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book		Beverly Hills : Inside the golden ghetto / by Walter Wagner New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1976. Call No: 46(794) WAG Author: Wagner, Walter Edition: 1976 Place: New York Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap PubDate: 1976 PhysDes: 240 p. : illus. ; 24cm Subject: STARS. USA Notes: An intimate portrait of the most fascinating and highly publicized enclave for the rich in America - and the world! Including 32 pages of inside photographs. -- front cover blurb; ex AFTRS Library ISBN: 0448021633 More info
book		Beyond the looking glass : narcissism and female stardom in studio-era Hollywood New York : Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2014. Call No: 451-02(73) SAL Author: Salzberg, Ana Source: US Place: New York : Oxford Publisher: Berghahn Books PubDate: 2014 PhysDes: viii, 197 pages ; illustrations Subject: WOMEN IN FILMS; STUDIOS, FILM. USA; STARS. USA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. USA; FEMININITY IN FILMS Summary: "As living subjects rather than static icons, studio-era Hollywood actresses actively negotiated a balance between their public personas, film roles, and corporeal presence. The contemporary audience's engagement with the experience of these actresses unsettles the traditional model of narcissistic identification, which divides the off-screen spectator from his/her onscreen ideal. Exploring the fan's desire for a material connection to the performer - as well as the star's own dialogue between embodied experience and idealized image - this book traces on- and off-screen representations of narcissistic femininity in classical Hollywood through studies of stars like Greta Garbo, Ava Gardner, and Marilyn Monroe. Merging historical and theoretical concerns, with particular attention to the resonance of golden-age Hollywood in new media, this book explores the movie screen as a medium of shared experience between spectator and star." -- BOOK BLURB Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index -- Includes filmography ISBN: 9781782383994 Donation: donated by Senses of Cinema, 2014 Contents: Introduction: The Narcissistic Woman: Reflections and Projections -- 1. Garbo Talks: Expectation and Realization -- 2. Katharine Hepburn and a Hollywood Story -- 3. Vanishing Differences in Mildred Pierce (1945) and Leave Her to Heaven (1945) -- 4. One Touch of Venus: Ava Gardner, Rita Hayworth, and the Production Code -- 5. "Wherever There's Magic": Performance Time in Sunset Boulevard (1950) and All About Eve (1950) -- 6. Marilyn Monroe: "The Last Glimmering of the Sacred" -- 7. Neo-Screen Tests, Part One: Grace Kelly and Elizabeth Taylor -- 8. Neo-Screen Tests, Part Two: The Search for Scarlett Continues -- More info
book		The child stars / Norman J. Zierold New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1965. Call No: 802.273 ZIE Author: Zierold, Norman J. Source: US Place: New York Publisher: Coward-McCann, Inc. PubDate: 1965 PhysDes: 250 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm Subject: STARS; STARS. USA; CHILD ACTORS; COOGAN, JACKIE; BABY LEROY; TEMPLE, SHIRLEY; WITHERS, JANE; GARLAND, JUDY; BARTHOLOMEW, FREDDIE; DURBIN, DEANNA; ROONEY, MICKEY; COOPER, JACKIE Summary: A look at successful child actors, their working lives, and their lives when they became adults Levy Notes: AFI R&I book not yet catalogued - AG 23/10/2017 Contents: The trials of Jackie Coogan -- Baby Leroy -- What was Shirley Temple really like? -- Jane Withers: Dixie's dainty dewdrop -- The true Judy -- Little Lord Bartholomew -- Edna Mae Durbin, alias Deanna -- The Mick -- Jackie Cooper -- Where are they now? More info
book		Close-ups : intimate profiles of movie stars by their co-stars, directors scrrenwriters and friends / edited by Danny Peary New York: Workman Publishing Company, 1978. Call No: 802.27(73) CLO Author: Peary, Danny Place: New York Publisher: Workman Publishing Company PubDate: 1978 PhysDes: 606 p. : ill. ; 28 cm Subject: ACTORS. USA; STARS. USA Notes: contains indexes ISBN: 0894800434 Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006 More info
book		Grandma's scrapbook of silent movie stars / by John M. Kaduck Des Moines, Iowa: Wallace-Homestead Book Co., 1976. Call No: 802.27(73) KAD Author: Kaduck, John M. Edition: c1976 Source: US Place: Des Moines, Iowa Publisher: Wallace-Homestead Book Co. PubDate: 1976 PhysDes: 116 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm Subject: USA. 1895-1930; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; STARS. USA Summary: A collection of images of cinema actors from the silent period of American cinema Notes: Includes index. -- Bibliography: page 115 Levy Notes: AFI R&I book not yet catalogued - AG 23/10/2017 More info
