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The following list of recent books contains entertaining guides to the people, the films, and the institutions that helped create the "Golden Age" of motion pictures. Most of the selections are written for a general audience.
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2007 Publications
Books are listed alphabetically under their announced month of release.
NOTE: Publication dates are often rescheduled or delayed indefinitely.
January, 2007:
• British War Films, 1939–1945: The Cinema & the Services, by Paul Mackenzie
• Buster Keaton's Sherlock, Jr. (Cambridge Film Handbooks), edited by Andrew
Horton (paperback reprint)
• Caligari's Heirs: The German Cinema of Fear After 1945, by Steffen Hautke
• A Century of Thai Cinema, by Dome Sukwong
• The Columbia Companion to American History on Film: How the Movies Have
Portrayed the American Past, by Peter C. Rollins (paperback edition)
• Comedy Incarnate: Buster Keaton, Physical Humor & Bodily Coping, by Noel
Carroll
• Film Propaganda in Britain & Nazi Germany: World War II Cinema, by Jo Fox
• George Gershwin: His Life & Work, by Howard Pollack
• A History of Artists' Film & Video in Britain, 1897–2004, by David Curtis
(hardcover edition)
• Hitchcock & the Methods of Suspense, by William Hare
• The Invention of Hugo Cabret, by Brian Selznick (a marvelous children's book about
an orphan who encounters the pioneer filmmaker George Méliès in a Paris train station)
• Japanese Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, 1950–1992, by Stuart
Galbraith, IV, & R.M. Hayes
(paperback reprint)
• Jesus of Hollywood, by Adele Reinhartz
• John Osborne: The Many Lives of the Angry Young Man, by John Hellpern
• Leni Riefenstahl: A Life, by Jurgen Trimborn
• The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography, by Sidney Poitier (paperback
reprint) selected by Oprah's Book Club
• A New Guide to Italian Cinema, by Carlo Celli & Marga Cottino–Jones
• Notebooks, by Tennessee Williams (edited by Margaret Bradham Thornton)
• 100 Years of Cinema, by Bruce Hershenson (hardcover reprint) Movie Posters
• Opening the Door to French Film, by Hugh Fox
• Quota Quickies: The Birth of the British B Film, Vol. 1, 1928–1939, by Steve
Chibnall
• Sam Spiegel: The Biography of a Hollywood Legend, by Natalia Fraser–Cavassoni
(paperback reprint)
• Science–Fiction & Fantasy Cinema: Classic Films of Horror, Sci–Fi & the
Supernatural, by John Howard Reid
(paperback)
• You Gotta See This: More Than 100 of Hollywood's Best Reveal & Discuss Their
Favorite Films, by Cindy Pearlman
February, 2007:
• The Actors Studio & Hollywood in the 1950s: A History of Theatrical Realism,
by Mario Beguiristain
• The American Western, by Stephen Mcveigh
• Angus McBean: Facemaker, by Adrian Woodhouse
• Bambi vs. Godzilla: On the Nature, Purpose, & Practice of the Movie Business,
by David Mamet
• The Best Old Movies for Families: A Parent's Guide to Watching Together, by
Ty Burr
• British Film Posters: An Illustrated History, by Sim Branaghan & Steve Chibnall
• British War Films, 1939–1945: The Cinema & the Services, by Paul Mackenzie
(paperback reprint)
• The Cambridge Companion to the Actress, edited by John Stokes & Maggie B. Gale
• Conversations With the Great Moviemakers of Hollywood's Golden Age at the
American Film Institute, by George Stevens (paperback edition)
• The Cosmopolitan Screen: German Cinema & the Global Imaginary, 1945 to the
Present, by Stephan K. Schindler
• Every Step A Struggle: Interviews With Seven Who Shaped the
African–American Image in Movies, by Frank Manchel
• Erich Wolfgang Korngold's "The Adventures of Robin Hood": A Film Score Guide,
by Ben Winters
• Film Clowns of the Depression: Twelve Defining Comic Performances, by Wes
D. Gehring
• Film Policy in Ireland, 1922–2005, (paperback edition)
• Filming Politics: Communism and the Portrayal of the Working Class at the
National Film Board of Canada, 1939–1946, by Malek Khouri
• The Films of Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy, by Eleanor Knowles
• Ford Sterling: The Life & Films, by Wendy Warwick White
• Forgotten Horrors, Vol. 4: Dreams That Money Can Buy, by Michael H. Price &
John Wooley
• From Box Office to Ballot Box: The American Political Film, by M. Keith Booker
• The Gangster Film Reader, edited by Alain Silver & James Ursini (paperback)
• The Griffith Project, Vol. 10: Films Produced 1919–1946, edited by Paulo Usai
• Hattie McDaniel: Black Ambition, White Hollywood, by Jill Watts (paperback edition)
• Historical Dictionary of African American Cinema, by Berry S. Torriano
• Historical Dictionary of Hong Kong Cinema, by Lisa Odham Stokes
• Historic Photos of Thomas Edison, by DeGraaf Leonard
• A History of the French New Wave Cinema, (2nd edition) by Richard Neupert
• Ingrid: Ingrid Bergman, A Personal Biography, by Charlotte Chandler
• Love, Ava: A Novel, by Alton Rivers (fiction featuring Ava Gardner)
• Multimedia Histories: From the Magic Lantern to the Internet, by James Lyons
and John Plunkett
• Overkill: The Rise & Fall of Thriller Cinema, by Bill Mesce, Jr.
