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Interim book		Alice in Movieland / by Alice M. Williamson New York: D. Appleton Company, 1928. Call No: 46(794) WIL Author: Williamson, Alice M. Source: US Place: New York Publisher: D. Appleton Company PubDate: 1928 PhysDes: 265p. : illus. :20cm. Subject: INDUSTRY, FILM. USA; HISTORY OF CINEMA; DEMILLE, CECIL B.; GOLDWYN, SAMUEL; DAVIES, MARION; PARAMOUNT STUDIOS; NEGRI, POLA; UNITED ARTISTS; SWANSON, GLORIA; STAR SYSTEM More info
book		British national cinema / Sarah Street London New York: Routledge, 1997. Call No: 71(41) STR Author: Street, Sarah Place: London New York Publisher: Routledge PubDate: 1997 PhysDes: 232 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Subject: UNITED KINGDOM; INDUSTRY, FILM. UK; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA. UK; STAR SYSTEM. UK; ECONOMICS AND THE CINEMA. UK Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [210]-216) and indexes ISBN: 0415067367 (pbk.); 0415067359 (hbk.) LON: 12665717 More info
Old collection book		Celebrity : the media as image makers, and, in order of their celebrity / Edited by James Monaco; with contributions from Ingmar Bergman; Norman Mailer et al. New York: Dell Publishing, 1978. Call No: F465 MON Author: Monaco James Source: US Place: New York Publisher: Dell Publishing PubDate: 1978 PhysDes: 258 p. ; 20 cm. Subject: STAR SYSTEM; STARS; BERGMAN, INGMAR; MAILER, NORMAN ISBN: 0440509912 More info
book		Cinema and cultural modernity / Gill Branston Philadelphia: Open University Press, 2000. Call No: 62 BRA Author: Branston, Gill Source: US Place: Philadelphia Publisher: Open University Press PubDate: 2000 PhysDes: p. cm Series: Issues in cultural and media studies Subject: POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; MODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; AUTHORSHIP; STAR SYSTEM; AUDIENCES; GLOBALISATION; CAPITALISM AND THE CINEMA; CLASS AND THE CINEMA; WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; INTERNET AND THE CINEMA; PERCEPTION; NARRATIVE IN FILMS; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; TYPE CHARACTERS IN FILMS; STUDIO SYSTEM; GAZE IN FILMS; CONSUMERISM AND THE CINEMA; MULVEY, LAURA; THELMA & LOUISE (US, Ridley Scott, 1991) Summary: "Cinema and Cultural Modernity carves a path through the complex histories and issues of film and cinema studies and vividly explores these in their social and political contexts. It focuses on selected topics such as Hollywood's histories and how authorship, stardom and globalized blockbuster cinema, its pleasures and disappointments, might be thought out. Gill Branston outlines the need for cinema study that is both sensitive to the formal 'textiness' of films, but also less anxious about arguing for its position within broad agendas of representation. She shows how such debates and histories might connect both the very real pleasures of 'consuming' cinema with the need for a critical politics to address the persistent social and cultural inequalities of modernity." -- BOOK COVER Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 033520077X (HB); 0335200761 (PB) LON: 21519736 More info
journal article		Comedy in the Movies: Three : The Patsy in Melbourne Film Bulletin (September 1968) iss.5 p.21-33 Author: Finney, Alan PhysDes: Article Review Subject: LEWIS, JERRY; NUTTY PROFESSOR, THE (US, Jerry Lewis, 1963); STAR SYSTEM; COMEDIANS; COMEDIES Summary: Detailed analysis of Jerry Lewis's comic style as an actor and director, with sequence-by-sequence references to his film "The Patsy". More info
