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Pictures Past: Recollections of Scottish cinemas and cinema-going

By: McBain, Janet

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, Moorfoot Publishing: 1985

Seller ID: 23929

ISBN: 0906606128

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

[tiny dog-earing to bottom right corner of front cover, no other significant wear]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) "The first-ever account of what it was like to own, work in, or simply patronise, Scotland's cinemas in days gone by. From the owners of whole chains of picture houses, to the lowly-paid lads and lasses who helped work the projectors or sold confectionery, the author has recorded oral evidence of the bygone cinema industry and its public."
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Doing Rude Things: The History of the British Sex Film, 1957-1981

By: McGillivray, David

Price: $30.00

Publisher: London, sun tavern fields: 1992

Seller ID: 23970

ISBN: 0951701223

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

[a nice clean copy, with just a teensy bit of surface wear to covers]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) "In darkest Britain, the only form of sexual entertainment generally available has been of the soft core variety, but for nearly 25 years it just about drove the populace to distraction. While a minority of moralists cursed the sex film as the harbinger of a tidal wave of filth, the majority of the male population and a good percentage of curious females turned it into the most lucrative speculation the British film industry has ever enjoyed." The author confesses: "If it seems extrao...
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Motion Picture Directing: The Facts and Theories of the Newest Art

By: Milne, Peter

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Falk Publishing Co.: (c.1922)

Seller ID: 22034

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

(no dust jacket) [light wear to extremities, bookplate on front pastedown; gilt lettering still bright on front cover, a little dulled on spine]. (B&W photographs) "Used as a Supplementary Text in New York Institute of Photography." Directors whose work is discussed or whose views are expressed include D.W. Griffith, William De Mille, Cecil B.DeMille, Rex Ingram, Frank Borzage, Thomas H. Ince, Ernst Lubitsch, Joe May and Marshall Neilan. Also includes chapters devoted to slapstick comedy, serials, music, art direction, etc.
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Mary Pickford, Comedienne [SIGNED]

By: Niver, Kemp R. (edited by Bebe Bergsten)

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, Locare Research Group: (c.1969)

Seller ID: 18853

ISBN: 091398602X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

[good solid copy, top front corner bumped; jacket lightly soiled and a little age-toned, minor wrinkling near top of front panel]. (B&W photographs, facsimiles) INSCRIBED ("To Sydney [sic] Solow") and SIGNED by the author on the title page. Essentially a "films-of-Mary Pickford" chronicle, but limited to only those films in which she "appeared as a comedienne, either as the principal actress, or in a supporting role" for the Biograph Company from 1909 through 1912; the illustrations consist primarily of reproductions of "Biograph Bulletins" (the company's trade...
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Aviation in the Cinema

By: Pendo, Stephen

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Metuchen NJ/London, The Scarecrow Press, Inc.: 1985

Seller ID: 17081

ISBN: 0-8108-1746-2

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

(no dust jacket, as issued) [nice clean copy, very light wear to book extremities, minor scuffing to front cover]. (B&W photographs) Comprehensive history of "feature motion pictures, made-for-television films, and television series that feature some aspect of aviation." Includes an extensive bibliography and full name/title index.
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Allied Artists Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Films

By: Pitts, Michael R.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Jefferson NC/London, McFarland & Company: (c.2011)

Seller ID: 23918

ISBN: 0786460466

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fine

[nice clean as-new book, with no discernible wear]. Trade PB (B&W photographs, poster reproductions) An alphabetical guide to the more than 80 feature films in the stated genre that were released by Allied Artists Pictures Corporation between 1952 and 1977, plus 22 more (including the immortal cheapie THE LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS) that were made by other companies but distributed for TV by Allied Artists. Included for each film are basic production credits, full cast credits, a plot synopsis, and a critical analysis. Among the films discussed are: INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS; HOUSE ON HAUN...
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Hollywood, the Dream Factory: An Anthropologist Looks at the Movie-Makers

