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• La Cinematografia futurista : manifesto futurista pubblicato nel 9o numero del giornale "L'Italia futurista" (Direzione del movimento futurista, 1916), by F. T. Marinetti (page images at HathiTrust)

• World costumes. With 16 plates in colour and 142 p. of drawings. (Macmillan, 1953), by Angela Bradshaw (page images at HathiTrust)
• The international system of garment cutting : including coats, trousers, breeches, and vests, with diagrams and full instructions for dealing with all forms of disproportion (Thornton Institute, 1911), by J. P. Thornton (page images at HathiTrust)

• Haute Couture (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1995), by Richard Martin and Harold Koda (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Katalog pervoĭ vystavki Moskovskoĭ assot︠s︡iat︠s︡ii khudozhnikov dekoratorov (Izd. Moskovskoĭ assot︠s︡iat︠s︡ii khudozhnikov dekoratorov, 1929), by Moskovskai︠a︡ assot︠s︡iat︠s︡ii︠a︡ khudozhnikov dekoratorov (page images at HathiTrust)

• Style. (New York ; Paris : American Fashion Company, 1916) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Review Dec. 1923-Sept. 1937 (J. M. O'Connor & Co., in the 20th century) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Das Kleid der Frau ein Beitrag zur künstlerischen Gestaltung des Frauen-Kleides (Koch, 1904), by Alfred Mohrbutter (page images at HathiTrust)

• B. Altman & Co. fall and winter : catalogue number one hundred ten (Altman & Co., 1915), by B. Altman & Co (page images at HathiTrust)

• Exclusive automobile apparel and requisites. (Saks & Co., 1905), by N.Y.) Saks & Company (New York (page images at HathiTrust)

• Early Film Culture in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China: Kaleidoscopic Histories (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2018), ed. by Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Exploring Hong Kong Films of the 1930s and 1940s (English edition, 2 volumes; Hong Kong: Hong Kong Film Archive, c2022), ed. by Kwok Ching-Ling and May Ng
  • Part 1 (Era and Film History): PDF with commentary at filmarchive.gov.hk
  • Part 2 (Genres, Regions, Culture): PDF with commentary at filmarchive.gov.hk
• Early Film Culture in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China: Kaleidoscopic Histories (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2018), ed. by Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Neorrealismo y cine en Cuba: Historia y discurso en torno a la primera polémica de la Revolución, 1951–1962 (in Spanish; West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2020), by Anastasia Valecce (JSTOR ebook)

• Film Architecture and the Transnational Imagination: Set Design in 1930s European Cinema (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2007), by Tim Bergenfelder, Sue Harris, and Sarah Street (PDF at OAPEN)
• From Self-Fulfilment to Survival of the Fittest: Work in European Cinema from the 1960s to the Present (New York: Berghahn Books, 2015), by Ewa Mazierska (JSTOR ebook)

• Cinema is the Strongest Weapon: Race-Making and Resistance in Fascist Italy (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, c2023), by Lorenzo Fabbri (PDF with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Cinema is the Strongest Weapon: Race-Making and Resistance in Fascist Italy (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, c2023), by Lorenzo Fabbri (PDF with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Humour and Irony in Dutch Post-War Fiction Film (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2016), by Peter Verstraten
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Revisioning Europe: The Films of John Berger and Alain Tanner (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2011), by Jerry White (PDF at University of Calgary)

• Revisioning Europe: The Films of John Berger and Alain Tanner (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2011), by Jerry White (PDF at University of Calgary)

• Eiga nenkan (880-04 Tōkyō : Nihon Tosho Sentā, 2011., 1926), by Kenji Iwamoto, Asahi Shinbunsha. Asahi Gurafu Henshūbu, and Tōkyō Asahi Shinbunsha (page images at HathiTrust)

• Parameters of Disavowal: Colonial Representation in South Korean Cinema (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2018), by Jinsoo An (JSTOR ebook)

• Cold War Cosmopolitanism: Period Style in 1950s Korean Cinema (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2020), by Christina Klein (JSTOR ebook)

• Cinematic Independence: Constructing the Big Screen in Nigeria (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2022), by Noah Tsika (JSTOR ebook)

• Lahore Cinema: Between Realism and Fable (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2022), by Iftikhar Dadi (JSTOR ebook)

• Lahore Cinema: Between Realism and Fable (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2022), by Iftikhar Dadi (JSTOR ebook)

