Overview :The recent $3.4 billion purchase of Columbia Pictures by Sony Corporation focused attention on a studio that had survived one of Hollywood's... Read More
Overview :This new edition of 'Anatomy of Film' retains the emphasis on the fundamentals of critical analysis and evaluation. It includes a complete g... Read More
Overview :Beginning with The Jazz Singer (1927) and 42nd Street (1933), legendary Hollywood film producer Darryl F. Zanuck (1902-1979) revolutionized ... Read More
Overview :Anatomy of Film provides a solid foundation of film fundamentals while offering rich examples from the past and present. Designed to be used... Read More
Overview : That Was Entertainment: The Golden Age of the MGM Musical traces the development of the MGM musical from The Broadway Melody (1929) through... Read More
Overview :On October 30, 1947, the House Committee on Un-American Activities concluded the first round of hearings on the allege Communist infiltratio... Read More
Overview :The Screen Is Red portrays Hollywood's ambivalence toward the former Soviet Union before, during, and after the Cold War. In the 1930s, comm... Read More
Overview :Cole Porter (1891-1964) remains one of America's most popular composer-songwriters, known for the many urbane, witty, romantic songs he wrot... Read More
Overview :Claudette Colbert's mixture of beauty, sophistication, wit, and vivacity quickly made her one of the film industry's most famous and highest... Read More
Overview :From Double Indemnity to The Godfather, the stories behind some of the greatest films ever made pale beside the story of the studio that mad... Read More
Overview :A biography of the full and rewarding life of a Golden Age star When it comes to living life to its fullest, Rosalind Russell's character Au... Read More
Overview :Loretta Young (1913-2000) was an Academy Award-winning actress known for devout Catholicism and her performances in The Farmer's Daughter, T... Read More
Overview :Ben Hecht called him "White Fang," and director Charles Vidor took him to court for verbal abuse. The image of Harry Cohn as vulgarian is su... Read More
Overview :The recent $3.4 billion purchase of Columbia Pictures by Sony Corporation focused attention on a studio that had survived one of Hollywood's... Read More
Overview :Hal Wallis might not be as well known as David O. Selznick or Samuel Goldwyn, but the films he produced -- Casablanca, Jezebel, Now Voyager,... Read More
Overview :Ronald Reagan, a former actor and one of America's most popular presidents, married not one but two Hollywood actresses. This book is three ... Read More