By: Powdermaker, Hortense

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and Company: 1950

Seller ID: 23959

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[no significant shelfwear to book, but with small rust-stains (from paper clips?) at top and bottom edges of both endpapers; jacket shows light surface wear, with a long vertical wrinkle/crease in rear panel, short closed tear (all but invisible) at lower rear hinge]. A renowned "lady anthropologist who has perfected her investigative technique among primitive cultures" turned her sights on the movie capital, "a place of ritual, a place where the secrets of power are of magical significance, a place where superstition, sex and money mingle, where human values are distorted and som...
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The Politics of Glamour: Ideology and Democracy in the Screen Actors Guild

By: Prindle, David F.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Madison WI, University of Wisconsin Press: (c.1988)

Seller ID: 14149

ISBN: 0-299-11810-X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Very Good+ dj

[nice tight clean copy, no discernible wear to book; jacket a bit rubbed/scuffed]. (B&W photographs) "Drawing upon interviews, film rchives, press reports, and the documents of the Guild itself, [the author] examines the founding and growth of the Screen Actors Guild in the union battleground of the 1930s, when craft and industrial unions struggled for national dominance and organized crime attempted to muscle in on Hollywood. He analyzes its politics during the bitter factionalism of the era of the Hollywood blacklist and its efforts to protect its members as television radically change...
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The Promotion and Distribution of U.S. Latino Films

By: Puente, Henry

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Peter Lang: (c.2011)

Seller ID: 19046

ISBN: 1433113279

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fine

[bright and clean, essentially as new, with no discernible wear]. (Intersections in Communication and Culture, Vol. 28) Series (tables, charts) "This book documents the barriers to success encountered by U.S. Latino films over the past three decades, as their proponents sought to secure distribution deals and prove the films' worth as commodities. [It] includes interviews with marketers, publicists, and producers, and secondary research material from trade publications, newspaper articles, and websites, centering on marketing strategies, release dates, and box office figures. One of the ...
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A Blind Bargain [SIGNED]

By: Riley, Philip J.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Atlantic City NJ, MagicImage Filmbooks: (c.1988)

Seller ID: 22898

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice clean copy, no discernible wear but with a very slight musty odor; jacket a little rubbed and lightly soiled]. (Ackerman Archives Series, Volume II) Series (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED and SIGNED generically by the author on the ffep: "Greetings from the Ackerman Archives / Philip J. Riley" and additionally INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the Ackermonster himself, Forrest J Ackerman, on the last page of the text, simply: "Bill / Forry." ("Bill," the recipient of the book, was the legendary makeup artist William Tuttle, from whose estate this book was acquired.) A "re...
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Russians in Hollywood, Hollywood's Russians: Biography of an Image

By: Robinson, Harlow

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Boston, Northeastern University Press: (c.2007)

Seller ID: 19051

ISBN: 1-55553-686-7

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice clean book, tiny scrunch-indentation to bottom page edges, slight bump to top of spine, no other significant wear; jacket slightly dog-eared at top of spine, a trace of shopwear to top corners]. (B&W photographs) "This is the first look at the colorful yet largely unknown story of Russian emigres who worked in the American film industry [and] also an informed and entertaining analysis of the representation of Russians and Soviets in American cinema."
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Women's Reflections: The Feminist Film Movement

By: Rosenberg, Jan

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Ann Arbor MI, UMI Research Press: (c.1983, 1979)

Seller ID: 14503

ISBN: 0-8357-1400-4

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

(no dust jacket, as issued) [nice clean book, top corners slightly bumped but no other significant wear]. (Studies in Cinema, No. 22) Series
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Hollywood: The Movie Colony, the Movie Makers

By: Rosten, Leo C.

Price: $300.00

Publisher: New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company: (c.1941)

Seller ID: 23446

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

(price-clipped) [good solid copy, minor shelfwear, attractive vintage custom bookplate of one-time owner William Bond Murphy on front pastedown; jacket spine a little faded, with some paper loss at both ends, but the front- and rear-panel sections of the wraparound jacket illustration are fully intact and very attractive]. Based on "over three years of research, observation and work in Hollywood [by] the author and a staff of social scientists which included two sociologists, an economist, a personnel expert, a statistician, a translator, and others," this was the first serious attempt to con...
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Documentary Film

By: Rotha, Paul

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, W. W. Norton & Company: 1938

