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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2009 Publications

Books are listed alphabetically under their announced month of release.
If a new book is released in both hardcover & paperback at the same time,
we will usually list only the paperback edition.
NOTE: Publication dates are often rescheduled or delayed indefinitely.

Updated Monthly
(last update was on 8/29/08)

January, 2009:

   • America on Film: Representing Race, Class, Gender, & Sexuality at the Movies,
        by Harry M. Benshoff (paperback reprint)
   • America's Film Legacy: A Guide to the Library of Congress National Film
        Registry, by Daniel Eagan
   • The Animated Bestiary: Animals, Cartoons, & Culture, by Paul Wells
   • Audrey Hepburn: A Life in Pictures, (new edition) edited by Pierre–Henri Verlhac &
        Yann–Brice Dherbier
   • Encyclopedia of French Film Directors, by Philippe Rege
   • Evolution on Trial: From the Scopes "Monkey" Case to Inherit the Wind
        (Famous Court Cases that Became Movies), by Kathiann M. Kowalski
   • Famous Movie Dance Stars Paper Dolls, by Tom Tierney
   • Film: An Introduction, (4th edition) by William H. Phillips (paperback)
   • Film Music: A History, by Jame Wierzbicki
   • Film Noir, American Workers, & Postwar Hollywood, by Dennis Broe
   • The History of Italian Cinema 1905–2003, by Gian–Piero Brunetta (paperback
        edition)
   • It's the Pictures that Got Small: Hollywood Film Stars on 1950s Television, by
        Christine Becker
   • Listening to Fellini: Music & Meaning in Black & White, by M. Thomas Van Order
   • The Man Who Made Movies: W.K.L. Dickson, by Paul Spehr
   • Marilyn Revealed: The Ambitious Life of an American Icon, by Ted Schwarz
   • Naked Lens: Beat Cinema, (revised edition) by Jack Sargeant
   • Nazi Cinema's New Women, by Jana F. Bruns
   • Obscene, Indecent, Immoral & Offensive: 100+ Years of Censored, Banned, and
        Controversial Films, by Stephen Tropiano
   • Pierre Batcheff & Stardom in 1920s French Cinema, by Phil Powrie & Eric Rebillard
   • The Star Machine, by Jeanine Basinger (Vintage paperback edition)
   • Vincente Minnelli: The Art of Entertainment, edited by Joe McElhaney
   • The Wicked Wit of the West: Golden Age Screenwriter Irving Brecher Gets the
        Last Word, by Irving Brecher (as told to Hank Rosenfeld)

February, 2009:

   • American Cinema 1890–1909: Themes & Variations, edited by Andre Gaudreault
   • American Cinema of the 1910s: Themes & Variations, edited by Charlie Keil &
        Ben Singer
   • American Science Fiction Film & Television, by Lincoln Geraghty
   • Born to Be Hurt: The Untold Story of Imitation of Life, by Sam Staggs
   • British Cinema & Middlebrow Culture in the Interwar Years, by Lawrence Napper
   • Cinema & Classical Texts: Apollo's New Light, by Martin M. Winkler
   • Conversations with Woody Allen: His Films, the Movies, & Moviemaking, by Eric
        Lax (Vintage paperback edition)
   • Dancers in Film: A Biographical Encyclopedia, by Larry Billman
   • Fifty Classic American Films (Routledge Key Guides), by John White Sab
   • Film Noir & the Cinema of Paranoia, by Wheeler Winston Dixon
   • From Rajahs & Yogis to Gandhi & Beyond: Images of India in International
        Films of the 20th Century, by Vijaya Mulay
   • Greedy, Cowardly, & Weak: Hollywood's Jewish Stereotypes, by Henry Kellerman
   • A History of Russian Cinema, by Birgit Beumers
   • A Hitchcock Reader, edited by Marshall Deutelbaum & Leland Poaque (hardcover
        reprint)
   • Indian Cinema & Soviet Movie Going After Stalin, by Sudha Rajagopalan
   • I've Always Known How: Mae West, A Personal Biography, by Charlotte Chandler
   • Joan Crawford: The Enduring Star, by Peter Cowie & Mick Lasalie
   • Joseph P. Kennedy Presents: His Hollywood Years, by Cari Beauchamp
   • Mae West: A Personal Biography, by Charlotte Chandler
   • Me, Cheeta: My Life in Hollywood, by Cheeta the Chimp (fictionalized memoir)
   • Movies & Meaning: An Introduction to Film, (5th edition) by Stephen R. Prince
        (paperback)
   • Movies: Directors, Producers, Actors, Critics, Writers, & Poets Reveal Their
        Favorite Forgotten, Underappreciated, & Little–Known Movies, edited by Robert
        Kahn
   • Nazi Cinema's New Women, by Jana F. Bruns
   • Public Cowboy No. 1: The Life & Times of Gene Autry, by Holly George–Warren
        (paperback edition)
   • Screening a Lynching: The Leo Frank Case on Film & Television, by Matthew H.
        Bernstein
   • Skyscraper Cinema: Architecture & Gender in American Film, by Merrill Schleier
   • Soviet Filmography, 1919–1953, by Alastair Renfrew
   • Sybil Thorndike: A Star of Life, by Jonathan Croall
   • Try to Tell the Story: A Memoir, by David Thomson
   • A Vault of Horror: A Book of 80 Great (and not so great) British Horror Movies
        from 1956–1974, by Keith Topping

March, 2009:

   • Border Bandits: Hollywood on the Southern Frontier, by Camilla Fojas (paperback
        edition)
   • Brigitte Bardot: A Collection of Rare Photos, Original Posters & Music from the
        Complete Filmography of the Divine, by Maurizio Baroni & Marco D'Ubaldo
   • Cinema & Sexuality, by Robin Griffiths (paperback)
   • Film: An Introduction, (4th edition) by William H. Phillips (paperback)
   • The Films of Graham Greene (Pocket Essentials), by Adrian Wootton
   • Hollywood & Politics: A Sourcebook, by Donald Critchio
   • The Invention of Europe in French Literature & Film, by Edward Ousselin
   • Kazan on Directing, by Elia Kazan
   • Movie Mania Crosswords to Keep You Sharp (AARP), by Stanley Newman
   • The Night of the Hunter: A Biography of a Film, by Jeffrey Couchman (paperback)
   • 100 Documentaries (BFI Screen Guides), by Barry Keith Grant & Jim Hillier
   • Polanski: A Biography, by Christopher Sandford (paperback edition)
   • Puttin' on the Ritz: Fred Astaire & the Fine Art of Panache (A Biography), by
        Peter Levinson
   • The World & Its Double: The Life & Work of Otto Preminger, by Chris Fujiwara
        (paperback edition)

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