wyszukanych pozycji: 47
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Wake Up At The Back There: It's Jimmy Edwards (hardback)
ISBN: 9781629333212 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
127,50 |
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Frank Lloyd: Master of Screen Melodrama
ISBN: 9781593934729 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Frank Lloyd: Master of Screen Melodrama is the first book-length study of one of the most prominent of studio directors from Hollywood's "golden age," whose career spanned the years from 1913 through 1955. Among the director's greatest works are Oliver Twist with Jackie Coogan, The Sea Hawk with Milton Sills, The Divine Lady with Corinne Grifffith, and two Academy Award winners for Best Picture, Cavalcade and Mutiny on the Bounty. They are all discussed in detail here, along with other prominent Frank Lloyd productions, including East Lynne, Berkeley Square, Wells Fargo, and The Howards of...
Frank Lloyd: Master of Screen Melodrama is the first book-length study of one of the most prominent of studio directors from Hollywood's "golden age,"...
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110,68 |
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Just a Regular Bloke (hardback): The Ted Ray Story
ISBN: 9798887711072 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
144,74 |
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Nitrate Won't Wait: A History of Film Preservation in the United States
ISBN: 9780786408368 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This study looks at the preservation process: newsreel, television, and color preservation; the often controversial issue of colorization; and commercial film archives. It provides detailed histories of the major players in the preservation battle including the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, the American Film Institute, the Museum of Modern Art, the UCLA Film and Television Archive, and the Library of Congress. This first historical overview of film preservation in the United States is also highly controversial in its exposure and criticism of the politicization...
This study looks at the preservation process: newsreel, television, and color preservation; the often controversial issue of colorization; and commerc...
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165,68 |
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Before, In and After Hollywood: The Life of Joseph E. Henabery
ISBN: 9780810832008 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In 1914, a young midwesterner quit his railroad job to crack the Hollywood motion picture boom. Impressed by his energy and honesty in his role as Lincoln, D.W. Griffith made him his assistant for Intolerance. Griffith then made Joe a director. He swiftly progressed to a preeminent position in the industry, directing some of the biggest Hollywood stars of the 1920's including Douglas Fairbanks, Fatty Arbuckle, and Rudolph Valentino. Versatility played an important role in Joe's rich creative life inside the studios. His understanding of the mechanics of motion-picture film led him to develop...
In 1914, a young midwesterner quit his railroad job to crack the Hollywood motion picture boom. Impressed by his energy and honesty in his role as Lin...
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326,14 |
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The Truth at Twenty-Four Frames per Second: An Anthology of Writings on Film History
ISBN: 9781629337401 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
102,18 |
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A Man Named Smith: The Novels and Screen Legacy of Thorne Smith
ISBN: 9781593935283 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Thorne Smith is a unique figure in American literature, one who thrived during prohibition creating comic novels that ridiculed the morality of the times and involved extensive drinking, nudity, frivolity, and general debauchery. A Man Named Smith: The Novels and Screen Legacy of Thorne Smith is the first book-length study of Thorne Smith's work. It provides background information on his life and early death, discusses all of his novels in detail, and also provides extensive new documentation on their screen adaptations, including Topper, Night Life of the Gods, and Turnabout. Also discussed...
Thorne Smith is a unique figure in American literature, one who thrived during prohibition creating comic novels that ridiculed the morality of the ti...
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110,68 |
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Bobbie Kimber: An Amiable Misfit
ISBN: 9798887714967 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
106,43 |
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Silent Topics: Essays on Undocumented Areas of Silent Film
ISBN: 9780810850163 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In Silent Topics, film historian Anthony Slide looks at various under-discussed and generally undocumented areas of silent film. The two lengthiest essays discuss the release of British silent films in the United States and the contribution of gays and lesbians to American silent film.
In Silent Topics, film historian Anthony Slide looks at various under-discussed and generally undocumented areas of silent film. The two lengthiest es...
