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Day dreams / / Rudolph Valentino London: Hurst & Blackett, 1923.
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Film at the intersection of high and mass culture / Paul Coates Cambridge [England] New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Call No: 408 COAAuthor: Coates, Paul, 1953 Place: Cambridge [England] New YorkPublisher: Cambridge University PressPubDate: 1994PhysDes: xvii, 201 p. ; 24 cmSeries: Cambridge studies in filmSubject: POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; SCIENCE-FICTION FILMS ; MELODRAMA ; WESTERNS ; FILM NOIR ; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS ; STARS ; GENRES ; HORROR FILMS ; VOICE OVER ; MUSIC TELEVISION ; SIRK, DOUGLAS ; MARKER, CHRIS ; TARKOVSKY, ANDREI ; KIESLOWSKI, KRZYSZTOF ; FRANJU, GEORGES ; STALLONE, SYLVESTER ; VALENTINO, RUDOLPH ; LANG, FRITZ ; LEE, SPIKE ; MADONNA ; MONROE, MARILYN ; POTTER, DENNIS ; BEDROOM WINDOW, THE (US, Curtis Hanson, 1986) ; FLY, THE (US, David Cronenberg, 1986) ; JETEE, LA (FR, Chris Marker, 1963) ; MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE, THE (US, John Ford, 1962) ; AUFZEICHNUNGEN ZU KLEIDERN UND STADTEN (GW, Wim Wenders, 1989) ; OUT OF THE PAST (US, Jacques Tourneur, 1947) ; ROCKY IV (US, Sylvester Stallone, 1985) ; OFFRET [SACRIFICE, THE] (SW/FR, Andrei Tarkovsky, 1986) ; SEARCHERS, THE (US, John Ford, 1956) ; SINGING DETECTIVE, THE [TV] (UK, Jon Amiel, 1986) ; SOLARIS (UR, Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972) ; WESELE (PL, Andrzej Wajda, 1972) ; DAY OF THE LOCUST, THE (US, John Schlesinger, 1975) ; REAR WINDOW (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1954) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 182-194) and indexISBN: 0521444721 (hardback)LON: 10419843
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Gentlemen to the rescue : the heroes of the silent screen / Kalton C. Lahue South Brunswick [N.J.] London: A.S. Barnes Yoseloff, c1972.
Call No: 802.27 LAHAuthor: Lahue, Kalton C Place: South Brunswick [N.J.] LondonPublisher: A.S. Barnes YoseloffPubDate: c1972PhysDes: 244 p. : ill., ports. ; 26 cmSubject: HERO IN FILMS ; BARRYMORE, JOHN ; CHANEY, LON ; FAIRBANKS, DOUGLAS ; GILBERT, JOHN ; NOVARRO, RAMON ; ROGERS, WILL ; VALENTINO, RUDOLPH ; BAGGOT, KING ; BARTHELMESS, RICHARD ; BLACKWELL, CARLYLE ; BUSHMAN, FRANCIS X. ; COLMAN, RONALD ; COSTELLO, MAURICE ; DIX, RICHARD ; FARNUM, WILLIAM ; HAYAKAWA, SESSUE ; HINES, JOHNNY ; HOLT, JACK ; HOUDINI, HARRY ; LA ROCQUE, ROD ; LINCOLN, ELMO ; MEIGHAN, THOMAS ; MORENO, ANTONIO ; NOVARRO, RAMON ; RAY, CHARLES ; REID, WALLACE ; SILLS, MILTON ; WALTHALL, HENRY B. ; WASHBURN, BRYANT ; WILSON, BEN F. ISBN: 0498078027LON: 470968
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Growing up in Hollywood / [by] Robert Parrish London: Bodley Head, 1976.