Interim book		Common fame : the culture of celebrity / by Richard Schickel London: Pavilion Books Limited, 1985. Call No: 465 SCH Author: Schickel, Richard Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Pavilion Books Limited PubDate: 1985 PhysDes: 299p. : 22cm. Subject: STAR SYSTEM; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA Notes: American edition entitled "Intimate strangers: the culture of celebrity". ISBN: 0907516963 More info
book		Fame games : the production of celebrity in Australia / Graeme Turner, Frances Bonner, P. David Marshall Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Call No: 465(94) TUR Author: Turner, Graeme; Bonner, Frances Jane; Marshall, P. David Place: Cambridge Publisher: Cambridge University Press PubDate: 2000 PhysDes: xi, 196 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Subject: ACTORS. AUSTRALIA; AGENTS; DIMITRIADES, ALEX; DONOVAN, JASON; FESTIVALS. NOOSA; HEWETT, COLLEEN; MEDIA. AUSTRALIA; MINOGUE, KYLIE; NEIGHBOURS [TV] (AT, 1985-); PUBLIC RELATIONS; STAR SYSTEM. AUSTRALIA Notes: Includes index and bibliographical references ISBN: 0521791472; 0521794862 (pbk.) LON: 21590162 More info
book		Femmes fatales : feminism, film theory, psychoanalysis / Mary Ann Doane New York: Routledge, 1991. Call No: 626:396 DOA Author: Doane, Mary Ann Place: New York Publisher: Routledge PubDate: 1991 PhysDes: viii, 312 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Subject: FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA; THEORY; WOMEN IN FILMS; GAZE IN FILMS; STAR SYSTEM; GILDA (US, Charles Vidor, 1946); BUCHSE DER PANDORA, DIE (G, Georg Wilhelm Pabst, 1929); ADYNATA : MURDER IS NOT A STORY (US, Leslie Thornton, 1983); SIGNORA DI TUTTI, LA (IT, Max Ophuls, 1934) Summary: In this major new work of feminist film criticism, Mary Ann Doane examines questions of sexual difference and knowledge in cinematic, theoretical, and psychoanalytic discourses. Femmes Fatales examines Freud, the female spectator, the meaning of the close-up, and the nature of stardom. Duane's analyses of such figures as Pabst's Lulu and Rita Hayworth's Gilda trace the thematics and mechanics of maskes, masquerade, and veiling, with specific attention to the form and technology of the cinema. Working through and against the intellectual frameworks of post-structuralist and psychoanalytic theory, Doane interrogates cinematic and theoretical claims to truth about women which rely on judgements about vision and its stability or instability. Reflecting the shift in conceptual priorities within feminist film theory over the last decade, Femmes Fatales addresses debates over female spectatorhsip, essentialism and anti-essentialism, the tensions between psychoanalysis and history, and the relations between racial and sexual difference. Doane's nuanced and original readings of the femme fatale in cinema demonstrates that confrontations between feminism, film theory and psychoanalysis can be productively destabilizing for each discipline. -- PUBLISHER Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-300) and index ISBN: 041590319X; 0415903203 (pbk.) LON: 91003659; 8050789 More info
Interim book		The fifty-year decline and fall of Hollywood. / by Ezra Goodman New York: Simon & Schuster, 1961. Call No: 46(794) GOO Author: Goodman, Ezra. Source: US Place: New York Publisher: Simon & Schuster PubDate: 1961 PhysDes: 465 p. ; 22 cm. Subject: INDUSTRY, FILM. USA; STAR SYSTEM; ACTORS More info
Interim book		Film flam / by Elliot Paul London: Frederick Muller Ltd., 1956. Call No: 46(794) PAU Author: Paul, Elliot Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Frederick Muller Ltd. PubDate: 1956 PhysDes: 160p. : illus. : 19cm. Subject: INDUSTRY, FILM. USA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1950's; STAR SYSTEM More info
