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David Lynch
Beautiful Dark
Av Greg Olson
Häftad, 2011
641 kr
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For nearly 40 years, David Lynch's works have enthralled, mystified, and provoked viewers. Lynch's films delve into the subjective consciousness of his characters to reveal both the depraved darkness and luminous spirituality of human nature. From his experimental shorts of the 1960s to feature …
Jackie Coogan: The World's Boy King
A Biography of Hollywood's Legendary Child Star
E-bok, 2004
827 kr
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Discovered by Charlie Chaplin in 1919, four-year-old Jackie Coogan soared to overnight stardom for his title role in the silent masterpiece, The Kid. A string of successes followed, including Peck''s Bad Boy, Oliver Twist, and A Boy of Flanders, earning Coogan a fortune of four million dollars. …
Stanley Donen
Inbunden, 1995
1063 kr
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A clear and insightful analysis of the life and work of American director and coreographer, Stanley Donen.
Stars of the Silents
Inbunden, 1987
1063 kr
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A contagious passion pervades the pages of this volume..
Films of Freddie Francis
Av Wheeler Winston Dixon, Freddie Francis
Inbunden, 1991
1138 kr
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Malcolm St. Clair
His Films, 1915-1948
Inbunden, 1997
1138 kr
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Malcolm St. Clair was a master director of sophisticated silent comedy. This book traces his career, from his start as a Mack Sennett Keystone Kop, through the action-adventures of the early 1920s, his work with Buster Keaton, the grand and elegant sophisticated comedies for Paramount in the '20s …
Creative Producer
A Memoir of the Studio System, by David Lewis
Av James Curtis
Inbunden, 1995
1138 kr
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In 1938, Warner Brothers production chief Hal Wallis grudgingly described David Lewis—one of his six "supervisors" and a veteran of 15 feature films—to director Michael Curtiz: "That Lewis is a genius at getting scripts out of people who can't write!" Wallis knew that writing ultimately defined the …
Reinventing Reality-The Art and Life of Rouben Mamoulian
Inbunden, 1993
1214 kr
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Theatre and film director Rouben Mamoulian (1897-1987) is known chiefly as a technical innovator and stylist. His stage credits include the original Broadway productions of Porgy and Bess (1935), and Oklahoma (1943); his sixteen completed films include Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931), Golden Boy …
Steady Digression to a Fixed Point
Av Rose Hobart
Inbunden, 1994
1063 kr
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Rose Hobart enjoyed an extensive theatrical career in the 1920s, became a Hollywood leading lady in 1930, and had a second film career as a character player in the late 1930s and 1940s.Born into a family of musicians, she recalls childhood summers in Woodstock, NY, the beginnings of her theatrical …
Music from the House of Hammer
Music in the Hammer Horror Films, 1950-1980
Inbunden, 1996
958 kr
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In the 1950s, Hammer Film Productions, a small British filmmaking company, introduced the world to a new genre of motion picture. Referred to by some as "horror," by others as "fantasy," Hammer films had a unique look and feel that many other studios would later attempt—and fail—to capture.Hammer …
Featured Player
An Oral Autobiography of Mae Clarke
Av James Curtis
Inbunden, 1996
1364 kr
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To the American public, she will always be remembered as the woman who had a grapefruit ground into her face by James Cagney in the 1931 film classic Public Enemy. In fact, in an acting career that spanned nearly four decades, Mae Clarke appeared in nearly 100 feature films and logged in nearly as …
Directing
Learn from the Masters
Av Tay Garnett
Inbunden, 1996
1104 kr
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An essential text on filmmaking that every student, scholar, and teacher of films should own. In it, some of the motion picture industry's most important directors including Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Howard Hawks, Louis Malle, Federico Fellini, Blake Edwards, Francois Truffaut, and René …
Films of Michael Powell and the Archers
Inbunden, 1997
1138 kr
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Michael Powell was introduced to film relatively late in life, and feeling dissatisfied with what British films had to offer, he took his primary influences from American and German films. Emeric Pressburger was a Hungarian emigre who was educated in the German film industry before fleeing from the …
Before, In and After Hollywood
The Life of Joseph E. Henabery
Inbunden, 1997
1063 kr
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In 1914, a young midwesterner quit his railroad job to crack the Hollywood motion picture boom. Impressed by his energy and honesty in his role as Lincoln, D.W. Griffith made him his assistant for Intolerance. Griffith then made Joe a director. He swiftly progressed to a preeminent position in the …
Smile When the Raindrops Fall
The Story of Charley Chase
Av Brian Anthony, Andy Edmonds
Inbunden, 1997
1138 kr
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At the age of ten, Charley Chase was singing and dancing on the street corners of Baltimore. Charley eventually became a local vaudeville attraction, but Baltimore could not contain the ambitious young man. After a brief, but memorable, stint in New York, Chase finally landed in Los Angeles in …
Joseph H. Lewis
Overview, Interview, and Filmography
Inbunden, 1998
988 kr
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The first full-length account of the life and work of Joseph H. Lewis, the noted director of films such as My Name is Julia Ross (1945) and The Halliday Brand (1957). Because most commentators and interviewers have focused on Lewis' contributions to film noir and particularly Gun Crazy and The Big …
