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The Merchant Prince of Poverty Row: Harry Cohn of Columbia Pictures [Paperback]
Bernard F. Dick (Author)
£23.00ISBN: 9780813152097
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
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 Harry Cohns: the only studio presid... .... Learn More -
Alfred Hitchcock: The Legacy of Victorianism [Paperback]
Paula Marantz Cohen (Author)
£18.00ISBN: 9780813151892
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
This provocative study traces Alfred Hitchcock's long directorial career from Victorianism to postmodernism. Paula Cohen considers a sampling of Hitchcock's best films - Shadow of a Doubt, Rear Window, Vertigo, Psycho - as well as some of his mor... .... Learn More -
Hitchcock and the Censors [Paperback]
John Billheimer (Author)
£25.00ISBN: 9780813180540
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: Screen Classics
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 humor, religious disrespect, and all forms of indecency, real or imagined. From 1934 ... .... Learn More -
Engulfed: The Death of Paramount Pictures and the Birth of Corporate Hollywood [Paperback]
Bernard F. Dick (Author)
£23.00ISBN: 9780813151359
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
From Double Indemnity to The Godfather, the stories behind some of the greatest films ever made pale beside the story of the studio that made them. In the golden age of Hollywood, Paramount was one of the Big Five studios. Gulf +... .... Learn More -
Radical Innocence: A Critical Study of the Hollywood Ten [Paperback]
Bernard F. Dick (Author)
£23.00ISBN: 9780813151342
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
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. Hollywood was ordered to "clean its own house," and ten witnesses who had... .... Learn More -
Jayne Mansfield: The Girl Couldn't Help It [Hardback]
Eve Golden (Author)
£32.00ISBN: 9780813180953
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: Screen Classics
The first definitive biography of tragicomic sex symbol Jayne Mansfield, one of the most colorful and eccentric movie stars of the 1950s-60s. The book examines both her life and her career, detailing her movie, TV and stage work, as well as her dr... .... Learn More -
Anna Held and the Birth of Ziegfeld's Broadway [Paperback]
Eve Golden (Author); Laurie Sanderson (Author)
£18.00ISBN: 9780813180755
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Anna Held (1870?-1918), a petite woman with an hourglass figure, was America's most popular musical comedy star during the two decades preceding World War I. In the colorful world of New York theater during La Belle Époque, she epitomized everythi... .... Learn More -
Mean...Moody...Magnificent!: Jane Russell and the Marketing of a Hollywood Legend [Hardback]
Christina Rice (Author)
£27.00ISBN: 9780813181080
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: Screen Classics
Jane Russell's acting career was launched on one of the most notorious publicity campaigns in the history of cinema for The Outlaw, a film produced and ultimately directed by Howard Hughes. Russell should have quickly and quietly disappeared from ... .... Learn More -
Vitagraph: America's First Great Motion Picture Studio [Hardback]
Andrew A. Erish (Author)
£32.00ISBN: 9780813181196
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: Screen Classics
Vitagraph: America's First Great Motion Picture Studio is the first comprehensive examination of the company most responsible for defining and popularizing the American movie. Vitagraph was among the five production companies established ... .... Learn More -
Experimental Women: Mapping Cinema and Video Practices from the Post-War Period up to Present [Paperback]
Sarah Keller (Editor); Elena Marcheschi (Editor); Giulia Simi (Author)
£12.00ISBN: 9788869773129
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Cinéma & Cie
Experimental cinema, as well as experimental video practices, have always been art forms in which women have excelled. Yet, if cinema studies has devoted research – albeit only recently – to women involved in narrative and commercial films (as dir... .... Learn More
