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  • Sunset Boulevard

    by Steven Cohan ...
    Series series BFI Film Classics
    Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard was a critical and commercial success on its release in 1950 and remains a classic of film noir and one of the best-known Hollywood films about Hollywood. Both its opening, with William Holden as the screenwriter Joe Gillis floating facedown in ageing star Norma Desmond's (Gloria Swanson) pool, and lines such as 'I am big, it's the pictures that got small' are some ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Some Like It Hot

    by Steven Cohan ...
    Series series BFI Film Classics
    Billy Wilder's classic screwball comedy Some Like it Hot (1959), starring Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe, tells the story of two struggling Jazz musicians who accidentally witness a mob massacre in Chicago who then, disguised as women, join a female band to escape the gangsters' pursuit. Despite the film's popular reception, with Academy Award nominations for Wilder and star Jack ... Read more

    $15.39 USD

  • On Audrey Hepburn

    An Opinionated Guide

    by Steven Cohan ...
    Why should Audrey Hepburn matter today? This lively and engaging book revises the contemporary view of Hepburn that sees her primarily as a fashion icon and style guru, frozen in images from Breakfast at Tiffany's and My Fair Lady. Author Steven Cohan argues that her films, more than her biography or her likeness in stock images and magazine photos, are essential to understanding both her ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Sound of Musicals

    Edited by Steven Cohan ...
    Despite having had its obituary written many times, the movie musical remains a flourishing twenty-first century form, and as this volume demonstrates, one that exists far beyond the confines of Broadway and Hollywood. The Sound of Musicals examines the films, stars, issues and traditions of the genre from the 1930s to the present day. Featuring sixteen original essays by leading international ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • Incongruous Entertainment

    Camp, Cultural Value, and the MGM Musical

    by Steven Cohan ...
    With their lavish costumes and sets, ebullient song and dance numbers, and iconic movie stars, the musicals that mgm produced in the 1940s seem today to epitomize camp. Yet they were originally made to appeal to broad, mainstream audiences. In this lively, nuanced, and provocative reassessment of the mgm musical, Steven Cohan argues that this seeming incongruity—between the camp value and popular ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Hollywood Musicals

    by Steven Cohan ...
    Series series Routledge Film Guidebooks
    Hollywood Musicals offers an insightful account of a genre that was once a mainstay of twentieth-century film production and continues to draw audiences today.What is a film musical? How do musicals work, formally and culturally? Why have they endured since the introduction of sound in the late 1920s? What makes them more than glittery surfaces or escapist fare? In answering such questions, this ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • The Plays of James Boaden

    Edited by Steven Cohan ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Originally compiled and published in 1980, this volume contains the plays of James Broaden. Although not many critics of eighteenth-century drama mention Broaden, he loved the theatre and its world, and this love comes across in everything he wrote. This volume contains plays including the songs and chorusses of his first, Ozmynn and Daraxa, from 1793, Fountainville Forest, from 1794, and The ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Hollywood by Hollywood

    The Backstudio Picture and the Mystique of Making Movies

    by Steven Cohan ...
    The backstudio picture, or the movie about movie-making, is a staple of Hollywood film production harking back to the silent era and extending to the present day. What gives backstudios their coherence as a distinctive genre, Steven Cohan argues in Hollywood by Hollywood, is their fascination with the mystique of Hollywood as a geographic place, a self-contained industry, and a fantasy of fame, ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • Telling Stories

    by Steven Cohan, Linda M. Shires ...
    First Published in 2002. We are living in a time of rapid and radical social change. Modes and categories inherited from the past no longer seem to fit the reality experienced by a new generation. New Accents is intended as a positive response to the initiative offered by such a situation. Each volume in the series will seek to encourage rather than resist the process of change; to stretch rather ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Business Principles for Landscape Contracting

    by Steven Cohan ...
    Business Principles for Landscape Contracting, fully revised and updated in its third edition, is an introduction to the application of business principles of financial management involved in setting up your own landscape contracting business and beginning your professional career. Appealing to students and professionals alike, it will build your knowledge of financial management tools and enable ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The Road Movie Book

    Edited by Steven Cohan, Ina Rae Hark ...
    The Road Movie Book is the first comprehensive study of an enduring but ever-changing Hollywood genre, its place in American culture, and its legacy to world cinema. The road and the cinema both flourished in the twentieth century, as technological advances brought motion pictures to a mass audience and the mass produced automobile opened up the road to the ordinary American. When Jean Baudrillard ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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    On Audrey Hepburn

    An Opinionated Guide

    by Steven Cohan ...
    Narrated by Jamie Renell ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 41 min

    Why should Audrey Hepburn matter today? This lively and engaging book revises the contemporary view of Hepburn that sees her primarily as a fashion icon and style guru, frozen in images from Breakfast at Tiffany's and My Fair Lady. Author Steven Cohan argues that her films, more than her biography or her likeness in stock images and magazine photos, are essential to understanding both her ... Read more

    $16.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook