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PhysDes: Article
Subject: ACADEMY AWARDS; CHARIOTS OF FIRE (UK, Hugh Hudson, 1981); HEPBURN, KATHARINE; FONDA, HENRY; BEATTY, WARREN; STAPLETON, MAUREEN; ON GOLDEN POND (US, Mark Rydell, 1981); REDS (US, Warren Beatty, 1981); RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (US, Steven Spielberg, 1981); MEPHISTO (HU/GW, Istvan Szabo, 1981); AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON, AN (UK, John Landis, 1981)
Summary: List of Academy Award winners for 1982.

Call No: 81STR CON
Author: Considine, Shaun
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: Century Hutchinson
PubDate: 1986
PhysDes: viii, 394 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Subject: STREISAND, BARBRA; BEATTY, WARREN; GOULD, ELLIOTT; KRISTOFFERSON, KRIS; O'NEAL, RYAN; PETERS, JON; FUNNY GIRL (US, William Wyler, 1968); HELLO, DOLLY! (US, Gene Kelly, 1969); YENTL (US, Barbara Streisand, 1983)
ISBN: 0712610820

Call No: PERSONALITY CLIPPINGS FILE; PERSONALITY MICROFILM COLLECTION
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: BEATTY, WARREN

Call No: 67(04) BES
Author: Plimpton, George
Place: New York
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
PubDate: 1998
PhysDes: xvi, 265 p. ; 21 cm
Subject: PRODUCERS; CAMP; CENTENARY OF CINEMA; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA; SCORSESE, MARTIN; FRY, STEPHEN; CAMPION, JANE; BEATTY, WARREN; STABILE, SALVATORE; POLANSKI, ROMAN; DANDRIDGE, DOROTHY; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED; STREISAND, BARBRA; WATERS, JOHN (US); WILDE (UK/US/JA/GG, Brian Gilbert, 1997); WIZARD OF OZ, THE (US, Victor Fleming, 1939); GODFATHER [...], THE (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1972-); MIRROR HAS TWO FACES, THE (US, Barbra Streisand, 1996)
LON: abn98329398; 14168026

