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Motion-Picture Work; a general treatise on picture taking, picture making, photo-plays, and theater management and operation

By: Hulfish, David S.

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Chicago, American School of Correspondence: 1913

Seller ID: 15009

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

(no dust jacket, as issued) [solid copy, moderate overall wear, hinges and binding fully intact, 1-1/2-inch rip in spine cloth at bottom front hinge, cloth frayed exposing boards at 3 of 4 corners; internally very clean, despite some very light dampstaining to the last 80 pages or so]. (B&W photographs, halftones, diagrams) This massive work, first issued in 1911 (as "A Cyclopedia of Motion Picture Work," in two volumes), is really a gigantic how-to manual, with a staggering amount of detailed information about exactly how films were manufactured, distributed and exhibited to the publi...
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British Film Music

By: Huntley, John

Price: $45.00

Publisher: London, Skelton Robinson: [1947]

Seller ID: 20203

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Fair dj

[slight bumping to spine ends, pages somewhat age-browned due to cheap paper stock employed, small bookstore stamp on ffep; jacket has some paper loss at top corners and bottom corner of rear panel, moderate soiling and general wear]. (B&W photographs) "A complete survey of Film Music in Great Britain from the earliest days of the silent picture to the present day -- how it all began, the films that mark the milestones along the road of development, a meeting with the composers, musical directors, sound engineers and orchestral players who contribute so much to our enjoyment of the cinema...
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Hollywood Haunted: A Ghostly Tour of Filmland [SIGNED]

By: Jacobson, Laurie, and Marc Wanamaker

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Santa Monica CA, Angel City Press: 1994

Seller ID: 25752

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

(pictorial boards, no dust jacket, as issued) [nice clean copy, slight fading at spine and along top edge of front cover, minor surface wear to rear cover]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by author Jacobson on the ffep. A compendium of tales of supernatural goings-on in Hollywood. The first section, "Supernatural Superstars," features short chapters on Bessie Love; Sharon Tate and Paul Bern; Grace Moore, Clifton Webb and Mom; and Ozzie Nelson. Most of the book is devoted to the spooky history of various Hollywood locations, houses, studios, theaters, etc. Signed by One Autho...
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Univers du Cinema

By: Jacques, Pierre

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Paris, Editions Felix Touron: (c.1966)

Seller ID: 8320

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

(original clear mylar jacket) [very mild handling wear, faint soiling to bottom edge; mylar jacket shows some surface wear, no tears]. (B&W/color photographs) Profusely illustrated history of world cinema; text in French, but still a visual feast despite the language barrier. [Note: big fat heavy book; extra shipping charges may apply.] (++)
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Motion Picture Empire

By: Jobes, Gertrude

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Hamden CT, Archon Books: 1966

Seller ID: 17593

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[a solid clean copy, with the slightest trace of wear to bottom edge; white paper jacket is moderately soiled and unevenly browned, especially at spine]. (B&W photographs) "A well-documented and psychologically penetrating study of one of the largest industries in the United States. ... [the author] loses nothing of the irony, humor, pathos and acrimony that have characterized the growth of the industry, yet her touch is a light one and the intricacies of high finance are simplified and made dramatic."
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Big as Life: An American History of 8mm Films

By: Kilchesty, Albert, ed.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: San Francisco, Foundation for Art in Cinema: (c.1998)

Seller ID: 24420

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

[minor edgewear to covers, slight bumping/dog-earing at bottom corner of fore-edge]. (B&W photographs, graphics) Catalog for an exhibition jointly curated by the Museum of Modern Art (in New York) and the San Francisco Cinematheque. Contains about a dozen articles and essays covering various artistic, experimental and personal uses of the 8mm and Super 8 film formats; includes an article about the "Zapruder Film" of the JFK assassination, and interviews with a number of filmmakers who have used the smaller format, including George Kuchar, Mike Kuchar, Ken Jacobs, Stan Brakhage, Saul ...
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A Separate Cinema: Fifty Years of Black-Cast Posters

By: Kisch, John, and Edward Mapp

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 1992

Seller ID: 18890

ISBN: 0-374-26101-6

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[previous owner's name in ink at top of ffep, otherwise Fine, with no significant wear to book; jacket slightly scuffed in one small area at right edge of front panel]. (color reproductions; B&W photographs) Preface by Spike Lee; introduction by Donald Bogle. Beautiful color reproductions of more than 200 posters dating from 1915 to 1965, providing "a unique glimpse of another era and of the extraordinary energy and spirit that characterized early black film."
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Horizons West: Anthony Mann, Budd Boetticher, Sam Peckinpah: studies of Authorship within the Western

