Camera Distance and Max Linder at Pathé-Frères by Charles O’Brien

“… This article surveys staging practices in a sample of films from Pathé-Frères featuring the comedian Max Linder. The examination concerns the distance between camera and actor, and particularly the tendency in cinema by 1910 to reduce the distance in ways that enable the naturalism of actors' performances. …”
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Uma História Transnacional do Cinema? revendo cômicos e vamps com Siegfried Kracauer by Rafael Morato Zanatto

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Filmer le théâtre comme un sujet de cinéma: le point de vue du spectateur dans Max joue le drame (Pathé 1914) by Sophie Rabouh

“…This re-appropriation of the theatre by cinema is run through dynamically by a vector, Max Linder, whose central action and interaction with the theatre cast as a subject creates a point of view for the film viewer that is both inside and outside the film and in this way is truly cinematic. …”
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