Call No: 62 ORR
Author: Orr, John, 1943
Place: Edinburgh
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
PubDate: c1998
PhysDes: xi,243 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: CANADA; CITY OF SADNESS, A [; MASCULINITY IN FILMS; RELIGION AND THE CINEMA; COMMUNISM AND THE CINEMA; DOUBLES IN FILMS; EXPRESSIONISM; FILM NOIR; POLAND; PSYCHOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; SEX IN FILMS; SURREALISM AND THE CINEMA; ALLEN, WOODY; ALTMAN, ROBERT; ANTONIONI, MICHELANGELO; BEATTY, WARREN; BELMONDO, JEAN-PAUL; BERGMAN, INGMAR; BINOCHE, JULIETTE; BONNAIRE, SANDRINE; BURTON, TIM; CAGE, NICOLAS; CAMPION, JANE; CHABROL, CLAUDE; CHEUNG, LESLIE; COPPOLA, FRANCIS FORD; COSTNER, KEVIN; CRONENBERG, DAVID; DAHL, JOHN; DE NIRO, ROBERT; DE PALMA, BRIAN; DERN, LAURA; EGOYAN, ATOM; FIGGIS, MIKE; GERE, RICHARD; GONG, LI; GREENAWAY, PETER; HAUER, RUTGER; JAMESON, FREDRIC; KIESLOWSKI, KRZYSZTOF; LYNCH, DAVID; MALICK, TERRENCE; Pasolini, Pier Paolo; ROSSELLINI, ISABELLA; SCORSESE, MARTIN; SCOTT, RIDLEY; STONE, OLIVER; TRAN, ANH HUNG; WEIR, PETER; Wenders, Wim; WONG KAR-WAI; YOUNG, SEAN; ZHANG, YIMOU; ANDERSSON, BIBI; AUDRAN, STEPHANE; DUVALL, SHELLY; GIDLEY, PAMELA; JANDA, KRYSTYNA; KANESHIRO, TANESHI; LEUNG, TONY; LIN, BRIGITTE; KROTKI FILM O MILOSCI (PL, Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1988); KILL ME AGAIN (US, John Dahl, 1989); DAYS OF BEING WILD [AH FEI ZHENG ZHUANG] (HK, Wong Kar-Wei, 1991); WINGS OF DESIRE [HIMMEL UBER BERLIN, DER] (GW/FR, Wim Wenders, 1987); ADJUSTER, THE (CN, Atom Egoyan, 1991); BELLE NOISEUSE, LA (FR, Jacques Rivette, 1991); BLADE RUNNER (US, Ridley Scott, 1982); BLOWUP (UK/IT, Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966); CHINATOWN (US, Roman Polanski, 1974); COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE & HER LOVER, THE (NE/FR, Peter Greenaway, 1989); DAYS OF HEAVEN (US, Terrence Malick, 1978); JFK (US, Oliver Stone, 1991); LAST SEDUCTION, THE (US, John Dahl, 1994); LIEBESTRAUM (US, Mike Figgis, 1991); MCCABE AND MRS MILLER (US, Robert Altman, 1971); CZLOWIEK Z MARMURA (PL, Andrzej Wajda, 1977); ONE FALSE MOVE (US, Carl Franklin, 1991); PERSONA (SW, Ingmar Bergman, 1966); PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975); RAGING BULL (US, Martin Scorsese, 1980); DAHONG DENGLONG GAOGAO GUA (CC/HK/TZ, Zhang Yimou, 1991); DESERTO ROSSO, IL (IT/FR, Michelangelo Antonioni, 1964); SHINING, THE (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1980); STALKER (UR, Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979); TROIS COULEURS: BLEU (FR, Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1993); TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME (US, David Lynch, 1992); WILD AT HEART (US, David Lynch, 1990); CYCLO [XICH LO] (FR/V, Tran Anh Hung, 1995)
Summary: "'Contemporary cinema' is a major study of key developments in the cinema over the last thirty years. It reworks Pasolini's landmark concept of 'the cinema of poetry' to look at the transformation of film form in its encounter with society, the sacred, the subjective and the presence of the camera. In the 1970s, the influential forms of a cinema of poetry are analysed in key features by Altman, Herzog, Malick, Scorsese, Weir, Von Trotta and Tarkovsky while in the 1980s and 1990s the emergence of new filmmakers has meant a diffusion of different cinemas of poetry using new techniques and new poetries. Of key importance here is the work of Kieslowski, Lynch, Egoyan, Campion, Greenaway, Zhang Yimou, Tran Anh Hung and Wong Kar-Wai, as well as the reinvention of science fiction and film noir in American genre." Taken from back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 0748608362(pbk.) : No price
LON: 13772409
ID2: 291

Call No: 71(73) BIS
Author: Biskind, Peter
Place: New York, NY
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
PubDate: 1998
PhysDes: 506 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Subject: USA. 1970's; COLUMBIA PICTURES; PARAMOUNT STUDIOS; TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX; UNIVERSAL PICTURES; WARNER BROS.; ZOETROPE STUDIOS; ALTMAN, ROBERT; ASHBY, HAL; BEATTY, WARREN; BEGELMAN, DAVID; BLATTY, WILLIAM PETER; BOGDANOVICH, PETER; BRANDO, MARLON; BROWN, DAVID; BURSTYN, ELLEN; CALLEY, JOHN; CHRISTIE, JULIE; COPPOLA, ELEANOR; COPPOLA, FRANCIS FORD; DE NIRO, ROBERT; DE PALMA, BRIAN; DILLER, BARRY; EVANS, ROBERT; FONDA, PETER; FRIEDKIN, WILLIAM; GEFFEN, DAVID; HAWKS, HOWARD; HOPPER, DENNIS; IRVING, AMY; KAEL, PAULINE; KIDDER, MARGOT; LUCAS, GEORGE; LUCAS, MARCIA; MILIUS, JOHN; NEWMAN, DAVID; NICHOLSON, JACK; PENN, ARTHUR; PHILLIPS, JULIA; PLATT, POLLY; POLANSKI, ROMAN; RAFELSON, BOB; SCHNEIDER, BERT; SCHRADER, LEONARD; SCHRADER, PAUL; SCORSESE, MARTIN; SHEPHERD, CYBILL; SIMPSON, DON; SPIELBERG, STEVEN; SYLBERT, RICHARD; TANEN, NED; TOWNE, ROBERT; WEINTRAUB, SANDRA; YABLANS, FRANK; ZANUCK, RICHARD; AMERICAN GRAFFITI (US, George Lucas, 1973); EASY RIDER (US, Dennis Hopper, 1969); APOCALYPSE NOW (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1979); BONNIE AND CLYDE (US, Arthur Penn, 1967); CHINATOWN (US, Roman Polanski, 1974); CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (US, Steven Spielberg, 1977); EXORCIST, THE (US, William Friedkin, 1973); GODFATHER, THE (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1972); HEAVEN'S GATE (US, Michael Cimino, 1980); JAWS (US, Steven Spielberg, 1975); LAST PICTURE SHOW, THE (US, Peter Bogdanovich, 1971); MCCABE AND MRS MILLER (US, Robert Altman, 1971); M*A*S*H (US, Robert Altman, 1969); MEAN STREETS (US, Martin Scorsese, 1973); PAPER MOON (US, Peter Bogdanovich, 1973); PERSONAL BEST (US, Robert Towne, 1982); RAGING BULL (US, Martin Scorsese, 1980); REDS (US, Warren Beatty, 1981); SHAMPOO (US, Hal Ashby, 1975); SORCERER (US, William Friedkin, 1977); STAR WARS (US, George Lucas, 1977); SUGARLAND EXPRESS, THE (US, Steven Spielberg, 1974); TAXI DRIVER (US, Martin Scorsese, 1976)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [449]-482) and index; Filmography: p. [447]-448
ISBN: 0684809966
LON: 98002919; 13698645

