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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2012 Publications
Books are listed alphabetically under their announced month of release.NOTE: Publication dates are often rescheduled or delayed indefinitely.
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January, 2012:
• The Accidental Feminist: How Elizabeth Taylor Raised Our Consciousness & We Were Too Distracted By Her Beauty to Notice , by M.B. LordAmerican Cinema / American Culture America's Corporate Art: The Studio Authorship of Hollywood Motion Pictures (1929–2001) Atomic Cover–Up: Two U.S. Soldiers, Hiroshima & Nagasaki, & the Greatest Movie Never Made Bringing Up Oscar: The Story of the Men & Women Who Founded the Academy California History for Kids: Missions, Miners, & Moviemakers in the Golden State Century Girl: 100 Years in the Life of Doris Eaton Travis, Last Living Star of the Ziegfeld Follies Classics on Screen: Ancient Greece & Rome on Film Concentrationary Cinema: Aesthetics as Political Resistance in Alain Resnais's 'Night and Fog' • Crime (Routledge Film Guidebooks) , by Sarah Casey BenyahiaDarkening Mirrors: Imperial Representation in Depression–Era African American Performance Early Cinema Today: The Art of Programming & Live Performance Emerald Illusions: The Irish in Early American Cinema Film & Genocide The Film Experience: An Introduction Framing the Nation: Documentary Film in Interwar France The Garden on Sunset Gender Meets Genre in Postwar Cinemas The Genius & the Goddess: Arthur Miller & Marilyn Monroe Godard, Between Identity & Difference The Greatest Movies Ever: The Ultimate Ranked List of the 101 Best Films of All Time Hedy Lamarr: The Most Beautiful Woman in Film Hideous Progeny: Disability, Eugenics, & Classic Horror Cinema • Hitchcock Annual: Volume 17 , edited by Sidney Gottlieb & Richard Allen (paperback)Hollywood Lives: Movie Stars in the Golden Age, their own stories Hollywood Westerns & American Myth: The Importance of Howard Hawks & John Ford for Political Philosophy • Hollywood's Detectives: Crime Series in the 1930s & 1940s from the Whodunnit to Hardboiled Noir , by Fran Mason • Humphrey Bogart: The Films From 1941 to 1956 , by Ron Goulart & Daniel Herman • Italian Neorealist Cinema , by Torunn Haaland • Learning With the Lights Off: Educational Film in the United States , edited by • The Life & Death of Thelma Todd , by William Donati (paperback) • Luis Buñuel: The Red Years, 1929–1939 , by Roman Gubern & Paul Hammond • The Marx Brothers Encyclopedia , (revised & expanded) by Glen Mitchell (paperback) • Mexican Cinema: Reflections of a Society, 1896–2004 , (3rd edition) by Carl J. • Photography, Early Cinema & Colonial Modernity: Frank Hurley's Synchronized Lecture Entertainments , by Robert Dixon • Ronald Reagan: A Biography , by J. David Woodard • Screwball Comedy & Film Noir: An Analysis of Their Imagery & Character Kinship , by Thomas C. Renzi (paperback) • Seeing Fictions in Film: The Epistemology of Movies , by George M. Wilson • Selling the Congo: A History of European Pro–Empire Propaganda & the Making of Belgian Imperialism , by Matthew G. Stanard • Sergio Leone: Something to Do With Death , by Christopher Frayling (paperback • Sherlock Holmes of Screen , (updated edition) by Alan Barnes (paperback) • Silents!: A Mystery in History , by H.P. Oliver (fiction: set in Hollywood during the • Son of Forgotten Hollywood Forgotten History , by Manny Pacheco (self–published • The Spacesuit Film: A History, 1918–1969 , by Gary Westfahl (paperback) • Stardust Monuments: The Saving & Selling of Hollywood , by Alison Trope • Waifs of the Wasteland , by Wayne Beauvais (fiction: set in Hollywood during the • Walt Disney & Recollections of the Disney Studios: 1955–1980 , by Charles • Western Movie Photographs & Autographs , by Ken Owens • What Ever Happened to Mommie Dearest?: Joan Crawford's Descent into Horror & Beyond , by John William Law (paperback) • White Gypsies: Race & Stardom in Spanish Musicals , by Eva Woods Peiro • The Wiley–Blackwell History of American Film (Four Volume Set) , edited by
• The Anatomy of Harpo Marx , by Wayne KoestenbaumAnthony Asquith (British Film Makers) Barbara Stanwyck: The Miracle Woman The Battle for the Bs: 1950s Hollywood & the Rebirth of Low–Budget Cinema Camera Historica: The Century in Cinema • The Cinema & the Origins of Literary Modernism , by Andrew Shail • A Companion to German Cinema , edited by Terri Ginsberg & Andrea Mensch • Dismantling the Dream Factory: Gender, German Cinema, & the Postwar Quest for a New Film Language , by Hester Baer (paperback reprint) • Documenting Racism: African Americans in US Department of Agriculture Documentaries, 1921–1942 , by Emmett J. Winn • Eighty Silent Film Stars: Biographies & Filmographies of the Obscure to the Well Known , by George A. Katchmer (paperback reprint) • Fatalism in American Film Noir: Some Cinematic Philosophy , by Robert B. Pippin • Film: A Very Short Introduction , by Michael