University Of California Press: 1479 books
The Way Hollywood Tells It
Story and Style in Modern Movies
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2006
Hollywood moviemaking is one of the constants of American life, but how much has it changed since the glory days of the big studios? David Bordwell argues that the principles of visual storytelling created in the studio era are alive and well, even in today’s bloated blockbusters. American filmmakers...
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,...
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...
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...
Where the World Ended
Re-Unification and Identity in the German Borderland
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 1999
When the Berlin Wall fell, people who lived along the dismantled border found their lives drastically and rapidly transformed. Daphne Berdahl, through ongoing ethnographic research in a former East German border village, explores the issues of borders and borderland identities that have accompanied...
The Fifty-Year Rebellion
How the U.S. Political Crisis Began in Detroit
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
On July 23, 1967, the eyes of the world fixed on Detroit, as thousands took to the streets to vent their frustrations with white racism, police brutality, and vanishing job prospects in the place that gave rise to the American Dream. Mainstream observers contended that the “riot” brought about...
Golden Holocaust
Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
The cigarette is the deadliest artifact in the history of human civilization. It is also one of the most beguiling, thanks to more than a century of manipulation at the hands of tobacco industry chemists. In Golden Holocaust, Robert N. Proctor draws on reams of formerly-secret industry documents to...
Storming the Gates of Paradise
Landscapes for Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2007
Rebecca Solnit has made a vocation of journeying into difficult territory and reporting back, as an environmentalist, antiglobalization activist, and public intellectual. Storming the Gates of Paradise, an anthology of her essential essays from the past ten years, takes the reader from the Pyrenees...