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American directors : volume 1 / Jean-Pierre Coursodon with Pierre Sauvage New York: McGraw-Hill, c1983.
Call No: 802.25(73) COU vol.1Author: Coursodon, Jean-Pierre ; Sauvage, Pierre Place: New YorkPublisher: McGraw-HillPubDate: c1983PhysDes: 2 v. ; 24 cmSubject: DIRECTORS. USA ; BERKELEY, BUSBY ; BORZAGE, FRANK ; BROWN, CLARENCE ; CAPRA, FRANK ; CHAPLIN, CHARLES ; CUKOR, GEORGE ; CURTIZ, MICHAEL ; DAVES, DELMER ; DEMILLE, CECIL B. ; DWAN, ALLAN ; FLEMING, VICTOR ; FORD, JOHN ; HAWKS, HOWARD ; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED ; HUSTON, JOHN ; KING, HENRY ; LA CAVA, GREGORY ; LANG, FRITZ ; LEROY, MERVYN ; LEWIS, JOSEPH H. ; LUBITSCH, ERNST ; MAMOULIAN, ROUBEN ; MANN, ANTHONY ; MCCAREY, LEO ; PREMINGER, OTTO ; SHERMAN, VINCENT ; SIRK, DOUGLAS ; STAHL, JOHN M. ; VON STERNBERG, JOSEF ; STEVENS, GEORGE ; STURGES, PRESTON ; TOURNEUR, JACQUES ; ULMER, EDGAR G. ; VIDOR, KING ; WALSH, RAOUL ; WELLMAN, WILLIAM ; WILDER, BILLY ; WYLER, WILLIAM Notes: Includes filmographies and indexesISBN: 0070132623 (pbk. : v. 2) : $8.95; 0070132631 (v. 1) : $13.95; 0070132615 (pbk. : v. 1) : $8.95; 007013264X (v. 2) : $13.95LON: 2198273
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The American film musical / Rick Altman London: British Film Institute, 1989.
Call No: 751 ALTAuthor: Altman, Rick Place: LondonPublisher: British Film InstitutePubDate: 1989PhysDes: [386] p. : ill. ; 26cmSubject: MUSICALS. USA ; ASTAIRE, FRED ; BERKELEY, BUSBY ; EDDY, NELSON ; GARLAND, JUDY ; MACDONALD, JEANETTE ; MAMOULIAN, ROUBEN ; ROGERS, GINGER ; VIDOR, KING ; AMERICAN IN PARIS, AN (US, Vincente Minnelli, 1951) ; APPLAUSE (US, Rouben Mamoulian, 1929) ; OKLAHOMA! (US, Fred Zinneman, 1955) Notes: American cinema films: Musicals. - Critical studies (BNB/PRECIS); Originally published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1987; Includes indexISBN: 0851702279 (pbk) : ª12.95 : CIP confirmedLON: 6008672 6008672
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The celluloid muse : Hollywood directors speak / [by] Charles Higham and Joel Greenberg London: Angus & Robertson, 1969.
Call No: 802.25(73) HIGAuthor: Higham, Charles, 1931 ; Greenberg, Joel, joint author Place: LondonPublisher: Angus & RobertsonPubDate: 1969PhysDes: 268 p., 32 plates. illus., ports. 24 cmSubject: ALDRICH, ROBERT ; CUKOR, GEORGE ; FRANKENHEIMER, JOHN ; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED ; LANG, FRITZ ; MAMOULIAN, ROUBEN ; MINNELLI, VINCENTE ; RAPPER, IRVING ; ROBSON, MARK ; TOURNEUR, JACQUES ; VIDOR, KING ; WILDER, BILLY ; BERNHARDT, CURTIS ; MILESTONE, LEWIS ; NEGULESCO, JEAN ISBN: 0207951233LON: 562650
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The dynamic frame : camera movement in classical Hollywood / Patrick Keating New York; Chichester, UK: Columbia University Press,
Call No: 233.6(73) KEAAuthor: Keting, Patrick Edition: 2019Place: New York; Chichester, UKPublisher: Columbia University PressPhysDes: xi,350 pages : illustrated ; 24 cmSubject: BERKELEY, BUSBY ; BORDWELL, DAVID ; CAMERA ANGLES ; CITIZEN KANE (US, Orson Welles, 1941) ; CONVERGENCE ; FORD, JOHN ; HAWKS, HOWARD ; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED ; LAST LAUGH, THE (G, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, 1924) ; MAMOULIAN, ROUBEN ; MURNAU, FRIEDRICH WILHEL ; PREMINGER, OTTO ; SUNRISE (US, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, 1927) ; TOLAND, GREGG ; VIDOR, KING ; WELLES, ORSON Summary: The camera’s movement in a film may seem straightforward or merely technical. Yet skillfully deployed pans, tilts, dollies, cranes, and zooms can express the emotions of a character, convey attitude and irony, or even challenge an ideological stance. In The Dynamic Frame, Patrick Keating offers an innovative history of the aesthetics of the camera that examines how camera movement shaped the classical Hollywood style.
