic Lantern From the 17th to the 21st Century (London: Magic Lantern Society, 2005).

Jonathan Enfield, “‘A More Glittering, a Grosser Power’: American Film and Fiction, 1915–1941...