[light external soiling, soft vertical crease in front cover (unobtrusive), a little dog-earing at top edge of rear cover, subscription mailing label on rear cover]. An exceptionally rich selection of scholarly articles on various aspects of American film history. Contents: "Copyright and Early Theater, Vaudeville and Film Competition" (Jeanne Thomas Allen); "Vitascope/Cinematographe: Initial Patterns of American Film Industrial Practice" (Robert C. Allen); "The Role of the Western Film Genre in Industry Competition, 1907-1911" (Robert Anderson); "Hollywood's Conv... View More...
[very light wear along spine, otherwise unblemished]. (B&W photographs) Monthly magazine of the Hollywood photographers' union. The primary feature of this issue is a six-page photographic layout regarding George Stevens's film I REMEMBER MAMA, shot by Gaston Longet and including four full-page location shots taken on the streets of San Francisco. There is also a lovely full-page portrait of actress Ann Blyth, photographed by Ray Jones. Other articles in this issue include: "Landscape Photography," by Edwin Broomer; "Ambassador from Hollywood," an article about photographer ... View More...
[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... View More...
[creasing/wrinkling at all corners and along spine, otherwise a decent copy, internally clean]. (B&W photographs) "Special Sexuality Issue," featuring a long article by David Madden, "Marble Goddesses and Mortal Flesh: Notes for an Erotic Memoir of the Forties." Also: articles by Harry M. Geduld, Lawrence Becker, and others; an examination of the films of Ken Russell, by Jack Fisher; poetry by Annabelle Hebert and Fred Chappell; a feature on MAD Magazine movie satires (reproducing individual frames from various satires, with themes relating to sexuality). View More...
[nice clean copy with only minimal handling wear, minor bend at top right corner of front cover, very slight insect-nibbling at lower right edge of front cover] (B&W photographs) Inaugural issue of a magazine dedicated to presenting "original documents and critical evaluations that will be useful to scholars, teachers, students or anyone seriously interested in film." Contents of this issue include: a conversation with director Vilgot Sjman and actress Lena Nyman, coupled with a compilation of reactions to their film I AM CURIOUS--YELLOW at the Hollins Cinema Conference, and a biography and ... View More...
[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... View More...
[nice clean copy, just a trace of handling wear]. (B&W photographs) In this issue: an interview with Vittorio Taviani; "Confessions of a Feminist Porn Watcher," by Scott MacDonald; "The Voice of Documentary," by Bill Nichols (including discussion of SOLDIER GIRLS, ROSIE THE RIVETER and WEDDING CAMELS); an article about racial discrimination and ethnographic filmmaking in Australia, with focus on the documentary film TWO LAWS; "Human Artifice and the Science Fiction Film," by J.P. Telotte (discussing THE THING, INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS and BLADE RUNNER). Films rev... View More...
[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... View More...
[nice clean copy, a couple of short diagonal creases at upper right corner of front cover]. (B&W and color photographs, ads) The cover story is "Witty Women," profiling five sitcom writers: Yvette Lee Bowser, Lona Williams, Dana Savel, Amy Sherman-Palladino, and Eileen Conn. Featured articles: "Preston Sturges: A Screwball Centennial" by Devra Maza (along with the schedule of a Sturges retrospective then playing at the L.A. County Museum of Art) and "A Conversation with Stephen Schiff," screenwriter of the 1997 remake of LOLITA. Also in this issue: a column by Ernest... View More...
[a little wear along spine, subscription mailing label on front cover, slight dog-earing at upper right corner]. (B&W and color photographs) "The Trade Weekly for all the Entertainment Industry." Feature articles: an interview with John Cassavetes, Ben Gazzara, and Peter Falk about the making of HUSBANDS; an article about franchising, discussing various celebrities who'd attached their names to commercial enterprises (Roy Rogers, Minnie Pearl, Jerry Lewis, and others); an article about Sid and Marty Krofft's then-new TV series H.R. PUFNSTUF; a discussion of the promotional campaign f... View More...
[clean copy, light rubbing to covers, a little wear at spine ends (possibly a touch of insect-nibbling)]. (B&W photographs) In this issue: a discussion of the films of Alan J. Pakula, together with an interview with Pakula about ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN; "Banking on Movies," articles by Stuart Byron and Patrick McGilligan on the topic of film financing; analysis of Jacques Rivette's DUELLE, by Jonathan Rosenbaum; an interview with Eduardo de Gregorio, about SERAIL and the influence of Rivette; an interview with Francois Truffaut, about his film SMALL CHANGE (L'ARGENT DE POCHE); analysi... View More...
[mild overall wear, some creasing in covers]. (B&W photographs) James Mason (interview and filmography); "Hollywood and the Indian" by Robert Larkins; discussion of THUNDERBOLT (Josef von Sternberg); reviews of DOUBLE SUICIDE (Masahiro Shinoda), HEART OF A MOTHER (Mark Donskoy) and GAILY, GAILY [released in the UK as CHICAGO, CHICAGO] (Norman Jewison). [ It was the practice of this excellent publication to provide, along with each film review, filmographies and brief career summaries of the director and often other principals in the film under discussion.] View More...
[nice clean copy, very slight wear at corners, light discoloration (age-toning) along left edge of rear cover]. (B&W photographs) Feature articles: "Frank Capra and the Popular Front," by Leonard Quart; an article about the influence in U.S. critical circles of the 1973 Cuban film MEMORIES OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT; the transcript of a program discussing production and distribution issues related to three documentary films, HARLAN COUNTY U.S.A., UNION MAIDS and ON THE LINE. Interviews with: Tomas Gutierrez Alea; Barbara Kopple and Hary Perry (about filming HARLAN COUNTY U.S.A.); "Oscar" (the Acade... View More...
[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... View More...
[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... View More...
[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... View More...
[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... View More...
[clean copy, light handling wear, slight curl to front cover along right edge]. (B&W & color photographs, ads) Features of this issue include: an article on "pulp movies," by Manohla Dargis; an article by Quentin Tarantino about the conception and production of his then-new movie PULP FICTION; an article about the relationship of music and politics to the films of Nicholas Ray; an on-the-set report about the making of Zhang Yimou's LIFETIMES; an interview with animator Yuri Norstein; an article about the star system in the French film industry, with particular focus on Gerard Depardie... View More...
[light wear along spine, minor rubbing to covers, faint vertical crease at top of front cover]. (B&W photographs) Feature articles (with filmographies) on Rita Hayworth, Sidney A. Franklin,and Susannah York; a retrospective review of TRADER HORN (1931); "Memoirs of a Film-Spent Youth" by William K. Everson; reviews (with related filmographies) of CABARET (Bob Fosse), THE RULING CLASS (Peter Medak), IMAGES (Robert Altman) and WHAT'S UP DOC? (Peter Bogdanovich). View More...
[light rubbing to covers, minor wear along spine]. (B&W photographs) Feature articles (with filmographies) on Alec Guinness and Per Lindberg; an interview with screenwriter Walter Newman; article, "New Words on Old Westerns" by Don Miller; reviews (with related filmographies) of THE GODFATHER (Francis Ford Coppola), ROMA (Federico Fellini), THE ASSASSINATION OF TROTSKY (Joseph Losey), DELIVERANCE (John Boorman) and THE OTHER (Robert Mulligan). View More...
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