Interim book		Gone Hollywood : the movie colony in the golden age / by Christopher Finch and Linda Rosenkrantz London: George Weindenfeld and Nicolson Limited., 1980. Call No: 46(794) FIN Author: Finch, Christopher; Rosenkrantz, Linda Source: UK Place: London Publisher: George Weindenfeld and Nicolson Limited. PubDate: 1980 PhysDes: xii, 396p. ; illus. ; 24cm. Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA; STAR SYSTEM Notes: Includes index and bibliography. ISBN: 0297778609 More info
book		A history of narrative film / David A. Cook New York: Norton, c1981. Call No: 70 COO Author: Cook, David A Edition: 1st ed Place: New York Publisher: Norton PubDate: c1981 PhysDes: xxiii, 721 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1950's; NARRATIVE IN FILMS; STAR SYSTEM; EXPRESSIONISM; MOTION PICTURE PRODUCERS AND DISTRIBUTORS OF AMERICA; STUDIO SYSTEM; ITALY; NEOREALISM; WAR AND THE CINEMA; FILM NOIR; NOUVELLE VAGUE; WIDE-SCREEN SYSTEMS; EASTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES; JAPAN; THIRD WORLD; GERMAN FEDERAL REPUBLIC; USSR; MELIES, GEORGES; PORTER, EDWIN S.; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK; PUDOVKIN, VSEVELOD; CHAPLIN, CHARLES; Keaton, Buster; VON STROHEIM, ERICH; CITIZEN KANE (US, Orson Welles, 1941); CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI, THE [CABINET DES DR. CALIGARI, DAS] (G, Robert Wiene, 1920) Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 671-692 ISBN: 0393090221 (pbk.); 0393013707 LON: 1583335 1583335 More info
Interim book		Hollywood by starlight / by R.J. Minney London: Chapman & Hall, 1935. Call No: 46(794) MIN Author: Minney, R.J. Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Chapman & Hall PubDate: 1935 PhysDes: 264p. : illus. : 19cm. Subject: INDUSTRY, FILM. USA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1930's; STAR SYSTEM Notes: Includes index. More info
book		The Hollywood film industry : a reader / edited by Paul Kerr London New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul in association with the British Film Institute, 1986. Call No: 71(73) HOL Author: Kerr, Paul CorpAuthor: British Film Institute Place: London New York Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul in association with the British Film Institute PubDate: 1986 PhysDes: x, 290 p. ; 22 cm Series: British Film Institute readers in film studies Subject: USA; INDUSTRY, FILM. USA; STAR SYSTEM Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. [276]-283 ISBN: 0710097301 (pbk.) : ª7.95 ($14.95 U.S.) LON: 4319087 More info
Interim book		Hollywood, the dream factory : an anthropologist looks at the movie-makers / by Hortense Powdermaker Boston MA: Little Brown & Co., 1951. Call No: 46(794) POW Author: Powdermaker, Hortense Source: US Place: Boston MA Publisher: Little Brown & Co. PubDate: 1951 PhysDes: 342p. : 20cm. Subject: INDUSTRY, FILM. USA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1950's; ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; STAR SYSTEM Notes: Includes index. More info
Interim book		An Innocent in Hollywood / By Clarence Winchester Illustrated by Goetz London: Cassell and Company, Limited., 1936. Call No: 46(794) WIN Author: Winchester, Clarence Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Cassell and Company, Limited. PubDate: 1936 PhysDes: xiv, 145p. : illus. : 20cm. Subject: INDUSTRY, FILM. USA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1930's; STAR SYSTEM Notes: Includes index. More info
