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Call No: 62 DIC
Author: Dick, Bernard F
Edition: Third edition
Source: US/UK
Place: New York -- Hampshire
Publisher: St Martins Press -- Macmillan Press
PubDate: 1998
PhysDes: xv, 302 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subject: AGE OF ILLUSIONS, THE [ALMODOZÁSOK KORA] (HU, Istvan Szabo, 1965); ALLEN, WOODY; BOGART, HUMPHREY; CAPRA, FRANK; CITIZEN KANE (US, Orson Welles, 1941); HITCHCOCK, ALFRED; PSYCHO (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1960); WELLES, ORSON; WILDER, BILLY
Summary: "Exploring both the humanistic and analytical aspects of film evaluation and criticism, [the book] encourages students to develop a critical awareness of film as art, as literature, and as everyday life. This highly readable and jargon-free classic illustrates the most recent film techniques and includes examples from films students are likely to have seen on television or video. This edition has been updated with examples from recent films such as Shine, Thelma and Louise, Natural Born Killers, and the Age of Innocence, as well as examples of film adaptation for film and literature classes, such as Sabrina and Clueless." -taken from back cover
Notes: Previous ed.: 1990 -- Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 0312153996
Contents: Film, cinema, or movie: Understanding the medium -- Graphics and sound -- Film, space and image -- Film genres -- Film subtext -- Film director -- Film and literature -- Film as film -- Film criticism: Theory and practice -- Appendices: Films discussed and directors; Art vs. violence in a Clockwork Orange; Basic film library

Call No: 81WIL DIC
Author: Dick, Bernard F.
Source: US
Place: Boston
Publisher: Twayne Publishers
PubDate: 1980
PhysDes: 188 p. : ill. ; 21 cm
Series: Twayne's Theatrical Arts Series
Subject: WILDER, BILLY; APARTMENT, THE (US, Billy Wilder, 1960); AVANTI (US, Billy Wilder, 1972); ACE IN THE HOLE (US, Billy Wilder, 1951); DOUBLE INDEMNITY (US, Billy Wilder, 1944); FEDORA (GW/FR, Billy Wilder, 1978); [FIVE] 5 GRAVES TO CAIRO (US, Billy Wilder, 1943); FORTUNE COOKIE, THE (US, Billy Wilder, 1966); FRONT PAGE, THE (US, Billy Wilder, 1974); IRMA LA DOUCHE (US, Billy Wilder, 1963); KISS ME, STUPID (US, Billy Wilder, 1964); LOST WEEKEND, THE (US, Billy Wilder, 1945); LOVE IN THE AFTERNOON (US, Billy Wilder, 1957); MAJOR AND THE MINOR, THE (US, Billy Wilder, 1942); ONE, TWO, THREE (US/GW, Billy Wilder, 1961); PRIVATE LIFE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES, THE (US/UK, Billy Wilder, 1970); SABRINA (US, Billy Wilder, 1954); SOME LIKE IT HOT (US, Billy Wilder, 1959); SEVEN YEAR ITCH, THE (US, Billy Wilder, 1955); SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS, THE (US, Billy Wilder, 1957); STALAG 17 (US, Billy Wilder, 1952); SUNSET BOULEVARD (US, Billy Wilder, 1950); WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION (US, Billy Wilder, 1957)
Notes: Includes index. Bibliography: p. 173-174. Filmography: p. 175-183.
ISBN: 0805792740
Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006