book		Naked Hollywood : money, power, and the movies / Nicolas Kent London: BBC Books, 1991. Call No: 46(794) KEN Author: Kent, Nicolas CorpAuthor: Naked Hollywood (Television program) Place: London Publisher: BBC Books PubDate: 1991 PhysDes: 256 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Subject: DIRECTORS. USA; STARS. USA; PRODUCERS. USA; SCRIPTWRITERS. USA; STUDIOS, FILM. USA; SCHWARZENEGGER, ARNOLD; SELZNICK, DAVID O.; POLLACK, SYDNEY; CREATIVE ARTISTS AGENCY; SONY CORPORATION Notes: Companion book to the television series Naked Hollywood; Includes bibliographical references (p. 250-251) and index ISBN: 0563360828 LON: 7714013 More info
book		Sleeping with strangers : how the movies shaped desire / David Thomson New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2019. Call No: 747.6(73) THO Author: Thomson, David Edition: First Place: New York Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf PubDate: 2019 PhysDes: 352 pages : illustrated ; 24cm Subject: SEX IN FILMS. USA; HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS. USA; MEN AND THE CINEMA; WOMEN AND THE CINEMA; NUDITY IN FILMS; STARS. USA; FASHION AND THE CINEMA; PORNOGRAPHY AND THE CINEMA Summary: In this wholly original work of film criticism, David Thomson, celebrated author of The Biographical Dictionary of Film, probes the many ways in which sexuality has shaped the movies—and the ways in which the movies have shaped sexuality. Exploring the tangled notions of masculinity, femininity, beauty, and sex that characterize our cinematic imagination—and drawing on examples that range from advertising to pornography, Bonnie and Clyde to Call Me by Your Name—Thomson illuminates how film as art, entertainment, and business has historically been a polite cover for a kind of erotic séance. In so doing, he casts the art and the artists we love in a new light, and reveals how film can both expose the fault lines in conventional masculinity and point the way past it, toward a more nuanced understanding of what it means to be a person with desires. -- publisher's web site ISBN: 9781101946992 More info
book		Sofia Coppola : a cinema of girlhood / Fiona Handyside London ; New York: I.B. Tauris, 2017. Call No: 81COP HAN Author: Handyside, Fiona Source: UK/US Place: London ; New York Publisher: I.B. Tauris PubDate: 2017 PhysDes: ix, 201 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Series: International Library of the Moving Image ; 39 Subject: COPPOLA, SOFIA; STARS. USA; FEMININITY IN FILMS; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; HOUSES AND GARDENS IN FILMS; VIRGIN SUICIDES, THE (US, Sofia Coppola, 2000); LOST IN TRANSLATION (US, Sofia Coppola, 2003); MARIE ANTOINETTE (US, Sofia Coppola, 2006); SOMEWHERE (US/UK/IT/JA, Sofia Coppola, 2010); BLING RING, THE (US/UK/G/FR, Sofia Coppola, 2013) Summary: Sofia Coppola is widely regarded as one of the most astute, provocative and visionary directors in the contemporary film industry. She has received numerous accolades including an Academy Award and two Golden Globes, and in 2004 became the first ever American woman to be nominated for a Best Director Oscar. From 'The Virgin Suicides' to 'The Bling Ring', her work carves out new spaces for the expression of female subjectivity that embraces rather than rejects femininity. Fiona Handyside here considers the careful counter-balance of vulnerability with the possibilities and pleasures of being female in Coppola's films - albeit for the white and the privileged - through their recurrent themes of girlhood, fame, power, sex and celebrity ISBN: 9781784537159 Contents: Machine generated contents note: 1.Sofia Coppola: Postfeminist [d]au[gh]te[u]r? -- 2.Luminous Girlhoods: Sparkle and Light in Coppola's Films -- 3.`There's No Place Like Home!' The Exploded Home as Postfeminist Chronotope -- 4.Dressing Up and Playing About: Costume and Fashion More info
book		Stars of the photoplay Chicago: Photoplay Publishing Co., 1930. Call No: 802.27(084) STA Source: US Place: Chicago Publisher: Photoplay Publishing Co. PubDate: 1930 PhysDes: 250 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm Subject: STARS. USA; USA. 1895-1930; USA. 1920's; USA. 1927-32; ACTORS; ACTORS. USA Summary: Over 200 US based actors listed with photos and biographies Notes: art portraits of famous film favorites with short biographical sketches - front cover Levy Notes: AFI R&I book not yet catalogued - AG 23/10/2017 More info
subject clippings file		STARS. USA Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: STARS. USA More info

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