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Elia Kazan by William Baer
RRP: $33.43SciFier: $26.08Amid extraordinary controversy at the Academy Awards ceremony in 1999, Elia Kazan was belatedly presented a Lifetime Achievement Award for his distinguished career as a director of American films... -
Elia Kazan by Richard Schickel
RRP: $24.11SciFier: $16.07This is an electrifying biography, by one of America's foremost film scholars, of the controversial director Elia Kazan (1909-2003), that looks at the man and his art in the context of the social,... -
Kazan on Directing Elia Kazan 9780307277046
RRP: $22.77SciFier: $19.01Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307277046Author Elia KazanFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint -
A City Full of Hawks: On the Waterfront Seventy Years Later-Still the Great American Contender Stephen Rebello 9781493077809
RRP: $33.50SciFier: $27.51A CITY FULL OF HAWKS: ON THE WATERFRONT SEVENTY YEARS LATER, STILL THE GREAT CONTENDERBook InformationISBN 9781493077809Author Stephen RebelloFormat HardbackPage Count 225 -
Great Directors at Work by David Richard Jones
RRP: $36.18SciFier: $30.31The subject of this book is theatre directing in four internationally famous instances. The four directors-Konstantin Stanislavsky, Bertolt Brecht, Elia Kazan, and Peter Brook-all were monarchs of... -
Film and Politics in America: A Social Tradition Brian Neve 9780415026208
RRP: $57.61SciFier: $52.78In A Social Cinema: Film-making and Politics in America, Brian Neve presents a study of the social and political nature of American film by concentrating on a generation of writers from the thirties... -
Hollywood Renaissance by Sam B. Girgus (Vanderbilt University, Tennessee)
SciFier: $36.17American film directors from the late 1930s to the early 1960s instigated a renaissance of original artistic works that helped reinvigorate and renew American culture. During a time of unprecedented... -
Hollywood Independents: The Postwar Talent Takeover Denise Mann 9780816645411
RRP: $28.13SciFier: $23.99Hollywood Independents explores the crucial period from 1948 to 1962 when independent film producers first became key components of the modern corporate entertainment industry. Denise Mann examines... -
The South Never Plays Itself by Ben Beard
RRP: $32.09SciFier: $31.97Since The Birth of a Nation became the first Hollywood blockbuster in 1915, movies have struggled to reckon with the American South-as both a place and an idea, a reality and a romance, a lived... -
On the Waterfront Leo Braudy 9781844570720
SciFier: $15.69'I could have been a contender, I could have been somebody.' So speaks the haunted former boxer Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando) to his brother Charley (Rod Steiger) in a scene from On the Waterfront... -
Bruce Dern by Bruce Dern
RRP: $30.82SciFier: $28.88One of Hollywood's biggest personalities, Bruce Dern is not afraid to say what he thinks. He has left an indelible mark on numerous projects, from critically acclaimed films to made-for-TV movies and... -
Film World: The Directors' Interviews Julie Rose 9781845204587
SciFier: $55.60Film World brings together key interviews with cinema's leading directors. The directors chosen represent many of the most influential film-makers of the last 50 years. All have been selected because... -
Gus Van Sant by Katya Tylevich
RRP: $26.80SciFier: $20.66The first book to talk about the creative process of one of Hollywood's most iconic directorsFrom Drugstore Cowboy to Elephant, Milk and Good Will Hunting, Gus Van Sant's films have captured the... -
Worms in the Winecup by John Bright
SciFier: $111.21Worms in the Winecup is the extraordinarily hard-hitting autobiography of John Bright, a screenplay writer who gained a major reputation with his first Hollywood script, Public Enemy, the classic... -
Martin Ritt by Gabriel Miller
RRP: $33.43SciFier: $26.08This collection of interviews provides a revealing self-portrait of Martin Ritt (1914-1990), America's preeminent maker of social films and one of the most sensitive portraitists of the rural South. ... -
Real James Dean by Winkler Peter
RRP: $28.13SciFier: $21.35In the decades following his death, many of those who knew James Dean best--actors, directors, friends, lovers (both men and women), photographers, and Hollywood columnists--shared stories of their... -
Classic American Films by William Baer
SciFier: $71.01Classic American Films explores the origin and development of many of the most influential and revered films in cinema history, and does so with the aid and insight of the people who actually wrote... -
The American Success Myth on Film J. Levinson 9780230363366