Call No: 802 FIL vol.1
Author: McBride, Joseph
CorpAuthor: American Film Institute
Edition: 1st ed
Place: Los Angeles Boston
Publisher: J.P. Tarcher Distributed by Houghton Mifflin Co.
PubDate: c1983
PhysDes: ports. ; 24 cm
Subject: WALLIS, HAL B.; ZANUCK, RICHARD; BROWN, DAVID; BERGMAN, INGMAR; WILDER, BILLY; POITIER, SIDNEY; BALL, LUCILLE; HOWE, W.J.; PLATT, POLLY; BEATTY, WARREN; BOGDANOVICH, PETER; SILVER, JOAN MICKLIN; SPIELBERG, STEVEN; DIAMOND, I. A. L.; ROSENMAN, LEONARD; FIELDS, VERNA; SYLBERT, ANTHEA; MENGERS, SUE; EAST OF EDEN (US, Elia Kazan, 1955); JAWS (US, Steven Spielberg, 1975); SHAMPOO (US, Hal Ashby, 1975); TARGETS (US, Peter Bogdanovich, 1968)
Notes: Includes bibliographies and indexes
ISBN: 0874772664 (v. 1) : $15.95 (per vol.); 0874772672 (v. 2); 0874772494 (pbk. : v. 1) : $7.95 (per vol.); 0874772508 (pbk. : v. 2)
LON: 2606290

Call No: 81BEA QUI
Author: Quirk, Lawrence J
Edition: 1st ed
Place: Secaucus, N.J.
Publisher: Citadel Press
PubDate: 1979
PhysDes: 222 p. : ill. ; 29 cm
Subject: BEATTY, WARREN
ISBN: 0806506709 : $14.95
LON: 79000480; 1360883

Call No: 82FON COL
Author: Collier, Peter
Source: US
Place: New York
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
PubDate: c1991
PhysDes: 336 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cm
Subject: ACTORS. USA; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; BARDOT, BRIGITTE; BEATTY, WARREN; FONDA, BRIDGET; FONDA, HENRY; FONDA, JANE; FONDA, PETER; HAYDON, TOM; LANE, NATHAN; NICHOLSON, JACK; Stewart, James; STRASBERG, LEE; Sullavan, Margaret; SELZNICK, DAVID O.; SUTHERLAND, DONALD; VADIM, ROGER; WAYNE, JOHN; ZANUCK, DARRYL F.; BARBARELLA (FR/IT, Roger Vadim, 1967); CHINA SYNDROME, THE (US, James Bridges, 1979); EASY RIDER (US, Dennis Hopper, 1969); KLUTE (US, Alan J. Pakula, 1971); ON GOLDEN POND (US, Mark Rydell, 1981); SCANDAL (UK, Michael Caton-Jones, 1989); SHAG (UK, Zelda Barron, 1988)
Notes: Includes index.
ISBN: 0399135928
Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006

