[light browning to spine, no other significant wear, old price sticker (with information blacked-out) on front cover]. (B&W photographs) Contents: "Drought, Lawlessness and Smallpox," by Robert Glass Cleland; "The Gabilan Peak Campaign of 1846," by Richard H. Dillon; "El Alisal: The House That Lummis Built," by Dudley Gordon; "Madame Modjeska in California," by Maymie R. Krythe; "Confederates in Southern California," by Helen B. Walters; "From Boulder to the Gulf (Part V)," by Margaret Romer. View More...
[light external soiling, soft vertical crease in front cover (unobtrusive), a little dog-earing at top edge of rear cover, subscription mailing label on rear cover]. An exceptionally rich selection of scholarly articles on various aspects of American film history. Contents: "Copyright and Early Theater, Vaudeville and Film Competition" (Jeanne Thomas Allen); "Vitascope/Cinematographe: Initial Patterns of American Film Industrial Practice" (Robert C. Allen); "The Role of the Western Film Genre in Industry Competition, 1907-1911" (Robert Anderson); "Hollywood's Conv... View More...
[minimal handling wear, old price sticker (with information blacked-out) on front cover]. (B&W photographs) Contents: "California's Literary Women," by Gustave O. Arlt; "Daily Life in Early Los Angeles," by Mayme R. Krythe; "The Redondo Railroad," by Franklyn Hoyt; "Ozro William Childs," by Hortense Childs Reynolds; "California Volunteers," by A. Hunt; "Rancho Boca de Santa Monica," by Mary Boyce Kennedy; "Antonio Franco Coronel," by Marco R. Newmark. View More...
[minimal handling wear, old price sticker (with information blacked-out) on front cover]. (B&W photographs) Contents include: "Edward Fitzgerald Beale and the Indian Peace Commissioners in California, 1851-1854," by Richard E. Crouter and Andrew F. Rolle; "Military Posts of the Old Frontier: Arizona-New Mexico," by Frank A. Schilling; "The Great Debate in California: 1859," by Donald E. Hargis; "Lantern in the Western Sky, Part II (Conclusion)," by Paul M. De Falla (about anti-Chinese riots in Los Angeles in 1871); and "The Church by the Plaza: A History of... View More...
[nice clean copy, very slight bends at a couple of corners]. (B&W photographs) 48-page journal, with two Herrmann-related pieces: an interview with Joshua Waletzky, director of the documentary film MUSIC FOR THE MOVIES: BERNARD HERRMANN, and composer David Raksin; and a review of Steven C. Smith's biography "A Heart at Fire's Center: The Life and Music of Bernard Herrmann." Raksin also contributed a short piece about the original public response to his main title theme for LAURA (1944): he was deluged by more than 1700 letters (he stopped counting) from people who wanted printed copies of his... View More...
[nice clean copy, with just the slightest bit of handling wear]. (B&W photographs) Included in this issue: "The Economics and Politics of Auteurism: Spike Lee and Do the Right Thing" (Eleni Palis); "Fire and Failure: Studio Technology, Environmental Control, and the Politics of Progress" (Brian R. Jacobson; about American film studio fires in the 1920s); "Earth as Archive: Reframing Memory and Mourning in The Missing Picture" (Jennifer Cazenave); "Liberating the Screen: Gay and Lesbian Protests of LGBT Cinematic Representation, 1969-1974" (Matt Connolly); "Film, Performance, and the Spaces Bet... View More...
[modest wear to edges and extremities, vertical crease along left edge of front cover]. (B&W photographs) This issue of this well-regarded British journal of film criticism devotes 29 of its 64 pages, rather amazingly, to MANDINGO -- first with a lengthy analysis/defense of the film (which was pretty universally savaged by critics) by Andrew Britton, followed by an interview with its director, Richard Fleischer. The next section, under the blanket title "American Cinema in the '70s," discusses THE WAY WE WERE (Sydney Pollack), NIGHT MOVES (Arthur Penn), and ALICE DOESN'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE (M... View More...
[modest edgewear and external rubbing, creasing and fading to spine]. (B&W photographs) A triple issue (288 pages), with three themes/topics: Interviews; Rediscoveries; Third World. The interviews, which take up almost half the issue, are with: filmmaker Hollis Frampton (specifically about his film cycle MAGELLAN); actor/director Eric Mitchell; filmmaker/dancer Yvonne Rainer (focusing on her film JOURNEYS FROM BERLIN; critic Annette Michelson (talking about the acting in Rainer's JOURNEYS FROM BERLIN; filmmaker Jackie Raynal; and performance artist/filmmaker Carolee Schneemann. The "Rediscov... View More...