Levy Collection book		Inside Warner Bros. (1935-1951) : the battles, the brainstorms, and the bickering-from the files of Hollywood's greatest studio / selected, edited and annotated by Rudy Behlmer London: Weidenfield and Nicolson, 1987. Call No: 19WAR BEH Author: Behlmer, Rudy Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Weidenfield and Nicolson PubDate: 1987 PhysDes: xix, 358p, [16]p of plates : ill., 1facsim, ports ; 24cm Subject: FILMMAKING; INDUSTRY, FILM. USA; PRODUCERS. USA; PRODUCTION COMPANIES & STUDIOS. USA; PRODUCTION. USA; STAR SYSTEM; STUDIO SYSTEM; WARNER BROS.; BOGART, HUMPHREY; HUSTON, JOHN Summary: "Few books offer as direct and intimate a portrait of the tumult, trauma and glory of making films as this fascinating collection. Culled from Warner Bros's voluminous files, these memos and letters recapture - from inspiration to filming, through fights and reconciliations - the creation of some of the most popular films ever made: Casablanca, Mildred Pierce, Yankee Doodle Dandy, The Maltese Falcon, Johnny Belinda, A Streetcar Named Desire and many, many more."--BOOK BLURB Notes: California. Los Angeles. Hollywood. Cinema industries: Warner Brothers,. to 1951 (BNB/PRECIS) Originally published: New York : Viking, 1985 ; London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986. Includes index. ISBN: 0297792423 Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006 More info
book		Lights, camera, masala : making movies in Mumbai / [photographs], Sheena Sippy ; text, Naman Ramachandran ; design, Divya Thakur Mumbai: India Book House, 2006. Call No: 210.1(540) SIP Source: II Place: Mumbai Publisher: India Book House PubDate: 2006 PhysDes: 246 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 27 cm Subject: INDIA; BOLLYWOOD; STARS. INDIA; STAR SYSTEM; INDUSTRY, FILM. INDIA; PRODUCTION. INDIA; ACTORS. INDIA; DIRECTORS. INDIA Summary: An exploration of how films are made in 'Bollywood' that uses interviews with famous stars and well known film workers in the industry during a few months of 2005 and 2006. The fictional characters Vijay and Ravi go through the process of making a Bollywood film, including screenwriting, the Bollywood star system, pre-production, marketing and promotion, and audience reception Notes: 246 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 27 cm ISBN: 8175084413 Donation: Alex Gionfriddo More info
book		The movie directors story / Joel W. Finler London: Octopus Books, 1985. Call No: 802.25 FIN; FOLIO Author: Finler, Joel W. (Joel Waldo), 1938 Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Octopus Books PubDate: 1985 PhysDes: 272 p. : ill. ; 33 cm Subject: DIRECTORS; FILM WORKERS; HISTORY OF CINEMA; INDUSTRY, FILM. USA; STAR SYSTEM Summary: "Since the earliest days of cinema, the director has combined and controlled all the elements of film-making. His status and independence have waxed and waned but he has always - rightly or wrongly - been credited with a film's success or blamed for its failure. Here is the absorbing account of 140 careers, ranging across the spectrum from studio work-horse to acknowledged genius. The famous director-star partnerships, such as Clarence Brown and Greta Garbo, John Ford and John Wayne, Josef von Sternberg, and Marlene Dietrich, Martin Scorsese and Robert de Niro are all here, as are the unknown but invaluable contract directors, the great innovators, the writer-directors and the rebels. Each entry is generously illustrated with pictures of the directors themselves, as well as scenes from their most characteristic movies. The selection has been made to give a has been made to give a varied and representative view of the director's contribution to the English speaking cinema in general and Hollywood in particular." [Taken from book jacket] Notes: Includes indexes ISBN: 0706422880 LON: 4458266 4458266 More info