Call No: 46(794) MEN
Author: Menne, Jeff
Edition: 2019
Place: New York
Publisher: Columbia University Press
PubDate: 2019
PhysDes: viii, 260 pages : illustrated ; 23 cm
Series: Film and culture
Subject: AUTEUR THEORY; FORD, JOHN; DOUGLAS, KIRK; ALTMAN, ROBERT; BEATTY, WARREN; BONNIE AND CLYDE (US, Arthur Penn, 1967); EASY RIDER (US, Dennis Hopper, 1969); GRADUATE, THE (US, Mike Nichols, 1967); JAWS (US, Steven Spielberg, 1975); KING OF MARVIN GARDENS, THE (US, Bob Rafelson, 1972); SCHNEIDER, BERT; SPIELBERG, STEVEN; SUGARLAND EXPRESS, THE (US, Steven Spielberg, 1974); WASSERMAN, LEW
Summary: The New Hollywood boom of the late 1960s and 1970s is celebrated as a time when maverick directors bucked the system. Against the backdrop of counterculture sensibilities and the prominence of auteur theory, New Hollywood directors such as Robert Altman and Francis Ford Coppola seemed to embody creative individualism. In Post-Fordist Cinema, Jeff Menne rewrites the history of this period, arguing that auteur theory served to reconcile directors to Hollywood’s corporate project. Menne traces the surprising affinities between auteur theory and management gurus such as Peter Drucker, who envisioned a more open and flexible corporate style. In founding production companies, New Hollywood filmmakers took part in the creation of new corporate models that emphasized entrepreneurial creativity. For firms such as Kirk Douglas’s Bryna Productions, Altman’s Lion’s Gate Films, the Zanuck-Brown Company, and BBS Productions, the counterculture ethos limbered up the studio system’s sclerotic production process—with striking parallels to how management theory conceived of the role of the individual within the firm. Menne offers insightful readings of how films such as Lonely Are the Brave, Brewster McCloud, Jaws, and The King of Marvin Gardens narrate the conditions in which they were created, depicting shifting notions of work and corporate structure. While auteur theory allowed directors to cast themselves as independent creators, Menne argues that its most consequential impact came as a management doctrine. An ambitious rethinking of New Hollywood, Post-Fordist Cinema sheds new light on the cultural myth of the great director and the birth of the “creative economy.” -- publisher's web site
ISBN: 9780231183710
Contents: Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Business of Auteur Theory -- 1: Post (Henry and John) Fordism: Kirk Douglas and Guerilla Economy -- 2. The Cinema of Defection: The Corporate Counterculture and Robert Altman’s Lion’s Gate -- 3. Television Totalities: Zanuck-Brown and the Privately-Held Company -- 4. The Ethos of Incorporation: BBS and the Law of Unnatural Persons -- Afterword: Auteurs, Amateurs, Animators -- Notes -- Index

Call No: 71 (73) HAR
Author: Harris Mark
Place: Edinburgh
Publisher: Canongate
PubDate: 2008
PhysDes: 490 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm
Subject: COLUMBIA PICTURES; CRITICISM; CRITICS; DIRECTORS. USA; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA. USA; HOLLYWOOD IN FILMS; JAMES BOND IN FILMS; TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX; WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS; ALLEN, WOODY; ANTONIONI, MICHELANGELO; ASHBY, HAL; BANCROFT, ANNE; BEATTY, WARREN; BENTON, ROBERT; BERGMAN, INGRID; BLAKE, ROBERT; BRANDO, MARLON; BURTON, RICHARD; CAINE, MICHAEL; CARON, LESLIE; CUKOR, GEORGE; COLLINS, JOAN; CONNERY, SEAN; COPPOLA, FRANCIS FORD; CORMAN, ROGER; DANIELS, WILLIAM; DAVIS, SAMMY, Jr.; DAY, DORIS; DUNAWAY, FAYE; DUVALL, ROBERT; FELLINI, FEDERICO; FLEISCHER, RICHARD; FONDA, JANE; FRANKOVICH, MIKE; GODARD, JEAN-LUC; HARRISON, REX; HENRY, BUCK; HEPBURN, KATHARINE; HOFFMAN, DUSTIN; NEWMAN, DAVID; BONNIE AND CLYDE (US, Arthur Penn, 1967); CAMELOT (US, Joshua Logan, 1967); CLEOPATRA (US, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1963); COOL HAND LUKE (US, Stuart Rosenberg, 1967); [DOCTOR] DR DOLITTLE (US, Richard Fleischer, 1967); GRADUATE, THE (US, Mike Nichols, 1967); GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER (US, Stanley Kramer, 1967); KAEL, PAULINE; IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT (US, Norman Jewison, 1967)
Summary: In this book, Mark Harris looks at 1967, and marks it as a pivotal moment in Hollywood's history: the shift from studio -generated epics, westerns and musicals, such as "Doctor Doolitle"to the director-centred European aesthetic seen in "Bonnie & Clyde" and "The Graduate". It was the birth of the New Hollywood. The book look at five films made in this year- "Bonnie & Clyde", "In the heat of the night", "Doctor Doolittle" "The Graduate" and "Guess who's coming to dinner" from the. first draft of the scripts to the impact of their release. The author interviews most of the actors in volved in the making of these films and presents a book about Hollywood and the United States at a critical juncture in their history. [Taken from the cover]
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [432]-438) and index.
ISBN: 9781847671028
ID2: 277