Call No: 81PAR PARAuthor: Parrish, Robert Place: LondonPublisher: Bodley HeadPubDate: 1976PhysDes: [10], 229 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., facsims., ports. ; 22 cmSubject: COLUMBIA PICTURES ; SCREEN ACTORS GUILD ; PARRISH, ROBERT ; BORZAGE, FRANK ; CHAPLIN, CHARLES ; COHN, HARRY ; DEMILLE, CECIL B. ; FAIRBANKS, DOUGLAS ; FORD, JOHN ; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK ; HAMILTON, WILLIAM ; HOWE, JAMES WONG ; INDRISANO, JOHNNY ; ROSSEN, ROBERT ; SCHREIBER, LEW ; VALENTINO, RUDOLPH ; INFORMER, THE (US, John Ford, 1935) ; ONE IN A MILLION (US, Sidney Lanfield, 1936) ; DIVINE LADY, THE (US, Frank Lloyd, 1929) ; CITY LIGHTS (US, Charles Chaplin, 1931) ; ALL THE KINGS MEN (US, Robert Rossen, 1949) ; BODY AND SOUL (US, Robert Rossen, 1947) ; CRY DANGER (US, Robert Parrish, 1951) ; HAVING WONDERFUL TIME (US, Alfred Santell, 1938) Summary: "Hollywood has thrown up a host of great actors and directors, geniuses and eccentrics, but remarkably few chroniclers of any brilliance. At last, in Growing up in Hollwood, Robert Parrish has produced a picture of Hollywood which is consistently well-observed, intelligent, evocative and, best of all, very, very funny. Robert Parrish, a child actor in the 1920's (in Chaplin's City Lights he was one of the two pea-shooting news boys), served his apprenticeship both in front of the camreas as an extra, and in the cutting rooms under famous directors in 1950. This book is a series of lively, skillfully told anecdotes of working in motion pictures in the golden days between the coming of talkies and the spread of television. In a series of fascinating close-ups we are shown, for instance, Charlie Chaplin rehearsing a scene from City Lights, Cecil B. de Mille bullying his cast of thousands, Raoul Walsh getting the best out of John Wayne, Ian Keith and an assortment of quadrupeds in The Big Trail, and John Ford cracking his whip on and off the set. What makes these memories so compelling is the charm and vivacity, the clear-sighted innocence of the author (a rare gift in hollywood) and his remarkable ability to bring scenes and dialogue to life so that the reader is constantly ready for more. " BOOK JACKETISBN: 0370113128LON: bnb37011312; 1934872Contents: -- 1 The black pirate -- 2 A new hero -- 3 Shall we gather at the river? -- 4 Breakfast with champions -- 5 Silent star -- 6 Charlie -- 7 Our gang -- 8 The black pirate returns -- 9 Always say yes -- 10 I left my love at fractured jaw -- 11 Dragnet -- 12 C.B. -- 13 Soap gets in your eyes -- 14 Having a wonderful time -- 15 Billy Hamilton, positive cutter -- 16 The ice age comes to hollywood -- 17 Producer-director relations -- 18 Director-cast relations (female) -- 19 The first lesson -- 20 Director-cast relations (male) -- 21 The battle of midway -- 22 Do good by stealth, etc -- 23 Detente with Russia -- 24 In memoriam -- 25 Linoleum OOgie -- 26 Tiger, tiger, burning bright -- 27 Oscar -- 28 Interior Columbia Studio - day -- 29 You don't want to go to Europe... -- 30 Is it fun yet? -- 31 anybody can direct -- 32 petition -- 33 the final lesson -- 34 the winds of change -- conclusion -acknowledgements -index
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Ivor Novello : screen idol / Michael Williams London: British Film Institute, 2003.
