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The Journal of the University Film Association (Spring 1979) [special issue: Economic and Industry History of the American Film]

By: (Allen, Jeanne Thomas, guest editor)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Houston TX, University Film Association: 1979

Seller ID: 23360

Binding: Journal

Condition: Very Good+

[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...
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International Photographer (April 1948) [cover: Irene Dunne in I REMEMBER MAMA]

By: (Aller, Herbert, ed.)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Hollywood, International Photographers, IATSE Local 659: 1948

Seller ID: 21903

Binding: Magazine

Condition: Near Fine

[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 ...
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Film Quarterly (Fall 1982) [cover: Bob Hoskins in THE LONG GOOD FRIDAY]

By: (Callenbach, Ernest, ed.)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Berkeley, University of California Press: 1982

Seller ID: 25379

Binding: Periodical

Condition: Near Fine

[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 MacKenz...
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Film Quarterly (Spring 1983) [cover: ATOMIC CAFE]

By: (Callenbach, Ernest, ed.)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Berkeley, University of California Press: 1983

Seller ID: 25419

Binding: Magazine

Condition: Near Fine

[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...
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Film Quarterly (Summer 1983) [cover: Sandra Bernhard and Robert DeNiro in THE KING OF COMEDY]

By: (Callenbach, Ernest, ed.)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Berkeley, University of California Press: 1983

Seller ID: 25529

Binding: Magazine

Condition: Near Fine

[nice clean copy, minor wrinkling to front cover]. (B&W photographs) In this issue: an interview with Michelangelo Antonioni; an article by film theoretician Brian Henderson, "Tense, Mood and Voice in Film (Notes After Genette)"; an in-depth review of Martin Scorsese's THE KING OF COMEDY; a long review of Charles Musser's book "Before the Nickelodeon: The Early Cinema of Edwin Porter"; the first part of a special feature on the year's film books (covering autobiographies/biographies, criticism, director studies, genre studies, and history; continued in the next issue) ***NOTE ...
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Written By: The Journal of the Writers Guild of America, west (August 1988)

By: (Chambers, Lisa, ed.)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, Writers Guild of America, west: 1988

Seller ID: 22707

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

[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...
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Entertainment World (October 24, 1969) [cover: Peter Falk and Ben Gazzara in HUSBANDS]

By: (Coffin, Howard A. II, ed.)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Hollywood CA, Entertainment World Publications, Inc.: 1969

Seller ID: 22554

Binding: Magazine

Condition: Very Good+

[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...
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Film Comment (September-October 1978) [cover: Francois Truffaut and Jean Renoir]

By: (Corliss, Richard, ed.)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, The Film Society of Lincoln Center: 1976

Seller ID: 25386

Binding: Magazine

Condition: Very Good

[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...
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Focus on Film (No. 2, March-April 1970) [cover: James Mason]

By: (Cowie, Peter, ed.)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: London, The Tantivy Press: 1970

Seller ID: 8360

ISBN: NO

Binding: Magazine

Condition: Very Good

[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.]
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The Velvet Light Trap (No. 11, Winter 1974): The 50s [cover: James Dean in REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE]

By: (Davis, John, and Susan Dalton, eds.)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Cottage Grove WI, The Arizona Jim Co-Op: 1974

Seller ID: 10250

Binding: Periodical

Condition: Very Good+

[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...
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The Velvet Light Trap (No. 12, Spring 1974) [special issue: The Western]

By: (Davis, John, and Susan Dalton, eds.)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Cottage Grove WI, The Arizona Jim Co-Op: 1974

Seller ID: 23407

Binding: Periodical

Condition: Very Good+

[light external wear, short diagonal crease at bottom corner of front cover, small amount of ink underlining in a couple of articles]. (B&W photographs) Critical/historical film journal. This issue, devoted entirely to the West, includes articles on: "Zane Grey and William S. Hart: The Romantic Western of the 1920s"; "Selected Sound Westerns and Their Novel Sources"; JOHNNY GUITAR (Nicholas Ray); RIO BRAVO (Howard Hawks); "Once Upon a Time in Italy: The Italian Western Beyond Leone"; PAT GARRETT AND BILLY THE KID (Sam Peckinpah); JEREMIAH JOHNSON (Sydney Pollack).
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The Velvet Light Trap (No. 10, Fall 1973) [special issue: RKO Radio Pictures]

By: (Davis, John, and Susan Dalton, eds.)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Cottage Grove WI, Arizona Jim Co-Op: 1973

Seller ID: 25393

Binding: Periodical

Condition: Near Fine

[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...
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The Velvet Light Trap (No. 14, Winter 1975) [cover: MAHLER]

By: (Davis, John, ed.)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Madison, Arizona Jim Co-Op: 1975

