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memorable films.

By John Billheimer

Highlights the director's theories of suspense as well as his magician-like touch when negotiating with code officials. Throughout his career, Alfred Hitchcock had to deal with a wide variety of censors attuned to the slightest suggestion of sexual innuendo, undue violence, toilet humour, religious disrespect, and all forms of indecency, real or imagined. This book traces Hitchcock's interactions with code officials on a film-by-film basis as he fought to protect his creations, bargaining with code reviewers and sidestepping censorship to produce a lifetime of

The Untold Story of the Costellos By Terry Chester Shulman

Explores the dramatic history of the Costellos and their extraordinary significance to the stage and screen. Scandal, adultery, secret marriages, celebrity, divorce, custody battles, suicide attempts, and alcoholism – the trials and tribulations of the Costellos were as riveting as any Hollywood feature film. Written with unprecedented access to the family's personal documents and artifacts, this riveting study explores the dramatic history of the Costellos and their extraordinary significance to the stage and screen.

Lady Triumphant By Victoria Amador

Tribute to one of Hollywood's greatest legends, who has evolved from a gentle heroine to a strong-willed, respected, and admired artist. Legendary actress and two-time Academy Award winner Olivia de Havilland is best known for her role as Melanie Wilkes in Gone with the Wind (1939). Her characters were often delicate, elegant, and refined; Havilland herself was a survivor with a fierce desire to direct her own destiny on and off the screen. Victoria Amador utilises extensive interviews and 40 years of personal correspondence to present an in-depth look at her life and career.

The Life and Art of Busby Berkeley By Jeffrey Spivak

Telling portrait of the filmmaker who revolutionised the musical and changed the world of choreography. Characterised by grandiose song-and-dance numbers featuring ornate geometric patterns and mimicked in many modern films, Busby Berkeley's unique artistry remains recognisable and striking. He pioneered many conventions, including the famous "parade of faces" technique, which lends an identity to each anonymous performer in a close-up. Employing personal letters, interviews, studio memoranda, and Berkeley's private memoirs, this book unveils the colourful life of one of cinema's greatest artists.

Harry Cohn of Columbia Pictures By Bernard F. Dick

A radically different portrait of the man who ran Columbia Pictures. Ben Hecht called him "White Fang," and director Charles Vidor took him to court for verbal abuse. The image of Harry Cohn as vulgarian is such a part of Hollywood lore that it is hard to believe there were other sides to him. Drawing on personal interviews as well as previously unstudied source material, Bernard Dick offers a radically different portrait of the man who ran Columbia Pictures from 1932 to 1958.

The Death of Paramount Pictures and the Birth of Corporate Hollywood By Bernard F. Dick

The fascinating history of Paramount from one of the biggest studios of the Golden Age of Hollywood to today’s corporate commodity. Tracing the history of Paramount, one of the Big Five studios in the Golden Age of Hollywood, up to the present day, Bernard Dick argues that the studio represents the paradigm of modern Hollywood: where the only real art is the art of the deal. Filled with larger-than-life characters like Billy Wilder, Dick reconstructs the battle that culminated in the reduction of Paramount to a mere corporate commodity.

A Critical Study of the Hollywood Ten By Bernard F. Dick

First study to focus on the work of the Ten: their short stories, plays, novels, criticism, poems, memoirs, and, of course, their films. On October 30, 1947, the House Committee on Un-American Activities concluded the first round of hearings on the allege Communist infiltration of the motion picture industry. By 1950 the ‘Hollywood Ten’ were serving prison sentences. Drawing on myriad sources, including archival materials, unpublished manuscripts, black-market scripts, screenplay drafts, letters, and personal interviews, Bernard F. Dick describes the Ten's survival tactics during the blacklisting and analyses their contribution to film and the arts.