By: Kitses, Jim

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Bloomington/London, Indiana University Press: 1970 (c.1969)

Seller ID: 24522

ISBN: 0253138701

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[minor shelfwear to bottom edge, technically ex-library but unmarked except for bookplate on front pastedown (see notes); jacket shows a little wear along bottom edge and right-hand edge of front panel]. (Cinema One, no. 12) Series (B&W photographs) One of the more interesting and influential works in the excellent "Cinema One" series, with insightful readings of the genre work of three directors whose films continue to command attention from cineastes. Includes filmographies. Also issued in paperback; the hardcover printing is fairly uncommon. [NOTE that the bookplate on the front...
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A Long Look at Short Films: An A.C.T.T. Report on the Short Entertainment and Factual Film

By: Knight, Derrick, and Vincent Porter

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Oxford/London/etc., Association of Cinematograph, Television and Allied Technicians, in association with Pergamon Press: 1967

Seller ID: 14940

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good+

[moderate wear, light soiling to page edges, minor rubbing/creasing to covers; binding sound, text unmarked]. Trade PB "The authors provide a penetrating study of the short film industry in Great Britain and present suggestions as to ways in which the British film industry can be restored to energetic and profitable life by concentration on development of the short film." (Hm. Wonder how that worked out?) "The contents are grouped under four main headings: Introductory Facts; The Entertainment Film; The Factual Film; and Conclusion, and within this framework many specialized asp...
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Behind the Motion-Picture Screen

By: Lescarboura, Austin C.

Price: $60.00

Publisher: New York, Benjamin Blom, Inc.: 1971

Seller ID: 15414

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

(no dust jacket, as issued) [nice copy, with just a bit of soiling to the bottom edge]. (B&W photographs) "How the Scenario Writer, Director, Cameraman, Scene Painter and Carpenter, Laboratory Man, Art Director, Property Man, Electrician, Projector Operator and Others Contribute Their Share of Work Toward the Realization of the Wonderful Photoplays of Today; and How the Motion Picture is Rapidly Extending Into Many Fields Aside from that of Entertainment." Beautifully-produced reissue (even if they did misspell the author's name on the spine) of a work originally issued in 1919. Ext...
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Screening Spaces: Women and Motion Pictures in America, 1908-1917

By: Lindsey, Shelley Stamp

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Ann Arbor MI, UMI Dissertation Services: 1995 (c.1994)

Seller ID: 14904

ISBN: NO

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

[a little soiling to bottom edge, some minor annotations in first 25 pages of text, a couple of diagonally-creased page corners]. Doctoral dissertation from NYU (printed from microfilm), describing "how cinema helped shape the social maps of modern America by investing three sites crucial to the transfiguration of gendered domains in the pre-War era: the home, a space with which women remained deeply associated; city streets, where women now congregated; and the political arena, where they hoped to participate."
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Universal City -- North Hollywood: A Centennial Portrait: An Illustrated History

By: Link, Tom

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Chatsworth CA, Windsor Publications, Inc.: 1991

Seller ID: 20088

ISBN: 0-89781-393-6

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[lovely copy, no discernible wear to book at all; the slightest bit of wrinkling to jacket at top edge of front panel]. (B&W and color photographs) The author "explores the area's rich history -- from the early days of the dons to the era of the 'Home of the Peach,' to the recent years so dramatically influenced by the entertainment industry." Although truly a local history, a substantial part of the book is of course devoted to Universal Pictures, which first set up shop in the Cahuenga Pass in 1912 and opened Universal City itself three years later.
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Le Dessin Animé: Histoire, Esthétique, Technique

By: Lo Duca, [Joseph-Marie]

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Paris, Prisma: 1948

Seller ID: 22975

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

(no dust jacket) [very nice copy, minor edgewear to covers, gift inscription (non-authorial) on ffep]. (B&W photographs, color plates) Well-illustrated survey, in French, of the animated film: history, art, and technique. The color illustrations (some full-page, some half-page) are particularly nice.
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It's a Gift