book		Movie star : a look at the women who made Hollywood / by Ethan Mordden New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983. Call No: 451-02 MOR Author: Mordden, Ethan, 1947 Place: New York Publisher: St. Martin's Press PubDate: 1983 PhysDes: xii, 296 p., [40] p. of plates : ports. ; 24 cm Subject: WOMEN IN FILMS; STAR SYSTEM; ACTORS; BOW, CLARA; SWANSON, GLORIA; PICKFORD, MARY; GISH, LILLIAN; GAYNOR, JANET; SHEARER, NORMA; GARBO, GRETA; Crawford, Joan; LOY, MYRNA; GARSON, GREER; DIETRICH, MARLENE; HARLOW, JEAN; WEST, MAE; Lombard, Carole; DAVIES, MARION; BALL, LUCILLE; HEPBURN, KATHARINE; RUSSELL, ROSALIND; FAYE, ALICE; Stanwyck, Barbara; DAVIS, BETTE; TEMPLE, SHIRLEY; GARLAND, JUDY; TAYLOR, ELIZABETH; HAYWORTH, RITA; GRABLE, BETTY; GARDNER, AVA; MONROE, MARILYN; MANSFIELD, JAYNE; NOVAK, KIM; HOLLIDAY, JUDY; HEPBURN, AUDREY; DAY, DORIS; ANDREWS, JULIE; STREISAND, BARBRA; MINNELLI, LIZA; BERGMAN, INGRID; WELCH, RAQUEL; Keaton, Diane; FONDA, JANE; DRESSLER, MARIE; DUNNE, IRENE; LAWRENCE, FLORENCE; BARA, THEDA; MURRAY, MAE; MOORE, COLLEEN; ALLEN, GRACIE; BLONDELL, JOAN; TOMLIN, LILY Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. [285]-289 ISBN: 0312550502 (pbk.); 0312550499 LON: 83003024; 2457302 More info
Old collection book		The movie stars / Richard Griffith Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1970. Call No: F465.1 GRI Author: Griffith, Richard Source: US Place: Garden City, N.Y. Publisher: Doubleday & Co., Inc. PubDate: 1970 PhysDes: 498 p. ; 32 cm Subject: STARS; STAR SYSTEM; HISTORY OF CINEMA ISBN: 0385023537 More info
book		Mussolini's dream factory : film stardom in fascist Italy / Stephen Gundle New York: Berghahn Books, 2013. Call No: 411.1(45) GUN Author: Gundle, Stephen Source: US Place: New York Publisher: Berghahn Books PubDate: 2013 PhysDes: xii, 320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Series: Berghahn on film. Subject: FASCISM AND THE CINEMA. ITALY; STAR SYSTEM; DE SICA, VITTORIO; NAZZARI, AMEDEO; VALLI, ALIDA Summary: Focused on the period from the start of sound cinema to the final end of Fascism in 1945, this book examines the development of an Italian star system and evaluates its place in film production and distribution. The performances and careers of several major stars, including Isa Miranda, Vittorio De Sica, Amedeo Nazzari and Alida Valli, are closely analysed in terms of their relationships to the political sphere and broader commercial culture, with consideration of their fates in the aftermath of Fascism. A final shapter explores the place of the stars in popular memory and representations of the Fascist film world in postwar cinema.-- [Extract taken from the back of the book.] Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-309) and index ISBN: 9781782382447 Contents: Introduction -- Fascism, cinema and stardom. Italian cinema under fascism -- The creation of a star system -- Stars and commercial culture -- The public and the stars -- Italian stars of the Fascist Era. The national star: Isa Miranda -- The matine idol: Vittorio De Sica -- Everybody's fiance: Assia Noris -- The star as hero: Amedeo Nazzari -- The uniformed role model: Fosco Giachetti -- The photogenic beauty: Alida Valli -- The Duce's whim: Miria Di San Servolo -- The aftermath of stardom. Civil war, liberation and reconstruction -- Survival, memory and forgetting. More info
book		The Paramount story / John Douglas Eames London: Octopus Books, 1985. Call No: 19PAR EAM; FOLIO Author: Eames, John Douglas, 1915 Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Octopus Books PubDate: 1985 PhysDes: 368 pages : illustrations ; 33 cm Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA; INDUSTRY, FILM. USA; PRODUCTION CENTRES : HOLLYWOOD; PARAMOUNT STUDIOS; STAR SYSTEM Summary: "The endless parade of Paramount hits, ranging from the first full-length film made in Hollywood - THE SQUAW MAN in 1913 - and the first winner of an Academy Award - WINGS in 1928 - to the blockbusters of the