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Hollywood Unknowns by Anthony Slide
RRP: $101.15SciFier: $66.95Extras, bit players, and stand-ins have been a part of the film industry almost from its conception. On a personal and a professional level, their stories are told in Hollywood Unknowns, the first... -
Banned in the U.S.A. by Anthony Slide
SciFier: $245.12Making use of the recently-opened files of the US Production Code Administration, this is a study of the way in which British films were censored in the USA between 1933 and 1960. Film by film, it... -
Silent Players by Anthony Slide
RRP: $154.58SciFier: $133.26" From his unique perspective of friendship with many of the actors and actresses about whom he writes, silent film historian Anthony Slide creates vivid portraits of the careers and often eccentric... -
Frank Lloyd by Anthony Slide
SciFier: $44.60Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593934729Author Anthony SlideFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint -
Before Video by Anthony Slide
SciFier: $185.62The video revolution in the 1980s affected all areas of the American entertainment industry; its impact was most dramatic--ultimately devastating--to the non-theatrical film field. Non-theatrical... -
The Big V by Anthony Slide
SciFier: $245.12This is a completely new, revised, and expanded version of the book first published by Scarecrow in 1976. It documents the work of America's first major film company, Vitagraph, from its beginnings... -
The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville by Anthony Slide
RRP: $166.60SciFier: $113.50The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville provides a unique record of what was once America's preeminent form of popular entertainment from the late 1800s through the early 1930s. It includes entries not only... -
On Actors and Acting by Anthony Slide
SciFier: $147.54Alexander Knox (1907-1995) was a distinguished stage and screen actor, who is best remembered today for his title performance in the 1944 production of Wilson. He was active both in London's West... -
She Could Be Chaplin! by Anthony Slide
RRP: $61.76SciFier: $42.60Alice Howell (1886-1961) is slowly gaining recognition and regard as arguably the most important slapstick comedienne of the silent era. This new study, the first book-length appreciation, identifies... -
D. W. Griffith by Anthony Slide
RRP: $59.38SciFier: $46.31D. W. Griffith (1875-1948) is one of the most influential figures in the history of the motion picture. As director of The Birth of a Nation, he is also one of the most controversial. He raised the... -
Incorrect Entertainment Anthony Slide 9781593930936
RRP: $33.32SciFier: $32.70Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593930936Author Anthony SlideFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint -
Incorrect Entertainment (hardback) Anthony Slide 9798887713267
RRP: $74.26SciFier: $70.19Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887713267Author Anthony SlideFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint -
Inside the Hollywood Fan Magazine by Anthony Slide
RRP: $101.15SciFier: $67.38The fan magazine has often been viewed simply as a publicity tool, a fluffy exercise in self-promotion by the film industry. But as an arbiter of good and bad taste, as a source of knowledge, and as... -
The Memoirs of Alice Guy Blache Anthony Slide 9781538165508
SciFier: $66.62The fascinating memoir of influential French filmmaker Alice Guy Blache, one of the industry's most significant pioneers and a trailblazer for female directors.Alice Guy Blache (1873-1968) is a... -
International Film, Radio, and Television Journals by Anthony Slide
SciFier: $163.01Product information not available.[Slide's] blockbuster effort fills a gap in this area and is essential for all libraries supporting popular culture or film studies. ... -
The New Historical Dictionary of the American Film Industry Anthony Slide 9781578860159
SciFier: $125.64Now in Paperback! The New Historical Dictionary of the American Film Industry is a unique reference work, a 'what's what' of the history of filmmaking not only in Hollywood but throughout the United... -
Nitrate Won't Wait: A History of Film Preservation in the United States Anthony Slide 9780786408368
RRP: $52.34SciFier: $45.72This study looks at the preservation process: newsreel, television, and color preservation; the often controversial issue of colorization; and commercial film archives. It provides detailed... -
"It's the Pictures That Got Small": Charles Brackett on Billy Wilder and Hollywood's Golden Age Anthony Slide 9780231167086
RRP: $71.40SciFier: $67.09Apologies no description as yet for this book is available. We are dedicated to providing you with an extensive selection of science fiction books from a variety of authors and publishers. Our... -
The Films of Paul Morrissey by Maurice Yacowar
SciFier: $66.62The Films of Paul Morrissey is the first appraisal of one of the major figures of American independent cinema. An innovator in the narrative cinema that emerged from Andy Warhol's Factory, Morrissey,... -
The Encyclopedia of British Film: Fifth Edition Brian McFarlane 9781526159267
RRP: $357.00SciFier: $266.35Featuring more than 6,500 articles, including over 350 new entries, this fifth edition of The Encyclopedia of British Film is an invaluable reference guide to the British film industry. It is the... -
Forties Film Funnymen: The Decade's Great Comedians at Work in the Shadow of War Wes D. Gehring 9780786442577
RRP: $52.34SciFier: $46.43The twelve classic comedy films examined within these pages are distinguished by an equal number of defining comic performances. Ranging from The Great Dictator (1940) to A Southern Yankee (1948),... -
The Films of Vincente Minnelli James Naremore (Indiana University) 9780521383660
SciFier: $130.88The Films of Vincente Minnelli, first published in 1993, examines the career of MGM's leading director of musicals, melodramas and comedies in the 1940s and 1950s. Widely admired for his flamboyant... -
The Films of Vincente Minnelli James Naremore (Indiana University) 9780521387705
SciFier: $55.91The Films of Vincente Minnelli, first published in 1993, examines the career of MGM's leading director of musicals, melodramas and comedies in the 1940s and 1950s. Widely admired for his flamboyant... -
Tallulah Bankhead by Jeffrey Carrier
SciFier: $138.02Tallulah Bankhead was an actress whose talents were greatly overshadowed by her antics. Indeed, the Bankhead personality was much better known than her acting roles. While it is impossible to study...