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Ida Lupino
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
"Ida Lupino (1918-1995) was more than a gorgeous image of film noir in the forties and fifties who starred in classics such as They Drive By Night, High Sierra, and Road House. Lupino also evolved into one of Hollywood's earliest female directors whose work was described by Martin Scorsese as...
MASH
An Army Surgeon in Korea
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2001
When North Korean forces invaded South Korea on June 25, 1950, Otto Apel was a surgical resident living in Cleveland, Ohio, with his wife and three young children. A year later he was chief surgeon of the 8076th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital constantly near the front lines in Korea. Immediately upon...
Insurrections
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2016
A suicidal father looks to an older neighbor -- and the Cookie Monster -- for salvation and sanctuary as his life begins to unravel. A man seeking to save his estranged, drug-addicted brother from the city's underbelly confronts his own mortality. A chess match between a girl and her father turns...
Blueprints for Battle
Planning for War in Central Europe, 1948-1968
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
While scholarship abounds on the diplomatic and security aspects of the Cold War, very little attention has been paid to military planning at the operational level. In Blueprints for Battle, experts from Russia, the United States, and Europe address this dearth by closely examining the military planning...
Animating Space
From Mickey to WALL-E
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Animators work within a strictly defined, limited space that requires difficult artistic decisions. The blank frame presents a dilemma for all animators, and the decision of what to include and leave out raises important questions about artistry, authorship, and cultural influence. In Animating Space:...
Thomas Ince
Hollywood's Independent Pioneer
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Thomas H. Ince (1880--1924) turned movie-making into a business enterprise. Progressing from actor to director and screenwriter, he revolutionized the motion picture industry through developing the role of the producer. In addition to building the first major Hollywood studio facility, dubbed "Inceville,"...
Dalton Trumbo
Blacklisted Hollywood Radical
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
James Dalton Trumbo (1905--1976) is widely recognized for his work as a screenwriter, playwright, and author, but he is also remembered as one of the Hollywood Ten who opposed the House Un-American Activities Committee. Refusing to answer questions about his prior involvement with the Communist Party,...
by Robert S. Birchard
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
" ""Far and away the best film book published so far this year.""--National Board of Review Cecil B. DeMille was the most successful filmmaker in early Hollywood history. Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood is a detailed and definitive chronicle of the screen work that changed the...
Mary Pickford
Queen of the Movies
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
In the early days of cinema, when actors were unbilled and unmentioned in credits, audiences immediately noticed Mary Pickford. Moviegoers everywhere were riveted by her magnetic talent and appeal as she rose to become cinema's first great star.
In this engaging collection, copublished with...
The Shocking Miss Pilgrim
A Writer in Early Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
" Freddie Maas's revealing memoir offers a unique perspective on the film industry and Hollywood culture in their early days and illuminates the plight of Hollywood writers working within the studio system. An ambitious twenty-three-year-old, Maas moved to Hollywood and launched her own writing...
With Amusement for All
A History of American Popular Culture since 1830
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2006
Popular culture is a central part of everyday life to many Americans. Personalities such as Elvis Presley, Oprah Winfrey, and Michael Jordan are more recognizable to many people than are most elected officials. With Amusement for All is the first comprehensive history of two centuries of mass entertainment...
Godfather
The Intimate Francis Ford Coppola
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
WITH A FOREWORD BY WALTER MURCH Gene Phillips blends biography, studio history, and film criticism to complete the most comprehensive work on Coppola ever written. The force behind such popular and critically acclaimed films as Apocalypse Now and the Godfather trilogy, Coppola has imprinted his distinct...
Silent Players
A Biographical and Autobiographical Study of 100 Silent Film Actors and Actresses
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
" From his unique perspective of friendship with many of the actors and actresses about whom he writes, silent film historian Anthony Slide creates vivid portraits of the careers and often eccentric lives of 100 players from the American silent film industry. He profiles the era's shining stars...
Conversations with Classic Film Stars
Interviews from Hollywood's Golden Era
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
James Bawden: Seeing the way people behave when they're around you, is it still fun being Cary Grant?
Cary Grant: I don't like to disappoint people. Because he's a completely made-up character and I'm playing a part. It's a part I've been playing a long time, but no way am I really Cary Grant....