Binding: Periodical

The Hollywood Reporter (March 30, 1935, Section 2): 4th Annual Writers Number 1935

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Hollywood, The Wilkerson Daily Corp., Ltd. : 1935

Seller ID: 22636

Condition: Near Fine

[minor edgewear to covers, slight fading along bottom edge of front cover]. (advertisements) This special "Writers Number" of the erstwhile Hollywood trade paper features 22 short pieces of various types -- stories, playlets, mini-essays, anecdotes, humorous jibes, etc. -- contributed by both prominent and not-so-prominent screenwriters (or, in some cases, regular writers in town to scoop up some of that easy movie money). Featured writers include Philip Wylie, Nunnally Johnson, Edward Chodorov, Ralph Block, Melvin Levy, George Seaton & Robert Pirosh, Dwight Taylor, and Edwin Knopf. Among t...
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The Film Journal (January-March 1973) [special issue: The Art of the Horror Film]

By: (Atkins, Thomas R., ed.)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Hollins College VA, The Film Journal : 1973

Edition: (Vol. 2, No. 2; whole No. 5)

Seller ID: 27936

Binding: Periodical

Condition: Very Good+

[nice clean copy, moderate edgewear, light surface wear to covers, slight bumping at top right]. (B&W photographs) A special issue, devoted to horror films, of this well-produced large-format critical film journal. The issue is dedicated to Rouben Mamoulian, who is interviewed herein about his 1931 film DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE. Other articles: "Drawing the Circle: A Devolution of Values in Three Horror Films," a long piece by R.H.W. Dillard (the three films under discussion being the FRANKENSTEIN (1931), THE WOLF MAN (1941) and NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1969)); analyses of THE MUMMY (1932), b...
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Film Quarterly (Fall 1982) [cover: Bob Hoskins in THE LONG GOOD FRIDAY]

By: (Callenbach, Ernest, ed.)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Berkeley, University of California Press : 1982

Edition: (Vol. XXXVI, No. 1)

Seller ID: 25379

Binding: Periodical

Condition: Near Fine

[nice clean copy, minimal handling wear]. (B&W photographs) This issue includes interviews with Hector Babenco (with special attention to his film PIXOTE) and Emile de Antonio (the latter interviewing himself). Articles: "Time and Stasis in LA JETÉE" (about the Chris Marker film); an analysis of three films by Walter Hill (SOUTHERN COMFORT, THE LONG RIDERS, and THE WARRIORS); an analysis of Jonathan Demme's MELVIN AND HOWARD and its connections with the work of Frank Capra. Film reviews: TIME BANDITS (Terry Gilliam), VICTOR/VICTORIA (Blake Edwards), THE LONG GOOD FRIDAY (John MacKenzi...
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Film Quarterly (Summer 1961) [cover: Monica Vitti and Gabriele Ferzetti in L'AVVENTURA]

By: (Callenbach, Ernest, ed.)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Berkeley, University of California Press : 1961

Edition: (Vol. XIV, No. 4)

Seller ID: 27795

Binding: Periodical

Condition: Very Good

[minor wear, nice clean copy, some partially-erased writing in blue ink at top of front cover]. (B&W photographs) In this issue: "The Cinema Delimina: Films from the Underground," by Stan Vanderbeek; "Forbidden Fruit: The Nazi Feature Film, 1933-1945," by David Stewart Hull; and "Yugoslav Short Films," by Donald Richie. Especially interesting is the fourth article, "An American Film Institute: A Proposal," by Colin Young, a lengthy piece which represents an early conceptual floating of the idea of a national film institute that would ultimately come to fruition about six years later. (This p...
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Film Quarterly (Winter 1958) [cover: Sophia Loren in THE BLACK ORCHID]

By: (Callenbach, Ernest, ed.)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Berkeley, University of California Press : 1958

Edition: (Vol. XII, No. 2)

Seller ID: 27762

Binding: Periodical

Condition: Very Good

[modest edgewear all around, some minor creasing in front cover, some red-ink underlining in the Minnelli article]. (B&W photographs) In the first three articles in this issue, grouped under the title "The Growing Edge," the authors tell of their personal encounters with three filmmakers: Satyajit Ray, Luis Bunuel, and Luigi Zampa (the latter piece incorporating an interview). Also in this issue: "Hollywood's Favorite Fable," in which Arthur Mayer discusses and debunks "the myth of the virtuous producer-distributor and the wicked exhibitor"; the first installment of an 2-part examination of t...
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Film Quarterly (Winter 1962-63) [cover: THE BIRDS]

By: (Callenbach, Ernest, ed.)

