Books written by Kevin Brownlow

  • Silent Women: Pioneers of Cinema
    Silent Women: Pioneers of Cinema

    She has recently given a TEDx talk about inspiring change. www.melodybridges.com Cheryl Robson is a producer/director of several short independent films, most recently Rock 'n' Roll Island which was nominated for Best Short Film for ...

  • David Lean: A Biography
    David Lean: A Biography

    22 One of David's most ardent industry admirers, Gordon Hales, by now an editor himself, considered this film the crown of David's achievements. “I was terribly impressed. I could go on for ages about the wonders of the film.

  • The Parade's Gone By
    The Parade's Gone By

    This book attempts to correct the distortions, for the silent era was the richest in the cinema's history. The author has tried to recapture the spirit of era through the words of those who created it.

  • David Lean: A Biography
    David Lean: A Biography

    The vastness of this scholarly and entertaining enterprise is augmented by sixteen pages of scenes from Lean's color films, thirty-two pages from his black-and-white movies, and throughout the text a vast number of photographs from his life ...

  • The West, The War, and The Wilderness
    The West, The War, and The Wilderness

    It is the triumph of this book to reconstruct the dramatic moments when these men and women contrived, against ordinary odds, to bring to movie audiences for the first time, the look, the feel—the actuality—of large events and distant ...

  • Winstanley: Warts and All
    Winstanley: Warts and All

    Winstanley: Warts and All" is the story of the making of the film "Winstanley", written by director Kevin Brownlow and now published for the first time, telling what went wrong (everything), and how the film was kept from audiences all over ...

  • Hollywood: les pionniers

    Très beau livre-album sur divers aspects du cinéma à Hollywood, principalement durant les 30 premières années du 20e siècle. Le présent ouvrage a été réalisé par l'un des auteurs d'une série télévisée sur le sujet.

  • The Search for Charlie Chaplin
    The Search for Charlie Chaplin

    Apart from the experience of making the series, we learned so much about Chaplin we could not squeeze into the commentary we decided to preserve it in the form of a book.

  • Douglas Fairbanks and the American Century
    Douglas Fairbanks and the American Century

    A critical study of Fairbank's acting career and his brand as the ultimate American

  • Hollywood

    Hollywood

  • Albert Capellani: Pioneer of the Silent Screen

    This is a detailed biography of Albert Capellani, affectionately nicknamed 'Cap' by the Americans.

  • Napoleon, Abel Gance's Classic Film

    Describes the making of the silent movie, Napoleon, and depicts the struggle to reconstruct the original version of the film

  • David Lean Biography

    David Lean Biography

  • Napoleon, Abel Gance's 1927 Masterpiece

    Napoleon, Abel Gance's 1927 Masterpiece

  • La parade est passée...

    La Parade est passée est l’opus magnum de l’historien du cinéma muet Kevin Brownlow. Best-seller international, jamais traduit en France, ce livre rassemble les témoignages des plus grands acteurs et...

  • Pioniere des Films: vom Stummfilm bis Hollywood
    Pioniere des Films: vom Stummfilm bis Hollywood

    Pioniere des Films: vom Stummfilm bis Hollywood

  • Alla ricerca di Charlie Chaplin. Unknown Chaplin. Con DVD
    Alla ricerca di Charlie Chaplin. Unknown Chaplin. Con DVD

    Alla ricerca di Charlie Chaplin. Unknown Chaplin. Con DVD

  • Entre marcas: memorias del crítico argentino más influyente de la publicidad y elmarketing

    Entre marcas: memorias del crítico argentino más influyente de la publicidad y elmarketing

  • David Lean: une vie de cinéma

    Retrace la vie du réalisateur de cinéma britannique D. Lean (1908-1991).

  • Napoléon: le grand classique d'Abel Gance

    Fervent admirateur de Napoléon depuis l'adolescence, le grand historien du cinéma Kevin Brownlow s'est attaché sa vie durant à ressusciter ce film mythique et à en redonner «la» version, authentique et seule fidèle à la ...