• Global Movie Magazine Networks (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2025), ed. by Kelley Conway and Eric Hoyt (JSTOR ebook)

• Writing National Cinema: Film Journals and Film Culture in Peru (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press, Published by University Press of New England, c2009), by Jeffrey Middents (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)

• Vision's Immanence: Faulkner, Film, and the Popular Imagination (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2004), by Peter Lurie (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Living Labor: Fiction, Film, and Precarious Work (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), by Joseph B. Entin (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• The Roman Salute: Cinema, History, Ideology (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Martin M. Winkler (PDF at Ohio State)
• Beyond the Movie Theater: Sites, Sponsors, Uses, Audiences (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2023), by Gregory A. Waller (JSTOR ebook)
• Transactions with the World: Ecocriticism and the Environmental Sensibility of New Hollywood (New York: Berghahn Books, 2016), by Adam O’Brien (JSTOR ebook)

• Beyond the Movie Theater: Sites, Sponsors, Uses, Audiences (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2023), by Gregory A. Waller (JSTOR ebook)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Magic shadows; the story of the origin of motion pictures. (Quigley Pub. Co., 1960), by Martin Quigley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of the motion picture, 65 B.C. to 1920 A.D. (Reeland, 1920), by Ben J. Lubschez (page images at HathiTrust)
• See and hear ([New York], 1929), by Will H. Hays (page images at HathiTrust)
• Magic shadows : the story of the origin of motion pictures (Georgetown University Press, 1948), by Martin Quigley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The house that shadows built (Doubleday, Doran, 1928), by Will Irwin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Blond Venus: a life of Marlene Dietrich. (Roy Publishers, 1956), by Leslie Frewin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Motion pictures; an outline of the history and achievements of the screen from its earliest beginnings to the present day. (Published for the American Institute of the City of New York by Doubleday, Doran, 1929), by Will H. Hays (page images at HathiTrust)
• Motion pictures (Library of Congress :, 1998), by Iris Newsom and Library of Congress (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lichtspieltheater eine Sammlung ausgefuhrter Kinohauser in Gross-Berlin: 109 Abbildungen mit Text (E. Wasmuth, 1914), by Hans Schliepmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire du cinématographe de ses origines à nos jours (Éditions du "Cinéopse" [etc.], 1925), by G.-Michel Coissac (page images at HathiTrust)
• An hour with the movies and the talkies (J. B. Lippincott company, 1929), by Gilbert Seldes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zvukovoe kino ("Petropolis", 1929), by Konstantin Miklashevskiĭ (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manual de cinematografía : como arte, como industria, como espectáculo y como profesión : la primera obra del género escrita en español (Colón, 1929), by Luis Gonzáles Alonso (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anatomy of motion picture art (Pool, 1928), by Eric Elliott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Picture plays and how to write them (The Picture Play Agency, 1911), by E. J. Muddle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Konet͡s nemogo kino : segodni͡a i zavtra zvuchashchego kino (Teakinopechatʹ, 1929), by E. Veĭsenberg, Aleksandr Fedorovich Shorin, and André Savine Collection (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le cinéma (Renaissance du livre, 1919), by Henri Diamant-Berger (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of the motion picture, 1895-1946. (The Museum of modern art, 1946), by N.Y.). Film Library Museum of Modern Art (New York and Arthur Rosenheimer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eiga 12-kō (880-03 Tōkyō : Shirōtosha, Taishō 15 [1926], 1926), by Akira Takeda (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kino i kinofabryka (Derzhavne vyd-vo Ukraïny, 1928), by Dmytro Buzʹko (page images at HathiTrust)
• El mundo de las sombras (A. Botas, 1920), by Carlos Noriega Hope (page images at HathiTrust)
• Film notes of Wisconsin Film Society (Wisconsin Film Society, 1960), by Arthur Lennig and Wisconsin Film Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Magic Shadows: The Story of the Origin of Motion Pictures, by Martin Quigley, contrib. by Edward Peck Curtis (Gutenberg ebook)
• Cancer, Research, and Educational Film at Midcentury: The Making of the Movie Challenge: Science Against Cancer (Boydell & Brewer, 2021), by David Cantor (JSTOR ebook)
• Premises and Problems: Essays on World Literature and Cinema (State University of New York Press, 2021), ed. by Luiza Franco Moreira (JSTOR ebook)

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