• Photo by Sammy Davis, Jr., by Burt Boyar
• Sanctuary Cinema: Origins of the Christian Film Industry, by Terrence Lindvall
• Silent Film Sound, by Rick Altman (paperback edition)
• Studying Shakespeare On Film, by Maurice Hindle
• Understanding Movies, (11th edition), by Louis Giannetti
(paperback)
• Universal Horrors: The Studio's Classic Films, 1931–1946, (2nd edition), by
Tom Weaver, et al.
• Vision, Images & Dreams: Yiddish Film Past & Present, by Eric A. Goldman (reprint)
• Wallace Reid: The Life & Death of A Hollywood Idol, by E.J. Fleming
• Western Movie Wit & Wisdom, by Jim Kane
March, 2007:
• A to Z Guide to Film Terms, (4th edition) by Tim Moshansky (pocket paperback)
• The American Film Institute's Top 100 Movie Songs, by the Hal Leonard Corp.
• American Gothic: Sixty Years of Horror Cinema, by Jonathan Rigby (paperback ed.)
• The American Western, by Stephen McVeigh
• Audrey Hepburn: The Paramount Years, by Tony Nourmand (paperback edition)
• Bedside, Bathtub, & Armchair Companion to Frankenstein, by Carol J. Adams
• The Best Films of Our Years, by M. Owen Lee
• Between Two Worlds: Jewish Presence in German & Austrian Film, 1910–1933,
by S. S. Prawer (paperback reprint)
• Bollywood: A History, by Mihir Bose
• Bowker's Complete Video Directory 2007: Entertainment, by R.R. Bowker, LLC
• Brown Sugar: The History of America's Black Female Superstars, by Donald
Bogle (paperback edition)
• The Cinema of Attractions Reloaded (Film Culture in Transition), edited by
Wanda Strauven
• City Flicks: Indian Cinema & the Urban Experience, by Preben Kaarsholm
• Considering Doris Day, by Tom Santopietro
• Dietrich Icon, edited by Gerd Gemunden & Mary R. Desjardins
• D.W. Griffith's Film, The Birth of A Nation: The Film That Transformed America,
by Michael R. Hurwitz
• Dziga Vertov: The Vertov Collection at the Austrian Film Museum, edited by
Thomas Tode & Barbara Wurm
• Electric Edwardians: The Story of the Mitchell & Kenyon Collection, by Vanessa
Toulmin
• Elvis: A Biography, by Jerry Hopkins (paperback reprint)
• The Father of Hollywood: The True Story, by Gaelyn Shitley Keith
(paperback edition)
• Federico Fellini: His Life & Work, by Tullio Kezick (paperback edition)
• 50 Years of Ghost Movies (1935–1985), by Staci Layne Wilson
• Film Stills: Everybody's A Dreamer, by Michael Juul Holm, et al.
• Films to Go: 100 Memorial Movies for Travelers & Others, by Jay Boyar
• Florence Lawrence, The Biograph Girl: America's First Movie Star, by Kelly R.
Brown (paperback reprint)
• Framing the Fifties: Cinema in a Divided Germany, edited by Sabine Hake
• Freedom to Offend: How New York Remade Movie Culture, by Raymond J.
Haberski, Jr.
