This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libelous. Find sources: "Charles Musser" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR(January 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
Charles Musser
Born
Charles John Musser
(1951-01-16) January 16, 1951 (age 73)
Stamford, Connecticut
Education
St. Paul's School Yale University New York University
Occupation(s)
film historian documentarian editor
Years active
1972-present
Notable work
An American Potter (1976) Before the Nickelodeon: The Early Cinema of Edwin S. Porter (1982) Errol Morris: A Lightning Sketch (2014)
Charles John Musser (born 16 January 1951) is a film historian, documentary filmmaker, and a film editor.[1] Since 1992, he has taught at Yale University, where he is currently a professor of Film and Media Studies as well as American Studies and Theater Studies. His research has primarily focused on early cinema, and topics such as Edwin S. Porter, Oscar Micheaux, race cinema of the silent era, Paul Robeson, film performance, as well as a variety of issues and individuals in documentary. His films include An American Potter (1976), Before the Nickelodeon: The Early Cinema of Edwin S. Porter (1982) and Errol Morris: A Lightning Sketch (2014).[2]
^Gomery, Douglas (Summer 1983). "Historical Method and Data Acquisition". Cinema Journal. 22 (4): 58. doi:10.2307/1224954. JSTOR 1224954.
^"Charles Musser". yale.edu. Yale University. Retrieved 29 August 2023.
Lightning Sketch (2014). Musser was born in Stamford, Connecticut and grew up in Old Greenwich and Riverside. The son of Robert John Musser, who worked for Union...
Mormon pioneer Alec Musser (1973–2024), American fitness model and actor Andy Musser (1937–2012), American sportscaster CharlesMusser (born 1951), American...
Rossell (2022), p. 54; Musser (1994), pp. 145–48. Rossell (2022), p. 56 n. 59; Musser (1994), p. 86. Musser (2002), pp. 13–14; Musser (1994), pp. 109–11....
[ISBN missing] CharlesMusser, The Emergence of Cinema: the American Screen to 1907 (Charles Scribner’s Sons, US, 1990) [ISBN missing] CharlesMusser, Before...
develop it in his more famous film of 1903, The Great Train Robbery. CharlesMusser, a film scholar, points out that this film represents the social role...
Studio", Black Maria. 1894 – Carmencita, according to film historian CharlesMusser, directed and produced by William K.L. Dickson, the Scottish inventor...
commerciale | CNC". www.cnc.fr (in French). Retrieved April 12, 2024. CharlesMusser, The Emergence of Cinema: The American Screen to 1907, pp. 197–200....
Nineteenth-Century Australia (University of New South Wales Press, 2000), p. 177. CharlesMusser, "Comparison and Judgment across Theater, Film, and the Visual Arts...
of a synagogue in Philadelphia. He was the grandfather of CharlesMusser. "Dr. John Musser". Bedford Gazette. March 25, 1949. Retrieved February 14, 2018...
became friends and went to boxing matches together. Film historian CharlesMusser notes, "African Americans' embrace of Jolson was not a spontaneous reaction...
Hungary) Before the Nickelodeon: The Early Cinema of Edwin S. Porter (CharlesMusser, USA) City Lovers (Barney Simon, South Africa) Coming of Age (Josh Hanig...
talking excitedly and making funny facial expressions. According to CharlesMusser in Before the Nickelodeon, "It was suggested that the old maid was busy...
when Effie Musser sold her potato chips through a distributor, who put them in distinctive tins, and named them Charles Chips after Charles Street in Baltimore...
and president of the institution. In 2016, Stewart collaborated with CharlesMusser on curating the DVD set Pioneers of African-American Cinema. During...
White Musser (March 8, 1872 – March 29, 1954) was a Mormon fundamentalist leader. Musser was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Amos Milton Musser (an assistant...
Nickelodeon: Edwin S. Porter and the Edison Manufacturing Company by CharlesMusser". Technology and Culture. 34 (1): 166–167. doi:10.2307/3106478. JSTOR 3106478...
many early instances of filmed theater. According to film historian CharlesMusser, Carmencita was the first woman to appear in a modern motion picture...
Washington, D.C: U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 3. OCLC 1193999715. CharlesMusser (4 May 1994). The Emergence of Cinema: The American Screen to 1907....
Originally in Edison Films catalog, February 1903, 2–3; reproduced in CharlesMusser, Before the Nickelodeon: Edwin S. Porter and the Edison Manufacturing...
great depth of field and with camera panning to follow the characters. CharlesMusser considers that this is Porter's most radical film because of the way...
Warren Van Dyke "Pete" Musser (December 15, 1926 – November 25, 2019) was the chairman of the Musser Group. He was the founder of Safeguard Scientifics...
19, 2021. CharlesMusser, The Emergence of Cinema – The American Screen to 1907, University of California Press, 1994, p.393. CharlesMusser, Before the...
and Time Hubble Telescope News Release, June 24, 2004 Harpole, Charles; CharlesMusser; Eileen Bowser; Richard Koszarski; Donald Crafton; Tino Balio;...
Global Information