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Milestone cinemathequeDenby, David
Summary: A selection of essays by a prestigious New Yorker film critic examines the art, business and future of America's troubled movie industry, exploring topics ranging from "fandom" and the work of critics James Agee and Pauline Kael while evaluating how the global marketplace is threatening film with increasing demands for spectacle and digitalization.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.43 DENHaygood, Wil
Summary: "The author of The Butler and Showdown examines 100 years of Black movies--using the struggles and triumphs of the artists, and the films themselves, as a prism to explore Black culture and the civil rights movement in America. Beginning in 1915 with D.W.Griffith's The Birth of a Nation--which glorified the Ku Klux Klan and became Hollywood's first blockbuster--Wil Haygood gives us an incisive,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.43 HAYFreeman, Hadley.
Summary: "From Vogue contributor and Guardian columnist Hadley Freeman, a personalized guide to eighties movies that describes why they changed movie-making forever--featuring exclusive interviews with the producers, directors, writers and stars of the best cult classics"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.43 FRESummary: "Thom Andersen's landmark documentary explores the tangled relationship between the movies and their fabled hometown, as seen entirely through the films themselves. From its distinctive neighborhoods to its architectural homes, Los Angeles has been the backdrop to countless movies. Andersen takes viewers on a whirlwind tour through the metropolis' real and cinematic history, investigating the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Explores the making and meaning of Film, a 1965 short film starring Buster Keaton, that was written by Samuel Beckett, directed by Alan Schneider, and produced by Barney Rosset. Topics covered include the circumstances leading to the film's production, the production process itself, and the film's critical reception. Includes outtakes, never-before-heard audio recordings of production meetings,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC NOTBasinger, Jeanine
Summary: "The real story of Hollywood--as told by such luminaries as Steven Spielberg, Frank Capra, Katharine Hepburn, Alfred Hitchcock, Harold Lloyd, Jordan Peele, and nearly four hundred others--reveals a fresh history of the American movie industry from its beginnings to today"--Dust jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.4309 BASSummary: Explores the hidden history of the American exploitation film. From the tents of carnie roadshows of the early 20th century to "Nudie Cuties," blood-soaked gore fests, biker flicks, blaxploitation and beyond. Looks at the films, the filmmakers, shysters and hustlers who made it all happen. Includes over 2 hours of outtakes, classic grindhouse trailers, and long lost, never-before-seen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber, Inc. 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AMEVieira, Mark A.
Summary: "In this official centennial history of the greatest studio in Hollywood, unforgettable stars, untold stories, and rare images from the Warner Bros. vault bring a century of entertainment to vivid life"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 384 VIEIsenberg, Noah William
Summary: "The movie Casablanca was first released in 1942, just two weeks after the city itself surrendered to American troops led by General Patton. The film won Oscars for best picture, best director, and best screenplay, and would go on to enjoy more revival screenings than any other movie in history, and become firmly ensconced in the American cultural imagination. Through extensive research and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Entertain IsenbergSpeck, Gregory.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carol Pub. Group 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.43 SPESummary: Program 2 of an anthology of films from American film archives. In addition to rare silent-era features, includes cartoons and animation, documentaries and newsreels, earliest American movies, pioneering sound and color experiments, serial episodes, trailers for lost films, advertisements, avant-garde shorts, ethnographic footage, films of ethnic communities, and other film types invented...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MORDe Visé, Daniel
Summary: "The story of the epic friendship between John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, the golden era of improv, and the making of a comedic film classic that helped shape our popular culture. "They're not going to catch us," Dan Aykroyd, as Elwood Blues, tells his brother Jake, played by John Belushi. "We're on a mission from God." So opens the musical action comedy The Blues Brothers, which hit theaters on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwood Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.430973 ROMSpeck, Gregory.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 1993
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 791.43 SPEHarris, Mark
Summary: Looks at the World War II experiences of five legendary directors--John Ford, William Wyler, John Huston, Frank Capra, and George Stevens--to assess the transformative impact of the war and period beliefs on Hollywood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 791.43 HARHofler, Robert
Summary: "Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of "The Way We Were," this intriguing and impeccably researched book is the first ever account of the making of the classic film starring Barbara Streisand and Robert Redford, revealing the full story behind its genesis and continued controversies, its many deleted scenes, its much-anticipated but never-filmed sequel, and the real-life romance that inspired...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp. 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.43 HOFThompson, Anne
Summary: Chronicling the making and marketing of movies released in 2012, from low-budget indies to studio blockbusters, a reporter who has written about Hollywood for more than twenty-five years covers every aspect of the billion-dollar global motion picture industry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.43 THOTaylor, Charles
Summary: "When we think of '70s cinema, we think of classics like The Godfather, Taxi Driver, and The Wild Bunch. but the riches found in the overlooked B movies of the time, rolled out wherever they might find an audience, unexpectedly tell an eye-opening story about post-Watergate, post-Vietnam America. Revisiting the films that don't make the Academy Award montages, Charles Taylor finds a treasury...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.43 TAYMaltin, Leonard
Summary: Hollywood historian and film reviewer Leonard Maltin invites readers to pull up a chair and listen as he tells stories, many of them hilarious, of 50+ years interacting with legendary movie stars, writers, directors, producers, and cartoonists. Maltin grew up in the first decade of television, immersing himself in TV programs and accessing 1930s and '40s movies hitting the small screen. His fan...
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Publisher / Publication Date: GoodKnight Books, an imprint of Paladin Communications 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MALTIN, LEONARD MALMcCarthy, Andrew
Summary: "Most people know Andrew McCarthy from his movie roles in Pretty in Pink, St. Elmo's Fire, Weekend at Bernie's, and Less than Zero, and as a charter member of Hollywood's Brat Pack. That iconic group of ingenues and heartthrobs included Rob Lowe, Molly Ringwald, Emilio Estevez, and Demi Moore, and has come to represent both a genre of film and an era of pop culture. In his memoir Brat: An '80s...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2021
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MCCARTHY, ANDREW MCCCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B MCCARTHY MCCSummary: The first program in a series of 48 movies that helped change America. During the first decades of the 20th century no issue was too controversial for movies ... from prohibition to abortion, unions, atheism, the vote for women, worker safety, juvenile justice, homelessness and immigration, these films became the catalyst for social change.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment [distributor] 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TRETarantino, Quentin
Summary: "In addition to being among the most celebrated of contemporary filmmakers, Quentin Tarantino is possibly the most joyously infectious movie lover alive. For years he has touted in interviews his eventual turn to writing books about films. Now, with Cinema Speculation, the time has come, and the results are everything his passionate fans--and all movie lovers--could have hoped for. Organized...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.43 TAREverson, William K.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 1998