In careful readings of dozens of films, including Sunrise, The Grapes of Wrath, Rear Window, Sunset Boulevard, and Touch of Evil, Keating explores how major figures such as F. W. Murnau, Orson Welles, and Alfred Hitchcock used camera movement to enrich their stories and deepen their themes. Balancing close analysis with a broader poetics of camera movement, Keating uses archival research to chronicle the technological breakthroughs and the changing division of labor that allowed for new possibilities, as well as the shifting political and cultural contexts that inspired filmmakers to use technology in new ways. An original history of film techniques and aesthetics, The Dynamic Frame shows that the classical Hollywood camera moves not to imitate the actions of an omniscient observer but rather to produce the interplay of concealment and revelation that is an essential part of the exchange between film and viewer. -- publisher's web siteISBN: 9780231190510Contents: Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. American Cinema, German Angles -- 2. Purposes and Parallels -- 3. Dynamism, Seriality, and Convergence -- 4. Constructing Scenes with the Camera -- 5. Between Subjective and Objective -- 6. An Art of Disclosures -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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Film and the working class : the feature film in British and American society / Peter Stead London New York: Routledge, 1989.
Call No: 451-058.243 STEAuthor: Stead, Peter Place: London New YorkPublisher: RoutledgePubDate: 1989PhysDes: xi, 283 p. ; 24 cmSeries: Cinema and societySubject: WORKING CLASS IN FILMS ; USA ; UNITED KINGDOM ; WARNER BROS. ; VIDOR, KING ; BLACK FURY (US, Michael Curtiz, 1934) ; GRAPES OF WRATH, THE (US, John Ford, 1940) ; I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG (US, Mervyn LeRoy, 1932) Notes: Includes indexes; Bibliography: p. 250-272ISBN: 0415027977; 0415065194 (pbk)LON: 6254788
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Hollywood directors, 1914-1940 / [compiled by] Richard Koszarski New York: Oxford University Press, 1976.
Call No: 802.25(73) KOSAuthor: Koszarski, Richard Place: New YorkPublisher: Oxford University PressPubDate: 1976PhysDes: xx, 364 p. : ill. ; 22 cmSubject: DIRECTORS. USA ; PORTER, EDWIN S. ; GUY-BLACHE, ALICE ; BLACKTON, J. STUART ; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK ; HART, WILLIAM S. ; WEBER, LOIS ; SENNETT, MACK ; INCE, THOMAS HARPER ; INGRAM, REX ; NEILAN, MARSHALL ; CHAPLIN, CHARLES ; FLAHERTY, ROBERT ; LLOYD, HAROLD ; Keaton, Buster ; DWAN, ALLAN ; DEMILLE, CECIL B. ; VON STROHEIM, ERICH ; LANGDON, HARRY ; CAPRA, FRANK ; FORD, JOHN ; MURNAU, FRIEDRICH WILHELM ; BORZAGE, FRANK ; LUBITSCH, ERNST ; VIDOR, KING ; ROACH, HAL ; MAMOULIAN, ROUBEN ; DEMILLE, WILLIAM ; MILESTONE, LEWIS ; CUKOR, GEORGE ; VAN DYKE, W.S. ; HOWARD, WILLIAM K. ; TUTTLE, FRANK ; SCHOEDSACK, ERNEST B. ; GARNETT, TAY ; CROMWELL, JOHN ; OLCOTT, SIDNEY ; HORNE, JAMES W. ; FITZMAURICE, GEORGE ; PARK, IDA MAY ; TOURNEUR, MAURICE ; FLOREY, ROBERT ; MENZIES, WILLIAM CAMERON ; VORKAPICH, SLAVKO ; BRENNON, HERBERT ; CAREWE, EDWIN ; NIBLO, FRED ; GOULDING, EDMUND ; FEJOS, PAUL ; BELL, MONTA Notes: Includes indexISBN: 0195020855 : $13.95LON: 761206
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Hollywood directors, 1941-1976 / [compiled by] Richard Koszarski New York: Oxford University Press, 1977.
