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Paperback. Drawing on documents, early drafts of script treatments, and humorous production anecdotes as well as including photographs, this book presents behind-the-scenes portrait of two great Hollywood figures - producer David O Selznick and director Alfred Hitchcock. Num Pages: 398 pages, 64 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 398
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520217812
- ISBN
- 9780520217812
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Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 31.21
€ 43.99
€ 31.21
Paperback. Discusses dozens of classic and contemporary films ranging from "Bringing Up Baby" to "Terms of Endearment", from "Stagecoach" to "Reservoir Dogs". This book studies the use of dialogue in American film. It shows why dialogue has been neglected in the analysis of narrative film. Num Pages: 332 pages, 53 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 194 x 21. Weight in Grams: 602.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 332
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520221383
- ISBN
- 9780520221383
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Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 26.33
€ 35.99
€ 26.33
Paperback. Covering American, international, mainstream, and 'off-Hollywood' films, as well as television, this book offers creative strategies and useful practical information. It places screenwriting in the context of the storytelling tradition, arguing through literary and cultural analysis that all great stories revolve around a strong central character. Num Pages: 249 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APF; CBW; CFG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- Exp Upd Su
- Number of pages
- 249
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520221659
- ISBN
- 9780520221659
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.54
€ 33.99
€ 24.54
Paperback. This text explores the evocations of place, and particularly American place, that have become central to the representational and narrative strategies of alternative and mainstream film and video. Num Pages: 487 pages, 24 color illustrations, 95 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 917.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 487
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520227385
- ISBN
- 9780520227385
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Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 37.18
€ 52.99
€ 37.18
Paperback. This selection of essays taken from "Hollywood Quarterly" reflect the astonishing eclecticism of the journal, with sections on animation, the avant-garde, and documentary to go along with a representative sampling of articles about feature-length narrative films. Editor(s): Smoodin, Eric; Martin, Ann. Num Pages: 417 pages, 22 b/w photographs, 12 line figures, 5 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPG; APFA; GBCS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 228 x 36. Weight in Grams: 814.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 417
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520232747
- ISBN
- 9780520232747
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 23.58
€ 32.99
€ 23.58
Paperback. An analysis of the complicated relationship between two cinemas - Hollywood's and Nazi Germany's - in this theoretically and politically incisive study. The text examines the split course of German popular film from the early 1930s until the mid 1950s. Series: Weimar & Now: German Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 334 pages, 32 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1DFG; APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 334
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520233119
- ISBN
- 9780520233119
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Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 27.84
€ 38.99
€ 27.84
Paperback. Num Pages: 367 pages, 56 b/w photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 467.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 367
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520233492
- ISBN
- 9780520233492
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 28.68
€ 40.99
€ 28.68
Paperback. At the time of her death in 1993, Lillian Gish was universally recognized as a film legend. This title uncovers a life that was cast in the shadow of self-generated myth. It shows how the actress carefully shaped her public identity while keeping much of her life private. Num Pages: 445 pages, 70 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: APF; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 167 x 25. Weight in Grams: 682.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 445
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520234345
- ISBN
- 9780520234345
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 28.66
€ 40.99
€ 28.66
Paperback. Lawyer, educator, novelist, radio and television scriptwriter, film director and screenwriter, wartime intelligence operative, and full-time radical romantic, Abraham Lincoln Polonsky was blacklisted in Hollywood for refusing to be an informer. This biography helps us understand the relationship between art and politics in American culture. Num Pages: 285 pages, 18 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APF; BGF; HBJK; HBLW3; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 285
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520236721
- ISBN
- 9780520236721
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 28.70
€ 40.99
€ 28.70
Hardback. Revisits some of the sensational scandals of early Hollywood to evaluate their importance for our contemporary understanding of human deviance. Num Pages: 238 pages, 11 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 467.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520237117
- ISBN
- 9780520237117
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Condition: New
€ 94.08€ 71.14
€ 94.08
€ 71.14