Seller ID: 25392

Binding: Periodical

Condition: Near Fine

[nice clean copy, with just the teensiest bit of handling wear]. (B&W photographs) The theme of this issue is "Forbidden, Forgotten, Neglected and Unlucky Films." Includes articles on: SURRENDER (Edward Sloman, 1927); THE RACKET (Lewis Milestone, 1928); THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE (1948, from a William Saroyan play); NATIVE LAND (Leo Hurwitz and Paul Strand, 1942); THE BREAKING POINT (Michael Curtiz, 1950, from Hemingway's "To Have and Have Not"); two John Ford films, THE SUN SHINES BRIGHT (1953) and THE LAST HURRAH (1958); LEGEND OF THE LOST (Henry Hathaway, 1957); THE BELLE OF NEW...
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The Velvet Light Trap (No. 17, Winter 1977): TVLT Revisited (By Popular Demand) [cover: Marlene Dietrich in THE DEVIL IS A WOMAN]

By: (Davis, John, ed.)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Cottage Grove WI, (No Publisher Stated): 1977

Seller ID: 25394

Binding: Periodical

Condition: Near Fine

[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...
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The Velvet Light Trap (No. 18, Spring 1978) [special issue: MGM; cover, Jean Harlow]

By: (Davis, John, ed.)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Madison WI, John Davis: 1978

Seller ID: 25395

Binding: Periodical

Condition: Near Fine

[nice clean copy, minimal handling wear only]. (B&W photographs) Special issue of this historical/critical film journal, devoted to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and its films. Articles: "MGM: The Studio at Its Zenith"; "The Ghost of Thalberg: MGM 1946-1951"; interviews with directors Tay Garnett and Clarence Brown; an analysis of THE WET PARADE (1931), with emphasis on the involvement of Upton Sinclair, author of the source novel, in the film's production; interviews with costume designer Walter Plunkett and art director Edward Carfagno; a discussion of Vincente Minnelli's career at M...
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The Velvet Light Trap (No. 16, Fall 1976): Sex and Violence [cover: Marilyn Monroe]

By: (Davis, John, ed.)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Cottage Grove WI, (No Publisher Stated): 1976

Seller ID: 26028

Binding: Periodical

Condition: Near Fine

[nice clean copy with just very slight wear to spine extremities]. (B&W photographs) Critical/historical film journal. This issue contains articles on these individual films: DOORWAY TO HELL (Archie Mayo), THE SCARLET EMPRESS (Josef von Sternberg), WITNESS TO MURDER (Roy Rowland), A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (Stanley Kubrick), THE BEGUILED (Don Siegel), THE MECHANIC (Michael Winner), ANGEL ON FIRE (Roberta Findlay), and SWEET MOVIE (Dusan Makavejev). Other articles: "In Defense of Roger Corman"; an article on Douglas Sirk's films of the 1950s; an interview with actress Erica Gavin, focusing ...
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The Velvet Light Trap (No. 19, 1982) [cover: Henry Fonda in YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE]

By: (DeBauche, Leslie Midkiff, et al., eds.)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Madison WI, John Davis: (c.1982)

Seller ID: 25396

Binding: Periodical

Condition: Near Fine

[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...
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Sight and Sound (May 1994) [cover: Quentin Tarantino]

By: (Dodd, Philip, ed.)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, British Film Institute: 1994

Seller ID: 25385

Binding: Magazine

Condition: Very Good+

[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...
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Focus on Film (No. 5, Winter (November-December) 1970) [cover: Douglas Fairbanks]

By: (Eyles, Allen, ed.)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: London, The Tantivy Press: 1970

Seller ID: 8362

Binding: Magazine

Condition: Very Good

[moderate external wear, some creasing to front cover]. (B&W photographs) Major article on Douglas Fairbanks (Sr.) by DeWitt Bodeen; article, "The American B Film: A Fond Appreciation" by Don Miller; an interview ( including filmography) with humorist/screenwriter Donald Ogden Stewart; reviews (with related filmographies) of MONTE WALSH (William A. Fraker) and THE RITE (Ingmar Bergman); a survey of the 50 best musical films available on 16mm.
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Focus on Film (No. 6, Spring 1971) [special John Ford section]

By: (Eyles, Allen, ed.)

Price: $12.00

Publisher: London, The Tantivy Press: 1971

Seller ID: 8363

Binding: Magazine

Condition: Very Good+

[minor edgewear, mild creasing to front cover]. (B&W photographs) Special section about John Ford, in five parts: "Forgotten Ford" by William K. Everson; "Ford's Lost World" by Jeffrey Richards; "Ford in Person" (essentially a transcript of Ford's appearances at two different events at the University of Southern California); "Ford in Print" ( bibliography); "Ford on 16mm." This issue also contains an article on the career of director Ken Hughes; a retrospective review of THE FOUR FEATHERS (1929); reviews (with related filmographies) of LITTLE BIG MAN (...
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Category: Cinema: Periodicals