Hollywood in the Twenties: A complete Critical Survey of Hollywood Films from 1920 - 1930

by David Robinson

A history of the American film industry and its leading figures from the end of World War I to the stock market crash

Genres: Film, Nonfiction, History

220 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1968

About the author

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David Robinson (born 1930) is a British film critic and author. He started writing for Sight and Sound and the Monthly Film Bulletin in the 1950s, becoming Assistant Editor of Sight and Sound and Editor of the Monthly Film Bulletin in 1957-1958. He was film critic of The Financial Times from 1958 to 1973, before taking up the same post at The Times in 1973. He remained the paper's main film reviewer until around 1990 and a regular contributor until around 1996.

Reviews

[Jill H. · Rating 2 out of 5]

I am a fan of the silent film and some of the classics (The Wind; Birth of a Nation; Sunrise), so I was looking forward to this study of the movies of the 1920s. I was disappointed.

The format was rather unusual which didn't make for easy reading and the author didn't give much attention to some of the major players of the period who may be forgotten today but were stars in the silents. (Francis X. Bushman, Mae Murray, Harry Langdon).

It is not a book for those who have some knowledge of the 1920s silents and I'm not sure it would be a book for those who are just being introduced to that film time period. The writing style was pedestrian and, frankly, I was bored.

[Tom Nittoli · Rating 3 out of 5]

Reads like a text book in two hundred pages. With not a whole lot to offer outside filmography, brief synopsis of the films, and very little critique I found the book to be a little disappointing. How do you read a book like this? Should I queue up every movie mentioned, and seek out to see them all? Any book about a decade that covers Buster Keaton and Charles Chaplin, when they were in top form, in four pages is really just selling it's self short. It's my fault for expecting so much from a book that cost me 25 cents... haha.

[Syifa Adiba · Rating 3 out of 5]

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[Kathleen · Rating 3 out of 5]

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