Call No: 802.25(73) HOLAuthor: Koszarski, Richard Place: New YorkPublisher: Oxford University PressPubDate: 1977PhysDes: xvii, 426 p. : ill. ; 22 cmSubject: DIRECTORS. USA ; WELLES, ORSON ; LEWIN, ALBERT ; VIDOR, KING ; HUSTON, JOHN ; ROSSEN, ROBERT ; CAPRA, FRANK ; JONES, CHUCK ; WYLER, WILLIAM ; RENOIR, JEAN ; LANG, FRITZ ; ZINNEMANN, FRED ; MILESTONE, LEWIS ; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED ; BROWN, CLARENCE ; SIDNEY, GEORGE ; BROOKS, RICHARD ; DIETERLE, WILLIAM ; FLEISCHER, RICHARD ; VON STERNBERG, JOSEF ; CURTIZ, MICHAEL ; RAY, NICHOLAS ; KAZAN, ELIA ; WILDER, BILLY ; LEROY, MERVYN ; ALDRICH, ROBERT ; KUBRICK, STANLEY ; LOGAN, JOSHUA ; STURGES, JOHN ; KING, HENRY ; MANN, ANTHONY ; FULLER, SAMUEL ; FRANKENHEIMER, JOHN ; KELLY, GENE ; PENN, ARTHUR ; SAKS, GENE ; Lupino, Ida ; DMYTRYK, EDWARD ; CORMAN, ROGER ; FRIEDKIN, WILLIAM ; RITCHIE, MICHAEL ; GRINDE, NICK ; PICHEL, IRVING ; SEATON, GEORGE ; BENEDEK, LASLO ; KOSTER, HENRY ; OBOLER, ARCH ; SANDERS, TERRY ; SIODMAK, ROBERT ; MARTON, ANDREW ; DEATH OF A SALESMAN (US, Laslo Benedek, 1951) ; FACE IN THE CROWD, A (US, Elia Kazan, 1957) ; BONNIE AND CLYDE (US, Arthur Penn, 1967) ; SMILE (US, Michael Ritchie, 1975) ; MONSIEUR VERDOUX (US, Charles Chaplin, 1947) ; BEN HUR (US, William Wyler, 1959) Notes: Includes indexISBN: 0195022173 : $15.00; 0195022181(pbk. :) $4.95LON: 851041
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The Hollywood social problem film : madness, despair, and politics from the Depression to the fifties / Peter Roffman and Jim Purdy Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1981.
