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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: 0-520-08495-0

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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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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Black Films and Film-makers: A Comprehensive Anthology from Stereotype to Superhero

By: Patterson, Lindsay, ed.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Company: (c.1975)

Seller ID: 20909

ISBN: 0-396-06843-X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

[light shelfwear, minor soiling to bottom edge, shallow dent in top edge of rear cover; jacket lightly rubbed, with a bit of wer to edges and extremities, minor paper loss at top of spine]. (B&W photographs) Selected articles and essays from the 1920s to the 1970s. Individual films to which entire pieces are dedicated include THE BIRTH OF A NATION, HEARTS IN DIXIE, CARMEN JONES, SWEET SWEETBACK'S BAADASSSSS SONG, SOUNDER and BOOK OF NUMBERS. Contributors include Albert Johnson, Thomas R. Cripps, Robert Benchley, Edward Mapp, Melvin Van Peebles, Charles Michener, and Pauline Kael. Selected F...
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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

ISBN: 0929127005

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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Hello, Hollywood! A Book About the Movies by the People Who Make Them

By: Rivkin, Allen, and Laura Kerr

Price: $35.00

Publisher: [Garden City NY], Doubleday & Company, Inc.: (c.1962)

Seller ID: 24485

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good dj

[light shelfwear, minor bumping to top corners, a good sound copy; jacket is heavily edgeworn, with a few small tears, creasing, internal dampstaining (not visible on exterior), etc.] One of the more interesting and unusual anthologies of writings about life in the movie colony, not least because it rather disguises its anthological nature. This 571-page volume consists of 100 articles and book excerpts (the former drawn from both the industry trade press, such as The Hollywood Reporter and Daily Variety, and more general-interest/wide circulation publications like Look Magazine and The New ...
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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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Category: Cinema: History