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Do you love exploring silent comedy? How about getting to know obscure silent performers? If your answer to both questions is “Heck yes!” (and why wouldn’t it be?) then you’…
My review of the new DVD set The Alice Howell Collection. Alice was a popular slapstick comedienne in the 1910s and 1920s (she reminds me a lot of Lucille Ball!) who’s largely forgotten today. Happily, a number of her shorts survived to be restored and made available for us today!
Slapstick Divas
Some things are just self-evident; one of these verities is that if Steve Massa has something to say, we want to hear it, and I’m pretty sure our readers do too, whether it’s in person at the Silent Clowns Film Series he co-produces with Bruce Lawton and Ben Model; or the blog entries he writes that illuminate the collections of the New York Public Library’s Performing Arts division, where he…
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Fans of film history–rejoice! For in the Year of our Lord two thousand and seventeen, the library of essential early film books like The Parade’s Gone By and Mack Sennett’s Fun Fa…
Here's Silent-ology's review of the new book "Slapstick Divas: The Women of Silent Comedy." Spoiler alert: BUY IT. :-D
New research on silent comedy has been on the rise in the past decade, and quite a bit of this is thanks to the tireless efforts of renowned historian Steve Massa. Silent-ology is very pleased to p…
I’m happy to present this exclusive Silent-ology interview with film historian Steve Massa, talking about his brand-new book Slapstick Divas: The Women of Silent Comedy!