Call No: 744 ROFAuthor: Roffman, Peter, 1950 ; Purdy, Jim, Place: BloomingtonPublisher: Indiana University PressPubDate: 1981PhysDes: x, 364 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cmSubject: SOCIAL PROBLEMS IN FILMS. USA ; DEPRESSION IN FILMS ; DRUGS IN FILMS ; MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES IN FILMS ; BAD GUYS ; FASCISM AND THE CINEMA ; FALLEN WOMEN IN FILMS ; DELINQUENTS IN FILMS ; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS. USA ; COMMUNISM AND THE CINEMA. USA ; BLACKLISTING. USA ; JOURNALISTS IN FILMS ; POLITICAL PERSONALITIES IN FILMS ; POPULISM AND THE CINEMA. USA ; RACIAL ISSUES IN FILMS ; RURAL LIFE IN FILMS ; WARNER BROS. ; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; LANG, FRITZ ; BORZAGE, FRANK ; CHAPLIN, CHARLES ; GARFIELD, JOHN ; CAPRA, FRANK ; VIDOR, KING ; BLACK LEGION (US, Archie L. Mayo, 1936) ; CABIN IN THE COTTON, THE (US, Michael Curtiz, 1932) ; DEAD END (US, William Wyler, 1937) ; FORCE OF EVIL (US, Abraham Polonsky, 1948) ; GABRIEL OVER THE WHITE HOUSE (US, Gregory La Cava, 1933) ; STATE'S ATTORNEY (US, George Archainbaud, 1932) ; SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS (US, Preston Sturges, 1942) ; THEY WON'T FORGET (US, Mervyn LeRoy, 1937) ; THREE COMRADES (US, Frank Borzage, 1938) ; GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT (US, Elia Kazan, 1947) ; I WAS A COMMUNIST FOR THE F.B.I. (US, Gordon Douglas, 1951) ; LAWLESS, THE (US, Joseph Losey, 1950) ; LAWYER MAN (US, Wilhelm Dieterle, 1932) ; LITTLE MAN, WHAT NOW? (US, Frank Borzage, 1934) ; MASSACRE (US, Alan Crosland, 1933) ; MEET JOHN DOE (US, Frank Capra, 1941) ; MOUTHPIECE, THE (US, James Flood & Elliott Nugent, 1932) ; OUR DAILY BREAD (US, King Vidor, 1934) ; PINKY (US, Elia Kazan, 1949) ; PRESIDENT VANISHES, THE (US, William Wellman, 1934) ; RIFFRAFF (US, J. Walter Ruben, 1936) ; [MISTER] MR DEEDS GOES TO TOWN (US, Frank Capra, 1936) ; [MISTER] MR SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (US, Frank Capra, 1939) ; MODERN TIMES (US, Charles Chaplin, 1936) ; MONSIEUR VERDOUX (US, Charles Chaplin, 1947) ; MORTAL STORM, THE (US, Frank Borzage, 1940) ; MY MAN GODFREY (US, Gregory La Cava, 1936) ; ON THE WATERFRONT (US, Elia Kazan, 1954) ; BODY AND SOUL (US, Robert Rossen, 1947) ; GRAPES OF WRATH, THE (US, John Ford, 1940) ; GREAT DICTATOR, THE (US, Charles Chaplin, 1940) ; HEROES FOR SALE (US, William A. Wellman, 1933) ; I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG (US, Mervyn LeRoy, 1932) ; IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (US, Frank Capra, 1946) ; SALT OF THE EARTH (US, Herbert J. Biberman, 1954) ; YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE (US, Fritz Lang, 1937) Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 319-329; Filmography: p. 331-351ISBN: 0253127076; 0253202612 (pbk.)LON: 1763505
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King Vidor / John Baxter New York: Monarch Press, 1976.
Call No: 81VID BAXAuthor: Baxter, John, 1939 Place: New YorkPublisher: Monarch PressPubDate: 1976PhysDes: vii, 94 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: VIDOR, KING Notes: Filmography: p. 87-89; Bibliography: p. 93-94ISBN: 0671081039 : $2.95LON: 75023544; 741448
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King Vidor : War and Peace and Man Without A Star in Montage (1967) iss.1 p.12
Author: Maudson, Chris and Sharples, Robert PhysDes: Review; ArticleSubject: 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.
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King Vidor / John Baxter New York: Monarch Press, 1976.