• Gendered Score: Music & Gender in 1940s Melodrama & the Woman's Film, by
Heather Laing
• Gene Autry: His Life and Career, by Don Cusic
• The Girl Who Walked Home Alone: Bette Davis, A Personal Biography, by
Charlotte Chandler (paperback edition)
• Grace Kelly: A Life in Pictures, edited by Yann–Brice Dherbier & Pierre–Henri Verlhac
• Halliwell's Film, DVD & Video Guide 2007, (22nd edition) by John Walker
• The History of Dublin Cinemas, by Marc Zimmermann
• Hitchcock & Philosophy, edited by
David Baggett & William A. Drumin
• Hitchcock: The First Three Minutes, by Rembert Huser
• Hollywood Blondes: Golden Girls of the Silver Screen, by Michelle Vogel &
Liz Nocera (paperback)
• ¡Mas! Cine Mexicano: Sensational Mexican Movie Posters 1957–1990, by Rogelio
Agrasanchez, Jr.
• Include Me Out: My Life From Goldwyn to Broadway, by Farley Granger
• It's All True: Orson Welles' Pan–American Odyssey, by Catherine Benamou
• James Dean Transfigured: The Many Faces of Rebel Iconography, by Claudia
Springer
• Jimmy Durante: His Show Business Career, With an Annotated Filmography &
Discography, by David Bakish (paperback reprint)
• John Wayne: The Star of . . . A Western Celebration, by Jane Pattie
• Jolson: The Story of Al Jolson, by Michael Freedland (paperback reprint)
• Josephine Baker in Art & Life: The Icon & The Image, by Bennetta Jules–Rosette
(paperback edition)
• Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye, The Barbara Payton Story, by John O'Dowd
• Leni: The Life & Work of Leni Riefenstahl, by Steven Bach
• Let's Face It: 90 Years of Living, Loving, & Learning, by Kirk Douglas
• The Love of My Life: The Memoirs of Howard G. Minsky, by Howard G. Minsky &
Natalie G. Peters
• Montage, by Sam Rohdie
• Nineteenth–Century American Fiction on Screen, edited by R. Barton Palmer
• Olive Thomas: The Life & Death of a Silent Film Beauty, by Michelle Vogel
• On Strike and On Film: Mexican American Families and Blacklisted Filmmakers
in Cold War America, by Ellen R. Baker
• Orson Welles Remembered: Interviews With His Actors, Editors,
Cinematographers, and Magicians, by Peter Prescott Tonguette
• Pat Boone's America: A Pop Culture Treasury From the Last 50 Years, by Pat
Boone & Donny York (paperback edition)
• Postcards From the Cinema, by Serge Daney
• Public Cowboy No. 1: The Life & Times of Gene Autry, by Holly George–Warren
• Satyajit Ray: Interviews, edited by Bert Cardullo
• Sessue Hayakawa: Silent Cinema & Transnational Stardom, by Daisuke Miyao
• South African National Cinema, by Jacqu Maingard (paperback edition)
• Starlight: 100 Years of Film Stills, by Michael Juul Holm, et al.
• True Grace: The Life & Times of an American Princess, by Wendy Leigh
• Twentieth–Century American Fiction on Screen, edited by R. Barton Palmer
• Vincente Minnelli: Hollywood's Dark Dreamer, by Emanuel Levy
• Witchcraft Through the Ages: The Story of Haxan, the World's Strangest Film &
the Man Who Made It, by Jack Stevenson
• White Christmas, by Irving Berlin (hardcover reprint)
• Wild Bill Elliott: A Complete Filmography, by Gene Blother
• William Randolph Hearst: The Later Years, 1911–1951, by Ben Procter
• The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World
by Randall E. Stross
April, 2007:
• Animal Movies Guide: Over 1,000 Movies Inside, by Staci Layne Wilson (paperback)
• The Animated Man: A Life of Walt Disney, by Michael Barrier
• Arab Cinema: History & Cultural Identity, (revised ed.), by Viola Shafik (paperback)
• The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film, (2nd edition) edited by
Russell Jackson
• Casque d'or (French Film Guide), by Sarah Leahy
• Charlotte Greenwood: The Life & Career of the Comic Star of Vaudeville, Radio
and Film, by Grant Hayter–Menzies
• The Cinema & the Swastika: The International Expansion of the Third Reich
Cinema, edited by David Welch & Roel Van de Winkel
• The Cinema of Australia & New Zealand, by Geoff Mayer & Keith Beattie
• The Cinema of Russia & The Former Soviet Union, by Birgit Beumers
• A Critical History & Filmography of Toho's Godzilla Series, by David Kalat
• The Delectable Dollies: The Dolly Sisters, Icons of the Jazz Age, by Gary Chapman
• Dying to Belong: Gangster Movies in Hollywood & Hong Kong, by Martha P.
