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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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2008 Publications
Books are listed alphabetically under their announced month of release.
NOTE: Publication dates are often rescheduled or delayed indefinitely.
Updated Monthly
(last update was on 4/30/08)
January, 2008:
• AFI's Top 25 Movie Musicals (American Film Institute), by the Hal Leonard Corp.
(50 songs from 25 films)
• American Movie Critics: From Silents Until Now (Library of America), edited by
Phillip Lopate (paperback edition)
• Antonioni (Basic Film Series), by Seymour Chatman
• Asian Cinema: A Field Guide, by Tom Vick
• Bad Boys: The Actors of Film Noir, by Karen Burroughs Hannsberry (reprint)
• Betty Smith: Life of the Author of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Valerie Raleigh Yow
• Beverly Hills Dead, by Stuart Woods (a novel set in 1940s Hollywood)
• Black Comedians on Black Comedy: How African–Americans Taught Us to Laugh
by Darryl J. Littleton (paperback edition)
• The Cinema Book, (3rd edition), by Pam Cook
• Composing for the Screen in Germany & the USSR: Cultural Politics and
Propaganda, edited by Phil Powrie & Robynn Stilwell
• Francois Truffaut: The Complete Films, by Robert Ingram
• Francois Truffaut: Interviews (Conversations with Filmmakers), edited by Ronald
Bergan
• Freedom of the Sceen: Legal Challenges to State Film Censorship, 1915–1981,
by Laura Wittern–Keller
• Great Kisses: . . . and Famous Lines Right Out of the Movies, by Timothy Knight
• Heroes, Lovers & Others: The Story of Latinos in Hollywood, by Clara Rodriguez
(paperback reprint)
• A History of the New Zealand Fiction Feature Film, by Bruce Babington
• The Hollywood Studio System: A History, by Douglas Gomery (reprint)
• Hollywood Winners & Losers, From A to Z, by Mark M. Thise
• The Idea of Nature in Disney Animation, by David Whitley
• Jean Cocteau (Critical Lives), by James S. Williams (paperback edition)
• Jean Seberg – Breathless, by Garry McGee (paperback)
• John Carradine: The Films, by Tom Weaver (paperback reprint)
• John Osborne: The Many Lives of the Angry Young Man, by John Hellpern
(paperback edition)
• Joseph L. Mankiewicz: Interviews (Conversations with Filmmakers), edited by
Brian Dauth
• L.A. Noir: Nine Dark Visions of the City of Angels, by William Hare (reprint)
• Leni Riefenstahl: A Life, by Jurgen Trimborn (paperback edition)
• Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy: For People Who Love Movies, by Leonard Maltin
• A Long Hard Look at "Psycho" (BFI Film Classics), by Raymond Durgnat
• Mass Culture & Italian Society from Fascism to the Cold War, by David Forgacs &
Stephen Gundle
• Michelangelo Antonioni: The Complete Films, by Seymour Chatman
• Miracles & Sacrilege: Roberto Rossellini, the Church, & Film Censorship in
Hollywood, by William Bruce Johnson
• More than Night: Film Noir in its Contexts, (2nd edition) by James Naremore
• My Life in Art, by Konstantin Stanislavski (a new translation by Jean Benedetti)
• Orson Welles at Work, by François Thomas & Jean–Pierre Berthomé
• Reading the French New Wave: Critics, Writers & Art Cinema in France, by
Dorota Ostrowska
• Screening Modernism: European Art Cinema, 1950–1980, by Andras Balint Kovacs
• Stagecoach to Tombstone: The Filmgoer's Guide to Great Westerns, by Howard
Hughes (paperback)
• Theatres in Los Angeles (Images of America), by Suzanne Tarbell Cooper, et al.
