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Hollywood directors, 1941-1976 / [compiled by] Richard Koszarski New York: Oxford University Press, 1977.
Call No: 802.25(73) HOLAuthor: Koszarski, Richard Place: New YorkPublisher: Oxford University PressPubDate: 1977PhysDes: xvii, 426 p. : ill. ; 22 cmSubject: DIRECTORS. USA ; WELLES, ORSON ; LEWIN, ALBERT ; VIDOR, KING ; HUSTON, JOHN ; ROSSEN, ROBERT ; CAPRA, FRANK ; JONES, CHUCK ; WYLER, WILLIAM ; RENOIR, JEAN ; LANG, FRITZ ; ZINNEMANN, FRED ; MILESTONE, LEWIS ; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED ; BROWN, CLARENCE ; SIDNEY, GEORGE ; BROOKS, RICHARD ; DIETERLE, WILLIAM ; FLEISCHER, RICHARD ; VON STERNBERG, JOSEF ; CURTIZ, MICHAEL ; RAY, NICHOLAS ; KAZAN, ELIA ; WILDER, BILLY ; LEROY, MERVYN ; ALDRICH, ROBERT ; KUBRICK, STANLEY ; LOGAN, JOSHUA ; STURGES, JOHN ; KING, HENRY ; MANN, ANTHONY ; FULLER, SAMUEL ; FRANKENHEIMER, JOHN ; KELLY, GENE ; PENN, ARTHUR ; SAKS, GENE ; Lupino, Ida ; DMYTRYK, EDWARD ; CORMAN, ROGER ; FRIEDKIN, WILLIAM ; RITCHIE, MICHAEL ; GRINDE, NICK ; PICHEL, IRVING ; SEATON, GEORGE ; BENEDEK, LASLO ; KOSTER, HENRY ; OBOLER, ARCH ; SANDERS, TERRY ; SIODMAK, ROBERT ; MARTON, ANDREW ; DEATH OF A SALESMAN (US, Laslo Benedek, 1951) ; FACE IN THE CROWD, A (US, Elia Kazan, 1957) ; BONNIE AND CLYDE (US, Arthur Penn, 1967) ; SMILE (US, Michael Ritchie, 1975) ; MONSIEUR VERDOUX (US, Charles Chaplin, 1947) ; BEN HUR (US, William Wyler, 1959) Notes: Includes indexISBN: 0195022173 : $15.00; 0195022181(pbk. :) $4.95LON: 851041
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Movie love in the fifties / James Harvey New York: Alfred A. Knopf,
Call No: 733.3(73)"5" HARAuthor: Harvey, James Edition: 2001Place: New YorkPublisher: Alfred A. KnopfPhysDes: 464 pages : illustrated ; 25 cmSubject: ACTORS ; STARS ; DIRECTORS ; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED ; RAY, NICHOLAS ; KAZAN, ELIA ; SIRK, DOUGLAS ; SIODMAK, ROBERT Summary: From the author of Romantic Comedy (“brilliant, meticulous, a monumental work of scholarship” —Margo Jefferson, New York Times), a fresh, illuminating look at the films of the 1950s.
Harvey begins by mapping the progression from 1940s film noir to the living-room melodramas of the 1950s. He shows us the femme fatale of the 1940s (Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Bennett) becoming blander and blonder (Doris Day, Debbie Reynolds) and younger and more traditionally sexy (Marilyn Monroe, Grace Kelly) in the 1950s. And he shows us how women were finally replaced as objects of desire by the new boy-men—Clift, Brando, Dean, and other rebels without causes.
Harvey discusses the films of Hitchcock (Vertigo), Ophuls (The Reckless Moment), Siodmak (Christmas Holiday), and Welles (Touch of Evil, perhaps the single greatest influence on the “post-classical” movies). He writes about the quintessential 1950s directors: Nicholas Ray, who made movies in the old Hollywood tradition (In a Lonely Place, Johnny Guitar), and Douglas Sirk, who portrayed suburbia as an emotional deathtrap (Imitation of Life, Magnificent Obsession). And he discusses the “serious” directors, such as Stanley Kramer and Elia Kazan, whose films exhibited powerful new realism.
Comprehensive, insightful, written with intelligence, humor, and affection, Movie Love in the Fifties is a masterful work of American film, and cultural, history. -- publisher's blurbISBN: 9780394585918Donation: James Sabine
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Underworld U.S.A London: Secker and Warburg [for] the British Film Institute, 1972.
Call No: 734.2(73) MCAAuthor: McArthur, Colin, 1934 CorpAuthor: British Film InstitutePlace: LondonPublisher: Secker and Warburg [for] the British Film InstitutePubDate: 1972PhysDes: 176 p. illus., ports. 20 cmSubject: GENRES ; GANGSTER FILMS. USA ; THRILLERS. USA ; LANG, FRITZ ; HUSTON, JOHN ; DASSIN, JULES ; SIODMAK, ROBERT ; KAZAN, ELIA ; RAY, NICHOLAS ; FULLER, SAMUEL ; SIEGEL, DON ; MELVILLE, JEAN-PIERRE ; PUBLIC ENEMY, THE (US, William Wellmen, 1931) ; BIG HEAT, THE (US, Fritz Lang, 1953) ; MALTESE FALCON, THE (US, John Huston, 1941) ; BIG SLEEP, THE (US, Howard Hawkes, 1946) ; LITTLE CAESAR (US, Mervyn LeRoy, 1931) ; SCARFACE (US, Howard Hawks, 1932) ISBN: 0436098857 0436098849 (pbk.)LON: 73155714; 541899
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