Eighties, and the blazing galaxy of Paramount stars, from Mary Pickford to Meryl Streep, Rudolph Valentino to Eddie Murphy, are fully documented in this indispensable book. Its lavish illustrations, in themselves a collection of collector's items, are an irresistable added attraction." [Taken from book jacket] Notes: Includes indexes; Filmography: p. 323-344 ISBN: 0706420578 LON: 4496946 4496946 Contents: Preface and acknowledgements -- Introduction - the men who made Paramount --; 1916-1925: the best show in town -- 1926-1935: revolution and downfall -- 1936-1957: the mountain rises again -- 1958-1984: the big money --; The rest of 'the best shows in town' (1916-1925) -- Academy nominations and awards -- Index of films -- Index of personnel ID2: 229 More info
journal article		Pleading an Aesthetic Excuse in Montage (September 1968) p.9-13 Author: Durgnat, Raymond PhysDes: Article Subject: AUTEUR THEORY; AUTHORSHIP; AESTHETICS; STAR SYSTEM; FANS; CINEPHILIA; SPECTATORSHIP; AUDIENCE RECEPTION; AUDIENCES Summary: Essay discusses the star system with regard to audience spectatorship: why some actors become stars and attract fanbases, in the cinema. More info
book		The Polity reader in cultural theory Cambridge [England]: Polity Press, 1994. Call No: 62(04) POL Place: Cambridge [England] Publisher: Polity Press PubDate: 1994 PhysDes: 307 p. ; 23 cm Subject: POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; MODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; SEMIOLOGY; STAR SYSTEM; COMMERCIALS, TV; CHILDREN AND THE CINEMA; SOAP OPERAS; MONROE, MARILYN; BARTHES, ROLAND; ADORNO, THEODOR W.; Baudrillard, Jean; SAUSSURE, FERDINAND DE; OMEN, THE (US, Richard Donner, 1976); EXORCIST, THE (US, William Friedkin, 1973) Notes: Thirty papers; Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 0745612075; 0745612083 (pbk.) LON: bnb74561207; 10481206 More info
Interim book		Reframing British cinema : 1918-1928 between restaint and passion / Christine Gledhill London: bfi Publishing, 2003. Call No: 71(41) GLE Author: Gledhill, Christine CorpAuthor: British Film Institute Source: UK Place: London Publisher: bfi Publishing PubDate: 2003 PhysDes: 214 p. ; 24 cm Subject: UNITED KINGDOM; GENDER AND THE CINEMA. UK; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. UK; THEATRE AND THE CINEMA. UK; STARS; STAR SYSTEM. UK; ACTORS. UK Summary: Early British cinema examined in the context of British cultural traditions (pictorialism, theatricality and storytelling) as distinct from American or European perspectives. Examines the illuminating role cinema plays in the understanding of British culture, class and gender identity and social change. Notes: Includes filmography, bibliography and index. ISBN: 0 85170 889 7 More info
book		Romantic comedy in Hollywood : from Lubitsch to Sturges / James Harvey New York: Knopf, 1987. Call No: 732(73) HAR Author: Harvey, James, 1929 Edition: 1st ed Source: US Place: New York Publisher: Knopf PubDate: 1987 PhysDes: xii, 716 p. : ill. ; 25 cm Subject: ACTORS; COMEDIES; DIRECTORS; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1930's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1940's; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; ROMANTIC COMEDY; ROMANTIC FILMS. USA; PARAMOUNT STUDIOS; STAR SYSTEM; ARTHUR, JEAN; ASTAIRE, FRED; BRACKEN, EDDIE; CAGNEY, JAMES; CAPRA, FRANK; COLBERT, CLAUDETTE; COOPER, GARY; DUNNE, IRENE; GABLE, CLARK; GRANT, CARY; HARLOW, JEAN; HAWKS, HOWARD; LA CAVA, GREGORY; Lombard, Carole; LOY, MYRNA; LUBITSCH, ERNST; MCCAREY, LEO; MCCREA, JOEL; POWELL, WILLIAM; ROGERS, GINGER; Stanwyck, Barbara; STEVENS, GEORGE; STURGES, PRESTON; AWFUL TRUTH, THE (US, Leo McCarey, 1937); BRINGING UP BABY (US, Howard Hawks, 1938); [FIFTH] 5TH