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
A BiographyThe most complete account yet of one of the most original and stimulating film-makers of the post-war years: Paths of Glory, Dr Strangelove, Lolita, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockw...9999903249696John Baxter
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
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
A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940 SThis dazzling story of Hollywood during the decade of its greatest success is a social and cultural history of the movie capital's golden age. Its cast includes actors, writers, mu...9999903237358Otto Friedrich
University of California Press
viernes, 29 de noviembre de 2024
With a sharp eye for social detail and the pressures of class inequality, Alfred Hitchcock brought to the American scene a perspicacity and analytical shrewdness unparalleled in Am...9999903237334Murray Pomerance
Polity
viernes, 29 de noviembre de 2024
Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture ??A roaring getaway car of guilty pleasures ? (The New York Times Book Review), Glen Weldon ??s The Caped Crusade is a fascinating, critically acclaimed chronicle of the rises an...9999903237327Glen Weldon
Charles Scribner's Sons
viernes, 29 de noviembre de 2024
The 1992 release of the "Director's Cut" only confirmed what the international film cognoscenti have know all along: Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, based on Philip K. Dick's brillian...9999903237310Paul M. Sammon
HarperCollins
viernes, 29 de noviembre de 2024
Bette Davis was one of the greatest acting talents the screen has ever known. She was also one who aroused controversy: her legal battles with Warner Brothers; her four husbands; t...9999903236580Barbara Leaming
Orion
jueves, 28 de noviembre de 2024
The Arthur Freed UnitM-G-M's Greatest Musicals (originally published as The World of Entertainment! Hollywood's Greatest Musicals) is not a biography of Arthur Freed (1894 ??1973), producer of the most...9999903236511Hugh Fordin
Da Capo Press
jueves, 28 de noviembre de 2024
American HeroThis definitive biography of a Hollywood icon portrays Gary Cooper as a man of complex and sophisticated tastes, as well as large appetites.9999903236474Jeffrey Meyers
Cooper Square Press
jueves, 28 de noviembre de 2024
Lew Wasserman, MCA, and the Hidden History of HollywoodThe reviewer of the Boston Globe said point blank: "Over the years, I've read hundreds of books on Hollywood and the movie business, and this one is right at the top." As the elusi...9999903232285Dennis McDougal
Da Capo Press
sábado, 23 de noviembre de 2024
This reference book for film buffs as well as film studies students gives a chronological history of cinema and film with an analysis of the different genres of film, from westerns...9999903215004Warren Buckland
Coronet Books
miércoles, 6 de noviembre de 2024
This work is a wide-ranging survey of American children's film that provides detailed analysis of the political implications of these films, as well as a discussion of how movies i...9999903213376M. Keith Booker
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2006.
sábado, 2 de noviembre de 2024
Variety Lights to La Dolce VitaFederico Fellini remains the best known of the postwar Italian directors. This collection of essays brings Fellini criticism up to date, employing a range of recent critical filter...9999903213147Frank Burke
General Distribution@services
sábado, 2 de noviembre de 2024
The Politics of Television and Cultural Change'Wayne's study offers an impressive range of readings and critical methodologies within a collection of exceptional coherence... Dissident Voices is consistently compulsive reading...9999903180906Mike Wayne
Pluto Press
miércoles, 4 de septiembre de 2024
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