Call No: 81YOU DIC
Author: Dick, Bernard F.
Source: US
Place: Jackson
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
PubDate: c2011
PhysDes: xii, 269 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm
Series: Hollywood legends series
Subject: FILM; YOUNG, LORETTA
Summary: "Loretta Young (1913-2000) was an Academy Award-winning actress known for devout Catholicism and her performances in The Farmer's Daughter, The Bishop's Wife, and Come to the Stable, and for her long-running and tremendously popular television series. But that was not the whole story. Hollywood Madonna explores the full saga of Loretta Young's professional and personal life. She made her film debut at age four, became a star at fifteen, and many awards and accolades later, made her final television movie at age seventy-six. This biography withholds none of the details of her affair with Clark Gable and the daughter that powerful love produced. Bernard F. Dick places Young's affair in the proper context of the time and the choices available to women in 1935, especially a noted Catholic like Young, whose career would have been in ruins if the public knew of her tryst. With the birth of a daughter, who would have been branded a love child, Loretta Young reached the crossroads of disclosure and deception, choosing the latter path. That choice resulted in an illustrious career for her and a tortured childhood for her daughter." -- BOOK JACKET
Notes: Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index
ISBN: 9781617030796
Donation: Donated by Senses of Cinema, 2013
Contents: -- preface -- 1: Life without father -- 2: the creation of Loretta Young -- 3: Loretta talks! -- 4: Sacrificial wives, shop girls, and proud proletarians -- 5: Loaned out --6: the last days at Warner's -- 7: Darryl Zanuck's costume queen -- 8: the men in her life -- 9: Heeding the call of the wild -- 10: the great lie -- 11: Return from the ashes --12: Addio, Darryl -- 13: the price of freedom -- 14: Loretta goes to war -- 15: "Age cannot wither"(but Hollywood can) -- 16: Thrice blessed: a reunion, a replacement, and an Oscar -- 17: the return to Fox and Zanuck -- 18: Slow fade to small screen -- 19: Radio days -- 20: Another medium, another conquest -- 21: the road to retirement -- 22: a new life -- 23: the last reel -- notes -- filmography -- major radio appearances -- major television appearances -- index --

Call No: 802.27 DIC
Author: Dick, Bernard F.
Source: US
Place: Jackson [Mississippi]
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
PubDate: 2014
PhysDes: viii, 278 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subject: WYMAN, JANE; DAVIS, NANCY; REAGAN RONALD; ACTORS; POLITICAL PERSONALITIES IN FILMS
Summary: "Ronald Reagan, a former actor and one of America's most popular presidents, married not one but two Hollywood actresses. This book is three biographies in one, discovering fascinating connections among Jane Wyman (1917-2007), Ronald Reagan (1911-2004), and Nancy Davis (b. 1921). Jane Wyman, who married Reagan in 1940 and divorced him seven years later, knew an early life of privation. She gravitated to the movies and made her debut at fifteen as an unbilled member of the chorus, then toiled as an extra for four years until she finally received billing. She proved herself as a dramatic actress in The Lost Weekend, and the following year, she was nominated for an Oscar for The Yearling and soon won for her performance in Johnny Belinda, in which she did not speak a single line. Other Oscar nominations followed, along with a Golden Globe for her portrayal of Angela Channing in Falcon Crest.Conversely, Nancy Davis led a relatively charmed life, the daughter of an actress and the stepdaughter of a neurosurgeon. Surrounded by her mother's friends--Walter Huston, Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Lillian Gish, and Alla Nazimova, her godmother--Davis started in the theater, then moved on to Hollywood, where she enjoyed modest success, and finally began working in television. When she married Reagan in 1952, she unwittingly married into politics, eventually leaving acting to concentrate on being the wife of the governor of California, and then the wife of the president of the United States. In her way, Davis played her greatest role as Reagan's friend, confidante, and adviser in life and in politics. This book considers three actors who left an indelible mark on both popular and political culture for more than fifty years." -- BOOK BLURB
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 9781617039805
Donation: donated by Senses of Cinema, 2014
Contents: 1.The Abandoned Child -- 2.The Name below the Title -- 3.Jane and Ronnie -- 4.Slouching toward Stardom -- 5.Reaganless for the Duration---and Beyond -- 6.Angel in the Wings -- 7.Highs and Lows -- 8.Going for the Gold -- 9.Frontier Gal -- 10.Strange Interlude -- 11.And the Winner Is -- 12.The Non-Marrying Kind -- 13.These Three -- 14.The Rest---and Best---of Reagan -- 15.Stars in Her Eyes -- 16.Twinkie, Twinkle, Little Starlet -- 17.Nancy at Tiffany's -- 18.The Empress of Ice Cream -- 19.Post-Oscar Blues -- 20.The Last Picture Shows -- 21.A Cathedral and a Conversion -- 22.Zinging with Bing -- 23.Glass Animals and Blue Veils, Cabbages and Couture -- 24.Addio del passato -- 25.I Do, I Don't, I Do, I Don't -- 26.The Actress and the Octopus -- 27.The Actress and the Auteur -- 28.The Beginning of the End -- 29.Worlds Elsewhere -- 30.From the Hearth to the Vineyards -- 31.Unholy Families