Paddy Adamson, Associate Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of St Andrews, recently published his monograph Projecting America: The Epic Western and National Mythmaking in 1920s Hollywood. While this particular research interest is represented by one pick, albeit through a Danish interpretation of the genre, the rest of his picks showcase film comedy as it was interpreted in France, Italy, America, and beyond.

Paddy is also editor of Open Screens and Film Journal. His research on 1920s Westerns has appeared in journals including Film History.

Films mentioned:

• Slippery Jim (1909) - Segundo de Chomón
• The Curtain Pole (1909) - D.W. Griffith
• Happy New Year! (1909) - Arrigo Frusta
• The Two Gold Diggers (1909) - Viggo Larsen
• Why Girls Leave Home (1909) - unknown
• A Corner in Wheat (1909) - D.W. Griffith
• The Lonely Villa (1909) - D.W. Griffith
• A Trip to the Moon (1902) - Georges Méliès
• The Cowboy Millionaire (1909) - Francis Boggs and Otis Turner
• The Millionaire Cowboy (1913) - unknown
• The Red Man’s View (1909) - D.W. Griffith
• The House of Cards (1909) - Edwin S. Porter
• The Great Train Robbery (1903) - Edwin S. Porter
• The Hazards of Helen (1914-1917) - J.P. McGowan and J. Gunnis Davis
• The Kiss (1929) - Jacques Feyder
• The Goddess (1934) - Wu Yonggang
• New Women (1935) - Cai Cusheng
• Why Girls Leave Home (1913) - C.J. Williams