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Berkeley, University of California Press : 1962

Edition: (Vol. XVI, No. 2)

Seller ID: 27678

Binding: Periodical

Condition: Very Good+

[nice clean copy, a bit of wear along spine, minor surface wear to covers]. (B&W photographs) The primary feature of this issue is a 20-page survey of "Special Features on Film Scholarship," including brief surveys of the resources of the major U.S. repositories of archival film history materials. Articles: "Hitchcock's World," by Charles Higham; "The Craft of Norman McLaren," by Ernest Callenbach; and "'Marienbadism' and the New Italian Directors," by Fernaldo di Giammatteo. Books reviewed include Gordon Hendricks's groundbreaking "The Edison Motion Picture Myth."
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Film Quarterly (Winter 1982-83) [cover: Willie Nelson in BARBAROSA]

By: (Callenbach, Ernest, ed.)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Berkeley, University of California Press : 1982

Edition: (Vol. XXXVI, No. 2)

Seller ID: 27677

Binding: Periodical

Condition: Near Fine

[nice clean copy, just a trace of handling wear]. (B&W photographs) In this issue: an interview with Andrzej Wajda, then in Paris filming DANTON; "The Reference Shelf Shuffle," a critical review of film "encyclopedias, histories, and other supposedly authoritative sources of facts [that] are shot through with error and misinformation"; an article entitled "Slow Fade to Afro: The Black Presence in Brazilian Cinema." Films reviewed: BLADE RUNNER (Ridley Scott), THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP (George Roy Hill), ZOOT SUIT (Luis Valdez), RADIO ON (Chris Petit), and BARBAROSA (Fred Schepisi). Books r...
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The Velvet Light Trap (No. 10, Fall 1973) [special issue: RKO Radio Pictures]

By: (Davis, John, and Susan Dalton, eds.)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Cottage Grove WI, Arizona Jim Co-Op : 1973

Edition: (No. 10)

Seller ID: 25393

Binding: Periodical

Condition: Near Fine

[faint external soiling, minor crease near top of rear cover]. (B&W photographs) A special issue of this critical/historical film journal, devoted to RKO Radio Pictures. Includes: an overview of the studio's history and a chronology; "RKO's Fallen Women, 1930-1933"; an article about the production design of the Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers musicals, as overseen by the studio's Art Department head, Van Nest Polglase; an interview with director John Cromwell; an analysis of DANCE, GIRL, DANCE (Dorothy Arzner, 1940); an interview with director Mark Robson, remembering his work at RKO with...
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The Velvet Light Trap (No. 11, Winter 1974): The 50s [cover: James Dean in REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE]

By: (Davis, John, and Susan Dalton, eds.)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Cottage Grove WI, The Arizona Jim Co-Op : 1974

Edition: (No. 11)

Seller ID: 10250

Binding: Periodical

Condition: Very Good+

[minor soiling to rear cover, light stain at bottom of first few pages]. (B&W photographs) Critical/historical film journal. Contents include articles on: "The Strange Case of the Hollywood Ten"; 3-D films; Fifties gangster films; Don Siegel and BABY FACE NELSON; THE BAND WAGON (Vincente Minnelli); "Nicholas Ray: The Years at RKO" (Part 2); Elia Kazan in the Fifties; three films by Robert Aldrich (KISS ME DEADLY, THE BIG KNIFE, ATTACK!); the film musicals of Betty Comden & Adolph Green; etc. ***NOTE that we have many more issues of this title (and other film magazines) in sto...
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The Velvet Light Trap (No. 17, Winter 1977): TVLT Revisited (By Popular Demand) [cover: Marlene Dietrich in THE DEVIL IS A WOMAN]

By: (Davis, John, ed.)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Cottage Grove WI, (No Publisher Stated) : 1977

Edition: (No. 17)