[moderate age-toning to spine and along edges of covers, light external soiling]. The inaugural issue of this long-running literary journal, which continues to this day, self-described as the oldest English-language journal in the United States devoted to French and Francophone literature and culture. In this issue, devoted entirely to the topic of existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre was given the first word, with excerpted scenes from his then-current play Les mains sales. This was followed by sixteen essays on topics ranging from general discussions of existentialism to analyses of individua... View More...
[a nice clean copy with faint handling wear only]. (B&W photographs) This issue of this respected academic film journal is devoted to case histories of the development and production of a several films of the 1930s and 1940s, with a focus on the workings of the Hollywood studio system. The films (and studios) thus examined are: BLONDE VENUS (Paramount, 1932; directed by Josef von Sternberg); JEZEBEL (Warner Bros., 1938; directed by William Wyler); THE LONG VOYAGE HOME (United Artists, 1940; directed by John Ford); JANE EYRE (20th Century-Fox, 1943; directed by Robert Stevenson; much of this ... View More...
[an as-new, unblemished copy]. (B&W photographs, facsimiles) A "peer-reviewed journal that explores topics relevant to both the media archivist and the media scholar." In this issue: "Digital Decay," by Charlotte Crofts; "Theorizing Amateur Cinema: Limitations and Possibilities," by Ryan Shand; "Unraveling the Madison News Reel: An Unlikely Convergence of Collage, Industrial, and Local Film," by Sean Savage; "Joint Technical Symposium 2007: Audiovisual Heritage and the Digital Universe," by Kara Van Malssen; "Digital Asset Symposium," by David Gibson. Also contains reviews of relevant books ... View More...
[virtually as-new, just slightly bumped at base of spine]. (B&W photographs, facsimiles) A "peer-reviewed journal that explores topics relevant to both the media archivist and the media scholar." In this issue: "'Born Digital' -- Raised an Orphan?: Acquiring Digital Media Through an Analog Paradigm," by Dylan Cave; "Introduction to Bio-fiction Classification Theory: Remix Methodologies and the Archivist," by Dino Everett; "How to Preserve Your Films Forever," by David Walsh; "When Governments Make Mistakes: Advocacy and the Long-distance Archivist," by Ray Edmonson." Plus reviews of relevant... View More...
[virtually as-new, no significant wear, one-time owner's initials on first inside page]. (B&W photographs, facsimiles) In this issue: "Just Another Form of Ideology?: Ethical and Methodological Principles in Film Restoration," by Andreas Busche; "The Library of Congress Film Project: Film Collecting and a United State(s) of Mind," by Janna Jones; "Mitchell and Kenyon, Archival Contingency, and the Cultural Production of Historical License," by Nathan Carroll; "Mobile Home Movies: Travel and Le Politique des Auteurs," by Devin Orgeron; "My Saga of the Newly Discovered Estate of Erich von Strohe... View More...
[some wear at edges and corners, a couple of short creases in front cover]. (B&W photographs) Issue devoted primarily to German cinema. Contents: an analysis of the influence of Berthold Brecht on the film medium; a discussion of three films by Werner Herzog "seen in the light of the grotesque" (EVEN DWARFS STARTED SMALL, FATA MORGANA and AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD); analysis of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT; a selection of writings by Alexander Kluge; analysis of Jean-Marie Straub's NOT RECONCILED; an analysis of the 1942 Nazi documentary DER EWIGE JUDE... View More...
[a little scuffing to covers and other light external wear]. (B&W photographs) Special issue devoted to Howard Hawks, inspired by the director's recent participation in the Athens (Ohio) International Film Festival. Contains articles by Alexandre Astruc (a general appreciation + an analysis of RIO LOBO), William Luhr (article about "Patterns of Continuity in RIO BRAVO, EL DORADO and RIO LOBO), and Marilyn Campbell (analysis of HIS GIRL FRIDAY); plus a 30-page "private interview" with Hawks conducted by editor Lehman and other journal staff members. Rounding out the issue is an ana... View More...
[modest edgewear to covers, very short diagonal crease at bottom right corner of front cover, some light staining on rear cover, a bit of dog-earing along bottom edge of rear cover]. (B&W photographs) Contents: "Spectator-Viewer," by Robert T. Eberwein; "The American Film Musical: Paradigmatic Structure and Mediatory Function," by Charles F. Altman; "On the Naked Thighs of Miss Dietrich," by Peter Baxter (an analysis of THE BLUE ANGEL); "Cultivating [Ingmar] Bergman's Strawberry Patch: The Emergence of a Cinematic Idea," by Joseph Donohoe; "Point/Counterpoint in HIROSHIMA, MON AMOUR," by Will... View More...