Seller ID: 9310

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

(no dust jacket) [solid copy, moderate wear at corners (light fraying), a bit of soiling to rear cover, light mottling on spine]. (B&W photographs) The first major history of documentary films, "written [per the author's foreword] to replace the theoretical discussions in [his earlier general history of the cinema] The Film Till Now." Preface by John Grierson. (This, the first American edition, is actually a revised edition of the earlier (1935) British book, although not stated as such in the book's front matter.)
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The Hollywood Writers' Wars

By: Schwartz, Nancy Lynn (completed by Sheila Schwartz)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1982

Seller ID: 18333

ISBN: 0-394-41140-4

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[light dust-soiling to top edge, otherwise a solid clean copy with only light shelfwear; jacket has several surface-scraped spots at bottom right-hand corner of front panel, a bit of wear at spine ends]. (B&W photographs) Indispensible, well-researched story of the formation of the Screen Writers Guild (later re-named the Writers Guild of America), based on diaries, letters, newspaper clippings and hundreds of interviews with the participants.
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The Hollywood Writers' Wars

By: Schwartz, Nancy Lynn (completed by Sheila Schwartz)

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company: 1983

Seller ID: 24647

ISBN: 0-07-055791-8

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

[very slight curling to fore-edge of front cover, a touch of dog-earing to front cover corners]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) Indispensible, well-researched story of the formation of the Screen Writers Guild (later re-named the Writers Guild of America), based on diaries, letters, newspaper clippings and hundreds of interviews with the participants.
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More Things Than are Dreamt Of: Masterpieces of Supernatural Horror - from Mary Shelley to Stephen King - in Literature and Film

By: Silver, Alain, and James Ursini

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Limelight Editions: 1994

Seller ID: 18106

ISBN: 0-87910-177-6

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

[slight curling to covers, but no other significant wear; clean inside and out]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) "The sweep of the book encompasses almost two centuries as it reconsiders in detail such classics of literature as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, tales of Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Henry James' The Turn of the Screw and Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, right up to such contemporary novels of horror as Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House, Ira Levin's Rosemary's Baby, William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist and St...
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Upton Sinclair Presents William Fox

By: Sinclair, Upton

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, Published By the Author: (c.1933)

Seller ID: 23732

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Fair dj

(price-clipped) [light shelfwear, one tiny dent in top edge of each cover; jacket is in pretty rough shape, with about 40% of the lower spine missing (and related paper loss extending a bit into the lower left corner of the front panel), heavy edgewear at flap-folds, various small tears and nicks]. (B&W photo frontispiece) For what he called "A Feature Picture of Wall Street and High Finance," the ever-crusading author co-opted the rise-and-fall tale of cinema pioneer Fox (then recently ousted from the company he founded and that still bore his name) in order to deliver one of his trad...
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Drawing the Line: The Untold Story of the Animation Unions from Bosko to Bart Simpson

By: Sito, Tom

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Lexington, The University Press of Kentucky: (c.2006)

Seller ID: 24561

ISBN: 0813124077

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[minimal handling wear to book, a handful of small pencil annotations sprinkled throughout the text (see notes); jacket is nice and clean (apparently the original owner put a mylar cover on it right away), with just a couple of minor wrinkles near the top left corner of the front panel]. (B&W photographs, cartoon drawings) A history of unions within the Hollywood animation industry, "a unique insider's account of animators' struggles with legendary studio kingpins such as Jack Warner and Walt Disney, and their more recent battles with Michael Eisner and other Hollywood players. Based on ...
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Robert Goldstein and The Spirit of '76

By: Slide, Anthony, ed.

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Metuchen NJ/London, The Scarecrow Press, Inc.: 1993

Seller ID: 24704

ISBN: 0810826747

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dj

[beautiful, as-new book, with no discernible wear to either book or jacket]. (Filmmakers, no. 34) Series (B&W photographs) The remarkable and ultimately tragic story of Robert Goldstein, the first and only American citizen who was ever imprisoned for the crime of producing a film -- a patriotic film, at that, an historical drama set during the American Revolution, in which (surprise!) the British were depicted as the bad guys. Unfortunately for Mr. Goldstein, his epic (the creation of which had been inspired by D.W. Griffith's THE BIRTH OF A NATION, for which his costume-supply business had f...
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Category: Cinema: History