Portrait of a Studio Edited by Bernard F. Dick

An amply–illustrated chronology and filmography of Columbia Pictures, 1920-1991. Bernard F. Dick's highly readable studio chronicle is followed by thirteen original essays by leading film scholars, writing about the stars, films, genres, writers, producers, and directors responsible for Columbia's emergence from Poverty Row status to world class. Designed for both the film lover and the film scholar, the book is ideal for film history courses.

The Making and Remaking of Universal Pictures By Bernard F. Dick

Explores the many faces of Universal Pictures throughout its history. This book traces the history and examines the changing image of Universal Studios throughout the string of studio heads who entered and exited one after another following its founder’s success in establishing it as one of the major Hollywood studios. By tracing how the age of corporate Hollywood arrived at Universal Pictures earlier than at other studios, it highlights the studio’s resilience – celebrating that unlike several other studios of Hollywood's golden age, Universal still makes movies today.

The Legacy of Victorianism By Paula Marantz Cohen

Cohen argues that Hitchcock's films reflect his Victorian legacy and serve as a map for ideological trends. This provocative study traces Alfred Hitchcock's long directorial career from Victorianism to postmodernism. Drawing on methodologies including feminism, psychoanalysis, and family systems, the author provides an insightful look at the paradox of a Victorian-style gentleman who evolved into one of the leading masters of the modern medium of film. Cohen charts his development from his British period through his classic Hollywood years into his later phase.

A History of the Classic American Film Noir By Andrew Dickos

Traces the film noir genre back to its roots in German Expressionist cinema and the French cinema of the interwar years. This book describes the development of the film noir in America from 1941 through the 1970s and examines how this development expresses a modern cinema. Addressing the aesthetic, cultural, political, and social concerns depicted in the genre, it demonstrates how the film noir generates a highly expressive, raw, and violent mood as it exposes the ambiguities of modern postwar society.

Claude Sullivan and the Rise of Modern Sportscasting By Alan Sullivan, Tom Leach and Joe Cox

This engaging biography showcases the life and work of a beloved broadcast talent. As one of the first voices of the University of Kentucky men's basketball program, Claude Sullivan (1924–1967) became a nationally known sportscasting pioneer. Featuring dozens of interviews and correspondence with sports legends, Claude's son Alan, along with Joe Cox, offers an engaging and heartfelt look at the sportscaster's life and the context in which he built his career.

By Robert S. Birchard

A detailed and definitive chronicle of the screen work that changed the course of film in Hollywood's Golden Age. In his forty-five-year career DeMille's box-office record was unsurpassed, and his swaggering style established the public image for movie directors. Drawing extensively on DeMille's personal archives and other primary sources, Robert S. Birchard offers a revealing portrait of DeMille the filmmaker that goes behind studio gates and beyond DeMille's legendary persona.

changing America.

The Life and Career of Screenwriter Robert Riskin By Ian Scott (University of Manchester, UK)

The first sociohistorical examination of Robert Riskin’s life and work. Alongside being one of the best screenwriters of the Golden Age of Hollywood, Riskin playing a crucial role in the foundation of the Screen Writers Guild. This book provides a unique perspective on the way Riskin’s brilliant, pithy style was realised in the enduring In Capra’s Shadow and more, how his impact on cinema extended far beyond these films as he helped spread Hollywood cinema abroad and articulated his vision of a

and career.

By Eve Golden and foreword by Kim Kendall

A complete filmography and numerous rare photographs complete this first-ever biography of Britain's most glamorous comic star. Comedic film actress Kay Kendall came of age in London during the Blitz. After starring in Britain's biggest cinematic disaster, she found stardom in 1953 with her brilliant performance in the low-budget film, Genevieve. Kendall's private life was even more colourful than the plots of her films. Written with the cooperation of Kendall's sister Kim and including interviews with many of her costars, relatives and friends. This book examines her life

The French Lover By John Baxter

A fascinating exploration of the life of Charles Boyer. For generations of film and theatre audiences, Charles Boyer was the archetypal Frenchman – cultured, courteous, seductive, yet never quite at home in a culture not his own. This is the first biography of Boyer to exist in English in almost 40 years. In an insightful analysis of Boyer's choice of roles during and after World War II, it reveals how Boyer both embraced and subverted that identity.