Seller ID: 25394

Binding: Periodical

Condition: Near Fine

[nice clean copy with no significant wear]. (B&W photographs) Critical/historical film journal. This issue reprints ten articles from issues 1-8, including: "Some Warners Musicals and the Spirit of the New Deal"; FOR APACHE (John Ford); "The Strange Romance of 'Dirty Harry' Callahan and Ann Mary Deacon"; "Notes on Warner Brothers' Foreign Policy"; "Prisoners of Paranoia" (one of the seminal critical articles about Edgar G. Ulmer); early woman director Alice Guy Blach; "Joe, Where Are You?" (an analysis of Josef von Sternberg's creation and manipulation...
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The Velvet Light Trap (No. 19, 1982) [cover: Henry Fonda in YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE]

By: (DeBauche, Leslie Midkiff, et al., eds.)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Madison WI, John Davis : (c.1982)

Edition: (No. 19)

Seller ID: 25396

Binding: Periodical

Condition: Near Fine

[nice clean copy, light handling wear only]. (B&W photographs) Critical/historical film journal, this issue's stated theme being "Rereading Hollywood." Contents: Part Two of an analysis of the convention of the happy ending in Hollywood movies; an examination of the influence of Edith Head's film costume designs on the retail fashion market; an interview with Rouben Mamoulian; "Movie Audiences, Urban Geography, and the History of the American Film"; "The Art Cinema and Robert Altman"; an analysis of Max Steiner's music for MILDRED PIERCE; "Madness, Authority, and I...
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Focus on Film (No. 12, Winter 1972) [cover: Robert Redford in JEREMIAH JOHNSON]

By: (Eyles, Allen, ed.)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, The Tantivy Press : 1972

Edition: (No. 12)

Seller ID: 26037

Binding: Periodical

Condition: Near Fine

[very nice copy, with just a bit of surface wear to covers] (B&W photographs) Feature article (with filmographies) on John Barrymore and Dolores Costello; an interview with Rene Clair; an interview with Robert Wise, on his early career at RKO; " On Location with Billy Wellman" by Louise Brooks (about the making of BEGGARS OF LIFE); reviews (with related filmographies) of EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT SEX* (Woody Allen), JEREMIAH JOHNSON (Sydney Pollack), ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND (William Sterling), LA RUPTURE ( Claude Chabrol) and DUEL (Steven Spielberg).
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Focus on Film (No. 17, Spring 1974) [cover: "Yul Brynner" in WESTWORLD]

By: (Eyles, Allen, ed.)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, The Tantivy Press : 1974

Edition: (No. 17)

Seller ID: 26038

Binding: Periodical

Condition: Near Fine

[nice clean copy, slight wear to base of spine, a little scuffed area at top center front cover]. (B&W photographs) Feature article (with filmography) on Sir Carol Reed; interview with Garson Kanin (specifically talking about his early years in Hollywood and his film work during World War II; includes filmography); article, "Max Reinhardt and the Cinema"; four pages of corrections and additions to the "Great Cameramen" issue (no. 13); reviews (with related filmographies) of WESTWORLD, AMERICAN GRAFFITI (George Lucas), SERPICO (Sidney Lumet), DON QUIXOTE (the film of the ballet,...
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Focus on Film (No. 31, November 1978) [cover: Vanessa Redgrave, Richard Gere and Chick Vennera in YANKS]

By: (Eyles, Allen, ed.)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, The Tantivy Press : 1978

Edition: (No. 31)

Seller ID: 27675

Binding: Periodical

Condition: Very Good+

[minor wear along spine and edges]. (B&W photographs) In this issue: an interview with John Schlesinger; an article (with filmography) on Twentieth Century-Fox and CinemaScope; an article, "Eagle-Lion, the Violent Years," by Don Miller (including a filmography of the studio's crime films, 1947-1951); an article/interview on Nancy Coleman (including filmography); an article on the Empire Leicester Square cinema.
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Cinema [magazine] [1969] [cover: Federico Fellini]

By: (Lindsay, Michael, ed.)

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Beverly Hills CA, Spectator International : [1969]

Edition: (Vol. 5, No. 3)

Seller ID: 17251

ISBN: NO

Binding: Periodical

Condition: Near Fine

[a very nice copy, with just the teensiest bit of wear at bottom edge of front cover; plenty would call it Fine, but I'm too Finicky]. (B&W photographs) A terrific issue of this important (and well-designed) critical film journal. Contents include: "Fellini on Fellini on Satyricon" (including an interview with the filmmaker); an interview with Jeanne Moreau; an article (by Paul Schrader) on Sam Peckinpah and THE WILD BUNCH, which also discusses Peckinpah's earlier films; "Four-in-One Cinema" (about the opening of a chain of multiplexes in England); an interview with Arthur Pe...
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The Journal of Popular Film (Vol. VI, No. 3; 1978)