Call No: 81NOV WILAuthor: Williams, Michael Source: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: British Film InstitutePubDate: 2003PhysDes: vi, 193 p.: ill.; 24 cmSubject: STARS ; PERIODICALS, FILM ; PRESS AND THE CINEMA ; WORLD WAR I AND THE CINEMA ; GENDER AND THE CINEMA ; HISTORY OF THE CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD ; NOVELLO, IVOR ; NOVARRO, RAMON ; VALENTINO, RUDOLPH ; RAT, THE (UK, Graham Cutts, 1925) ; TRIUMPH OF THE RAT, THE (UK, Graham Cutts, 1926) ; DOWNHILL (UK, Alfred Hitchcock, 1927) ; LODGER, THE (UK, Alfred Hitchcock, 1926) Summary: Examines how British film magazines shaped Ivor Novello's star persona, while classical Greek imagery and myth informed his iconography. This study broadens the scops of star studies, examining Novello in relation to a number of issues, including the trauma of World War 1, gender and sexuality, and the development of British silent films.[taken from back cover]ISBN: 0851709826
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The matinee idols / David Carroll New York: Galahad Books, 1972.
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Monsieur Beaucaire / by Booth Tarkington New York: Grosset & Dunlap, c1900.
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Muscles in the movies : perfecting the art of illusion / John D. Fair and David L. Chapman Coumbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press,
Call No: 739 FAIAuthor: Fair, John D. ; Chapman, David L. Edition: 2020Place: Coumbia, MissouriPublisher: University of Missouri PressPhysDes: xvi, 466 pages : illustratedSubject: 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 siteISBN: 9780826222152
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The rise and fall of the matinee idol : past deities of stage and screen, their roles, their magic, and their worshippers / edited by Anthony Curtis; illustration consultants: Raymond Mander and Joe Mitchenson London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, [1974].
Call No: 802.27 RISAuthor: Curtis, Anthony Place: LondonPublisher: Weidenfeld & NicolsonPubDate: [1974]PhysDes: 215 p. illus. 26 cmSubject: ACTORS ; BEATON, CECIL ; COWARD, NOEL ; AXELROD, GEORGE ; GIELGUD, JOHN ; GISH, LILLIAN ; VALENTINO, RUDOLPH ; WYNDHAM, CHARLES ; ALEXANDER, GEORGE ; DU MAURIER, GERALD ; DU MAURIER, DAPHNE ; NOVELLO, IVOR ; BUCHANAN, JACK ; COCHRAN, CHARLES ; ELSIE, LILY ISBN: 0297765426LON: 324463
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Rudolph Valentino : the man behind the myth / by Robert Oberfirst Melbourne: Circus Books, 1978, c1962.
Call No: 81VAL OBEAuthor: Oberfirst, Robert Source: ATPlace: MelbournePublisher: Circus BooksPubDate: 1978, c1962PhysDes: viii, 252 p. : [12] p. of ill, ports. ; 18 cmSubject: VALENTINO, RUDOLPH ; ACTORS ; BEYOND THE ROCKS (US, Sam Wood, 1922) ; SON OF THE SHEIK, THE (US, George Fitzmaurice, 1926) Summary: The book deals with the tragedy, scandal, and despair of the secret world of Rudolph Valentino, and hidden by the myth created by Hollywood (taken from the back of the book)ISBN: 086826007X
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Screening the male : exploring masculinities in Hollywood cinema / edited by Steven Cohan and Ina Rae Hark London New York: Routledge, 1993.
Call No: 451-01 SCRAuthor: Cohan, Steven ; Hark, Ina Rae Place: London New YorkPublisher: RoutledgePubDate: 1993PhysDes: x, 272 p. : ill. ; 25 cmSubject: MEN IN FILMS ; MASCULINITY IN FILMS ; MUSICALS ; ACTION FILMS ; HORROR FILMS ; VALENTINO, RUDOLPH ; STALLONE, SYLVESTER ; WHITE HEAT (US, Raoul Walsh, 1949) ; PLAY MISTY FOR ME (US, Clint Eastwood, 1971) ; SPARTACUS (US, Stanley Kubrick, 1960) Summary: "Screening the Male challenges the traditional understanding of the male's position in Hollywood cinema. Gathering together thirteen original essays by scholars in the US, UK, and Australia, as well as Steve Neale's ground-breaking article on the male spectacle, this collection looks beyong the seemingly unassailable monolithic understanding of the 'masculine' which has previously dominiated most film criticism.
