How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved HollywoodReveals the hidden history of the 1970s, the most creative era in Hollywood since the heyday of the studios.9999903261506Peter Biskind
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
viernes, 17 de enero de 2025
The Life and Times of W.C. FieldsEveryone seems to know the story of W. C. Fields, the old curmudgeon of classic film comedy, the hater of children and dogs, who ran away from home at the age of eleven to live in ...9999903260899Simon Louvish
Faber & Faber
jueves, 16 de enero de 2025
Nine Dark Visions of the City of AngelsLos Angeles is an ideal city for film noir for both economic and aesthetic reasons. The largest metropolitan area in the country, home to an ever-changing population of the disillu...9999903260882William Hare
Editors Varis
jueves, 16 de enero de 2025
The Scientist and the CinemaFrom Victor Frankenstein to Dr. Moreau to Doc Brown in Back to the Future, the scientist has been a puzzling, fascinating, and threatening presence in popular culture. From films w...9999903260851Christopher Frayling
Reaktion Books
jueves, 16 de enero de 2025
From "Over the Rainbow" to "Moon River" and from Al Jolson to Barbra Streisand, The Songs of Hollywood traces the fascinating history of song in film, both in musicals and in drama...9999903260844Philip Furia Laurie Patte...
Oxford University Press
jueves, 16 de enero de 2025
Darryl F. Zanuck And The Culture Of HollywoodSpanning four decades and more than a thousand films, the creative output of Darryl D. Zanuck was astonishing and unparalleled. With The Jazz Singer he supervised the innovation of...9999903260837George F. Custen
Basic Books
jueves, 16 de enero de 2025
Hollywood in the FiftiesAn account of Hollywood in the 1950s - arguably America's most flamboyant, prosperous, yet paranoid decade. Its typical publication was Confidential magazine, the most scandalous s...9999903260820Sam Kashner Jennifer MacN...
Time Warner Paperbacks
jueves, 16 de enero de 2025
Greed, Lust and Murder Hollywood Style The name is French and it has connections to German expressionist cinema, but film noir was inspired by the American Raymond Chandler, whose prose was marked by the gripping reali...9999903260806William Hare
Editors Varis
jueves, 16 de enero de 2025
Film Noir and the Cinema of Paranoia is an overview of 20th- and 21st-century noir and fatalist film practice from 1945 onwards. The book demonstrates the ways in which American ci...9999903260790Wheeler W. Dixon
Polygon
jueves, 16 de enero de 2025
Fellini, Loren, Pucci, Paparazzi, and the Swinging High Life of 1950s RomeA romp through the worlds of film, fashion, and titillating journalism that made 1950s Rome the sexiest city on the planet.From the ashes of World War II, Rome was reborn as the ep...9999903260783Shawn Levy
W. W. Norton & Company
jueves, 16 de enero de 2025
The Nature of the BeastFritz Lang was the visionary director of Metropolis, M, Fury, The Big Heat and over thirty other memorable films. But what lurks behind his legendary genius? Did Fritz Lang murder ...9999903260721McGilligan, Patrick
Faber & Faber
jueves, 16 de enero de 2025
Movies, Media, and the Mythology of the SixtiesA witty and penetrating look at the celluloid culture of the 1960s by the Village Voice's celebrated film critic. In The Dream Life, Village Voice film critic J. Hoberman turns his...9999903260578J. Hoberman
New Press
jueves, 16 de enero de 2025
A New World of Gods and MonstersThe basis for the Academy Award winning film "Gods and Monsters" Starring Ian McKellan and Brendan Fraser. James Curtis is the author of a well-received biography on Preston Sturge...9999903258797James Curtis
University of Minnesota Press
viernes, 10 de enero de 2025
The Life of Ingrid BergmanThe dramatic life and career of Ingrid Bergman is charted by Donald Spoto, who has written biographies of many film stars. Bergman's life, like her roles, alternated between the sa...9999903258230Donald Spoto
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
viernes, 10 de enero de 2025
An American LifeAcclaimed as one of the finest film biographies of recent years, Burt Lancaster is the definitive study of the actor who not only starred in classics such as From Here to Eternity,...9999903258223Kate Buford
Aurum Press
viernes, 10 de enero de 2025
Life And LegendIn an achievement as grand and sweeping as Dietrich's own life, Steven Bach reveals the woman and examines her myth in a biography that will stand as the ultimate authority on a si...9999903258216Steven Bach
Da Capo Press
viernes, 10 de enero de 2025
An Introduction to the Art of Narrative Film Technique"In Closely Watched Films revered Film teacher Marilyn Fabe brings to life on the page the many lessons proffered in her legendary courses at U.C. Berkeley, in which she has taught...9999903257554Marilyn Fabe
University of California Press
jueves, 9 de enero de 2025
Walt Disney and the American Way of LifeThe Magic Kingdom sheds new light on the cultural icon of "Uncle Walt." Watts digs deeply into Disney's private life, investigating his roles as husband, father, and brother and pr...9999903254591Steven Watts
Univ of Missouri Pr
lunes, 30 de diciembre de 2024
The central thesis of this book is that a genre approach provides the most effective means for understanding, analyzing and appreciating the Hollywood cinema. Taking into account n...9999903250265Thomas Schatz
Mcgraw-Hill
sábado, 21 de diciembre de 2024
Film NoirA revised and updated edition of the definitive study of film noir ??the most original genre of American cinema ??with a new afterword by the authorSince The Dark Side of the Scree...9999903250210Foster Hirsch
Da Capo Press
sábado, 21 de diciembre de 2024
A BiographySamuel Goldwyn was the premier dream-maker of his era, and in this lavishly-praised biography, the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author of Lindbergh and Max Perkin...9999903250197A. Scott Berg
Riverhead Books
sábado, 21 de diciembre de 2024
Directing the Western from John Ford to Clint EastwoodWhen first published in 1969, Horizons West was immediately recognised as the definitive critical account of the Western film and some of its key directors. This greatly expanded n...9999903249795Jim Kitses
Editors Varis
viernes, 20 de diciembre de 2024
The Grey Fox of HollywoodHoward Hawks is the first major biography of one of Hollywood's greatest directors, a filmmaker of incomparable versatility whose body of work includes the landmark gangster film S...9999903245384Todd McCarthy
Grove Press
jueves, 12 de diciembre de 2024
The Life and Extraordinary Afterlife of Humphrey BogartHumphrey Bogart: it's hard to think of anyone who's had the same lasting impact on the culture of movies. Though he died at the young age of fifty-seven more than half a century ag...9999903245360Stefan Kanfer
Vintage
jueves, 12 de diciembre de 2024
All That's Left to Know about Hollywood's Golden Age of Dames, Detectives, and Danger(FAQ). Film Noir FAQ celebrates and reappraises some 200 noir thrillers representing 20 years of Hollywood's Golden Age. Noir pulls us close to brutal cops and scheming dames, desp...9999903237389David J. Hogan
Applause Books
viernes, 29 de noviembre de 2024
With landmark films such as Fargo, O Brother Where art Thou?, Blood Simple, and Raising Arizona, the Coen brothers have achieved both critical and commercial success. Proving the e...9999903237372R. Barton Palmer
University of Illinois Press
viernes, 29 de noviembre de 2024
Peter Ackroyd turns his gimlet eye to one of the twentieth century's most revered directors. Alfred Hitchcock was a strange child. Fat, lonely, burning with fear and ambition, his ...9999903237365Peter Ackroyd
Chatto & Windus
viernes, 29 de noviembre de 2024
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