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The book assembles comprehensive data on Stahls career, and on the forty feature films that he directed, half of them silent; of these silents, half have been found to survive, already inspiring film festival screenings and alerting scholars afresh to Stahls historical importance. The editors supply a wealth of introductory and linking material, providing a context for essays on each of the surviving films by an international range of writers: Jeremy Arnold (US), Tim Cawkwell (UK), Ed Gallafent (UK), Adrian Garvey (UK), Pamela Hutchinson (UK), Lea Jacobs (US), Richard Koszarski (US), Lawrence Napper (UK), Tom Ryan (Australia), Neil Sinyard (UK), Imogen Sara Smith (US), Tony Tracy (Ireland), Melanie Williams (UK).
About the author
Bruce Babington taught film for many years at Newcastle University. His publications include co-authored works with Peter W. Evans on Hollywood genres (the Musical, the Comedy of the Sexes. The Biblical Epic), and books on the British and New Zealand cinemas. His latest are
The Sports Film: Games People Play and
The Family Film in Global Cinema (co-edited with Noel Brown).
Charles Barr worked for many years at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, and has since taught in St Louis, Dublin and Galway. He was joint writer, with Stephen Frears, of
Typically British, Channel 4s centenary programme on British cinema. Publications include
Ealing Studios and
English Hitchcock; his most recent book is
Hitchcock, Lost and Found: the Forgotten Films, co-authored with Alain Kerzoncuf.
