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Call No: PERSONALITY CLIPPINGS FILE; PERSONALITY MICROFILM COLLECTION
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: DOUGLAS, KIRK

Call No: 802.27(084.2) KOB
Author: Kobal, John
Edition: 1st Quill ed.
Source: US
Place: New York
Publisher: Quill
PubDate: c1981
PhysDes: 159 p. : col. ill. ; 30cm
Subject: ACTORS; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE CINEMA; FIELDS, W.C.; WEST, MAE; COLBERT, CLAUDETTE; DIETRICH, MARLENE; LAMOUR, DOROTHY; SWANSON, GLORIA; SOTHERN, ANN; MACDONALD, JEANETTE; Stewart, James; YOUNG, LORETTA; COOPER, GARY; LEIGH, VIVIEN; TURNER, LANA; GARLAND, JUDY; ROONEY, MICKEY; MONTEZ, MARIA; DE HAVILLAND, OLIVIA; FONTAINE, JOAN; FAIRBANKS, DOUGLAS; DAVIS, BETTE; BOGART, HUMPHREY; LAMARR, HEDY; SHERIDAN, ANN; TIERNEY, GENE; LAKE, VERONICA; LADD, ALAN; CAGNEY, JAMES; BERGMAN, INGRID; GODDARD, PAULETEE; WAYNE, JOHN; GRABLE, BETTY; COOPER, GARY; TAYLOR, ROBERT; POWER, TYRONE; HUTTON, BETTY; ASTAIRE, FRED; DARNELL, LINDA; SINATRA, FRANK; ROGERS, ROY; TRIGGER (Horse); PAL (Canine actor); BACALL, LAUREN; LANCASTER, BURT; SCOTT, LIZABETH; DOUGLAS, KIRK; MIRANDA, CARMEN; JONES, JENNIFER; FORD, GLENN; BALL, LUCILLE; OBERON, MERLE; PECK, GREGORY; DIETRICH, MARLENE; GRAHAME, GLORIA; GRANT, CARY; HAYWORTH, RITA; VALLI, ALIDA; JOURDAN, LOUIS; TAYLOR, ELIZABETH; ROBERT, RYAN; MITCHUM, ROBERT; CHARISSE, CYD; BARKER, LEX; RUSSELL, JANE; GARBO, GRETA; CLIFT, MONTGOMERY; GARDNER, AVA; TURNER, LANA; MONROE, MARILYN; CRAWFORD, JOAN; DEAN, JAMES; NOVAK, KIM; MANSFIELD, JAYNE; PRESLEY, ELVIS; BRANDO, MARLON
Summary: "John Kobal, the world's foremost film archivist, has amassed an unrivaled photographic treasure of Hollywood glamour portraits. As an author and noted film historian, he has also been a major force behind the tremendous revival of interest in the work of the great studio photographers such as George Hurrell, Ted Allan, Lazlo Willinger, and Clarence Sinclair Bull. The selection of photographs in this book extends from the mid-1930s to the 1950s, the period in which color photography became established in Hollywood, and contains 74 spectacular images of the major stars." -- BOOK JACKET
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 17); Book contains pictures of various Hollywood actors
ISBN: 0688007538

Author: Maudson, Chris and Sharples, Robert
PhysDes: Review; Article
Subject: VIDOR, KING; WAR AND PEACE (US/IT, King Vidor, 1956); DOUGLAS, KIRK
Summary: Two separate reviews, taken from other published works. 1. Review of King Vidor's "Man Without A Star" with regard to the western tradition and myth, by Robert Sharples, in "Annotations" Term 1 1966. 2. Brief biography of King Vidor, by Chris Maudson in "Annotations" Term 2 1965.

PhysDes: Article
Subject: MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER, THE (AT, George T. Miller, 1982); MILLER, GEORGE T.; WINCER, SIMON; DOUGLAS, KIRK; HOYTS; INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA
Summary: Synopsis and cast listing for 'The Man from Snowy River'.

