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Yet to catalogue book		The celluloid sacrifice : aspects of sex in the movies / Alexander Walker London: Michael Joseph, 1966. Call No: 45:176 WAL Author: Walker, Alexander, 1930 Place: London Publisher: Michael Joseph PubDate: 1966 PhysDes: 241 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 23 cm Notes: Includes index; Bibliographical references included in "Acknowledgments" (p. 233-235) LON: 1785034 More info
journal article		Critic's choice in National film theatre (Dec 83) p.8-10 Author: Walker, Alexander PhysDes: Article Subject: JUST TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT (US, Sidney Lumet, 1980) Summary: Programme of walker's favourites; ill. More info
book		Hollywood, England : the British film industry in the sixties / [by] Alexander Walker London: Joseph, 1974. Call No: 71(41) WAL Author: Walker, Alexander, 1930 Place: London Publisher: Joseph PubDate: 1974 PhysDes: 493 p., [18] p. of plates, leaf of plate : ill., ports. ; 23 cm Subject: UNITED KINGDOM Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 0718108914 : ª5.50 LON: 349380 More info
Levy Collection book		Hollywood, England : The British film industry in the sixties / Alexander Walker London: Michael Joseph, 1974. Author: Walker, Alexander Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Michael Joseph PubDate: 1974 PhysDes: 493 p. : ill., 23 cm ISBN: 0718108914 Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006 More info
book		Icons in the fire : The decline and fall of almost everybody in the British Film Industry 1984-2000 / Alexander Walker London: Orion, 2004. Call No: 71(41) WAL Author: Walker, Alexander Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Orion PubDate: 2004 PhysDes: xxiv, 328 p. ; colour illustrations ; 22 cm Subject: ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS (UK, Julien Temple, 1986); GOVERNMENT AID. UK; ATTENBOROUGH, RICHARD; BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION; JAMES BOND IN FILMS; BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE; CANNES FILM FESTIVAL; CHANNEL FOUR; [FOUR] 4 WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL (UK, Mike Newell, 1994); FULL MONTY, THE (UK/US, Robert Cattaneo, 1997); GOLAN, MENAHEM; GOLAN-GLOBUS PRODUCTIONS; GLOBUS, YORAM; GOLDCREST FILMS; GREENAWAY, PETER; JORDAN, NEIL; KILLING FIELDS, THE (UK, Roland Joffe, 1984); LOACH, KENNETH; MERCHANT IVORY PRODUCTIONS; MIRAMAX FILMS; PUTTNAM, DAVID; SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM; WISH YOU WERE HERE (UK, David Leland, 1987); WOOLLEY, STEPHEN; WORKING TITLE Summary: "FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL, NOTTING HILL, THE FULL MONTY, BRIDGET JONES' DIARY - all made in Britain, all huge successes, but none financed by British money... Walker's previous volumes, HOLLYWOOD ENGLAND and NATIONAL HEROES, covered the period until 1984. This final volume tells the inside story right up to date of why a nation that produces actors of the calibre of Kenneth Branagh, Daniel Day-Lewis, Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson, Robert Carlyle, Kate Winslet and directors such as Anthony Minghella, Sam Mendes, Stephen Frears, Neil Jordan, Peter Greenaway, Ken Loach and Guy Ritchie cannot sustain a native film industry. Walker's revelations on the iniquities of National Lottery funding of movies - over £200m to date and hardly a profitable film among those so far produced - have been headline news. Walker relates the extraordinary events of the past two decades years through the individuals, the companies and the studios." -- from book jacket (abridged) Notes: Includes introduction by Joseph Connelly, includes preface and index ISBN: 0752856103 Donation: Bruce Hodsdon Contents: Before the title: The Chinese butterfly -- 1. Alive and kicking -- 2. Self-congratulatory trumpet flourish -- 3. Cannon a go-go -- 4. The Coca-cola kid -- 5. Cannon self-destructs -- 6. Talents at work -- 7. From the depths -- 8. Contemporary and traditional -- 9. Independant struggles -- 10. Talking film finance -- 11. Just one film -- 12. Lottery promise -- 13. No rank revival -- 14. Hit the screen running -- 15. Fool's gold -- 16. Thrown away - 17. Ends and beginnings More info
book		"It's only a movie, Ingrid" : encounters on and off screen / Alexander Walker London: Headline Book Publishing, 1989. Call No: 67(04) WAL Author: Walker, Alexander Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Headline Book Publishing PubDate: 1989 PhysDes: viii, [312] p., [16] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 18 cm Subject: CRITICISM; FESTIVALS. CANNES; [DOCTOR] DR STRANGELOVE: OR, HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1964); FULL METAL JACKET (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1987); GODFATHER, THE (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1972); SHINING, THE (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1980); [TWO THOUSAND AND ONE] 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1968); BOGARDE, DIRK; BURTON, RICHARD; CHAPLIN, CHARLES; COPPOLA, FRANCIS