Call No: 81VID BAXAuthor: Baxter, John Source: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: Monarch PressPubDate: 1976PhysDes: vii, 94p. : ill ; 23cmSeries: Monarch Film StudiesSubject: VIDOR, KING Summary: "Arriving in Hollywood in 1915, King Vidor went on to one of the longest and most successful directorial careers in the American Cinema. His distinctly personal style of filmmaking produced such major works as The Big Parade, The Crowd, Northwest Passage, Duel in the Sun, The Fountainhead and Ruby Gentry, and provided successful vehicles for many stars from Lillian Gish, Marion Davies, and John Gilbert to Gary Cooper, Gregory Peck, and Jennifer Jones. In the first book ever written on this important director, John Baxter has succeeded in chronicling the enormity of Vidor's achievement, and by basing much of his analysis on his own interviews with King Vidor, offers the tichest assessment of the man and his films yet published." -Book blurb.ISBN: 671081039Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006Contents: Author -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- A demonic landscape -- A message to humanity: the early silent features -- An end to ephemera: the big parade to show people -- A voice for the devil: the sound films -- The stock market of the spirit: Northwest Passage to The Fountainhead -- "She cannot forgive, but she can go on fighting": Ruby Gentry to War and Peace -- Filmography -- Other projects -- Selective bibliography
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King Vidor, American / Raymond Durgnat & Scott Simmon Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.
Call No: 81VID KINAuthor: Durgnat, Raymond ; Simmon, Scott Place: BerkeleyPublisher: University of California PressPubDate: 1988PhysDes: xiii, 382 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: VIDOR, KING Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 363-366; Filmography: p. 333-361ISBN: 0520057988 (alk. paper); 0520058151 (pbk.)LON: 87005994; 5271952
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King Vidor / by Clive Denton. John Cromwell / by Kingsley Canham. Mervyn LeRoy / by Kingsley Canham London: Tantivy Press [etc.], 1976.
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The men who mad the movies : interviews with Frank Capra, George Cukor, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, Vincente Minnelli, King Vidor, Raoul Walsh, and William A. Wellman New York: Atheneum, 1975.
Call No: 802.25 SCHEdition: 1975Place: New YorkPublisher: AtheneumPubDate: 1975PhysDes: x, 308 pages : illustrations ; 27 cmSubject: DIRECTORS ; CAPRA, FRANK ; HAWKS, HOWARD ; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED ; MINNELLI, VINCENTE ; VIDOR, KING ; WALSH, RAOUL ; WELLMAN, WILLIAM Summary: [This book] evolved from the memorable television series that was named by the New York Times as one of the outstanding television programs of 1973. Eight directors were encouraged by Schickel to reminisce about their working lives, which spanned the most intriguing decades of American film. In speaking with them, he found in these men a special quality: 'They felt in their bones the character and quality of a vanished America.' There was something valuable to be learned from them, not merely about the cinema, but about the conduct of life. They would, as Schickel says, be worthy of study even 'if they had been engaged in the manufacture of widgets, let alone something as intrinsically interesting as movies.' Each director created a canon of work that even today sustains critical analysis without sacrificing popular appeal. Moreover, each maintained his artistic integrity while working in an atmosphere generally credited with ruining rather than nurturing talent--Hollywood. The format of these interviews allows the directors to talk about preplanned issues without interruption. And the topics discussed deal with the directors' lives and attitudes rather than with the technical nature of their work; in fact, any questions which seemed too specifically technical were often greeted by them with snorts of contempt. The book is rich in behind-the-scenes stories about such modern classics as 'It Happened One Night', 'Dawn Patrol', 'The Champ', 'Born Yesterday', 'Father of the Bride', 'Shadow of a Doubt', and 'The Roaring Twenties', as well as in anecdotes about the lives of men who not only 'made the movies' but who made Hollywood the glamour capital of the world. -- publisher's blurbISBN: 9780689106316Donation: Paul Anderson
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A tree is a tree / King Vidor London: Longmans, 1954].
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VIDOR, KING
Call No: PERSONALITY CLIPPINGS FILEPhysDes: ClippingsSubject: VIDOR, KING
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We're in the money : depression America and its films New York: New York University Press, 1971.
Call No: 71(73) BERAuthor: Bergman, Andrew Source: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: New York University PressPubDate: 1971PhysDes: xxiii, 200 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: USA ; USA. 1930's ; VIDOR, KING ; CAPRA, FRANK Notes: Originally presented as the author's thesis, University of Wisconsin -- Bibliography: p. [187]-193ISBN: 0814709648LON: 321033
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