Wife of the Life of the Party
A Memoir
Av Lita Grey Chaplin, Jeffrey Vance
Inbunden, 1998
912 kr
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Wife of the Life of the Party is the memoir of the late Lita Grey Chaplin (1908-1995), the only one of Chaplin's wives to have written an account of life with Chaplin. Her memoir is an extraordinary Hollywood story of someone who was there from the very beginning. Born Lillita Louise MacMurray in …
On Actors and Acting
Essays by Alexander Knox
Inbunden, 1998
885 kr
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Alexander Knox (1907-1995) was a distinguished stage and screen actor, who is best remembered today for his title performance in the 1944 production of Wilson. He was active both in London's West End and on Broadway, and began his Hollywood career in 1941 with The Sea Wolf. Because of his liberal …
Back Lot
Growing Up with the Movies
Av Maurice Rapf
Inbunden, 1999
837 kr
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Son of pioneer movie producer Harry Rapf, Maurice Rapf grew up in Hollywood in that city's golden age. After moving from independent filmmaking to Warner Bros., in 1924 the senior Rapf joined Louis Mayer and became one of the founding members of MGM. Hence, movies were a huge influence in Maurice …
Word Made Flesh
Catholicism and Conflict in the Films of Martin Scorsese
Häftad, 1998
912 kr
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The Word Made Flesh is an exploration of the thematic concerns and the underlying humanism and morality found in Martin Scorsese's films. It contains individual chapters on fifteen Scorsese films, the most complete Scorsese filmography available, and a host of illustrations.Generally acknowledged …
Actors on Red Alert
Career Interviews with Five Actors and Actresses Affected by the Blacklist
Inbunden, 1999
930 kr
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The anti-Communist hysteria that began in the 1930s was further empowered in 1938 when the House of Representatives established the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities. Soon thereafter, the creation of the blacklist in the late 1940s brought the Hollywood film and television community into the …
My Only Great Passion
The Life and Films of Carl Th. Dreyer
Inbunden, 2000
1138 kr
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In an industry that celebrates extravagance and showmanship, Danish film director Carl Th. Dreyer was a rarity, a man who guarded his privacy fiercely and believed that film provided a way to understand human nature by focusing on the individual person. Best known for his 1928 film The Passion of …
Order in the Universe
The Films of John Carpenter
Inbunden, 2000
912 kr
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An obscure independent filmmaker until Halloween (1978), John Carpenter has been applauded for his classic sense of compositions, yet reviled for his "B-film" sensibility. This second edition of the first book-length analysis finds in Carpenter's films a vision of a profound but unexpected order in …
Making Music with Charlie Chaplin
An Autobiography
Inbunden, 2000
912 kr
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Although many books have been written about Charlie Chaplin, most are the products of research gathered from second-hand sources and various archives. Eric James had the privilege of knowing and working with Chaplin as his Music Associate for more than twenty years, during which time he …
Picture Perfect
Inbunden, 2000
1031 kr
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Herbert Strock has been involved in nearly every phase of film production, as his career developed from his first job as an assistant editor at MGM Studios to his current ownership of a production company. His book is structured to be an in-depth guide for burgeoning filmmakers, covering topics …
Paul Landres
A Director's Stories
Inbunden, 2000
1440 kr
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If you were first exposed to television as a child in the early 1950s when your parents bought their first set, you probably saw the words "directed by Paul Landres" on the screen several times a week. His name became familiar by sheer repetition on the end credits of episode after episode of what …
No Film in My Camera
Av Bill Gibson, Jack R. Lousma
Inbunden, 2000
1289 kr
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Why would you purposefully shoot scenes with no film in your camera? To find the answer, you will need to read this memoir, in which internationally-known Director/Cameraman Bill Gibson recounts some of his most exciting assignments of the past six decades. His career as a combat cameraman …
Saved from Oblivion
An Autobiography
Inbunden, 2000
1063 kr
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Before being black-listed in the McCarthy era, Bernard Vorhaus was one of Hollywood's most respected silent film writers, working for studios such as Paramount and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Not only did he cross paths with some of the brightest lights in early Hollywood—Greta Garbo, Norma Shearer, D.W. …
Actor and a Rare One
Peter Cushing as Sherlock Holmes
Inbunden, 2001
912 kr
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Since the turn of the century, Sherlock Holmes has captured the imagination of readers, and, after his move to both television and movies, generations of viewers. While Holmes has been portrayed by many distinguished actors, few have done it with the class, humor, and aplomb that Peter Cushing …
Leni Riefenstahl and Olympia
Häftad, 1986
1072 kr
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New in Paper! Leni Riefenstahl's four-hour film, Olympia, a major propaganda achievement of Nazi Germany in the 1930's, deals with the Eleventh Olympic Games that were held in Berlin in 1936. Olympia is also perhaps the best German film produced during the National Socialist period. Graham has …