Ranging from Valentino to Schwarzeneeger, from the musical to the horror film. from close readings to 'queer' readings, the essays all differ in their critical method and historical focus. But whatever their specific interest, each essay holds a strong concern with issues that film studies has repeatedly linked to the feminine without considering how they relate as well to the masculine: spectacle, masochism, passivity, masquerade and, most of all, the body as it signifies gendered, racial, class and generational differences." -- BOOK COVERNotes: Includes bibliographical references and indexesISBN: 0415077583; 0415077591 (pbk.)LON: 92005815; 8965703
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The silent cinema reader / edited by Lee Grieveson and Peter Kramer London: Routledge, 2004.
Call No: 70"01"SILAuthor: Grieveson, Lee (ed) ; Kramer, Peter (ed) Source: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: RoutledgePubDate: 2004PhysDes: xvii, 423 p. : ill. ; 26 cmSubject: HISTORY OF CINEMA ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD ; CHAPLIN, CHARLES ; DEMILLE, CECIL B. ; EDISON, THOMAS ALVA ; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK ; Keaton, Buster ; SWANSON, GLORIA ; VALENTINO, RUDOLPH Summary: The Silent Reader offers a wide-ranging and accessible guide to the development of cinema from its emergence in the 1890s to the introduction of sound in the late 1920s. Combining key essays from leading scholars in the field with extensive introductory chapters written by the editors, the reader covers international developments in film aesthetics, the growth of the American film industry and its interaction with foreign competitors at home and abroad. It also discusses the wider cultutal, social, and political contexts of film production and consumption in the Uniyed States as well as Britain, Russia, France, and Germany.Notes: Includes index; Includes bibliographical references (p. [401]-415) and indexISBN: 0415252830Contents: Prologue -- 1. At the beginning: motion picture production, representation and ideology at the Edison and Lumiere Companies / Charles Musser -- Part I. Film projection and variety shows -- 2. "Now you see it, now you don't": the temporality of the cinema of attractions / Tom Gunning -- 3. The Kiss in the tunnel (1899), G.A. Smith and the emergence of the edited film in England / Frank Gray -- 4. The cinema of attractions in France, 1896-1904 / Richard Abel -- pt. II. Storytelling and the nickelodeon -- 5. Moving towards fictional narratives: story films become the dominant product, 1903-1904 / Charles Musser -- 6. Pathe goes to town: French films create a market for the nickelodeon, 1903-1906 / Richard Abel -- 7. Manhattan nickelodeons: new data on audiences and exhibitors / Ben Singer -- pt. III. Cinema and reform -- 8. From the opium den to the theatre of morality: moral discourse and the film process in early American cinema / Tom Gunning -- 9. How many times shall Caesar bleed in sport: Shakespeare and the cultural debate about moving pictures / Roberta E. Pearson and William Uricchio -- 10. Fighting films: race, morality, and the governing of cinema, 1912-1915 / Lee Grieveson -- pt IV Feature films and cinema programmes -- 11. A star is born: American culture and the dynamics of Charlie Chaplin's star image, 1913-1916 / Charles J. Maland -- 12. An awful struggle between love and ambition: serial heroines, serial stars and their female fans / Shelley Stamp -- 13. Traffic in Souls (1913): an experiment in feature-length narrative construction / Ben Bewster -- 14. Race, melodrama and the Birth of a Nation (1915) / Linda Williams -- 15. The international exploration of cinematic expressivity / Kristin Thompson -- Part V: Classical Hollywood Cinema -- 16. The making of a comic star: Buster Keaton and The Saphead (1920) / Peter Kramer -- 17. "The Perfect lover?": Valentino and ethnic masculinity in the 1920s / Gayln Studlar -- 18. The new woman and consumer culture: Cecil B. Demille's sex comedies / Sumiko Higashi -- 19. The open door: Hollywood's public relations at home and abroad, 1922-1928 / Ruth Vasey -- Part VI: European Cinemas -- 20. New notes on Russian film culture between 1908 and 1919 / Yuri Tsivian -- 21. Early alternatives to the Hollywood mode of production: implications for Europe's avant-gardes / Kristin Thompson -- 22. Monumental heroics: form and style in Eisenstein's silent films / David Bordwell -- 23. Art and industry: German cinema of the 1920s -- Bibliogrpahy -- Index --
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The spectacular modern woman : Feminine visibility in the 1920s / Liz Conor Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2004.
