Upon its original publication in 1962, Edward Wagenknecht's The Movies in the Age of Innocence immediately earned recognition as a classic in the history of early cinema. A tribute to American silent film from the first-person perspective of one who grew up with the medium, the volume surveys the pre-feature and feature era of silent films from a distinctly literary standpoint and considers the careers of directors like D. W. Griffith and Erich von Stroheim, and actors such as Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford and Lillian Gish. With nearly 90 illustrations from early films, fan magazines and brochures, indices of film titles and names, and an appendix containing Wagenknecht's otherwise unavailable 1927 pamphlet Lillian Gish: An Interpretation, this third edition retains its significance today.
- ISBN10 078649462X
- ISBN13 9780786494620
- Publish Date 27 October 2014 (first published December 1962)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint McFarland & Co Inc
- Edition 3rd Revised edition
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 224
- Language English