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23 produkter
Jack's Life
A Biography of Jack Nicholson
Häftad, 2015
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
190 kr
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Jack Nicholson has lived large on and off the screen. Patrick McGilligan, one of America’s outstanding film biographers, has plumbed research and interviews to expand his definitive biography since its publication over thirty years ago. Jack’s Life captures the essence of this most private and …
Woody Allen
A Travesty of a Mockery of a Sham
Inbunden, 2025
456 kr
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Woody Allen was once made a knight commander by France, but he didn’t know because the paperwork got lost in the mail.A decade later, he found out about the award by reading about it in the New York Times.Across nearly nine eventful decades, Allen’s life has been full of surprises. Writing jokes …
Nicholas Ray
The Glorious Failure of an American Director
Häftad, 2012
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
225 kr
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"The cinema is Nicholas Ray". (Jean-Luc Godard). The visionary filmmaker Nicholas Ray spent his lifetime creating films that were dark, emotionally charged, and haunted by social misfits and bruised young people consumed by private anguish. Notoriously self-destructive, even in his youth, Ray …
Oscar Micheaux
The Great and Only: The Life of America's First Black Filmmaker
Häftad, 2008
188 kr
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Oscar Micheaux: The Great and Only
The Life of America''s First Black Filmmaker
E-bok, 2009
102 kr
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Oscar Micheaux was the Jackie Robinson of film, the black D. W. Griffith: a bigger-than-life American folk hero whose important life story is nearly forgotten today. Now, in a feat of historical investigation and vivid storytelling, one of our greatest film biographers takes on one of the most …
Alfred Hitchcock
A Life in Darkness and Light
E-bok, 2010
147 kr
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Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light is the definitive biography of the Master of Suspense and the most widely recognized film director of all time. In a career that spanned six decades and produced more than 60 films – including The 39 Steps , Vertigo , Psycho , and The Birds – Alfred …
Nicholas Ray
The Glorious Failure of an American Director
E-bok, 2011
113 kr
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Award-winningfilm historian Patrick McGilligan follows hisacclaimed biographies of Alfred Hitchcock and Oscar Micheauxwith a revelatory look at the life of Nicholas Ray, the troubled director of Ina Lonely Place , We Can’t GoHome Again , and Rebel Without a Cause . McGilligancharts the cerebral …
Young Orson
The Years of Luck and Genius on the Path to Citizen Kane
E-bok, 2015
113 kr
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“A remarkable, eye-opening biography . . . McGilligan’s Orson is a Welles for a new generation, [a portrait] in tune with Patti Smith’s Just Kids .”—A. S. Hamrah, Bookforum No American artist or entertainer has enjoyed a more dramatic rise than Orson Welles. At the age of sixteen, he charmed his …
Funny Man
Mel Brooks
Häftad, 2020
201 kr
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A deeply textured and compelling biography of comedy giant Mel Brooks, covering his rags-to-riches life and triumphant career in television, films, and theater, from Patrick McGilligan, the acclaimed author of Young Orson: The Years of Luck and Genius on the Path to Citizen Kane and Alfred …
Funny Man
Mel Brooks
E-bok, 2019
131 kr
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A deeply textured and compelling biography of comedy giant Mel Brooks, covering his rags-to-riches life and triumphant career in television, films, and theater, from Patrick McGilligan, the acclaimed author of Young Orson: The Years of Luck and Genius on the Path to Citizen Kane and Alfred …
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Häftad, 1981
293 kr
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Talks about a 1942 smash musical hit, a favorite among audiences and film buffs.
White Heat
Av Patrick McGilligan, Tino Balio
Häftad, 1984
293 kr
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Among the countless gangster films produced by Hollywood, few are as haunting, complex, or ingeniously crafted as White Heat (1948). Students of film history and screen writing will appreciate this treatment—an engaging study of teh various artistic elements that turned what might have been just …
Backstory 4
Interviews with Screenwriters of the 1970s and 1980s
Häftad, 2006
350 kr
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Continuing Patrick McGilligan's highly acclaimed series on Hollywood screenwriters, these engrossing, informative, provocative interviews give wonderfully detailed and personal stories from veteran screenwriters of the seventies and eighties, focusing on their craft, their lives, and their …
Backstory 5
Interviews with Screenwriters of the 1990s
Häftad, 2009
509 kr
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Patrick McGilligan continues his celebrated interviews with exceptional screenwriters in Backstory 5, focusing on the 1990s. The thirteen featured writers--Albert Brooks, Jean-Claude Carriere, Nora Ephron, Ronald Harwood, John Hughes, David Koepp, Richard LaGravenese, Barry Levinson, Eric Roth, …
Backstory 5
Interviews with Screenwriters of the 1990s
E-bok, 2009
540 kr
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Patrick McGilligan continues his celebrated interviews with exceptional screenwriters in Backstory 5 , focusing on the 1990s. The thirteen featured writers—Albert Brooks, Jean-Claude Carrière, Nora Ephron, Ronald Harwood, John Hughes, David Koepp, Richard LaGravenese, Barry Levinson, Eric Roth, …
Tender Comrades
A Backstory of the Hollywood Blacklist
Av Patrick McGilligan, Paul Buhle
Häftad, 2012
342 kr
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More than sixty years ago, McCarthyism silenced Hollywood. In the pages of Tender Comrades, those who were suppressed, whose lives and careers were ruined, finally have their say. A unique collection of profiles in cinematic courage, this extraordinary oral history brings to light the voices of …
Cesar Romero
The Joker Is Wild
Av Samuel Garza Bernstein, Patrick Mcgilligan
Inbunden, 2025
339 kr
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Dynamic and debonair, Cesar Romero was best known for creating the role of the Joker in the 1960s Batman television series. As the first actor to play Batman and Robin'svillainous nemesis, Romero established the character's giddy, manic tone and the iconic laugh that subsequent actors like Jack …
Sydney Pollack
Collected Interviews
Av Patrick McGilligan, Paul Cronin
Inbunden, 2026
1225 kr
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Sydney Pollack was a true actor's director—a filmmaker who came up through the ranks, starting as a bit-part TV performer before turning to directing. From his debut feature The Slender Thread (1965) to his final film, The Interpreter (2005), Pollack built a reputation for intelligent, emotionally …
Sydney Pollack
Collected Interviews
Av Patrick McGilligan, Paul Cronin
Häftad, 2026
598 kr
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Sydney Pollack was a true actor's director—a filmmaker who came up through the ranks, starting as a bit-part TV performer before turning to directing. From his debut feature The Slender Thread (1965) to his final film, The Interpreter (2005), Pollack built a reputation for intelligent, emotionally …
