17 May 2009
A Certain Tendency of the Hollywood Cinema, 1930-1980 (Paperback)
Review
An informative and stimulating book that explores our popular mythology through illuminating discussions of commercially successful films ranging from Casablanca to Taxi Driver. (New York Times Book Review )
An analysis of the ideolog...
16 May 2009
Classical Film Violence: Designing and Regulating Brutality in Hollywood Cinema, 1930-1968 (Paperback)
Stephen Prince has written the first book to examine the interplay between the aesthetics and the censorship of violence in classic Hollywood films from 1930 to 1968, the era of the Production Code, when filmmakers were required to have their script...
15 May 2009
Grand Design: Hollywood as a Modern Business Enterprise, 1930-1939 (History of the American Cinema , No 5) (Paperback)
Review
“A work of major importance for the serious study of American film.” — Dana Polan, Film Quarterly”Fascinating. . . . Grand Design gives the most convincing picture yet of how the Hollywood system operated...
11 May 2009
Filming "All Quiet On the Western Front" (Cinema and Society) (Hardcover)
Published to commemorate the centenary of Erich Maria Remarque’s birth, this book tells for the first time the full story of the Academy Award winning film of Remarque’s extraordinary novel. When published in 1928, All Quiet on the W...
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