Call No: 802.27 GRA
Author: Graham, Sheilah
Place: London
Publisher: W. H. Allen
PubDate: 1970 [1969]
PhysDes: 295 p., 24 plates. ports. 23 cm
Subject: STREISAND, BARBRA; GRANT, CARY; TRACY, SPENCER; HEPBURN, KATHARINE; SINATRA, FRANK; BRANDO, MARLON; ANDREWS, JULIE; HAMILTON, GEORGE; SELLERS, PETER; TAYLOR, ELIZABETH; MONROE, MARILYN; BEATTY, WARREN; LOREN, SOPHIA; LANCASTER, BURT; DOUGLAS, KIRK; FONDA, HENRY; FONDA, JANE; FONDA, PETER; Reagan, Ronald; CAINE, MICHAEL; CONNERY, SEAN; COOPER, GARY; GARBO, GRETA; BOGART, HUMPHREY
Notes: Originally published under title: Confessions of a Hollywood columnist
ISBN: 0491004227
LON: 96708

Call No: 81(044) KAZ DEV
Author: Albert J. Devlin and Marlene J. Devlin
Edition: Illustrated edition
Place: New York
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
PubDate: 2014
PhysDes: 1 volume : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subject: KAZAN, ELIA; BRANDO, MARLON; DEAN, JAMES; BEATTY, WARREN; DE NIRO, ROBERT; WARNER BROS.; ZANUCK, DARRYL F.; MILLER, ARTHUR; WILLIAMS, TENNESSEE
Notes: Formerly CIP.
ISBN: 9780307267160
Language: English

Call No: 741 GRI
Author: Grindon, Leger, 1949
Place: Philadelphia
Publisher: Temple University Press
PubDate: 1994
PhysDes: xii, 250 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Series: Culture and the moving image
Subject: HISTORICAL FILMS; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA; REVOLUTION AND THE CINEMA. FRANCE; ROSSELLINI, ROBERTO; BEATTY, WARREN; GRAMSCI, ANTONIO; WANGER, WALTER; REIGN OF TERROR (US, Anthony Mann, 1949); SENSO (IT, Luchino Visconti, 1954); PRISE DE POUVOIR PAR LOUIS XIV, LA (FR, Roberto Rossellini, 1966); MARSEILLAISE, LA (FR, Jean Renoir, 1938); REDS (US, Warren Beatty, 1981)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-244) and index
ISBN: 1566391822 (pbk.) : $18.95; 1566391814 (alk. paper) : $44.95
LON: 93033042; 10438205

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE; RULES DON'T APPLY (US, Warren Beatty, 2016)
Author: Bunbury, Stephanie
PhysDes: Clippings File Article
Subject: BEATTY, WARREN; RULES DON'T APPLY (US, Warren Beatty, 2016)
Summary: Interview with Warren Beatty where he discusses his career and his role in the film RULES DON'T APPLY
Notes: I

Call No: 81BEA THO
Author: Thomson, David, 1941
Place: London
Publisher: Secker & Warburg
PubDate: 1987
PhysDes: ix, 469 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm
Subject: BEATTY, WARREN
Notes: Includes index; Filmography: p. 450-453; Bibliography: p. 443
ISBN: 043652015X
LON: abn87223597; 5420292

