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John Gilbert Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 378
ISBN: 9780813196497
Pub Date: 22 Feb 2022
Series: Screen Classics
Illustrations: 62 b&w halftones
Description:
Charming and classically handsome, John Gilbert (1897–1936) was among the world's most recognisable actors during the silent era. He was a wild, swashbuckling figure on screen and off, and accounts of his life have focused on his high-profile romances with Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich, his legendary conflicts with Louis B. Mayer, his four tumultuous marriages, and his swift decline after the introduction of talkies.
City of Dreams Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 328
ISBN: 9780813153445
Pub Date: 09 Nov 2021
Description:
Horror films. Deanna Durbin musicals. Francis the talking mule.
Voice of the Wildcats Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 328
ISBN: 9780813154619
Pub Date: 26 Oct 2021
Illustrations: 67 b&w photos
Description:
As one of the first voices of the University of Kentucky men's basketball program, Claude Sullivan (1924-1967) became a nationally known sportscasting pioneer. His career followed Kentucky's rise to prominence as he announced the first four NCAA championship titles under Coach Adolph Rupp and covered scrimmages during the canceled 1952-1953 season following the NCAA sanctions scandal. Sullivan also revolutionized the coverage of the UK football program with the introduction of a coach's show with Bear Bryant - a national first that gained significant attention and later became a staple at other institutions.
Columbia Pictures Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 314
ISBN: 9780813152158
Pub Date: 19 Oct 2021
Description:
The recent $3.4 billion purchase of Columbia Pictures by Sony Corporation focused attention on a studio that had survived one of Hollywood's worst scandals under David Begelman, as well as ownership by Coca-Cola and David Puttnam's misguided attempt to bring back the studio's glory days. Columbia Pictures traces Columbia's history from its beginnings as the CBC Film Sales Company (nicknamed "Corned Beef and Cabbage") through the regimes of Harry Cohn and his successors, and concludes with a vivid portrait of today's corporate Hollywood, with its investment bankers, entertainment lawyers, agents, and financiers.
The Merchant Prince of Poverty Row Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 242
ISBN: 9780813152097
Pub Date: 19 Oct 2021
Illustrations: 28 b&w photos
Description:
Ben Hecht called him "White Fang," and director Charles Vidor took him to court for verbal abuse. The image of Harry Cohn as vulgarian is such a part of Hollywood lore that it is hard to believe there were other Harry Cohns: the only studio president who was also head of production; the ex-song plugger who scrutinized scripts and grilled writers at story conferences; a man who could look at actresses as either "broads" or goddesses. Drawing on personal interviews as well as previously unstudied source material (conference notes, memos, and especially the teletypes between Harry and his brother Jack), Bernard Dick offers a radically different portrait of the man who ran Columbia Pictures - and who "had to be boss" - from 1932 to 1958.
Alfred Hitchcock Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 216
ISBN: 9780813151892
Pub Date: 05 Oct 2021
Illustrations: 16 b&w photos
Description:
This provocative study traces Alfred Hitchcock's long directorial career from Victorianism to postmodernism. Paula Cohen considers a sampling of Hitchcock's best films - Shadow of a Doubt, Rear Window, Vertigo, Psycho - as well as some of his more uneven ones - Rope, The Wrong Man, Topaz - and makes connections between his evolution as a filmmaker and trends in the larger society.Drawing on a number of methodologies including feminism, psychoanalysis, and family systems, the author provides an insightful look at the paradox of a Victorian-style gentleman who evolved into one of the leading masters of the modern medium of film.
Hitchcock and the Censors Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 384
ISBN: 9780813180540
Pub Date: 05 Oct 2021
Series: Screen Classics
Illustrations: 42 b&w photos, 1 table
Description:
Throughout his career, Alfred Hitchcock had to deal with a wide variety of censors attuned to the slightest suggestion of sexual innuendo, undue violence, toilet humor, religious disrespect, and all forms of indecency, real or imagined. From 1934 to 1968, the Motion Picture Production Code Office controlled the content and final cut on all films made and distributed in the United States. Code officials protected sensitive ears from standard four-letter words, as well as a few five-letter words like tramp and six-letter words like cripes.
Engulfed Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 280
ISBN: 9780813151359
Pub Date: 22 Sep 2021
Illustrations: illus
Description:
From Double Indemnity to The Godfather, the stories behind some of the greatest films ever made pale beside the story of the studio that made them. In the golden age of Hollywood, Paramount was one of the Big Five studios. Gulf + Western's 1966 takeover of the studio signaled the end of one era and heralded the arrival of a new way of doing business in Hollywood.