The Life and Words of James Coburn By Robyn L. Coburn

The authorised biography of Academy Award-winning Hollywood actor James Coburn’s career, romances, friendships, and spirituality. Details the life of a Hollywood legend that spanned huge changes in the entertainment and filmmaking industry. An individualist and deeply thoughtful actor, Coburn speaks candidly about acting, show business, people he liked, and people he didn't, with many behind-the-scenes stories from his work that includes beloved classics, intellectually challenging pieces, and less well-known projects.

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Towards the Immersive Interactive Movie By Maria Cecilia Reyes (Schloss Solitude Akademie, Germany)

This innovative volume proposes a narrative model for the creation of immersive filmic experiences. This book puts forward a narrative model for interactive cinematic experiences in which the interactor has agency within the virtual environment to alter the story and shape their own journey. Maria Reyes focuses in detail on the epistemology of the immersive movie by analysing its aesthetic, narrative and interactive features, examining the workflow of production, and presenting an evaluative protocol for VR experiences of this kind.

Sound Methods and the Aural Dimension of Film and Media History Edited by Simone Dotto (Udine University, Italy)

Explores how the theoretical concepts and methods developed to investigate aurality could reframe cinema. This book does not only consider the aural 'segments' of audiovisual texts in terms of their expressive and artistic significance or examine only 'audio' and technologically mediated sound. The contributors develop the theoretical content of 'aural epistemologies' in Film and Media Studies, discuss the role of listening culture in our experience as film spectators and media users, and re-assess the significance of sound archives and sonic archaeologies in relation to our knowledge of past (sound)mediascapes.

on his colourful life.

A Journalist's Life in 250 Stories By Paddy Murray

An entertaining journey recalling Irish Journalist Paddy Murray's extraordinary life in 250 stories. By any account Paddy Murray has had a remarkable life: from meeting entertainment and sports celebrities, to reporting on Ireland’s heroic loss in the World Cup at Italia ’90, to writing for newspapers for over 40 years. His journey encompasses the highs of writing gags for the Two Ronnies, and the lows of battling Lymphoma for over 20 years. Here, he looks back

How a Highly Influential Magazine Helped Define Mid-Twentieth-Century America By Andrew L. Yarrow

The story of Look magazine, one of the greatest mass-circulation publications in American history. Published from 1937 to 1971 and with about 35 million readers at its peak, Look was an astute observer with a distinctive take on one of the greatest eras in U.S. history. Because the magazine shaped Americans' beliefs while guiding the country through a period of profound social and cultural change, this is also a story about how a long-gone form of journalism helped make America better and assured readers it could be better still.

Swedish Exploitation Film Posters 1951–1984 By Rickard Gramfors

A history lesson on Swedish exploitation cinema, with 350 outrageous, sexy, violent, fun movie posters. This volume takes a journey through Swedish exploitation film posters from the fifties through to the eighties. Along the way, it encompasses 350 outrageous, sexy, violent, fun movie posters and covers Swedish films of all kinds: whacky co-productions, exported Swedish babes, and international films using the words Sweden, Schweden, Svezia, Suède as selling points. An entertaining history lesson on Swedish exploitation cinema, its major genres, and personalities.

From Homeless to Hollywood By Glenn Gannon

An examination of the extraordinary life and career of Glenn Gannon. Miracle Man: From Homeless to Hollywood is the inspirational true story of Dublin actor and playwright Glenn Gannon. It gives a frank account of his childhood, his life on the streets of Dublin as a homeless man and his journey from there to the bright lights of Hollywood. It is a story of loss, violence and addiction, but most of all of hope.