| Abstract: | David A. Cook, A History of Narrative Film (New York: W. W. Norton, 1981 -- $15.95 paper) Gerald Mast, A Short History of the Movies, 3rd edition (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Educational Publishing, 1981 -- $12.95 paper, issued in hardcover by University of Chicago Press for $20.00) A. R. Fulton, Motion Pictures: The Development of an Art Revised Edition (Norman: The University of Oklahoma Press, 1981 -- $14.95 in hardcover) Richard Koszarski (ed.), The Rivals of D. W. Griffith: Alternative Auteurs, 1913-18 (First published by the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, now available from New York Zoetrope, 31 East Twelfth Street, New York City 10003 for $4.95 in paperback) Anthony Slide and Edward Wagenkneckt, Fifty Great American Silent Films, 1912- 1920 (New York: Dover, 1980 -- $6.95 paper). Peter Roffman and Jim Purdy, The Hollywood Social Problem Film: Madness, Despair and Politics from the Depression to the Fifties (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1981 -- $25.00 cloth/$12.95 paperback) I. G. Edmonds and Reiko Mimura, Paramount Pictures and the People Who Made Them (San Diego: A. S. Barnes, 1980 -- $17.50 hardcover) |
