Harold Lloyd: A Bio-Bibliography

(Hardback)

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One of the most significant contributors to the early years of the motion picture industry, Harold Lloyd was also a shrewd businessman and became the wealthiest man in Hollywood at the peak of his career. Perhaps more than any other major star of the silent era, his characters mirrored his times and captivated his contemporaries. His experiments with camera placement and motion were vital to the evolution of filmmaking techniques. This book includes a short biography of Lloyd and detailed information about all of his performances. The biography overviews his childhood, his adolescent stage career, his work in silent and talking pictures, his family life, and the work of his major contemporaries. A chapter on his film work includes entries for all of his shorts and features, including cameo roles and newsreels. Other chapters describe Lloyd's radio and television work, sheet music and recordings inspired by his films, and his many awards and honors. An annotated bibliography cites books, magazines, newspapers, oral histories, and interviews. Eleven photographs illustrate his work.

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." . .this book should be required reading for all serious students of silent American cinema."-Richard Correll Warner Bros. Television
Opening with a chronology of events, this book then provides an annotated biography which does well encompassing the comedian's life in just over fifty pages, while also providing brief bios of performers like Chaploin Keaton as they're mentioned in context...a very thorough and useful reference source.-Film Quarterly
The biography is most valuable because of keyed references to items in the bibliography and filmography that enable readers to identify commentary on specific aspects of Lloyd's work from sources as diverse as television news shows, gossip magazines, and scholarly film journals. Recommended for specialized collections in film, theater, and American studies.-Choice
"Opening with a chronology of events, this book then provides an annotated biography which does well encompassing the comedian's life in just over fifty pages, while also providing brief bios of performers like Chaploin Keaton as they're mentioned in context...a very thorough and useful reference source."-Film Quarterly
"The biography is most valuable because of keyed references to items in the bibliography and filmography that enable readers to identify commentary on specific aspects of Lloyd's work from sources as diverse as television news shows, gossip magazines, and scholarly film journals. Recommended for specialized collections in film, theater, and American studies."-Choice

Author Bio

ANNETTE M. D'AGOSTINO is an Adjunct Professor of Speech Communication at Hofstra University, where she teaches courses in public speaking and communication theory. She was formerly an Adjunct Professor of Communication at William Paterson College and has worked as a freelance video producer for various corporations. She is currently compiling An Index to Silent and Feature Film Reviews in Moving Picture World: The Silent Years, 1907-1927 for Greenwood Press, scheduled for release in 1995.