wyszukanych pozycji: 47
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Silent Players: A Biographical and Autobiographical Study of 100 Silent Film Actors and Actresses
ISBN: 9780813122496 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. " 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 lives of 100 players from the American silent film industry. He profiles the era's shining stars such as Lillian Gish and Blanche Sweet; leading men including William Bakewell and Robert Harron; gifted leading ladies such as Laura La Plante and Alice Terry; ingenues like Mary Astor and Mary Brian; and even Hollywood's most famous extra, Bess Flowers. Although each original essay is accompanied... " From his unique perspective of friendship with many of the actors and actresses about whom he writes, silent film historian Anthony Slide creates... |
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256,14 |
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Ravished Armenia and the Story of Aurora Mardiganian
ISBN: 9781617038488 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. -Ravished Armenia- and the Story of Aurora Mardiganian is the real-life tale of a teenage Armenian girl who was caught up in the 1915 Armenian genocide, the first genocide in modern history. Mardiganian (1901-1994) witnessed the murder of her family and the suffering of her people at the hands of the Ottoman Empire. Forced to march over fourteen hundred miles, she was sold into slavery. When she escaped to the United States, Mardiganian was then exploited by the very individuals whom she believed might help. Her story was published in book form and then used as the basis for a 1918... -Ravished Armenia- and the Story of Aurora Mardiganian is the real-life tale of a teenage Armenian girl who was caught up in the 1915 Armeni... |
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136,80 |
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Banned in the U.S.A.: British Films in the United States and Their Censorship, 1933-1960
ISBN: 9781860642548 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. How has America censored British films? In this original, fascinating book, Anthony Slide answers this question, making full use for the first time of the recently opened US Production Code Administration files. Film by film from the 1930s through to the 1960s, he tells the inside story of the ongoing dialogue between the British film making industry and the American censors. The book shows graphically how the Production Code system operated, revealing how the censors viewed moral issues, violence, bad language and matters of decorum as well as revealing acute national differences, such as...
How has America censored British films? In this original, fascinating book, Anthony Slide answers this question, making full use for the first time of...
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cena:
488,78 |
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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:
127,85 |
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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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cena:
111,00 |
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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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166,12 |
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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:
145,14 |
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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:
106,72 |
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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:
102,45 |
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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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cena:
111,00 |
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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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cena:
327,48 |
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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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444,79 |
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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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cena:
351,92 |
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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:
119,53 |
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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:
85,17 |
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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:
308,70 |
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D. W. Griffith: Interviews
ISBN: 9781496858016 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
cena:
117,25 |
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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:
136,61 |
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Incorrect Entertainment (hardback)
ISBN: 9798887713267 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
162,21 |
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A Return To Deep Joy
ISBN: 9798887716770 / Miękka / 2025 / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
93,91 |