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  • Mervyn LeRoy Comes to Town

    by Murray Pomerance, R. Barton Palmer, Matthew Solomon, David Desser, Neil Badmington, Matthew H. Bernstein, Steven Rybin, Mark Osteen, Lawrence Napper0, Adrian Danks1, Rebecca Bell-Metereau2, Brenda Austin-Smith3, Dominic Lennard4, Daniel Varndell5, Matthew Cipa6, Tom Conley7, Ms. Linda Badley8, Professor Kristen Hatch9 ...
    Mervyn LeRoy Comes to Town is the first book devoted to the career of one of the director/producers who in the early years of sound cinema was instrumental in establishing the Hollywood model of production that would endure for more than half a century. As a director and producer, LeRoy was responsible for turning out more than sixty feature films in a career that spanned five decades; as a studio ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Torturous Etiquettes

    Film Performance and Social Form

    by Daniel Varndell ...
    Series series SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema
    Explores the "torture" of mannered behavior and the prevalence of etiquette as a theme in classical and contemporary Hollywood and European cinema."Etiquette," as noted toastmaster Herbert V. Prochnow once pointed out, "is knowing how to yawn with your mouth closed"-that is, to spare the feelings of the other person, one must stifle one's own. To be polite, therefore, is to perform. Onscreen, ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Stellar Transformations

    Movie Stars of the 2010s

    by Steven Rybin, Brenda Austin-Smith, Karen Hollinger, Rick Warner, David Greven, Celestino Deleyto, Jennifer O'Meara, Danielle E. Williams, Daniel Varndell, Kyle Stevens0, Matt Connolly1, Cynthia Baron2 ...
    Series series Star Decades: American Culture/American Cinema
    Stellar Transformations: Movie Stars of the 2010s circles around questions of stardom, performance, and their cultural contexts in ways that remind us of the alluring magic of stars while also bringing to the fore the changing ways in which viewers engaged with them during the last decade. A salient idea that guides much of the collection is the one of transformation, expressed in these pages as ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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  • Bambi vs. Godzilla

    On the Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business

    by David Mamet ...
    From the Academy Award-nominated screenwriter and playwright: an exhilaratingly subversive inside look at Hollywood from a filmmaker who’s always played by his own rules.Who really reads the scripts at the film studios? How is a screenplay like a personals ad? Why are there so many producers listed in movie credits? And what on earth do those producers do anyway? Refreshingly unafraid to offend, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Alfred Hitchcock's America

    by Murray Pomerance ...
    Series series America Through the Lens
    With a sharp eye for social detail and the pressures of class inequality, Alfred Hitchcock brought to the American scene a perspicacity and analytical shrewdness unparalleled in American cinema.Murray Pomerance works from a basis in cultural analysis and a detailed knowledge of Alfred Hitchcock's films and production techniques to explore how America of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s is revealed and ... Read more

    $26.00 USD

  • Truman Capote

    A Literary Life at the Movies

    by Tison Pugh ...
    Series series The South on Screen
    The author of Queer Chivalry presents a biographical study of the celebrity writer "rich with insight into [his] literary and cinematic achievements" ( Publishers Weekly).Truman Capote's legacy is in many ways defined by his complex relationship with Hollywood. In Truman Capote: A Literary Life at the Movies, Tison Pugh explores the author and his literature through a cinematic lens, weaving ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nightmare Alley

    Film Noir and the American Dream

    by Mark Osteen ...
    Classic film noir offers more than pesky private eyes and beautiful bad girls—it explores the quest for the not-so-attainable American dream.Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRLDesperate young lovers on the lam (They Live by Night), a cynical con man making a fortune as a mentalist (Nightmare Alley), a penniless pregnant girl mistaken for a wealthy heiress (No Man of ... Read more

    $29.49 USD

  • A Companion to Film Comedy

    Edited by Andrew Horton, Joanna E. Rapf ...
    A wide-ranging survey of the subject that celebrates the variety and complexity of film comedy from the ‘silent’ days to the present, this authoritative guide offers an international perspective on the popular genre that explores all facets of its formative social, cultural and political contextA wide-ranging collection of 24 essays exploring film comedy from the silent era to the ... Read more

    $30.00 USD

  • Martin Scorsese's America

    by Ellis Cashmore ...
    Series series America Through the Lens
    For over four decades, Martin Scorsese has been the chronicler of an obsessive society, where material possessions and physical comfort are valued, where the pursuit of individual improvement is rewarded and where male prerogative is respected and preserved.Scorsese has often described his films as sociology and he has a point: his storytelling condenses complex information into comprehensible ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • Creepy Crawling

    Charles Manson and the Many Lives of America's Most Infamous Family

    by Jeffrey Melnick ...
    "Creepy crawling" was the Manson Family's practice of secretly entering someone's home and, without harming anyone, leaving only a trace of evidence that they had been there, some reminder that the sanctity of the private home had been breached. Now, author Jeffrey Melnick reveals just how much the Family creepy crawled their way through Los Angeles in the sixties and then on through American ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • How Reading Changed My Life

    by Anna Quindlen ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Anna Quindlen presents a “swift and compelling paean to the joys of books” (Booklist).“Like the columns she used to write for the New York Times, [How Reading Changed My Life] is tart, smart, full of quirky insights, lapidary, and a pleasure to read.”—Publishers Weekly“Reading has always been my home, my sustenance, my great invincible companion. . . . Yet of all the many ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Age of Movies: Selected Writings of Pauline Kael

    A Library of America Special Publication

    by Pauline Kael ...
    A master film critic is at her witty, exhilarating, and opinionated best in this career-spanning collection featuring pieces on Bonnie and Clyde, The Godfather, and other modern movie classics“Film criticism is exciting just because there is no formula to apply,” Pauline Kael once observed, “just because you must use everything you are and everything you know.” Between 1968 and 1991, as regular ... Read more

    $14.99 USD