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By: Puente, Henry
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, Peter Lang: (c.2011)
Edition: 1st Edition (pb issue)
Seller ID: 19046
ISBN: 1433113279
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 ... View more info
By: Robinson, Harlow
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Boston, Northeastern University Press: (c.2007)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 19051
ISBN: 1-55553-686-7
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." View more info
By: Rosenberg, Jan
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Ann Arbor MI, UMI Research Press: (c.1983, 1979)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 14503
ISBN: 0-8357-1400-4
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 View more info
By: Rotha, Paul
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, W. W. Norton & Company: 1938
Edition: Revised ed.
Seller ID: 9310
ISBN: NO
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.) View more info
By: Schwartz, Nancy Lynn (completed by Sheila Schwartz)
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1982
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 18333
ISBN: 0-394-41140-4
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. View more info
By: Schwartz, Nancy Lynn (completed by Sheila Schwartz)
Price: $8.00
Publisher: New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company: 1983
Edition: 3rd printing
Seller ID: 24647
ISBN: 0-07-055791-8
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. View more info
By: Silver, Alain, and James Ursini
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, Limelight Editions: 1994
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 18106
ISBN: 0-87910-177-6
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... View more info
By: Stempel, Tom
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Lexington, The University Press of Kentucky: (c.2001)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 18028
ISBN: 0-8131-2183-3
Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj
[book itself is tight and clean, with no significant wear; jacket the same, except for soft vertical crease in front flap and diagonal crease at lower corner of rear flap]. The author draws on his more than fifty years' experience of "watching movies and his fellow filmgoers [and] listening to their comments and reactions," as well as "the results of a survey on movies and moviegoing in the respondents' own words," to present "a unique perspective on half a century of American cinema -- from the audience's point of view." View more info
By: Stone, Barbara
Price: $20.00
Publisher: North Hollywood CA, National Association of Theatre Owners: 1993
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 22062
ISBN: 0-9638653-0-7
Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj
[book nice and clean with no discernible wear; jacket shows only minor wrinkling here and there along edges, tiny tears at rear corners]. (B&W and color photographs) "Spiced with the personal anecdotes of motion picture exhibitors, [this book] captures the broad sweep of American moviegoing with a highly readable and engaging style. Lavishly illustrated with photographs and memorabilia culled from the personal scrapbooks of veteran movie showmen and others, this book is a lively chronicle of all the way Americans have enjoyed going to the movies." Bibliography; index. View more info
By: Studlar, Gaylyn
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Urbana/Chicago, University of Illinois Press: (c.1988)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 20014
ISBN: 0-252-01536-3
Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj
[book is tight and clean, no discernible wear; jacket shows only light surface wear, slight fading to spine, short diagonal crease at top of rear flap]. (B&W photographs) This "close textual analysis of the six Paramount studio films directed by Josef von Sternberg and starring Marlene Dietrich probes the source of their visual and psychological complexity [and] represents a major revision of current feminist-psychoanalytic theories of film pleasure and sexual difference." View more info
By: Thomas, Rhys
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Los Angeles, Tale Weaver Publishing: (c.1989)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 18079
ISBN: 0-942139-09-7
Condition: Very Good-
[moderately worn copy, diagonal crease at bottom corner of front cover, slight curling to covers]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) This tale of the iconographic power (and great value) of the original ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in the 1939 film classic "The Wizard of Oz" exposes "the clandestine and often treacherous underground of movie memorabilia, [and] may be the film industry's most bizarre account of ambition, greed, obsession, and deception. [It] opens the vault doors of studio treasure troves and also reveals an unbelievable account of marauders, thieves, innocent 'sol... View more info
Price: $65.00
Publisher: [Kazakstan], Sur Tur Books: 1997
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 18146
ISBN: NO
Condition: Near Fine