Call No: 81BEA BUR
Author: Burke, Jim
Place: New York : Belmont Tower, 1976
PhysDes: 182 p. ; 18 cm
Subject: BEATTY, WARREN
LON: abn98374954; 14237828

Call No: 802.24 NOR
Author: Marc Norman
Edition: 2008
Place: London
Publisher: Aurum
PubDate: 2007
PhysDes: 554 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subject: ACADEMY AWARDS; BLACKLISTING. USA; BEATTY, WARREN; BOGART, HUMPHREY; BRANDO, MARLON; CHAYEFSKY, PADDY; COLUMBIA PICTURES; COPPOLA, FRANCIS FORD; DEMILLE, CECIL B.; EDISON, THOMAS ALVA; FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT; GOLDWYN, SAMUEL; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK; MOTION PICTURE PRODUCERS AND DISTRIBUTORS OF AMERICA; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED; HUSTON, JOHN; JONZE, SPIKE; KEITEL, HARVEY; KOCH, HOWARD; KUBRICK, STANLEY; LARDNER, RING, Jr.; LOOS, ANITA; MANKIEWICZ, HERMAN J.; MANKIEWICZ, JOSEPH L.; MILIUS, JOHN; NICHOLSON, JACK; PENN, ARTHUR; PORTER, EDWIN S.; SCHRADER, PAUL; SOUTHERN, TERRY; SPIELBERG, STEVEN; STEWART, DONALD OGDEN; TARANTINO, QUENTIN; WEINSTEIN, HARVEY; ZANUCK, DARRYL F.; ZUKOR, ADOLPH; AMERICAN GRAFFITI (US, George Lucas, 1973); ALTERED STATES (US, Ken Russell, 1980); BIRTH OF A NATION, THE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1915); BONNIE AND CLYDE (US, Arthur Penn, 1967); CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (US, Steven Spielberg, 1977); EASY RIDER (US, Dennis Hopper, 1969); INFORMER, THE (US, John Ford, 1935); RAIN PEOPLE, THE (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1969); STAR WARS (US, George Lucas, 1977)
ISBN: 9781845133245

Call No: 210.31(73) BAR
Author: Bart, Peter
Edition: 1st ed
Source: US
Place: Los Angeles, CA
Publisher: Renaissance Books
PubDate: c1999
PhysDes: 399 p. ; 24 cm
Subject: INDUSTRY, FILM. USA; DIRECTORS. USA; PRODUCERS. USA; SCRIPTWRITERS. USA; ACTORS; BASS, RON; BEATTY, WARREN; COPPOLA, FRANCIS FORD; COSTNER, KEVIN; EISNER, MICHAEL; Gibson, Mel; GODFATHER [...], THE (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1972-); KATZENBERG, JEFFREY; NICHOLS, MIKE; NICHOLSON, JACK; OVITZ, MIKE; POLANSKI, ROMAN; REDFORD, ROBERT; RIFKIN, ARNOLD; SCHWARZENEGGER, ARNOLD; SPIELBERG, STEVEN; STALLONE, SYLVESTER; WILDER, BILLY
Summary: "Who killed hollywood? is a passionate love/hate letter to the film industry. In it, Peter Bart pulls together his best columns from Variety and GQ. He groups them, juxtaposes them, and interprets them, outlining in detail the history and inner workings of Hollywood. This could only be done by someone powerful enough to phone any star or head of studio and have his calls taken on the first ring. In story after story, Bart shows how the major studios haver diverted thie energies away from production of the shrewdly crafted pictures that once made the industry powerful. There isn't, for example, much range or innovation in the movies of salable objects- natural disasters, aliens, dinosaurs, ghosts, monsters, or any combination thereof. All are subjects easily parlayed into theme-park environments, action figures, video games, and clothing lines. Similarly, since Jaws twenty years ago, there's been a very short list of acceptable settings. The 1998 Academy Award nominations for best picture all went to films set in Elizabethian times or during World War II. A few years ago it looked as though Pulp Fiction and other independent films were going to save showbiz. Now independent producers like Miramax and New Line have been acquired by the conglomerates. Who and what will resurrect Hollywood? Peter Bart has the answers." - BOOK JACKET
Notes: Includes index
ISBN: 1580631169
LON: 21362029