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Screen Classics eBook Series

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  • Citizen Welles

    A Biography of Orson Welles

    by Frank Brady ...
    Series series Screen Classics
    George Orson Welles (1915–1985) is considered to be among the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time. At just twenty-five years old, he cowrote, produced, directed, and starred in his Academy Award–winning debut film Citizen Kane (1941). His innovative and distinctive directorial style—nonlinear narratives, unusual camera angles, deep focus shots, and long takes—continues to be ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

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  • Alfred Hitchcock

    A Life in Darkness and Light

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  • 5001 Nights at the Movies

    by Pauline Kael ...
    The celebrated, multi-award-winning film critic's intelligent guide to the movies—with more than 2,800 reviews."A master of synopsis, Pauline Kael has contrived to tell us between the covers of one book what eight decades of film are about and who is in them and behind them, and to reflect, swiftly but astutely, on what they signify. No one else has done that; no one else could have done that." ... Read more

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  • Hitchcock

    by Francois Truffaut ...
    Iconic, groundbreaking interviews of Alfred Hitchcock by film critic François Truffaut—providing insight into the cinematic method, the history of film, and one of the greatest directors of all time.In Hitchcock, film critic François Truffaut presents fifty hours of interviews with Alfred Hitchcock about the whole of his vast directorial career, from his silent movies in Great Britain to his color ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Lion of Hollywood

    The Life and Legend of Louis B. Mayer

    by Scott Eyman ...
    Lion of Hollywood is the definitive biography of Louis B. Mayer, the chief of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer—MGM—the biggest and most successful film studio of Hollywood’s Golden Age.An immigrant from tsarist Russia, Mayer began in the film business as an exhibitor but soon migrated to where the action and the power were—Hollywood. Through sheer force of energy and foresight, he turned his own modest studio ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Silent Movies

    The Birth of Film and the Triumph of Movie Culture

    by Peter Kobel ...
    Drawing on the extraordinary collection of The Library of Congress, one of the greatest repositories for silent film and memorabilia, Peter Kobel has created the definitive visual history of silent film. From its birth in the 1890s, with the earliest narrative shorts, through the brilliant full-length features of the 1920s, Silent Movies captures the greatest directors and actors and their ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock

    An Anatomy of the Master of Suspense

    by Edward White ...
    **Winner of the 2022 Edgar Award for Best BiographyAn Economist Best Book of 2021A fresh, innovative biography of the twentieth century’s most iconic filmmaker.**In The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock, Edward White explores the Hitchcock phenomenon—what defines it, how it was invented, what it reveals about the man at its core, and how its legacy continues to shape our cultural world.The book’s ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • How to Watch a Movie

    by David Thomson ...
    From one of the most admired critics of our time, brilliant insights into the act of watching movies and an enlightening discussion about how to derive more from any film experience.Since first publishing his landmark Biographical Dictionary of Film in 1975 (recently released in its sixth edition), David Thomson has been one of our most provocative authorities on all things cinema. Now he offers ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Warning Shadows

    Home Alone with Classic Cinema

    by Gary Giddins ...
    A brilliantly insightful and witty examination of beloved and little-known films, directors, and stars by one of America’s most esteemed critics.In his illuminating new work, Gary Giddins explores the evolution of film, from the first moving pictures and peepshows to the digital era of DVDs and online video-streaming. New technologies have changed our experience of cinema forever; we have peeled ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Citizen Welles

    A Biography of Orson Welles

    by Frank Brady ...
    A decade in the research and writing, biographer Frank Brady's Citizen Welles is the first comprehensive life story, definitive for our time, of Orson Welles through to his death in 1985. Welles's influence on several generations of American filmmakers, from Kubrick to Spielberg, for example, is incalculable. Welles's creative achievements, from the best known --- his all-time great movie Citizen ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Howard Hawks

    The Grey Fox of Hollywood

    by Todd McCarthy ...
    The first major biography of one of Old Hollywood's greatest directors.Sometime partner of the eccentric Howard Hughes, drinking buddy of William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway, an inveterate gambler and a notorious liar, Howard Hawks was the most modern of the great masters and one of the first directors to declare his independence from the major studios. He played Svengali to Lauren Bacall, ... Read more

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  • Mary Astor's Purple Diary

    The Great American Sex Scandal of 1936

    by Edward Sorel ...
    A hilarious send-up of sex, scandal, and the Golden Age of Hollywood by legendary cartoonist Edward Sorel.In 1965, a young, up-and-coming illustrator by the name of Edward Sorel tore away layer after layer of linoleum from the floor of his $97-a-month Manhattan apartment until he discovered a hidden treasure: issues of the New York Daily News and Daily Mirror from 1936, each ablaze with a ... Read more

    $12.29 USD