It’s a Wonderful Life:Representations of the Small Town in American Movies by Thomas Halper- Douglas Muzzio

“…From their inception, movies have served as one of the society’s principal means of discourse on the topic, generally lauding small towns during the silent era and the Depression, becoming steadily more critical after the war, and more recently depicting them as faded anachronisms. …”
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In the Shadow of the “Indeterminate Speech-Act”: The Populist Politics of Rumor in Fritz Lang’s Early Sound Films by Florian Zappe

“…While his films of the silent era remain politically ambiguous and have often been accused of foreshadowing fascist themes and aesthetics, the sound films produced shortly before and after Lang’s emigration to the United States take a clear political stand with regards to the toxic effects of rumors as expressions of populist sentiments and, in this, provide a gateway to the director’s integration into American liberalism.…”
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Cinephemera Round Trip. Postcards for and by Anselmo Ballester by Stefania Babboni, Sara Martin

“…His postcards are analyzed in their double role of ephemera of his personal collection, and paratexts created for his clients, in the period between the silent era, until the 1950s. The assay will examine only a limited number of postcards when compared to the extent and variety of his artistic production. …”
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A Critique on the Book Silent Cinema by Liam O’Leary, Paul A. Schroeder Rodriguez, translated by Majid Mostafavi by Hamed Fardar, Hamid Dehghanpour

“…It is also about the historical narratives that have been polished and expanded our understanding of the silent era over time. This book is a combination of two separate books by Liam Olieri and Paul Schroder Rodriguez, a concise, compelling narrative of those early years. …”
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