• Truffaut (Basic Film Series), by Robert Ingram
• United Artists: The Company that Changed the Film Industry, by Tino T. Balio
(paperback reprint)
• Walt Disney: The American Dreamer, by Tom E. Tumbusch
February, 2008:
• "A" Western Filmmakers: A Biographical Dictionary of Writers, Directors,
Cinematographers, Composers, Actors & Actresses, by Henryk Hoffman
(paperback)
• African Americans & the Oscar: Decades of Struggle & Achievement, (2nd edition)
by Edward Mapp
• The Age of Gold: Dali, Bunuel, Artaud: Surrealist Cinema, (revised) by Robert Short
• American Cinema of the 1960s: Themes & Variations, by Barry Keith Grant
• America's Songs: The Stories Behind the Songs of Broadway, Hollywood, & Tin
Pan Alley, by Philip Furia
(reprint)
• Artists in Exile: How Refugees from Twentieth–Century War & Revolution
Transformed the American Performing Arts, by Joseph Horowitz
• Arts of Darkness: American Noir & the Quest for Redemption, by Thomas S. Hibbs
• Atomic Blonde: The Films of Mamie Van Doren, by Barry Lowe
• Auteurs & Authorship: A Film Reader, edited by Barry Keith Grant
• Bette Davis: The Performances That Made Her Great, by Peter McNally
• Britain Can Take It: The British Cinema in the Second World War, (2nd edition)
by Anthony Aldgate & Jeffrey Richards (paperback reprint)
• Celebrities in the 1930 Census: Household Data of More Than 2,500 U.S. Actors,
Musicians, Scientists, etc., by Allan R. Ellenberger (paperback)
• Cinema & Fascism: Italian Film & Society, 1922–1943, by Steven Ricci
• The Cinema: Its Present Position & Future Possibilities, by The National Council of
Public Morals (paperback reprint of a 1917 British report)
• The Cinema of Small Nations, edited by Duncan Petrie & Mette Hjort
• Cinematic Howling: Women's Films, Women's Film Theories, by Hoi F. Cheu
(paperback edition)
• Charlie Chaplin: The Little Tramp, by Biographiq (a print–on–demand title)
• Childhood and the Cinema, by Vicky Lebeau
• Christian Dior: The Biography, by Marie–France Pochna (reprint)
• The Colored Cartoon: Black Representation in American Animated Short Films,
1907–1954, by Christopher P. Lehman
• The Complete Kay Francis Career Record: All Film, Stage, Radio & Television
Appearances, by Lynn Kear & John Rossman
• The Concise Cinegraph: An Encyclopedia of German Cinema, by Hans–Michael
Bock & Axel Goodbody
• The Critical Eye: An Introduction to Looking at Movies, (4th edition) by Margo A.
Kasdan & Susan Tavernetti
• Eliminate the Impossible: An Examination of the World of Sherlock Holmes on
Page & Screen, by Alistair Duncan (paperback)
• Fantastic Cinema Subject Guide: A Topical Index to 2,500 Horror, Science
Fiction, and Fantasy Films, by Bryan Senn & John Johnson
• Filipinos in Hollywood (Images of America), by Carina Monica Montoya
• Film Music, by Peter Larsen (translated from Norwegian by John Irons)
• A Foreign Affair, by Gerd Gemunden (examines the films of Billy Wilder)
• From Perversion to Purity: The Stardom of Catherine Deneuve, by Lisa Downing
and Sue Harris
• From Silent Screen to Multi–Screen: A History of Cinema Exhibition in Britain
Since 1896, by Stuart Hanson
• Gangster Films: A Comprehensive, Illustrated Reference to People, Films, and
Terms, by Michael L. Stephens (paperback reprint)
• Harry Langdon: His Life & Films, (2nd edition), by William Schelly (paperback)
• The Haunted Gallery: Painting, Photography & Film Around 1900, by Lynda Nead
• Hollywood Heroines: Women in Film Noir & the Female Gothic Film, by Helen
Hanson
• The Hollywood Historical Film, by Robert Burgoyne
• Hollywood's American Tragedies: Dreiser, Eisenstein, Sternberg, Stevens, by
Mandy Merck (paperback edition)
• I thought We Were Making Movies, Not History, by Walter Mirisch
• In Search of Ruritania: The Life & Times of Ivor Novello, by David Slattery–Christy
(reprint)
• Indian Cinema Book, edited by Kaushik Bhaumik & Leila Jordan
• Ingmar Bergman Revisited: Performance, Cinema & the Arts, edited by Maaret
Koskinen
• Ingrid: Ingrid Bergman, A Personal Biography, by Charlotte Chandler (paperback
edition)
• Joan Crawford: Hollywood Martyr, by David Bret (paperback edition)
• Leni: The Life & Work of Leni Riefenstahl, by Steven Bach (paperback edition)
• Lon Chaney: The Man of a Thousand Faces, by Biographiq (print–on–demand title)
• Modernism on File: Writers, Artists, & the FBI, 1920–1950, edited by Claire A.
