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Stars of the Silents by Edward Wagenknecht
SciFier: £72.99A contagious passion pervades the pages of this volume..ReviewsA contagious passion pervades the pages of this volume. * Griffithiana *Book InformationISBN 9780810819924Author Edward... -
Directing by Tay Garnett
SciFier: £77.99An essential text on filmmaking that every student, scholar, and teacher of films should own. In it, some of the motion picture industry's most important directors including Steven Spielberg, Martin... -
Malcolm St. Clair by Ruth Anne Dwyer
SciFier: £77.99Malcolm St. Clair was a master director of sophisticated silent comedy. This book traces his career, from his start as a Mack Sennett Keystone Kop, through the action-adventures of the early 1920s,... -
Twentieth Century-Fox by Aubrey Solomon
SciFier: £78.49New in Paperback! In 1935, two film production companies merged to form one of the most influential corporations in the world-Twentieth Century-Fox. Here is the story of that dynamic company and of... -
Picture Perfect by Herbert L. Strock
SciFier: £72.99Herbert Strock has been involved in nearly every phase of film production, as his career developed from his first job as an assistant editor at MGM Studios to his current ownership of a production... -
Saved from Oblivion by Bernard Vorhaus
SciFier: £72.99Before being black-listed in the McCarthy era, Bernard Vorhaus was one of Hollywood's most respected silent film writers, working for studios such as Paramount and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Not only did... -
Some Cutting Remarks by Ralph E. Winters
SciFier: £68.49Recounts the life of two-time Academy Award winner, Ralph E. Winters, whose career spanned two-thirds of the 20th century. Drawing from his own ascent through MGM studio system, Winters guides the... -
The Films of Leni Riefenstahl by David B. Hinton
SciFier: £38.99After considerable controversy over the bold appraisal of Riefenstahl in his first two editions, Hinton continues to celebrate the life and films of this brilliant woman in the absence of the... -
The Films of Steven Spielberg Charles L. P. Silet 9780810841826
SciFier: £92.99Steven Spielberg has fashioned an enviable career as a writer, producer, and director of American motion pictures, winning Academy Awards for Best Direction (Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List),... -
The Films of Steven Spielberg Charles L. P. Silet 9780810843486
SciFier: £61.99Steven Spielberg has fashioned an enviable career as a writer, producer, and director of American motion pictures, winning Academy Awards for Best Direction (Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List),... -
William Desmond Taylor by Bruce Long
SciFier: £78.49Now in paperback. William Desmond Taylor (1872-1922) was a leading silent film director remembered as the victim of Hollywood's most sensational unsolved murder, which shook the nation and shattered... -
Young Man in Movieland by Jan Read
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £72.44Young Man in Movieland is the autobiography of Jan Read, a young man from a quiet Scottish town, who seemed destined to follow in his father's footsteps. Instead of pursuing a career in chemistry,... -
Charlie Chaplin by Georgia Hale
SciFier: £43.99Many remember Charlie Chaplin's comic masterpiece, The Gold Rush, as the finest blend of comedy and farce ever brought to the screen. Far fewer remember its heroine, Georgia Hale (1900-1985). ... -
On Actors and Acting by Anthony Slide
SciFier: £61.99Alexander 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... -
Worms in the Winecup by John Bright
SciFier: £82.99Worms 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... -
A Cast of Shadows by Ronnie Maasz
SciFier: £77.99This is Ronnie Maasz's account of his more than fifty years in the film business as a cameraman. With candid humor, Maasz offers a light-hearted collage of the international locales, quirky people,... -
White Horse, Black Hat by Jack C. Lewis
SciFier: £82.99From the silent era into the early days of television, hundreds of small production companies turned out low-budget films that were played as second features in this country and abroad. As might be... -
The Creative Producer by James Curtis
SciFier: £77.99In 1938, Warner Brothers production chief Hal Wallis grudgingly described David Lewis-one of his six "supervisors" and a veteran of 15 feature films-to director Michael Curtiz: "That Lewis is a... -
Back Lot by Maurice Rapf
SciFier: £56.99Son of pioneer movie producer Harry Rapf, Maurice Rapf grew up in Hollywood in that city's golden age. After moving from independent filmmaking to Warner Bros., in 1924 the senior Rapf joined Louis... -
Rungs on a Ladder by Christopher Neame
SciFier: £67.49Rungs on a Ladder looks at part of the movie industry from a unique perspective. Christopher Neame, son of director Ronald, started his career (in the early 1960s) at the very bottom, but... -
Showdown at High Noon by Jeremy Byman
SciFier: £77.99For more than fifty years, High Noon has been a touchstone in the popular imagination and a source of endless controversy about film art. On its release it was hailed as a masterpiece. But film... -
Music from the House of Hammer by Randall D. Larson
SciFier: £67.49In the 1950s, Hammer Film Productions, a small British filmmaking company, introduced the world to a new genre of motion picture. Referred to by some as "horror," by others as "fantasy," Hammer films... -
Principal Characters by Christopher Neame
SciFier: £61.99As the grandson of actress Ivy Close and son of director Ronald Neame (Straight from the Horse's Mouth; Scarecrow, 2003), Christopher Neame's roots in the film business were already firmly... -
Wife of the Life of the Party by Lita Grey Chaplin
SciFier: £62.99Wife of the Life of the Party is the memoir of the late Lita Grey Chaplin (1908-1995), the only one of Chaplin's wives to have written an account of life with Chaplin. Her memoir is an extraordinary... -
Walter C. Mycroft by Walter C. Mycroft
SciFier: £72.49Walter Charles Mycroft (1890-1959) was the film critic of the Evening Standard from 1922-1927, and also a founding member of London's Film Society. In 1928, he was appointed Head of the Scenario... -
Leo McCarey: From Marx to McCarthy Wes D. Gehring 9780810852631
SciFier: £77.99Early in his Hollywood career, Leo McCarey honed his skills by working with some of the great names of comedy, including Laurel and Hardy, W.C. Fields, and The Marx Brothers, whose 1933 classic, Duck... -
Ready When You Are, Mr. Coppola, Mr. Spielberg, Mr. Crowe by Jerry Ziesmer
SciFier: £68.49Now available in paperback! No movie has ever been made, or made well, without the character who toils just outside the spotlight. He arranged for the spotlight, hired the spotlight operator, and... -
Straight from the Horse's Mouth: Ronald Neame, an Autobiography Ronald Neame 9780810848993
SciFier: £40.99Now in Paperback! Ronald Neame's autobiography takes its title from one of his best-loved films, The Horse's Mouth (1958), starring Alec Guinness. In an informative and entertaining style, Neame... -
Straight from the Horse's Mouth: Ronald Neame, an Autobiography Ronald Neame 9780810844902
SciFier: £68.49Now in Paperback! Ronald Neame's autobiography takes its title from one of his best-loved films, The Horse's Mouth (1958), starring Alec Guinness. In an informative and entertaining style, Neame... -
William Beaudine by Wendy L. Marshall
SciFier: £78.49William Beaudine began his tenure in film as an assistant to the legendary D. W. Griffith. At the height of his career, Beaudine worked for every major studio and directed many greats of the silent...