By: Louvish, Simon

Price: $10.00

Publisher: London, British Film Institute/BFI Publishing: 1994

Seller ID: 15043

ISBN: 0-85170-472-7

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

[nice clean copy, light handling wear, minor bumping to bottom corners of a few pages]. (BFI Film Classics) Series Trade PB (B&W photographs) Critical and historical discussion of W.C. Fields's great 1934 film IT'S A GIFT, including "tracing back the origins in Fields's stage work of the wonderful set pieces from which the film is constructed." (Carl LaFong ... capital L, small a, capital F, small o, small n, small g...)
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We All Go to the Pictures

By: Lowe, T.A.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: London, William Hodge & Company Ltd.: 1937

Seller ID: 22868

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

(no dust jacket) [good solid copy, spine slightly turned, spine cloth moderately faded]. (caricature drawings) A charming little book in which the Tallow family -- George and Phoebe, their children Jane and Edward James, and Phoebe's mother "Grannie" -- and their various friends and acquaintances chatter on endlessly about the movies they see and the movie stars they adore. As Anthony Armstrong ("A.A.") puts it in his introduction, "if ever a family takes the flicks seriously, it's the Tallows." The text is enlivened by about 65 drawings, divided about evenly between ...
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Cinema Verite in America: Studies in Uncontrolled Documentary

By: Mamber, Stephen

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Cambridge & London, The MIT Press: (c.1974)

Seller ID: 21959

ISBN: 0-262-13092-0

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dj

[spine a bit turned, slight bumping at top of spine, a little fading to cloth at base of spine, internally nice and clean; jacket edgeworn and rubbed, small closed tear at top front hinge]. (B&W photographs) The first full-length critical study of the style of documentary filmmaking that arose during the 1960s, the hallmark of which was filmmakers' innovative (and sometimes aggressive) use of special lightweight cameras and portable tape recorders. "The author outlines both the broad patterns of the cinema-verite approach and the divergent directions taken by members of the cinema-verite ...
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Romance and the "Yellow Peril": Race, Sex, and Discursive Strategies in Hollywood Fiction

By: Marchetti, Gina

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Berkeley, University of California Press: (c.1993)

Seller ID: 15983

ISBN: 0520084950

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

[good clean copy, slight bends to top corners of both covers; text unmarked in any way]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) This examination of the depiction of Asians and interracial sexuality in Hollywood films shows "how fantasy-dramas of interracial rape, lynching, tragic love, and model marriage are powerfully evident in American cinema. [She] brings the theoretical perspective of recent writing on race, ethnicity, and gender to her analyses of film and television and argues persuasively that these media help to perpetuate social and racial inequality in America. Her book will be certain t...
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Tendencies of the Italian Cinema

By: Marinucci, Vinicio

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Roma, UNITALIA film: 1959

Seller ID: 23863

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

(laminated pictorial covers; no dust jacket) [solid copy, minor bump/cracking to corners of rear cover, some splitting at spine ends and wear along spine, but binding still fully intact]. (B&W photographs) English-language historical survey of Italian films, profusely photo-illustrated. Includes an alphabetical title list of Italian films produced from 1930 to 1958, a chronological listing of films (with basic credits) during the same period, and a final list of films "begun in 1958 and not yet submitted to the censor by December 31." Uncommon.
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Republic Confidential: Volume 2: The Players

By: Mathis, Jack

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Barrington IL, Jack Mathis Advertising: 1992

Seller ID: 18844

ISBN: 0-9632878-0-X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

(pictorial boards; no dust jacket, as issued) [lovely, as-new condition]. (B&W photographs) An exhaustive, fully-indexed catalog of every actor and actress who ever received screen credit for an appearance in a Republic Pictures movie, with additional documentation regarding the studio's contract players. Includes a photograph, it seems, of just about every one of them -- many more for the contract players, which included Gene Autry and Roy Rogers, although with numerous stalwart character actors, whose names evoke their faces for legions of B-movie buffs: Roy Barcroft, Smiley Burnette, Ray M...
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Underworld U.S.A.

By: McArthur, Colin

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, The Viking Press: 1972

Seller ID: 25506

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

[some creasing in spine at bottom corner of rear cover, but no other significant wear]. (Cinema One, 20) Series Trade PB (B&W photographs) "A two-part book dealing with the history and development of the Hollywood gangster film (and its offshoot during the forties, the thriller or film noir)." The first section explores the genre's "characteristic themes, patterns, iconography, and actors," while the second section discusses the work of notable filmmakers who have worked within the genre: Fritz Lang, John Huston, Samuel Fuller, Nicholas Ray, Jules Dassin, Elia Kazan, Don Siege...
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Category: Cinema: History