Paperback. Amid the turbulence of political assassinations, the civil rights struggle, and antiwar protests, American society was experiencing growing affluence and profound cultural change during the 1960s. This text looks at the way in which the film industry interpreted the era. Series: History of the American Cinema S. Num Pages: 359 pages, 112 b/w photographs, 6 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; APFA; HBJK; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 251 x 176 x 21. Weight in Grams: 632. 1960-1969. Series: History of the American Cinema S. 359 pages, 112 b&w photographs, 6 tables. Amid the turbulence of political assassinations, the civil rights struggle, and antiwar protests, American society was experiencing growing affluence and profound cultural change during the 1960s. This text looks at the way in which the film industry interpreted the era. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; APFA; HBJK; HBLW3. Dimension: 251 x 176 x 21. Weight: 632.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 359
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520238046
- ISBN
- 9780520238046
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Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 33.75
€ 47.99
€ 33.75
Paperback. Looks at the haunting, melancholy horror films Val Lewton made between 1942 and 1946 and finds them to be powerful commentaries on the American home front during WWII. This study demonstrates the film-maker's interest in those who found themselves alienated by wartime society and illuminates the dark side of the American psyche in the 1940s. Num Pages: 226 pages, 57 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; 3JJP; APFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 146 x 14. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520241008
- ISBN
- 9780520241008
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 28.66
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Paperback. Num Pages: 273 pages, 10 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: APFA; HBJD; HBTZ1; JFFE2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 273
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520241756
- ISBN
- 9780520241756
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.04
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€ 29.04
Paperback. Num Pages: 409 pages, 62 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: APFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 409
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520242715
- ISBN
- 9780520242715
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 29.50
€ 41.99
€ 29.50
Paperback. Presents a genealogy of realist performance through analysis of the music hall careers and film roles of Mistinguett, Josephine Baker, Frehel, and Damia. This book offers a fresh interpretation of 1930s French cinema, emphasizing its love affair with popular song and its close connections to the music hall and the cafe-concert. Num Pages: 273 pages, 31 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of California Press California
- Number of pages
- 273
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520244078
- ISBN
- 9780520244078
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 28.70
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Paperback. Features several interviews, giving detailed and personal stories from veteran screenwriters of the seventies and eighties, focusing on their craft, their lives, and their profession. Looking at how movies get made, this work offers a different perspective on many of the great movies, directors, and actors of the seventies and eighties. Editor(s): McGilligan, Patrick. Num Pages: 434 pages, 30 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; APF; DSBH; DSG. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 434
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520245181
- ISBN
- 9780520245181
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 28.91
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Paperback. Analyzes film distribution and exhibition practices in order to reconstruct a context for understanding moviegoing at a time when American cities were coming to grips with new groups of immigrants and women working outside the home. This book talks about the history of the film industry, and about the process of imaging a national community. Num Pages: 391 pages, 61 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJC; APF; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 391
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520247437
- ISBN
- 9780520247437
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 28.78
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Paperback. Covering the tumultuous period of the 1950s, this work explores the divorce of movie studios from their theater chains; the panic of the blacklist era; the explosive emergence of science fiction as the dominant genre; and the rise of television and Hollywood's response with widescreen spectacles. Series: History of the American Cinema S. Num Pages: 396 pages, 110 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPG; APF; KNTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 253 x 21. Weight in Grams: 836.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 396
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520249660
- ISBN
- 9780520249660
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 33.95
€ 47.99
€ 33.95
Hollywood in the Neighborhood: Historical Case Studies of Local Movieg...
Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley (Ed.)
Paperback. Presents a picture of how movies entered the American heartland. This book examines the social and cultural changes this form of entertainment brought to towns from Gastonia, North Carolina to Placerville, California, and from Norfolk, Virginia to rural Ontario and beyond. Editor(s): Fuller-Seeley, Kathryn H. Num Pages: 290 pages, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 228 x 21. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 290
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520249738
- ISBN
- 9780520249738
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 28.78
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€ 28.78
Paperback. Three-time Academy Award nominee for best director, responsible for such film classics as "A Room with a View" and "The Remains of the Day", James Ivory is a director known for the international scope of his filmmaking on several continents. This title features interviews with James. It comments on the many aspects of his world-traveling career. Num Pages: 350 pages, 70 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: APFB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 149 x 22. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520249998
- ISBN
- 9780520249998
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.43
€ 33.99
€ 24.43