[nice clean copy, very light handling wear, short diagonal crease at bottom right corner of front cover]. (color reproductions) A "history of world cinema on stamps," apparently the catalogue of the personal collection of movie- and entertainment-themed stamps assembled by the author, a Kazakstan-born actor who had at the time appeared in 47 films, primarily Russian, but had also been a stamp collector for thirty years (it sez here, in French), exercising his dual passion for both cinema and philately. I don't know whether this guy is world-renowned in stamp-collecting circles or not... View more info
By: Waldman, Harry
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Lanham MD/London, The Scarecrow Press, Inc.: 1998
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 20033
ISBN: 0-8108-3431-6
Condition: Near Fine
(no dust jacket, as issued) [faint soiling to front cover, otherwise virtually as new with no discernible wear]. A history of this French facility, which turned out foreign-language versions of Paramount's films for European distribution. The text is arranged into chapters discussing the films by nationality: French, Spanish, Swedish, German, Italian, Polish, Czech, Portuguese, Hungarian, Dutch, and Romanian. View more info
By: Waldman, Harry
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Jefferson NC/London, McFarland & Company, Inc.: (c.1991)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 20739
ISBN: 0-89950-601-1
Condition: Near Fine
(no dust jacket, as issued) [lovely copy with no discernible wear; would be Fine but for previous owner's inked initials at top of ffep]. (B&W photographs) Examines the uncompleted or unreleased projects of 64 filmmakers, from the famous (Alfred Hitchcock, Charles Chaplin, John Ford, Orson Welles) to the more obscure (Gaston Modot, Laszlo Ranody, Wolfgang Staudte). You'll find all the well-known usual suspects here -- Josef von Sternberg's I, CLAUDIUS, George Cukor's SOMETHING'S GOT TO GIVE, Erich von Stroheim's QUEEN KELLY, Welles's DON QUIXOTE and others, etc. -- but also a lot of equally ... View more info
By: Watson, Delmar, ed.; written by Paul Arnold
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Hollywood CA, Delmar Watson Publisher: (c.1987)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 14883
Condition: Very Good
[moderate edge/corner wear; binding solid, inside clean]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) The author grew up in Hollywood -- his father was an actor, and he and his brothers were one of the best-known kid thespian clans during the Thirties and Forties. (The Watsons played four of Governor "Happy" Hopper's kids in the memorable dinner-table scene in MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON, for instance.) Once his acting days had passed, Delmar took up photography and became one of the town's most prominent lensmen. Although this book does not use his photos exclusively, it does present a nice mix o... View more info
By: Williams, Gregory L. (Hennessey, Gregg R., ed.)
Price: $30.00
Publisher: San Diego, San Diego Historical Society: 2002
Edition: (Vol. 48, No. 2)
Seller ID: 15193
ISBN: 0-918740-24-X
Condition: Near Fine
[minor handling wear only]. (B&W photographs) A special issue of The Journal of San Diego history, devoted to the city's history on the silver screen. The primary article is accompanied by an introduction, "San Diego Film Town," by Welton Jones, and a chronological listing (compiled by Mr. Williams) of 752 films (including TV productions) that have been filmed in San Diego or have plots concerning the city, beginning in 1898. View more info
By: Wynne, H. Hugh
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Missoula MT, Pictorial Histories Publishing Company: 1987
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 20087
ISBN: 0-933126-85-9
Condition: Fine
[very nice copy, virtually as new with no significant wear; clean inside and out]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) The author explains his book's scope in his Preface: "The total subject of motion picture flying, from its beginning to the present, is far too extensive to be adequately covered in one volume. Therefore this book is limited to the 1920s and 1930s, the period of the pioneer stunt flyers -- the Associated Motion Picture Pilots. It ends with the end of the romantic era of aviation, which was the beginning of World War II." An excellent history, illustrated with hundreds of ph... View more info
By: Yeck, Joanne L., and Tom McGreevey
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Minneapolis, Lerner Publications Company: (c.1994)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 12103
ISBN: 0-8225-1643-8
Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj
[nice copy, as new, no discernible wear to book; just a trace of surface wear to jacket]. (B&W/color photographs) Simplified yet still scholarly introduction to the history of Western films, for juvenile readers. View more info
By: {D.W. Griffith} Edlund, Richard (director); Lillian Gish (narrator)
Price: $100.00
Publisher: [Tokyo?], Toshiba Corporation Project Team: [1989]
Seller ID: 18928
ISBN: NO
Condition: Near Fine
[light surface wear and mild rubbing to covers]. (B&W and color photographs, advertisements) Elaborate program for a special presentation in Japan of D.W. Griffith's 1916 masterpiece INTOLERANCE, with musical accompaniment provided by the New Japan Philharmonic and a "Chorus/Special Choir for INTOLERANCE." The screening of the film was accompanied by "An Homage to D.W. Griffith," a 70mm Super Panavision production (projected at 30 frames per second) that was directed by American special effects cinematography wizard Richard Edlund, A.S.C. and featured a narration by the then ... View more info