By: (Marsden, Michael T., and John G. Nachbar, eds.)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Bowling Green OH, Popular Culture Association : 1978

Edition: Vol. VI, No. 3

Seller ID: 27674

Binding: Periodical

Condition: Near Fine

[minor edgewear to covers only]. (B&W photographs) In this issue: "Mode and Meaning in 2001 [: A SPACE ODYSSEY]"; "Valuelessness and Vacillation in the Films of Julie Christie"; "The Police State"; "Hitchcock's Violence: A Fan's Note" (a poem by John C. Hammond); "American Nightmare: The Underworld in Film"; "The Stars in Our Hearts: A Critical Commentary on George Lucas"; a "review essay" on Diane Jacobs's book "Hollywood Renaissance."
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Cine-Tracts, A Journal of Film and Cultural Studies (Winter 1981) [whole issue no. 12] The Film Body

By: (Mellencamp, Patricia, ed.)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Montreal, Cine-Tracts : 1981

Edition: (Vol. 3, No. 4)

Seller ID: 9079

Binding: Periodical

Condition: Near Fine

[nice clean copy, the faintest bit of soiling to mostly-white covers]. (B&W photographs) "The Film Body" is the theme of the issue. Contents: "Made in the Fade" by Patricia Mellencamp; "Film Body: An Implantation of Perversions" by Linda Williams; "The Economics of U.S. Film Exhibition Policy and Practice" by Douglas Gomery; "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari: Conditions of Reception" by Michael Budd; "Theatre and Cinema: The Scopic Drive, The Detestable Screen, and More of the Same" by Herbert Blau.
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Scripts: A Monthly of Plays and Theater Pieces - issue no. 7 (May 1972)

By: (Munk, Erica, ed.)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater : 1972

Edition: (Vol. 1, No. 7)

Seller ID: 27989

Binding: Periodical

Condition: Very Good+

[light external wear, a few tiny red ink marks on bottom edge]. This issue contains the following plays: "The Meat Rack," by Kathleen Kimball; "The Service for Joseph Axminster," by George Dennison; "Is She Izzy or Is He Ain'tzy or Iz They Both," by Lonnie Carter (including music and lyrics; music by Robert Montgomery); "Cop and Blow," by Neil Harris; "Perfection in Black," by China Clark; "Helliocentric World," by Sebastian Clarke; "The Wall," by Ben Caldwell; "One the Two of Us," by William Adell Stevenson III.
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Scripts: A Monthly of Plays and Theater Pieces - issue no. 5 (March 1972)

By: (Munk, Erica, ed.) Handke, Peter, et al.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater : 1972

Edition: (Vol. 1, No. 5)

Seller ID: 27987

Binding: Periodical

Condition: Very Good

[an array of tiny white rubbed/scuffed spots on front cover, otherwise only lightly worn]. This issue contains the following plays: "Larry Parks' Day in Court," by Eric Bentley; "Four Infiltration Pieces," by Marc Estrin; "The Ride Across Lake Constance," by Peter Handke; "The Wax Engine," by Robert Nichols. This was likely the first English-language publication of the Handke piece (translated from the German by Michael Roloff), the play itself having been "recently presented at Lincoln Center." (Its characters include "Emil Jannings," "Erich von Stroheim," and "Elisabeth Bergner," but they...
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Scripts: A Monthly of Plays and Theater Pieces - issue no. 8 (June 1972) [Radio/TV issue]

By: (Munk, Erica, ed.) Lind, Jakov, et al.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater : 1972

Edition: (Vol. 1, No. 8)

Seller ID: 27990

Binding: Periodical

Condition: Very Good+

[light external wear, small scraped area near bottom of front cover, soft diagonal crease at upper right corner of front cover, a few tiny red ink marks on bottom edge]. This issue contains the following plays (all apparently written for radio or television, although there's nothing explicitly stating that apart from the little slug on the front cover: "The Resolution of Mossie Wax: A TV Documentary," by Stephen H. Foreman; "Audioplay 2: Safe," by Jakov Lind; "On the Eve of Publication," by David Mercer; "Ol-Dopt; or, The Adventures of Charles and Emily Ann Andrews: A Radio Serial," by David ...
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Binding: Periodical