Call No: 451 02 "192" CONAuthor: Conor, Liz Edition: 1st ed.Source: USAPlace: Bloomington, IndianaPublisher: Indiana University PressPubDate: 2004PhysDes: 334 p. : b+w ill. ; 23 cmSubject: WOMEN AND THE CINEMA ; WOMEN IN FILMS ; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; WOMEN, FILMS FOR ; PROSTITUTES IN FILMS ; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA ; MEDIA ; TECHNOLOGY AND THE CINEMA ; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA ; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA ; ADVERTISING ; CARTOONS ; CELEBRITIES IN FILMS ; IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA ; FASHION AND THE CINEMA ; MODERNISM AND THE CINEMA ; RACIAL ISSUES AND THE CINEMA ; DE BEAUVOIR, SIMONE ; KELLERMAN, ANNETTE ; VALENTINO, RUDOLPH ; LYELL, LOTTIE ; MOTH OF MOONBI, THE (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1926) ; GIRL OF THE BUSH, A (AT, Franklyn Barrett, 1921) ; FOR THE TERM OF HIS NATURAL LIFE (AT, Norman Dawn, 1927) ; SENTIMENTAL BLOKE, THE (AT, Raymond Longford, 1919) ; GREENHIDE (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1926) Summary: In The Spectacular Modern Woman, Liz Conor illustrates how technological advances in image reproduction transformed Wetter industrial societies into visual or ‘oculacentric’ cultures with significant and complex consequences for women’s lives. With the rise of mass media, Conor shows how women’s identities were intimately tied to the visual culture of the day. [Taken from back cover].ISBN: 0253216702
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Stardom : the hollywood phenomenon / Alexander Walker London: Michael Joseph, 1970.
Call No: 465 WALAuthor: Walker, Alexander Source: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: Michael JosephPubDate: 1970PhysDes: 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
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Valentino / Brad Steiger and Chaw Mank London: Corgi, 1976,c1966.
Call No: 81VAL STEAuthor: Steiger, Brad ; Mank, Chaw Source: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: CorgiPubDate: 1976,c1966PhysDes: 203 p, 8p of plates : ill., ports ; 18cmSubject: VALENTINO, RUDOLPH ; SON OF THE SHEIK, THE (US, George Fitzmaurice, 1926) Summary: The book deals with the life and death of Rudolph Valentino,a great Hollywood star, and attempts to define the man, explain the devotion of his fans, and the grief at his death. It attempts to uncover the truth behind the myth of ValentinoNotes: America cinema films. Acting Valentino, Rudolph, Biographies, (BNB/PRECIS); Originally published New York : Macfadden - Bartell, 1966ISBN: 0552102350
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Valentino / by Irving Shulman London: Frewin, 1968.
Call No: 81VAL SHUAuthor: Shulman, Irving Source: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: FrewinPubDate: 1968PhysDes: xii, 499 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 22 cmSubject: VALENTINO, RUDOLPH ISBN: 0090901207
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VALENTINO, RUDOLPH
Call No: PERSONALITY CLIPPINGS FILE; PERSONALITY MICROFILM COLLECTIONPhysDes: ClippingsSubject: VALENTINO, RUDOLPH
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