Call No: TITLE STILLS AUSTRALIA
Source: AT
PhysDes: 6 photographs : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm - 21 x 26 cm + 1 transparency : col. ; 6 x 6 cm
Subject: BURLINSON, TOM; THORNTON, SIGRID; THOMPSON, JACK; HAYWOOD, CHRIS; DONOVAN, TERRY; DOUGLAS, KIRK; MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER, THE (AT, George T. Miller, 1982)
Summary: Six black and white photographs from 'The man from snowy river' and one colour transparency of the poster
Notes: Two images donated by Brian McFarlane

Call No: 739 FAI
Author: Fair, John D.; Chapman, David L.
Edition: 2020
Place: Coumbia, Missouri
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
PhysDes: xvi, 466 pages : illustrated
Subject: BODY IN FILMS; BOXING FILMS; CRABBE, BUSTER; DOUGLAS, KIRK; FAIRBANKS, DOUGLAS; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA; HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS; JOHNSON, DWAYNE; KELLY, GENE; LANCASTER, BURT; LEE, BRUCE; MASCULINITY IN FILMS; MIX, TOM; OLYMPICS IN FILMS; PAGANO, BARTOLOMEO; HISTORICAL FILMS; REEVES, STEVE; SCHWARZENEGGER, ARNOLD; SERIALS; STALLONE, SYLVESTER; STUNTS; SUPERMAN IN FILMS; TARZAN IN FILMS; VALENTINO, RUDOLPH; VAUDEVILLE AND THE CINEMA; WEISSMULLER, JOHNNY; WILLIAMS, ESTHER
Summary: John Fair and David Chapman tell the story of how filmmakers use and manipulate the appearance and performances of muscular men and women to enhance the appeal of their productions. The authors show how this practice, deeply rooted in western epistemological traditions, evolved from the art of photography through magic lantern and stage shows into the motion picture industry, arguing that the sight of muscles in action induced a higher degree of viewer entertainment. From Eugen Sandow to Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, muscular actors appear capable of performing the miraculous, and with the aid of stuntmen and filming contrivances, they do. By such means, muscles are used to perfect the art of illusion, inherent in movie-making from its earliest days. -- publisher's web site
ISBN: 9780826222152

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: 81DOU DOU
Author: Douglas, Kirk
Source: US
Place: New York
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
PubDate: 1988
PhysDes: 510 p., [32] p. of plates : ports. ; 25 cm.
Subject: DOUGLAS, KIRK
Notes: Includes index
ISBN: 0671699598

Call No: 81DOU DOU
Author: Douglas, Kirk
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
PubDate: 1988
PhysDes: 510 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject: ACTING; DIRECTION; DIRECTORS; NEW YORK IN FILMS; ANGELI, PIER; DOUGLAS, ERIC; DOUGLAS, KIRK; DOUGLAS, MICHAEL; LANCASTER, BURT; LUST FOR LIFE (US, Vincente Minelli and George Cukor, 1956); SPARTACUS (US, Stanley Kubrick, 1960)
Summary: "Most autobiographies by movie stars are ghost-written and bland. This one is neither. In his powerful, angry and passionate book, Kirk Douglas tells the story of his life in his own words, holding back nothing. Born Issur Danielovitch Demsky, the son of an illiterate immigrant Russian-Jewish ragman, in Amsterdam, New York, Douglas paints a searing and unforgettable picture of an almost Dickensian childhood of brutal poverty - the background that has dominated his life as an actor, father and man, fuelling the great creative anger that has added such depth to his performances. With profound and moving insight, he shows how the determination to overcome that childhood and succeed on his own terms led him to take on roles that most stars of his magnitude would never have risked - Van Gogh, in LUST FOR LIFE; Spartacus the slave; the courageous, conscience-stricken Colonel Dax, in PATHS OF GLORY; the agonized boxer Midge, in CHAMPION, to name only a few - and to fight the studios and the Hollywood establishment for the right to control and produce his own movies, long before it was common practice for stars to do so." [Taken from book jacket]
Notes: Includes index
ISBN: 0671699598; 9780671699598
Donation: Simon Wincer

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

PhysDes: Article
Subject: MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER, THE (AT, George T. Miller, 1982); MILLER, GEORGE T.; BURROWES, GEOFF; THORNTON, SIGRID; BURLINSON, TOM; DOUGLAS, KIRK; WINCER, SIMON; INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA
Summary: Background development and synopsis of the up-coming 'The Man From Snowy River'.