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Author
Series
History of the American cinema volume 2
Publisher
Charles Scribner's Sons
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
This volume examines the development of film and the film industry from 1907 to 1915 and the political and economic background that influenced it.
Author
Series
History of the American cinema volume 3
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Author
Series
History of the American cinema volume 1
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
©1990
Language
English
Description
This volume examines the development of film and the film industry from its development through 1906 and the political and economic background that influenced it.
Author
Publisher
Running Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In this one-of-a-kind Hollywood history, the creator of Instagram's celebrated @ThisWasHollywood reveals the forgotten past of the film world in a dazzling visual package modeled on the classic fan magazines of yesteryear. From former screen legends who have faded into obscurity to new revelations about the biggest movie stars, Valderrama unearths the most fascinating little-known tales from the birth of Hollywood through its Golden Age. The shocking...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"The Big Screen" tells the enthralling story of the movies: their rise and spread, their remarkable influence in the war years, and their long, slow decline to a form that is often richly entertaining but no longer lays claim to our lives the way it once did.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Most people know Andrew McCarthy from his movie roles in Pretty in Pink, St. Elmo's Fire, Weekend at Bernie's, and Less than Zero, and as a charter member of Hollywood's Brat Pack. That iconic group of ingenues and heartthrobs included Rob Lowe, Molly Ringwald, Emilio Estevez, and Demi Moore, and has come to represent both a genre of film and an era of pop culture. In his memoir Brat: An '80s Story, McCarthy focuses his gaze on that singular moment...
Author
Publisher
The Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Entertainment columnist Mark Harris gives us the untold story of how Hollywood changed World War II, and how World War II changed Hollywood, through the prism of five film directors caught up in the war: John Ford, William Wyler, John Huston, Frank Capra, and George Stevens. It was the best of times and the worst of times for Hollywood before the war. The box office was booming, and the studios' control of talent and distribution was as airtight as...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The author of The Butler and Showdown examines 100 years of Black movies--using the struggles and triumphs of the artists, and the films themselves, as a prism to explore Black culture and the civil rights movement in America. Beginning in 1915 with D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation--which glorified the Ku Klux Klan and became Hollywood's first blockbuster--Wil Haygood gives us an incisive, fascinating, little-known history, spanning more than...
12) He: a novel
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"John Connolly recreates the golden age of Hollywood for an intensely compassionate study of the tension among the commercial demands, artistic integrity, and the human frailties behind even the greatest of artists"--
13) Saving Brinton
Publisher
Barn Owl Pictures
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Chronicles retired Iowa middle-school history teacher Michael Zahs's quest to restore and preserve a fast-decaying collection of film footage from the earliest days of motion pictures. Purchased at a 1981 estate sale, the collection originally belonged to "barnstorming movie man" William Franklin Brinton, who toured small towns in the Midwest and Texas from about 1895 to 1910, showing movies he bought from production companies like Lumiere, Pathé,...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Accompanied by anecdotes about and interviews with more than 200 show-business luminaries, a compelling biography of Hollywood's first superagent - one of the most outrageous showbiz characters of the 1960s and 1970s - charts show business as it evolved throughout the years --
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"In addition to being among the most celebrated of contemporary filmmakers, Quentin Tarantino is possibly the most joyously infectious movie lover alive. For years he has touted in interviews his eventual turn to writing books about films. Now, with Cinema Speculation, the time has come, and the results are everything his passionate fans--and all movie lovers--could have hoped for. Organized around key American films from the 1970s, all of which he...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The real story of Hollywood--as told by such luminaries as Steven Spielberg, Frank Capra, Katharine Hepburn, Alfred Hitchcock, Harold Lloyd, Jordan Peele, and nearly four hundred others--reveals a fresh history of the American movie industry from its beginnings to today"--Dust jacket flap.
Gleaned from nearly three thousand interviews found in the American Film Institute's archival treasure trove, this book lets readers "listen in" on candid remarks...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The story of the epic friendship between John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, the golden era of improv, and the making of a comedic film classic that helped shape our popular culture. "They're not going to catch us," Dan Aykroyd, as Elwood Blues, tells his brother Jake, played by John Belushi. "We're on a mission from God." So opens the musical action comedy The Blues Brothers, which hit theaters on June 20, 1980. Their scripted mission was to save a local...
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