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  • June Mathis

    The Rise and Fall of a Silent Film Visionary

    Collections series Screen Classics
    Along with thousands of other girls who hoped to escape tedious employment and domesticity, June Mathis (1887–1927) started acting as a young teen. After more than a decade of stepping onto stages across the US, she moved into the burgeoning film business and behind the camera to begin a prolific career as a screenwriter and producer for profound movies like The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ... En savoir plus

    $48.89 CAD

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  • Silent Movies

    The Birth of Film and the Triumph of Movie Culture

    par Peter Kobel ...
    Drawing on the extraordinary collection of The Library of Congress, one of the greatest repositories for silent film and memorabilia, Peter Kobel has created the definitive visual history of silent film. From its birth in the 1890s, with the earliest narrative shorts, through the brilliant full-length features of the 1920s, Silent Movies captures the greatest directors and actors and their ... En savoir plus

    $26.39 CAD

  • The Contender

    The Story of Marlon Brando

    par William J. Mann ...
    **Entertainment Weekly's BIG FALL BOOKS PREVIEW SelectionBest Book of 2019 -- Publisher's WeeklyBased on new and revelatory material from Brando's own private archives, an award-winning film biographer presents a deeply-textured, ambitious, and definitive portrait of the greatest movie actor of the twentieth century, the elusive Marlon Brando, bringing his extraordinarily complex life into view as ... En savoir plus

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  • Mary Pickford

    Queen of the Movies

    "Explains Pickford's roles as not only a talented actress, but also as a philanthropist and industry leader who managed to end up her own producer." — Time OutIn the early days of cinema, when actors were unbilled and unmentioned in credits, audiences immediately noticed Mary Pickford. Moviegoers everywhere were riveted by her magnetic talent and appeal as she rose to become cinema's first great ... En savoir plus

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  • Sick and Dirty

    Hollywood’s Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness

    par Michael Koresky ...
    Longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award, NonfictionAN ALLSTORA'S QUEER HISTORY 101 BOOK CLUB PICK"An absorbing landmark of film criticism.” --The Chicago Tribune, "The 10 Best Books of the Year"A blazingly original history celebrating the persistence of queerness onscreen, behind the camera, and between the lines during the dark days of the Hollywood Production Code.Fr... ... En savoir plus

    $22.39 CAD

  • Beyond Paradise

    The Life of Ramon Novarro

    par André Soares ...
    Collections series Hollywood Legends Series
    The first Latin American actor to become a superstar, Ramon Novarro was for years one of Hollywood's top actors. Born Ram¢n Samaniego to a prominent Mexican family, he arrived in America in 1916, a refugee from civil wars. By the mid-1920s, he had become one of MGM's biggest box office attractions, starring in now-classic films, including The Student Prince, Mata Hari, and the original version of ... En savoir plus

    $27.19 CAD

  • Hollywood Pride

    A Celebration of LGBTQ+ Representation and Perseverance in Film

    par Alonso Duralde ...
    For generations, members of the LGBTQ+ community in Hollywood needed to be discreet about their lives but—make no mistake—they were everywhere, both in front of and behind the camera.On the eve of the twentieth century, in Thomas Edison’s laboratory, one of the earliest attempts at a sound film depicted two men dancing together as a third plays the violin. It’s only a few minutes long, but this ... En savoir plus

    $24.99 CAD

  • Twentieth Century–Fox

    The Zanuck-Skouras Years, 1935–1965

    par Peter Lev ...
    When the Fox Film Corporation merged with Twentieth Century Pictures in 1935, the company posed little threat to industry juggernauts such as Paramount and MGM. In the years that followed however, guided by executives Darryl F. Zanuck and Spyros Skouras, it soon emerged as one of the most important studios. Though working from separate offices in New York and Los Angeles and often of two different ... En savoir plus

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  • The Hollywood Studios

    par Ethan Mordden ...
    Hollywood in the years between 1929 and 1948 was a town of moviemaking empires. The great studios were estates of talent: sprawling, dense, diverse. It was the Golden Age of the Movies, and each studio made its distinctive contribution. But how did the studios, "growing up" in the same time and place, develop so differently? What combinations of talents and temperaments gave them their signature ... En savoir plus

    $20.99 CAD

  • Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties

    The Collapse of the Studio System, the Thrill of Cinerama, and the Invasion of the Ultimate Body Snatcher--Television

    par Foster Hirsch ...
    A fascinating look at Hollywood’s most turbulent decade and the demise of the studio system—set against the boom of the post–World War II years, the Cold War, and the atomic age—and the movies that reflected the seismic shifts“The definitive book on 1950s Hollywood.” —Booklist“Lavish. . . insightful, rich, expansive, penetrating.” —KirkusHollywood in the 1950s was a period when the film industry ... En savoir plus

    $18.99 CAD

  • Truman Capote

    A Literary Life at the Movies

    par Tison Pugh ...
    Collections series The South on Screen
    The author of Queer Chivalry presents a biographical study of the celebrity writer "rich with insight into [his] literary and cinematic achievements" ( Publishers Weekly).Truman Capote's legacy is in many ways defined by his complex relationship with Hollywood. In Truman Capote: A Literary Life at the Movies, Tison Pugh explores the author and his literature through a cinematic lens, weaving ... En savoir plus

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  • The Beats

    A Very Short Introduction

    par David Sterritt ...
    Collections series Very Short Introductions
    In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the writers of the Beat Generation revolutionized American literature with their iconoclastic approach to language and their angry assault on the conformity and conservatism of postwar society. They and their followers took aim at the hypocrisy and taboos of their time--particularly those involving sex, race, and class--in such provocative works as Jack Kerouac's ... En savoir plus

    $7.19 CAD