Culleton & Karen Leick
• Musical Theatre: A History, by John Kenrick
• Nazi Propaganda & the Second World War, by Aristotle A. Kallis (paperback reprint)
• Networks of Entertainment: Early Film Distribution 1895 – 1915, edited by Frank
Kessler & Nanna Verhoeff
• Not the Girl Nex Door: Joan Crawford, A Personal Biography, by Charlotte Chandler
• 101 Forgotten Films, by Brian Mills
• Performing Illusions: Cinema, Special Effects & the Virtual Actor, by Dan North
(paperback reprint)
• Photography & Cinema (Reaktion Books), by David Campany (paperback)
• Portrait in Light & Shadow: The Life of Yousuf Karsh, by Maria Tippett
• Post–Stalinist Cinema & the Russian Intelligentsia, 1953–1960, by
Sergei
Kapterev
• Remembering the Occupation in French Film: National Identity in Postwar
Euorpe, by Leah D. Hewitt
• Richard Burton: Prince of Players, by Michael Munn
• The Saucer Fleet: Volume 2 of the Spaceship Handbook, by Jack Hagerty & Jon
C. Rogers
• Screening Novel Women: Gender in the British Nineteenth–Century Novel &
Its Film Adaptations, by Liora Brosh
• Science Fiction Serials: A Critical Filmography of the 31 Hard SF Cliffhangers,
by Roy Kinard (paperback)
• Silent Lives: 100 Biographies of the Silent Film Era, by Lon Davis (Foreword by
Kevin Brownlow)
• Stepping Into the Picture: Cartoon Designer Maurice Noble, by Robert J. McKinnon
• The Tenth Muse: Writing About Cinema in the Modernist Period, by Laura Marcus
• The Theatre Organ Murders, by Jeanette Howeth Crumpler (a novel set among the
now bygone movie theaters of Theater Row in Dallas, Texas)
• Un–American Hollywood: Politics & Film in the Blacklist Era, edited by Frank
Krutnik, et al.
• Wheeling the Deal: The Outrageous Legend of Gordon Zahler, Hollywood's
Flashiest Quadriplegic, by Chip Jacobs (paperback)
• Will Rogers, Performer, (2nd edition) by Richard J. Maturi & Mary Buckingham Maturi
• Will Rogers Says, edited by Reba Collins
(reprint)
March, 2008:
• Action/Adventure Films: Classroom Resources, by Rob McInnes
• Action/Adventure Films: A Teacher's Guide, by Rob McInnes
• Adapting Nathaniel Hawthorne to the Screen: Forging New Worlds, by Laurence
Raw
• Alternatives to Hollywood: A Teacher's Guide, by Sarah Perks, et al.
• Andrei Tarkovsky: Elements of Cinema, by Robert Bird (paperback)
• The Architecture of Image: Space in Cinema, by Juhani Pallasmaa (translated from
Finnish)
• Art Directors in Cinema: A Worldwide Biographical Dictionary, by Michael L.
Stephens
(paperback reprint)
• Black Space: Imagining Race in Science Fiction Film, by Adilifu Nama
• Brilliance, by Rosalind Laker (paperback edition) – a novel about the early film industry
• British Film Noir Guide, by Michael F. Keaney
• Buster Crabbe: A Biofilmography, by Jerry Vermilye
• Cecil B. DeMille: A Life in Art, by Simon Louvish
• Chaplin at Essanay: A Film Artist in Transition 1915–1916, by James L. Neibaur
• Comedy Films: Classroom Resources, by Brian Dunbar
• Comedy Films: A Teacher's Guide, by Brian Dunbar
• Cult Films: Taboo & Transgression (A Select Survey Over 9 Decades), by Allan
Havis
• Diva: Defiance & Passion in Early Italian Cinema, by Angela Dalle Vacche
• Early & Silent Cinema: A Teacher's Guide, by Keith Withall
• Feminist Film Studies: A Teacher's Guide, by Terri Murray
• Fifty Key British Films (Routledge Key Guides), by John White
• The Films of Samuel Fuller: If You Die, I'll Kill You, by Lisa Dombrowski
• Flash Gordon Serials 1936–1940: A Heavily Illustrated Guide, by Roy Kinnard
• The French Cinema Book, edited by Michael Temple & Michael Witt (paperback reprint)
• George Raft: The Man Who Would Be Bogart, by Stone Wallace
• God, Man, & Hollywood: Politically Incorrect Cinema from the Birth of a Nation
to The Passion of the Christ, by Mark R. Winchell
• Going to the Movies: Hollywood & the Social Experience of Cinema, edited by
Richard Maltby, et al.
• The Griffith Project, Volume 11, by The British Film Institute (BFI author record)
• H.G. Wells: Modernity & the Movies, by Keith Williams
• Historical Dictionary of German Cinema, by Robert Reimer
• Hitchcock: The First Three Minutes, by Rembert Huser
• Hollywood Ambitions: Celebrity in the Movie Age, by Marsha Orgeron (paperback)
• Hollywood in the Neighborhood: Historical Case Studies of Local Moviegoing,
edited by Kathryn Fuller–Seeley
• Hollywood Independents: The Postwar Talent Takeover, by Denise Mann
• Hollywood's Man Who Worried for the Stars: The Story of Bö Roos, by Carolyn
Roos Olsen
• The Horror Genre: A Teacher's Guide, by Kate Domaille
• In the Footsteps of The Quiet Man: The Inside Story of the Cult Film, by Gerry
McNee (reprint)
• Josef von Sternberg: The Case of Lena Smith, by James Hogg
• Laurel & Hardy's Final Film, by Norbert Aping (paperback)
• Margarita Fischer: A Biography of the Silent Film Star, by Theresa St. Romain
• Masculine Singular: French New Wave Cinema, by Genevieve Sellier
• A Maysles Scrapbook: Photographs/Cinemagraphs/Documents, by Steven
Kasher, et al.
