Foster Hirsch – författare
Visar alla böcker från författaren Foster Hirsch. Handla med fri frakt och snabb leverans.
12 produkter
Dark Side of the Screen
Film Noir
Häftad, 2008
225 kr
Lägg i varukorg
A revised and updated edition of the definitive study of film noir- the most original genre of American cinema- with a new afterword by the author Since The Dark Side of the Screen first appeared over two decades ago, it has served as the essential take on what has become one of today's most …
Love, Sex, Death, And The Meaning Of Life
The Films Of Woody Allen
Häftad, 2001
219 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Woody Allen has carved out a unique place for himself in American movies, becoming our national auteur as well as the most prolific director in the country, and creating a singular world with each film he has released since his first movie in 1969. Foster Hirsch analyzes and celebrates that world …
Otto Preminger
The Man Who Would Be King
E-bok, 2011
240 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The first full-scale life of the controversial, greatly admired yet often underrated director/producer who was known as “Otto the Terrible.” Nothing about Otto Preminger was small, trivial, or self-denying, from his privileged upbringing in Vienna as the son of an improbably successful Jewish …
Show Boat
E-bok, 2012
79 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Edna Ferber’s classic paean of love to the Mississippi River and the showboats that ran up and down it is once again available in hardcover as a facsimile of the first edition. First published in 1926, this timeless tale of the Cotton Blossom, Cap’n Andy, his shrewd wife Parthy, and their beautiful …
Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties
The Collapse of the Studio System, the Thrill of Cinerama, and the Invasion of the Ultimate Body Snatcher--Television
Inbunden, 2023
367 kr
Lägg i varukorg
A fascinating look at Hollywood’s most turbulent decade and the demise of the studio system—set against the boom of the post–World War II years, the Cold War, and the atomic age—and the movies that reflected the seismic shifts “The definitive book on 1950s Hollywood.” — Booklist “Lavish. . . …
Boys from Syracuse
The Shuberts' Theatrical Empire
Häftad, 2000
275 kr
Lägg i varukorg
From 1905 to the crash of 1929, Sam Shubert (1874-1905) and his brothers Lee (1874-1953) and J. J. (1878-1963), despite poor beginnings and near-illiteracy, created a theater monopoly unrivaled in history. Their ruthless business tactics and showmanship made 42nd Street the heart of American …
Detours and Lost Highways
A Map of Neo-Noir
Häftad, 2004
232 kr
Lägg i varukorg
“Detours and Lost Highways begins with the Orson Welles film, Touch of Evil (1958), which featured Welles both behind and in front of the camera. That movie is often cited as the end of the line, noir's rococo tombstone...the film after which noir could no longer be made, or at least could no …
Kurt Weill: On Stage
From Berlin to Broadway
Häftad, 2004
262 kr
Lägg i varukorg
His best-known song is “Mack the Knife ” with words by Bertolt Brecht, from The Threepenny Opera, first performed in Weimar Berlin in 1928. Five years later, Kurt Weill fled the Nazis to come to America, where he soon emerged as one of the most admired composers of the Broadway musical stage. His …