[virtually as-new, faint handling wear only]. (B&W photographs) Special issue devoted to director John Ford, including articles by Jean Mitry, William C. Siska, Douglas Gomery, Richard Abel, Peter Lehman, Marilyn Campbell and Michael Budd; specific films/topics covered include MY DARLING CLEMENTINE, YOUNG MR. LINCOLN, THE QUIET MAN, and Ford's Westerns. The issue also includes an interview with Wim Wenders and a Wenders bibliography, an analysis of Nasgisa Oshima's work with focus on IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES, and a review of Bruce Kawin's book "Faulkner and Film." ***NOTE that we have many ... View More...
[just a touch of wear at spine ends, otherwise as new]. (B&W photographs) Includes: an article by David Bordwell about the aesthetics of the jump cut (with much reference to the work of Jean-Luc Godard); a discussion of THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI (1919) as an exemplar of the "art cinema"; an attempt to parse out the "authorship" of COME AND GET IT (1936), the direction of which was split between Howard Hawks and William Wyler; an analysis of THE LADY IN THE LAKE (1946), based on the Raymond Chandler novel; "The One Woman," an excruciatingly detailed discourse on the psycho-sexual-aesthetic s... View More...
[slight bumping to lower corners, subscription mailing label on rear cover]. (B&W photographs) In this issue: "The Projector and the Camera: Integrating Courses in Cinema Studies and Filmmaking" (Vlada Petric); "Seeking to Take the Longest Journey: A Conversation with Albert Maysles" (Calvin Pryluck); "The Moral Dimension in Documentary" (James M. Linton); "From Comic Strips to Animation: Some Perspective on Winsor McCay" (Tom W. Hoffer). Also: "A Bibliography of Latin American Cinema," by Daniel Appelman; and a long review of Lenny Lipton's two filmma... View More...
[slight bumping to top of spine, no other discernible wear]. (B&W photographs) This issue features a nice variety of scholarly articles on various aspects of American film history, prefaced by "A Vision of the Outside World," a transcript of remarks made by President Jimmy Carter at a White House event. Contents: "G.M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson: The Screen Cowboy Who Meant Business" (Lane Roth and Tom W. Hoffer); "D.W. Griffith and the Banks: A Case Study in Film Financing" (Janet Wasko); "The Impact of THE JAZZ SINGER on the Conversion to Sound" (Jonathan D. T... View More...
![Image for The Journal of the University Film Association (Spring 1979) [special issue: Economic and Industry History of the American Film]](https://www.readinkbooks.com/assets/images/product/23360.jpg)
![Image for The Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly (June 1954) [cover: Helen Hunt Jackson]](/assets/images/product/25417.jpg)
![Image for The Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly (June 1960) [cover: Edward Fitzgerald Beale]](/assets/images/product/25416.jpg)
![Image for The Cue Sheet: The Journal of the Society for the Preservation of Film Music (1993/1994) [cover and related content: Bernard Herrmann]](/assets/images/product/28002.jpg)
![Image for Movie (issue no. 22, Spring 1976) [cover: FAREWELL, MY LOVELY]](/assets/images/product/26294.jpg)
![Image for Yale French Studies (Spring-Summer 1948) [first issue: Existentialism]](/assets/images/product/26765.jpg)
![Image for Wide Angle (Vol. 10, No. 1) [topic: The Studio System: Case Histories]](/assets/images/product/26428.jpg)
![Image for Wide Angle (1980) [topic: New German Cinema]](/assets/images/product/25421.jpg)
![Image for Wide Angle (Summer 1976) [special Howard Hawks issue]](/assets/images/product/23416.jpg)
![Image for Wide Angle (Vol. 2, No. 2) [topic: Film Aesthetics]](/assets/images/product/27644.jpg)
![Image for Wide Angle (Vol. 2, No. 4) [special John Ford issue]](/assets/images/product/25497.jpg)
![Image for Wide Angle (Vol. 6, No. 1) [topic: Authorship]](/assets/images/product/25500.jpg)
![Image for The Journal of the University Film Association (Winter 1978) [issue theme: Topics in American Film History]](https://www.readinkbooks.com/assets/images/product/25614.jpg)