Radical Innocence Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 280
ISBN: 9780813151342
Pub Date: 24 Aug 2021
Illustrations: illus
Description:
On October 30, 1947, the House Committee on Un-American Activities concluded the first round of hearings on the allege Communist infiltration of the motion picture industry. Hollywood was ordered to "clean its own house," and ten witnesses who had refused to answer questions about their membership in the Screen Writers Guild and the Communist party eventually received contempt citations. By 1950 the Hollywood Ten, as they quickly became known, were serving prison sentences ranging from six months to a year.
Jayne Mansfield Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 502
ISBN: 9780813180953
Pub Date: 29 Jun 2021
Series: Screen Classics
Illustrations: 72 b&w photos
Description:
The first definitive biography of tragicomic sex symbol Jayne Mansfield, one of the most colorful and eccentric movie stars of the 1950s-60s. The book examines both her life and her career, detailing her movie, TV and stage work, as well as her drive to become an old-fashioned movie star at the end of the big-studio era. Jayne Mansfield: The Girl Couldn't Help It follows Jayne from her birth in 1933 through her early days as a starlet, her sudden fame as a Broadway star, and her too-brief years as 20th Century-Fox's threat to Marilyn Monroe.
Mean...Moody...Magnificent! Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 392
ISBN: 9780813181080
Pub Date: 15 Jun 2021
Series: Screen Classics
Illustrations: 94 b&w photos
Description:
Jane Russell's acting career was launched on one of the most notorious publicity campaigns in the history of cinema for The Outlaw, a film produced and ultimately directed by Howard Hughes. Russell should have quickly and quietly disappeared from public consciousness. Yet, she managed to use The Outlaw as a springboard for a noted entertainment career that found her starring opposite stars such as Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable, Robert Mitchum, Vincent Price, Frank Sinatra, and Groucho Marx.
Broadway Goes to War Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 300
ISBN: 9780813180946
Pub Date: 08 Jun 2021
Illustrations: 11 b&w photos
Description:
"Theater is the art by which human beings make or find human action worth watching." - Paul Woodruff, The Necessity of Theater: The Art of Watching and Being Watched Before World War II. Hollywood dictated what films were released, debuting movies such as The Man I Married (1940), The Mortal Storm (1940), Escape (1940), and he Great Dictator (1940) that conveyed an unambiguously critical view of Nazi Germany and warned the public about the dangers of fascism and the threat of war.
Vitagraph Cover Vitagraph Cover
Format: 
Pages: 298
ISBN: 9780813181196
Pub Date: 08 Jun 2021
Series: Screen Classics
Illustrations: 46 b&w photos
Pages: 298
ISBN: 9780813195346
Pub Date: 24 May 2022
Series: Screen Classics
Description:
Vitagraph: America's First Great Motion Picture Studio is the first comprehensive examination of the company most responsible for defining and popularizing the American movie. Vitagraph was among the five production companies established at the dawn of commercial cinema in America. From its initial studios in Manhattan and Brooklyn to its later base of operations in Hollywood, Vitagraph was America's leading producer of motion pictures for much of the silent era, and for several years was the nation's largest exhibitor.
Experimental Women Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 156
ISBN: 9788869773129
Pub Date: 25 May 2021
Series: CINÉMA&CIE, International Film Studies Journal
Description:
Experimental cinema, as well as experimental video practices, have always been art forms widely explored by women. Yet, while the field of cinema studies has devoted research - although only recently - to women involved in narrative and commercial films, as directors, actresses, screenwriters and in other roles of cinema industry, the history of women’s experimental audio-visual production is still little explored and would benefit from being retraced and framed in a wider historical and theoretical perspective. This special issue of Cinéma&Cie is therefore aimed at tracing women’s experimental practices at the intersection of cinema and the arts by intertwining a theoretical and historical approach through the analysis of cases studies from the mid-century up to the present time.
Patricia Neal Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 520
ISBN: 9780813180717
Pub Date: 16 Mar 2021
Description:
The internationally acclaimed actress Patricia Neal has been a star on stage, film, and television for nearly sixty years. On Broadway she appeared in such lauded productions as Lillian Hellman's Another Part of the Forest, for which she won the very first Tony Award, and The Miracle Worker. In Hollywood she starred opposite the likes of Ronald Reagan, Gary Cooper, John Wayne, Paul Newman, Fred Astaire, and Tyrone Power in some thirty films.
Moving Pictures, Living Machines Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 270
ISBN: 9788869772764
Pub Date: 28 Dec 2020
Description:
History of Cinema Without Names is an editorial project which gathers research papers presented at Gorizia Conference, Italy. It promotes a new research perspective on the notions of film authorship, style, and genre, with the aim of re-articulating their theoretical definition.