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350,48 |
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D. W. Griffith: Interviews
ISBN: 9781617032981 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. D. 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 cinema to a new level of art, entertainment, and innovation, and at the same time he illustrated, for the first time, its potential to influence an audience and propagandize a cause. Collected together here are virtually all of the -interviews- given by D. W. Griffith from the first in 1914 to the last in 1948. Some of the interviews concentrate on specific films, including The Birth of a... D. 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... |
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442,97 |
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Incorrect Entertainment
ISBN: 9781593930936 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Cultural Historian Anthony Slide, who has been described by the Los Angeles Times as a one-man publishing phenomenon, strikes again with a book guaranteed to contain something OFFENSIVE for everyone.
Chapters on subjects as varied as CAMP, FASCISM in Hollywood, Hedda Hopper and the PORKYS movies. The latest topical jokes on Helen Keller, Eleanor Roosevelt and the Challenger disaster. Subjects such as ALCOHOL, DRUG and SPOUSAL ABUSE, COMMUNISM, ETHNICITY, GAYS and LESBIANS and RELIGION. Commentary on leading figures of the era, including Father Coughlin, Kinky Friedman, Tom Lehrer and John... Cultural Historian Anthony Slide, who has been described by the Los Angeles Times as a one-man publishing phenomenon, strikes again with a book guaran...
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cena:
119,20 |
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Wake Up At The Back There: It's Jimmy Edwards
ISBN: 9781629333205 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
84,93 |
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Some Joe You Don't Know: An American Biographical Guide to 100 British Television Personalities
ISBN: 9780313295508 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Americans have been watching and enjoying British television programming since the mid-1950s, but the information on the personalities involved is difficult, if not impossible, to find in the United States. This guide provides biographical essays, complete with bibliographies, on 100 of the best known and loved actors and actresses from Richard Greene (Robin Hood) and William Russell (Sir Lancelot) in the 1950s through stars of Masterpiece Theatre, including Robin Ellis and Jean Marsh, to the new generation of British comedy performers such as Alexei Sayle and Jennifer Saunders. Not only... Americans have been watching and enjoying British television programming since the mid-1950s, but the information on the personalities involved is ... |
cena:
307,44 |
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D. W. Griffith: Interviews
ISBN: 9781496858016 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
cena:
116,78 |
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I Thank You: The Arthur Askey Story (hardback)
ISBN: 9781629335612 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
136,23 |
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Incorrect Entertainment (hardback)
ISBN: 9798887713267 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
161,77 |
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A Return To Deep Joy
ISBN: 9798887716770 / Miękka / 2025 / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
93,66 |
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Actors on Red Alert: Career Interviews with Five Actors and Actresses Affected by the Blacklist
ISBN: 9780810836495 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The anti-Communist hysteria that began in the 1930s was further empowered in 1938 when the House of Representatives established the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities. Soon thereafter, the creation of the blacklist in the late 1940s brought the Hollywood film and television community into the fold. Provocatively capturing the controversy and sentiments surrounding this period of political imbalance, Actors on Red Alert explores the repercussions of the blacklist through career interviews with five prominent actors and actresses.
The anti-Communist hysteria that began in the 1930s was further empowered in 1938 when the House of Representatives established the House Committee on...
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296,94 |
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The Silent Feminists: America's First Women Directors, Rowman & Littlefield Edition
ISBN: 9781538165522 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
cena:
121,70 |
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Hollywood Unknowns: A History of Extras, Bit Players, and Stand-Ins
ISBN: 9781617034749 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Extras, 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 history devoted to extras from the silent era through the present. Hollywood Unknowns discusses the relationship of the extra to the star, the lowly position in which extras were held, the poor working conditions and wages, and the sexual exploitation of many of the hardworking women striving for a place in Hollywood society. Though mainly anonymous, many are identified by name... Extras, 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 ... |
cena:
165,50 |