AVENUE GIRL (US, Gregory La Cava, 1939); HIS GIRL FRIDAY (US, Howard Hawks, 1940); IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (US, Frank Capra, 1934); LADY EVE, THE (US, Preston Sturges, 1941); LOVE PARADE, THE (US, Ernst Lubitsch, 1929); NINOTCHKA (US, Ernst Lubitsch, 1939); PALM BEACH STORY, THE (US, Preston Sturgess, 1942); SHOP AROUND THE CORNER, THE (US, Ernst Lubitsch, 1940); TROUBLE IN PARADISE (US, Ernst Lubitsch, 1932); UNFAITHFULLY YOURS (US, Preston Sturges, 1948) Summary: "Reading ROMANTIC COMEDY is like going to the movies. It recreates for us movies we've come to love: movies the way they were when, in 1934, four in particular - IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT, TWENTIETH CENTURE, THE THIN MAN, and THE GAY DIVORCEE - heralded the arrival of the golden age of Hollywood romantic ("screwball") comedy. Over the next ten years, some of Hollywood's brightest directors and stars turned out some of America's most enduring and beloved films. The screwballs - slangy, irreverent, playful, skeptical, and "powerfully, glamorously in love with love" - constitute a genre of American film unique in its combination of the innocent and the worldly, of swank and slapstick. Now critic James Harvey - writing with brilliance and humor - gives us the first truly comprehensive book about these movies and the people who made them." [Taken from book jacket] Notes: Includes index ISBN: 0394503392 LON: 5273661 More info
Old collection book		Star signs : papers form a weekend workshop / John Ellis; Richard Dyer; Pam Cook London: British Film Institute, 1982. Call No: 465 STA Copy 1 CorpAuthor: British Film Institute Source: UK Place: London Publisher: British Film Institute PubDate: 1982 PhysDes: 83 p. ; 30 cm. Subject: STAR SYSTEM; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; THEORY; DUEL IN THE SUN (US, King Vidor, 1946) More info
book		Star studies : a critical guide / Martin Shingler London: Palgrave Macmillan on behalf of the British Film Institute, 2012. Call No: 465.1 SHI Author: Shingler, Martin Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan on behalf of the British Film Institute PubDate: 2012 PhysDes: vi, 233 p. : ill. ; 19 cm Series: BFI book published by Palgrave Macmillan Subject: STAR SYSTEM; STARS; ACTORS; FANS; ADVERTISING FOR FILMS; CRITICISM; CRITICISM: METHODOLOGY OF FILM CRITICISM; DYER, RICHARD Summary: Star Studies: A Critical Guide provides a lively introduction to the major approaches and key developments within this key area of film studies. It identifies a number of dominant themes, explains major theories, concepts and methodologies, and explores the diversity of approaches that have helped shape the international study of stars and stardom. Comparing the stars and star systems of Hollywood, Bollywood, China and many European countries, from the early-twentieth to the first decade of the twenty-first century, Martin Shingler considers the multiple functions of stars: as an elite workforce within the film industry, as actors and performers, as role models and cultural representatives, as icons and images, as transnational and national symbols, and as commodities. The scope of star studies is wide, historically and geographically, but this book helpfully focuses on salient features of the discipline, providing a cogent overview of star studies, while suggesting some useful avenues for further research. Published in the BFI Film Stars series, Star Studies provides an essential theoretical and historical companion to the individual star volumes in the series Notes: "A BFI book." -- Includes bibliographical references (p. 186-219) and index ISBN: 9781844574902 Contents: Machine generated contents note: 1.Star Studies: Mapping Out the Field of Star Scholarship Within Film Studies -- 2.Methods: Ways of Analysing Screen Performance -- 3.Star Quality: In Search of the Prerequisites For Stardom -- 4.Star Systems: The Mechanics of Star Production -- 5.Star Identities: From Image to Persona and Publicity to Gossip -- 6.Unstable Symbols: On the Representativeness of Film Star More info
