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  • "It's the Pictures That Got Small"

    Charles Brackett on Billy Wilder and Hollywood's Golden Age

    by Charles Brackett ...
    Series series Film and Culture Series
    "Brackett's diaries read like a funnier, better-paced version of Barton Fink." — NewsweekScreenwriter Charles Brackett is best remembered as the writing partner of director Billy Wilder, who once referred to the pair as "the happiest couple in Hollywood," collaborating on such classics as The Lost Weekend and Sunset Boulevard. He was also a perceptive chronicler of the entertainment industry, and ... Read more

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  • Just a Regular Bloke: The Ted Ray Story

    by Anthony Slide ...
    Just a Regular Bloke: The Ted Ray Story is the third in a trilogy of volumes on legends of British comedy, that began with Jimmy Edwards and continued with Arthur Askey. Ted Ray became a star as British Music Hall came to an end, and continued into radio, television and motion pictures. He never stopped performing on stage as Music Hall morphed into Variety, and could always be relied upon to make ... Read more

    $9.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Journey Through Film History: Anthony Slide in Conversation with Matthew Renoir

    by Anthony Slide ...
    With A Journey Through Film History, film historian Anthony Slide offers a detailed account of his life and career over the last 80 years. In a humorous and entertaining style, he speaks of his memories, both good and bad. Interviewer Matthew Renoir is the great grandson of Jean Renoir (and the great, great grandson of impressionist painter Pierre Auguste Renoir), and a perfect fit as an ... Read more

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  • A Return To Deep Joy: The Stanley Unwin Story

    by Anthony Slide ...
    Stanley Unwin was unique among British comedians in that he invented his own language, Unwinese,with which he entertained audiences from the 1940s until his death in 2002. Continuing his book-length studies of the British comedy fraternity, Anthony Slide discusses in detail Stanley Unwin's life and career, including his years as a BBC engineer prior to embarking on a new career as a comedian, at ... Read more

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  • I Thank You: The Arthur Askey Story

    by Anthony Slide ...
    A diminutive, frenetic comedian, known for catchphrases that were once part of the English language, Arthur Askey was one of Britain's most popular entertainers throughout much of the 20th Century. Immediately after World War One, Askey made his professional debut in concert parties at British seaside resorts. He began to appear on the stage and on radio, and in 1938, with Richard Murdoch, he ... Read more

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  • The Truth at Twenty-Four Frames per Second: An Anthology of Writings on Film History

    by Anthony Slide ...
    Collected together here are Anthony Slide's writings on film and television history from the 1960s through the present. Subjects and individuals discussed are varied, including Lillian Gish, Val Guest, Vivienne Segal, Wendy Richard, Elisabeth Welch, Lawrence Welk, and Betty White. All illustrate the author's scholarship, dedication to the serious study of the history of popular culture, and also ... Read more

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  • New York City Vaudeville

    by Anthony Slide ...
    Series series Images of America
    New York City Vaudeville provides a unique pictorial record of America�s preeminent entertainment medium in the late 1800s through the early 1930s. New York�s Palace Theatreserved as the flagship for vaudeville, on which stage everyvaudevillian aspired to perform. New York City Vaudevillefeatures photographs of some of the greatest names fromthe Palace Theatre, including Jack Benny, George ... Read more

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  • The Silent Feminists

    America's First Women Directors

    by Anthony Slide ...
    A timely and captivating account of America’s first women directors who, with little recognition, helped pave the way for females in the film industry today.Originally published in 1977 as Early Women Directors, Anthony Slide’s The Silent Feminists was the first volume to recognize and honor the work of female directors in the American silent film industry. With a new foreword by the author, this ... Read more

    $26.49 USD

  • The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville

    by Anthony Slide ...
    The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville provides a unique record of what was once America's preeminent form of popular entertainment from the late 1800s through the early 1930s. It includes entries not only on the entertainers themselves, but also on those who worked behind the scenes, the theatres, genres, and historical terms. Entries on individual vaudevillians include biographical information, ... Read more

    $50.39 USD

  • Hollywood Unknowns

    A History of Extras, Bit Players, and Stand-Ins

    by Anthony Slide ...
    Extras, bit players, and stand-ins have been a part of the film industry almost from its conception. On a personal and a professional level, their stories are told in Hollywood Unknowns, the first history devoted to extras from the silent era through the present.Hollywood Unknowns discusses the relationship of the extra to the star, the lowly position in which extras were held, the poor working ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Lost Gay Novels

    A Reference Guide to Fifty Works from the First Half of the Twentieth Century

    by Anthony Slide ...
    Searching for an introduction to the shadowy, intriguing world of early 20th century gay-themed fiction?In Lost Gay Novels, respected pop culture historian Anthony Slide resurrects fifty early 20th century American novels with gay themes or characters and discusses them in carefully researched, engaging prose. Each entry offers you a detailed discussion of plot and characters, a summary of ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • A Special Relationship

    Britain Comes to Hollywood and Hollywood Comes to Britain

    by Anthony Slide ...
    A Special Relationship provides not only a historical overview of the British in Hollywood, but also a detailed study of the contributions made by American individuals and companies to British cinema from the beginning of the twentieth century onwards. The story begins with Ohio-born Charles Urban who came to London in 1898 and deserves credit for major involvement in the creation of a British ... Read more

    $21.59 USD