California Press: 1495 books
First Cut 2
More Conversations with Film Editors
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
First Cut 2: More Conversations with Film Editors presents a new collection of twelve interviews with award-winning film editors who discuss the art and craft of editing in the twenty-first century. As a follow-up to the successful First Cut: Conversations with Film Editors (now celebrating its 20th...
by Billy Wilder
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 1999
Sunset Boulevard (1950) is one of the most famous films in the history of Hollywood, and perhaps no film better represents Hollywood's vision of itself. Billy Wilder collaborated on the screenplay with the very able Charles Brackett, and with D. M. Marshman Jr., who later joined the team. Together...
The Promise of Cinema
German Film Theory, 1907–1933
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Rich in implications for our present era of media change, The Promise of Cinema offers a compelling new vision of film theory. The volume conceives of “theory” not as a fixed body of canonical texts, but as a dynamic set of reflections on the very idea of cinema and the possibilities once associated...
Sidewalking
Coming to Terms with Los Angeles
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
In Sidewalking, David L. Ulin offers a compelling inquiry into the evolving landscape of Los Angeles. Part personal narrative, part investigation of the city as both idea and environment, Sidewalking is many things: a discussion of Los Angeles as urban space, a history of the city’s built environment,...
Go West, Young Women!
The Rise of Early Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
In the early part of the twentieth century, migrants made their way from rural homes to cities in record numbers and many traveled west. Los Angeles became a destination. Women flocked to the growing town to join the film industry as workers and spectators, creating a "New Woman." Their...
Edgar G. Ulmer
A Filmmaker at the Margins
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Edgar G. Ulmer is perhaps best known today for Detour, considered by many to be the epitome of a certain noir style that transcends its B-list origins. But in his lifetime he never achieved the celebrity of his fellow Austrian and German émigré directors—Billy Wilder, Otto Preminger, Fred Zinnemann,...
by Richard White, Patricia Nelson Limerick
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 1994
Log cabins and wagon trains, cowboys and Indians, Buffalo Bill and General Custer. These and other frontier images pervade our lives, from fiction to films to advertising, where they attach themselves to products from pancake syrup to cologne, blue jeans to banks. Richard White and Patricia Limerick...
The Animated Man
A Life of Walt Disney
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2007
Walt Disney (1901-1966) was one of the most significant creative forces of the twentieth century, a man who made a lasting impact on the art of the animated film, the history of American business, and the evolution of twentieth-century American culture. He was both a creative visionary and a dynamic...
Norman Granz
The Man Who Used Jazz for Justice
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2011
"Any book on my life would start with my basic philosophy of fighting racial prejudice. I loved jazz, and jazz was my way of doing that," Norman Granz told Tad Hershorn during the final interviews given for this book. Granz, who died in 2001, was iconoclastic, independent, immensely influential,...
Breaking Through Concrete
Building an Urban Farm Revival
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
People have always grown food in urban spaces—on windowsills and sidewalks, and in backyards and neighborhood parks—but today, urban farmers are leading an environmental and social movement that transforms our national food system. To explore this agricultural renaissance, brothers David and Michael...
Wine Politics
How Governments, Environmentalists, Mobsters, and Critics Influence the Wines We Drink
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2008
After reading this intriguing book, a glass of wine will be more than hints of blackberries or truffles on the palate. Written by the author of the popular, award-winning website DrVino.com, Wine Politics exposes a little-known but extremely influential aspect of the wine business—the politics behind...
Wines of the New South Africa
Tradition and Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Sought after by European aristocrats and a favorite of Napoleon Bonaparte, the sweet wines of Constantia in the Cape Colony were considered to be among the world’s best during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. During the first democratic elections in 1994, South Africa began to re-emerge...
Myrna Loy
The Only Good Girl in Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
From the beginning, Myrna Loy’s screen image conjured mystery, a sense of something withheld. "Who is she?" was a question posed in the first fan magazine article published about her in 1925. This first ever biography of the wry and sophisticated actress best known for her role as Nora...
Sewing Hope
How One Factory Challenges the Apparel Industry's Sweatshops
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Sewing Hope offers the first account of a bold challenge to apparel-industry sweatshops. The Alta Gracia factory in the Dominican Republic is the anti-sweatshop. It boasts a living wage three times the legal minimum, high health and safety standards, and a legitimate union—all verified by an independent...