• Neutralized: The FBI vs Jean Seberg, by Jean Rullell Larson & Garry McGee
• A New Heritage of Horror: The English Gothic Cinema, (revised & updated), by
by David Pirie
• Night Mail (BFI Film Classics Series), by Scott Anthony
• Postcolonial African Cinema: Ten Directors, by David Murphy & Patrick Williams
• Projecting Canada: Government Policy & Documentary Film at the National
Film Board, by Zoe Druick
• Politics, Desire, & the Hollywood Novel, by Chip Rhodes
• Researcher's Guide to British Cinemagazines, edited by Paolo Cherchi Usai, et al.
• Sarah Bernhardt in the Theatre of Films & Sound Recordings, by David W. Menefee
(paperback reprint)
• Science Fiction Film: A Teacher's Guide, by Elaine Scarratt
• The Shifting Definitions of Genre: Essays on Labeling Films, Television Shows &
Media, edited by Lincoln Geraghty & Mark Jancovich
• Shirley Booth: A Biography & Career Record, by David C. Tucker
• Stalinist Cinema & the Production of History, by Evgeny Dobrenko
• Studying "The Third Man", by Lynne Hibberd
• Superheroes!: Capes & Crusaders in Comics & Films, by Roz Kaveney
• Theaters of Occupation: Hollywood & the Reeducation of Postwar Germany, by
Jennifer Fay
• Thinking About Movies: Watching, Questioning, Enjoying, (3rd edition) by Peter
Lehman & William Luhr
(paperback)
• To Be or Not To Be (BFI Film Classics), by Peter Barnes
• When Frankie Went to Hollywood: Frank Sinatra & American Male Identity,
by Karen McNally
• The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Mordern
World, by Randall E. Stross (paperback edition)
• The World & Its Double: The Life & Work of Otto Preminger, by Chris Fujiwara
• Working with Walt: Interviews with Disney Artists, by Don Peri
April, 2008:
• The ABCs of Classic Hollywood, by Robert B. Ray
• Adrian: Silver Screen to Custom Label, by Christian Esquevin
• The Animated Man: A Life of Walt Disney, by Michael Barrier (paperback edition)
• The Badger Kid: The Autobiography of Arthur Gardner, by Arthur Gardner
• Causes Won, Lost, & Forgotten: How Hollywood & Popular Art Shape What We
Know About the Civil War, by Gary W. Gallagher
• Cities & Cinema, by Barbara Mennel
• Coral Browne: 'This Effing Lady', by Rose Collis
• Crowd Scenes: Movies & Mass Politics, by Michael Tratner
• The Decline of Sentiment: American Film in the 1920s, by Lea Jacobs
• Dial "M" for Mother: A Freudian Hitchcock, by Paul Gordon
• Dictionary of Cinema Quotations from Filmmakers & Critics: Over 3400 Axioms,
Criticisms, Opinions & Witticisms from 100 Years of the Cinema, edited by
Stephen M. Ringler (paperback reprint)
• Dubbing & Subtitling in a World Context, edited by Paolo Cherchi Usai, et al.
• Emilio Fernandez: Pictures in the Margins, by Dolores Tierney
• Fight Pictures: A History of Boxing & Early Cinema, by Dan Streible
• Film & Television In–Jokes: Nearly 2,000 Intentional References, Parodies,
Allusions, Personal Touches, Cameos, Spoofs & Homages, by Bill Van Heerden
(paperback reprint)
• Film on Paper: The Inner Life of Movies, by Richard Schickel (paperback)
• George Gershwin, by Rodney Greenberg (paperback reprint)
• German Expressionist Cinema: The World of Light & Shadow, by Ian Roberts
• Great Spanish Films Since 1950, by Ronald Schwartz
• Halliwell's Film Guide 2008, (23rd edition), by John Walker
• Hiding in Plain Sight: The Secret Life of Raymond Burr, by Michael Seth Starr
• Hitchcock's Music, by Jack Sullivan (paperback edition)
• Hollywood on Trial: McCarthyism in Hollywood, by Michael Freedland
• An Introduction to World Cinema, (2nd edition) by Aristides Gazetas
• Keep Your Eye on the Kid: The Early Years of Buster Keaton, by Catherine
Brighton (children's book)
• Life Beyond Measure: Letters to my Great–Granddaughter, by Sidney Poitier
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