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by Peter Josyph
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2010
Regarded by many as one of America's finest-living writers, Cormac McCarthy has produced some of the most compelling novels of the last 40 years. Through the increasing number of cinematic adaptations of his work, including the Oscar-winning No Country for Old Men, and the Pulitzer Prize for The Road,...
by Emer O'Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
Children's literature comes from a number of different sources-folklore (folk- and fairy tales), books originally for adults and subsequently adapted for children, and material authored specifically for them-and its audience ranges from infants through middle graders to young adults (readers from...
Rungs on a Ladder
Hammer Films Seen Through a Soft Gauze
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2003
Rungs on a Ladder looks at part of the movie industry from a unique perspective. Christopher Neame, son of director Ronald, started his career (in the early 1960s) at the very bottom, but determinedly made his way to the top. Neame fondly recalls his learning years at Bray Studios and beyond. Simply...
A History of American Movies
A Film-by-Film Look at the Art, Craft, and Business of Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2010
In A History of American Movies: A Film-by-Film Look at the Art, Craft and Business of Cinema, Paul Monaco provides a survey of the narrative feature film from the 1920s to the present. The book focuses on 170 of the most highly regarded and recognized feature films selected by the Hollywood establishment:...
by Richard C. Keenan
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2007
From his early days as a film editor at RKO studios, where he helped Orson Welles shape Citizen Kane, to his success as a director and producer of musical blockbusters of the 1960s, Robert Wise had a long and illustrious film career. Unlike contemporaries such as Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford or Howard...
All About the Movies
A Handbook for the Movie-Loving Layman
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2000
Movies are a passion shared by people of all ages and backgrounds. Maurice Rapf, the first director of the Film Studies Program at Dartmouth College, recognizes that most people who profess a love of the movies have not spent much time learning about them. He has written this text as an attempt to...
Twentieth Century-Fox
A Corporate and Financial History
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1988
New in Paperback! In 1935, two film production companies merged to form one of the most influential corporations in the world—Twentieth Century-Fox. Here is the story of that dynamic company and of the personalities who molded it over the past fifty years, from Darryl F. Zanuk to Barry Diller. Unlike...
Out of the Shadows
Expanding the Canon of Classic Film Noir
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
Film noir was a cycle in American cinema which first came into prominence during World War II, peaked in the 1950s, and began to taper off as a definable trend by 1960. Over the years, a group of films from the period emerged as noir standards, beginning with Stranger on the Third Floor in 1940. However,...
Muckrakers
A Biographical Dictionary of Writers and Editors
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2008
During the 1800s, the United States progressed at a remarkable rate. Commerce gave rise to regional specialization and contributed to the growth of cities. By 1860 the nation had prospered to the extent that it no longer depended on Europe to purchase its goods. Innovations in technology helped increase...
The Nature of 'A Work'
Implications for the Organization of Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2001
Living legend Smiraglia has written the first book devoted exclusively to exploring the concept that is commonly referred to as a bibliographic "Work." In bringing together material from both inside and outside the discipline of information studies, he traces the continuing development of...
The London Stage 1890-1899
A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Theatre in London has celebrated a rich and influential history, and in 1976 the first volume of J. P. Wearing’s reference series provided researchers with an indispensable resource of these productions. In the decades since the original calendars were produced, several research aids have become...
by Corinne J. Naden
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
The Golden Age of American Musical Theatre: 1943-1965 provides synopses, cast and production credits, song titles, and other pertinent information for over 180 musicals from Oklahoma! to On A Clear Day You Can See Forever. Concentrating on a 22-year span, this book lists both commercial successes...
The Invisible Art of Film Music
A Comprehensive History
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1998
A comprehensive introduction to film music for the general student, the film historian, and the aspiring cinematographer. It is a historically structured account of the evolution of music in films. The book is arranged as a chronological survey and includes biographical sketches on many important film composers in addition to the development of the films themselves.
The Last Silent Picture Show
Silent Films on American Screens in the 1930s
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2010
In 1927, The Jazz Singer heralded a revolution in the moviemaking industry with the advent of synchronized sound in full-length motion pictures. While movie studios adapted their production facilities to accommodate the new technology and movie theatres converted to sound, filmmakers continued to...