FORD; COOPER, GARY; Crawford, Joan; CRAWFORD, NOEL; DAVIS, BETTE; EVANS, EDITH; Fellini, Federico; FORBES, BRYAN; GARBO, GRETA; GIELGUD, JOHN; GRANT, CARY; GREENE, GRAHAM; HARVEY, LAURENCE; HEPBURN, KATHARINE; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED; HOWARD, TREVOR; HUSTON, JOHN; KAZAN, ELIA; KUBRICK, STANLEY; Lean, David; LEIGH, VIVIEN; LOSEY, JOSEPH; Shakespeare, William; TRACY, SPENCER; TYNAN, KENNETH; VON STERNBERG, JOSEF; WELLES, ORSON; ZINNEMANN, FRED ISBN: 0747230218 Contents: -- "Do you mean to say they pay you to go to the movies?" -- "Name the six best films you've ever seen" -- Charlie's Angel and the Culture Minister's walking stick -- A day in the hard-playing hard-working life of a far from mad old woman -- Cary Grant and the Harry Lime connection -- The soft words of Mr Rattigan - the hard blows of Mr Russell --- Even Hollywood princesses don't always live happy ever after -- No need to bribe a film festival jury; it can do that for itself -- What made Marlon Brando stop running and find peace at last -- The girl who blew in with the Boston winds -- Peter O'Toole meets himself, two feet tall and blue-eyed, coming back from a trip abroad -- Random thoughts on the Englishness (or otherwise) of English film actors -- Inexactly expressed sentiments about the most private person I know -- "Why this one and not that one, why one event and not the other?" More info
book		National heroes : British cinema in the seventies and eighties / Alexander Walker London: Harrap, 1986. Call No: 71(41) WAL Author: Walker, Alexander Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Harrap PubDate: 1986 PhysDes: 296 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Subject: HISTORY AND THE CINEMA; CLOCKWORK ORANGE, A (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1971); CHARIOTS OF FIRE (UK, Hugh Hudson, 1981); JUBILEE (UK, Derek Jarman, 1978); PUTTNAM, DAVID ISBN: 0245543708 More info
book		Peter Sellers : the authorized biography / Alexander Walker London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1981. Call No: 81SEL WAL Author: Walker, Alexander, 1930 Place: London Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson PubDate: 1981 PhysDes: xvi, 240 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm Subject: SELLERS, PETER Notes: Includes index; Filmography: p. 229-232 ISBN: 0297779656 : ª7.95 LON: 81197386; 2116094 More info
Levy Collection book		Rudolph Valentino / Alexander Walker London: Hamish Hamilton, 1976. Call No: 81VAL WAL Author: Walker, Alexander Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Hamish Hamilton PubDate: 1976 PhysDes: 127 p. : ill. ; 23cm. ISBN: 241893496 Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006 More info
book		Sex in the Movies : the celluloid sacrifice Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1968, [c1966]. Call No: 45:176 WAL Author: Walker, Alexander Place: Baltimore Publisher: Penguin Books PubDate: 1968, [c1966] PhysDes: 284 p. : illus. ; 18 cm Notes: Pelican book, A939; First published in 1966 under title: The celluloid sacrifice LON: 73001750; 723763 ID2: 272 More info
book		The shattered silents : how the talkies came to stay / Alexander Walker London: Elm Tree Books, 1978. Call No: 70"01 WAL Author: Walker, Alexander Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Elm Tree Books PubDate: 1978 PhysDes: xi, 218 p. ; 25 cm Subject: HISTORY OF THE CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; HISTORY OF CINEMA. TRANSITION SILENT-SOUND; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SOUND PERIOD ISBN: 024189736X More info
book		Stanley Kubrick directs / [by] Alexander Walker London: Abacus, 1973. Call No: 81KUB WAL Author: Walker, Alexander, 1930 Place: London Publisher: Abacus PubDate: 1973 PhysDes: 304p : ill ; 21cm Subject: KUBRICK, STANLEY Notes: Originally published, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971; London: Davis-Poynter, 1972; List of films.p.300-304 ISBN: 0349136955 (Pbk) : ª1.00 LON: bnb34913695; 2282519 More info
Levy Collection book		Stanley Kubrick Directs / Alexander Walker London: Davis-Poynter, 1972. Author: Walker, Alexander Source: Uk Place: London Publisher: Davis-Poynter PubDate: 1972 PhysDes: 24 cm ; 272 p ISBN: 0707600384 More info
Levy Collection book		Stardom : The Hollywood phenomenon / Alexander Walker London: Michael Joseph Ltd, 1970. Author: Walker, Alexander Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Michael Joseph Ltd PubDate: 1970 PhysDes: 392 p. : 22 cm ISBN: 718100832 Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006 More info
Old collection book		Stardom : the hollywood phenomenon / Alexander Walker London: Michael Joseph, 1970. Call No: 465 WAL Author: Walker, Alexander Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Michael Joseph PubDate: 1970 PhysDes: 392 p. ; 23 cm. Subject: STARS; HISTORY OF CINEMA; RACIAL ISSUES AND THE CINEMA; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK; GISH, LILLIAN; CHAPLIN, CHARLES; FAIRBANKS, DOUGLAS; SENNETT, MACK; VALENTINO, RUDOLPH; DAVIS, BETTE; Crawford, Joan; GABLE, CLARK; WAYNE, JOHN ISBN: 0718100832 More info

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