subject clippings file		STAR SYSTEM Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: STAR SYSTEM More info
Interim book		Stardom : industry of desire / Edited by Christine Gledhill London: Routledge, 1991. Call No: 468 STA Author: Gledhill, Christine Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Routledge PubDate: 1991 PhysDes: 340p. illus. : 24cm. Subject: STAR SYSTEM; AESTHETICS; THEORY; WOMEN AND THE CINEMA; MEN AND THE CINEMA Notes: Includes bibliography and index. ISBN: 0415052181 More info
Old collection book		Stardom : industry of desire / edited by Christine Gledhill London: Routledge, 1991. Call No: 465 STA Author: Gledhill, Christine (ed.) Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Routledge PubDate: 1991 PhysDes: 240 p. ; 24 cm. Subject: STAR SYSTEM; AESTHETICS; THEORY; WOMEN AND THE CINEMA; MEN AND THE CINEMA ISBN: 0415052181 More info
book		Stars / Richard Dyer London: BFI Pub., 1998. Call No: 465.1 DYE Author: Dyer, Richard; McDonald, Paul Edition: New ed. / with a supplementary chapter and bibliography by Paul McDonald Place: London Publisher: BFI Pub. PubDate: 1998 PhysDes: vi, 217 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Subject: STARS; ACTING; STAR SYSTEM; FONDA, JANE Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 0851706436 (pbk.); 0851706487 (hbk.) LON: abn87250535; 5470977 More info
Interim book		The Stars : an account of the star-system in motion pictures / by Edgar Morin translated by Richard Howard London: Grove Press Inc., John Calder Ltd., 1960. Call No: 465 MOR Author: Morin, Edgar Source: US Place: New York; London Publisher: Grove Press Inc.; John Calder Ltd. PubDate: 1960 PhysDes: 189p. : illus. : 18cm. Series: Evergreen profile book 7 Subject: STAR SYSTEM; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA Notes: Includes a list of chronilogical landmarks More info
Old collection book		The stars / Edgar Morin New York: Grove Press, 1960. Call No: 465 MOR Author: Morin, Edgar Source: US Place: New York Publisher: Grove Press PubDate: 1960 Series: Evergreen profile book 7 Subject: STAR SYSTEM; STARS; CHAPLIN, CHARLES; DEAN, JAMES More info
book		Watching them be : star presence on the screen from Garbo to Balthazar New York: Faber and Faber, Inc., an affiliate of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014. Call No: 465 HAR Author: Harvey, James Source: US Place: New York Publisher: Faber and Faber, Inc., an affiliate of Farrar, Straus and Giroux PubDate: 2014 PhysDes: xiii, 380 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Subject: STAR SYSTEM; STARS; ACTORS; CELEBRITIES IN FILMS Summary: Demystifying the "star presence" in cinema, this provocative look at how aura is communicated in movies throughout history celebrates the actors and directors who have particularly conveyed a feeling of transcendence including Marlene Dietrich, John Wayne, Robert De Niro and Roberto Rossellini. Notes: Includes bibliographic references and index ISBN: 9780571211975 Contents: Part One: Icons -- Garbo -- Dietrich and Sternberg -- Bergman and Selznick -- Wayne and Ford -- Davis and Wyler -- Charles Laughton --; Part Two: Realists -- Robert De Niro -- Altman's Nashville -- Jackie Brown and Others -- Godard's Close-ups --; Part Three: Transcenders -- Bergman and Rossellini -- Dreyer's Heroines -- Balthazar More info

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