Nochimson
• English Gothic: A Century of Horror Cinema, (3rd edition – paperback) by Jonathan
Rigby
• European Film Noir, edited by Andrew Spicer
• Eye on Science Fiction: 20 Interviews With Classic SF & Horror Filmmakers,
edited by Tom Weaver
(paperback reprint)
• Here We Stand: Politics, Performers and Performance (Paul Robeson, Charlie
Chaplin, Isadora Duncan), by Colin Chambers
• Hit Songs 1900–1955: American Popular Music of the Pre–Rock Era, by
Don Tyler
• Hollywood's Celebrity Gangster: The Incredible Life & Times of Mickey Cohen,
by Brad Lewis (paperback)
• Hollywood Studios (Postcard History Series), by Tommy Dangcil
• How To Hepburn: Lessons on Life from Kate the Great, by Karen Karbo
• Inside Marilyn Monroe: A Memoir, by John Gilmore
• Introduction to Film Studies, (4th edition), by Jill Nelmes
• Jackie Coogan, The World's Boy King: A Biography of Hollywood's Legendary
Child Star, by Diana Cary (paperback reprint)
• Jean Renior: The Complete Films, by Christopher Faulkner
• Jesus in 20th Century Literature, Art, & Movies, by Paul C. Burns
• Josephine Baker in Art & Life: The Icon & the Image, by Bennetta Jules–Rosette
(hardcover edition)
• Le Corbeau (French Film Guide), by Judith Mayne
• The Long Exile: A Tale of Inuit Betrayal & Survival in the High Arctic, by Melanie
McGrath (the book opens with Robert Flaherty filming his famous 1922 movie "Nanook
of the North" and focuses on the life of the son Flaherty had with an Inuit woman)
• The Man Who Knew Hitchcock: A Hollywood Memoir, by Herbert Coleman
• Maria Felix: La Doña, by Pierre Philippe
• Maureen O'Sullivan: No Average Jane, by David Arthur Fury
• Multi–Media Histories: From the Magic Lantern to the Internet, by James Lyons &
John Plunkett
• Perpetually Cool: The Many Lives of Anna May Wong (1905–1961), by Anthony
Chan (paperback reprint)
• Picture Perfect: Landscape, Place & Travel in British Cinema Before 1930 (A
British Silent Cinema Festival Book), edited by Laraine Porter, et al.
• The Pinewood Story, (2nd edition) by Brian Burford (paperback)
• Reach For the Top: The Turbulent Life of Laurence Harvey, by Anne Sinai (reprint)
• Recut Madness: Favorite Movies Retold for Your Partisan Pleasure, by James
Finn Garner
• Resting Places: The Burial Sites of Over 10,000 Famous Persons, (2nd edition),
by Scott Wilson
• Scenes of Instruction: The Beginnings of the U.S. Study of Film, by Dana Polan
• Screen Legends, by Brucey Yaccato
• Sherlock Holmes on Screen: The Complete Film and TV History, (3rd edition), by
Alan Barnes (paperback)
• Special Effects: The History & Technique, by Richard Rickitt
(reprint)
• Stoogeology: Essays on the Three Stooges, edited by Peter Seely & Gail W. Pieper
• Valentino: A Dream of Desire, by David Bret (reprint)
• Valentino the Unforgotten, by Roger C. Peterson (reprint of rare 1937 memoir),
Foreward by Tracy Ryan Terhune
• Tunes for 'Toons: Music & the Hollywood Cartoon, by Daniel Goldmark (paperback
edition)
• Universal–International Westerns, 1947–1963: The Complete Filmography, by
Gene Blottner (paperback reprint)
May, 2007:
• Agee Agonistes: Essays on the Life, Legend, & Works of James Agee, by
Michael A. Lofaro
• The Art of the Moving Picture, by Vachel Lindsay (paperback reprint of 1915 editiion)
• Audrey Hepburn in "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and Other Photographs, by Howell
Conant
• Ava Gardner: "Love Is Nothing", by Lee Server (paperback edition)
• Box Office Archaeology: Refining Hollywood's Portrayals of the Past, by Julie M.
Schabilitsky
• Cambridge Companion to Literature On Screen, by Deborah Cartmell
• The Cinematic (Documents of Contempory Art), edited by David Campany
• Discovering Orson Welles, by Jonathan Rosenbaum (paperback edition)
• Dziga Vertov: Defining Documentary Film, by Jeremy Hicks
• Ethel Waters: Stormy Weather, by Stephen Bourne (paperback)
• Film: A Critical Introduction, (2nd edition), by Maria T. Pramaggiore & Tom W |