SciFier: $62.97In examining the enduring appeal that rags-to-riches stories exert on our collective imagination, this book highlights the central role that films have played in the ongoing cultural discourse about... -
The Many Lives of Cy Endfield by Brian Neve
RRP: $46.83SciFier: $30.23Cy Endfield (1914-1995) was a filmmaker who was also fascinated by the worlds of close-up magic, science, and invention. After directing several distinctive low-budget films in Hollywood, he was... -
The American Success Myth on Film J. Levinson 9781137482525
RRP: $60.29SciFier: $36.85In examining the enduring appeal that rags-to-riches stories exert on our collective imagination, this book highlights the central role that films have played in the ongoing cultural discourse about... -
Jane Campion on Jane Campion by Michel Ciment
RRP: $40.20SciFier: $25.77A chronological overview of one of modern cinema's most celebrated directors, featuring interviews with Jane Campion herself Jane Campion on Jane Campion offers a unique perspective on the creative... -
Leonard Bernstein's On the Waterfront by Anthony Bushard
SciFier: $76.37Released in 1954, On the Waterfront is considered one of the greatest films of all time, winning eight Academy Awards-including Best Picture-and placing in the top 20 on the American Film Institute's... -
Hollywood Enigma: Dana Andrews Carl Rollyson 9781496849557
RRP: $36.17SciFier: $30.23Dana Andrews (1909-1992) worked with distinguished directors such as John Ford, Lewis Milestone, Otto Preminger, Fritz Lang, William Wyler, William A. Wellman, Mervyn Le Roy, Jean Renoir, and Elia... -
American Scary: A History of Horror, from Salem to Stephen King and Beyond Jeremy Dauber 9781643753560
RRP: $37.52SciFier: $26.59From the acclaimed author of American Comics and Jewish Comedy comes a sweeping and entertaining narrative that details the rise and enduring grip of horror in American literature, cinema, and,... -
Cinematic Cold War by Tony Shaw
RRP: $44.15SciFier: $30.23The Cold War was as much a battle of ideas as a series of military and diplomatic confrontations, and movies were a prime battleground for this cultural combat. As Tony Shaw and Denise Youngblood... -
!["Keep 'Em in the East": Kazan, Kubrick, and the Postwar New York Film Renaissance Richard Koszarski 9780231200998](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-ngzg0zcz0u/images/stencil/444x444/products/157875/159062/9780231200998__81562.1684951269.jpg?c=1 ""Keep 'Em in the East": Kazan, Kubrick, and the Postwar New York Film Renaissance Richard Koszarski 9780231200998")
"Keep 'Em in the East": Kazan, Kubrick, and the Postwar New York Film Renaissance Richard Koszarski 9780231200998
RRP: $46.90SciFier: $40.82The year 1955 was a watershed one for New York's film industry: Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront took home eight Oscars, and, more quietly, Stanley Kubrick released the low-budget classic Killer's Kiss... -
!["Keep 'Em in the East": Kazan, Kubrick, and the Postwar New York Film Renaissance Richard Koszarski 9780231200981](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-ngzg0zcz0u/images/stencil/444x444/products/158357/159544/9780231200981__49296.1684952118.jpg?c=1 ""Keep 'Em in the East": Kazan, Kubrick, and the Postwar New York Film Renaissance Richard Koszarski 9780231200981")
"Keep 'Em in the East": Kazan, Kubrick, and the Postwar New York Film Renaissance Richard Koszarski 9780231200981
RRP: $162.14SciFier: $144.22The year 1955 was a watershed one for New York's film industry: Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront took home eight Oscars, and, more quietly, Stanley Kubrick released the low-budget classic Killer's Kiss... -
Film Directing Fundamentals: See Your Film Before Shooting Nicholas T. Proferes (Professor of Film at the Film Division, School of the Arts, Columbia University where he has taught directing for more than 25 years.) 9781138052918
SciFier: $67.67Film Directing Fundamentals gives the novice director an organic methodology for realizing on-screen the full dramatic possibility of a screenplay. Unique among directing books, Nicholas Proferes... -
Cinema Speculation Quentin Tarantino 9781474624244
RRP: $14.73SciFier: $8.46A unique cocktail of personal memoir, cultural criticism and Hollywood history by the one and only Quentin Tarantino.The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the number one New... -
Designing Movies by Sylvia Townsend
SciFier: $69.67This retrospective on the career of Academy Award-winning production designer Richard Sylbert takes readers behind the scenes of some of the most influential films of the past fifty years. The...