Wood (paperback) • Filming Fiction: Tagore, Premchand, & Ray , edited by Mohd Asaduddin & Anuradha • Georges Franju (French Film Directors) , by Kate Ince (paperback reprint) • Gothic Machine: Textualities, Pre–Cinematic Media & Film in Popular Visual Culture 1670–1910 , by David Jones • Henry Mancini: Reinventing Film Music , by John Caps • A History of Greek Cinema , by Vrasidas Karalis • Hitchcock Re–viewed , by Gilbert Adair • Hollywood & the American Historical Film , edited by J.E. Smyth • Hollywood Melodrama & the New Deal: Public Daydreams , by Anna Siomopoulos • The Hollywood Sign: Fantasy & Reality of an American Icon , by Leo Braudy • Karel Reisz (British Film Makers) , by Colin Gardner (paperback reprint) • Lady Blue Eyes: My Life With Frank , by Barbara Sinatra (paperback edition) • London Movie Guide: Walks, Tours & Locations , by Simon James (paperback) • The Men Who Knew Too Much: Henry James & Alfred Hitchcock , edited by Susan • Mothers, Mammies & Old Maids: Twenty–five Character Actresses of Golden Age Hollywood , by Axel Nissen (paperback) • Nationalising Femininity: Culture, Sexuality & British Cinema in the Second World War , edited by Christine Gledhill & Gillian Swanson (paperback reprint) • Paul Tillich & the Possibility of Revelation Through Film , by Jonathan Brant • Roy Ward Baker (British Film Makers) , by Geoff Mayer (paperback reprint) • Sport Documentaries , by Ian McDonald • Studies in Terror: Landmarks of Horror Cinema , by Jonathan Rigby • Studying French Cinema , by Isabelle Vanderschelden • Sydney Box (British Film Makers) , by Andrew Spicer (paperback reprint) • Tough Without A Gun: The Life & Extraordinary Afterlife of Humphrey Bogart , • Travels of Bollywood Cinema: From Bombay to LA , edited by Anjali Gery Roy & • Under Foreign Eyes: Western Cinematic Adaptations of Postwar Japan , by • Willing Seduction: The Blue Angel, Marlene Dietrich, & Mass Culture , by Barbara
• American Rose – A Nation Laid Bare: The Life & Times of Gypsy Rose Lee , byAmerican Silent Horror, Science Fiction, & Fantasy Feature Films, 1913–1929 The Astaires: Fred & Adele Bollywood: A Guidebook to Popular Hindi Cinema • Borderlands Media: Cinema & Literature as Opposition to the Oppression of Immigrants , by David Toohey • The Brain Works: The Movie Maniac's Ultimate Puzzle & Trivia Book , by TriviaTex • Brutal Vision: The Neorealist Body in Postwar Italian Cinema , by Karl Schoonover • Carl Theodor Dreyer & Ordet: My Summer With the Danish Filmmaker , by Jan • China in Film: A Visual Cultural Revolution , by Da Eng Zhong (paperback) • Cinema By Other Means , by Pavie Levi • Col. William N. Selig: The Man Who Invented Hollywood , by Andrew A. ErishDirectory of World Cinema: Iran • Directory of World Cinema: Germany , by Michelle Langford (paperback)Equivocal Subjects: Between Italy & Africa – Constructions of Racial & National Identity in the Italian Cinema The Film: A Psychological Study Film Noir Film Noir (New Approaches to Film Genre) Film Noir: The Directors Frank Sinatra (A Life in Pictures) Greek Cinema: Texts, Histories, Identities Hitchcock's Ear: Music & the Director's Art Hollywood Movies on the Couch: A Psychoanalyst Examines 15 Famous Films Hollywood 1938: Motion Pictures' Greatest Year Horror Cinema Intersections: Writings on Cinema The Lasting Influence of the War on Postwar British Film • Literature & Film in Cold War South Korea: Freedom's Frontier , by Theodore • Marlene: Marlene Dietrich, A Personal Biography , by Charlotte Chandler • Music, Sound & Filmmakers: Sonic Style in Cinema , edited by James Wierzbicki • Music, Sound, & Technology in America: A Documentary History of Early Phonograph, Cinema, & Radio , edited by Timothy D. Taylor, et al. • Name That Movie: 100 Illustrated Movie Puzzles , by Paul Rogers • The New Woman International: Representations in Photography & Film From the 1870s through the 1960s , by Elizabeth Otto & Vanessa Rocco (paperback ed.) • 100 Years Studio Babelsberg: The Art of Filmmaking , by teNeues Publishing • Peter Lorre: Face Maker (Constructing Stardom & Performance in Hollywood and Europe) , by Sarah Thomas • The Poetics of Slumberland: Animated Spirits & the Animating Spirit , by Scott • Postwar Renoir: Film & the Memory of Violence , by Colin Davis • Reading Films: My International Cinema , by Douglas Messerli (paperback) • Robert Bresson , (revised & expanded) edited by James Quandt (paperback) • The Routledge Encyclopedia of Film Theory , edited by Edward Barnigan & Warren • Russian Film Posters: 1900–1930 , by Maria–Christina Boerner • Seeing the Light: Exploring Ethics Through Movies , by Wanda Teays • South African Cinema, 1896–2010 , by Martin Botha (paperback) • Tashlinesque: The Hollywood Comedies of Frank Tashlin , by Ethan de Seife • The Treasures of Noël Coward , by Barry Day (includes a DVD) • Visions of Aging: Images of the Elderly in Film , by Amir Cohen–Shalev (paperback • When Magoo Flew: The Rise & Fall of Animation Studio UPA , by Adam Abraham
• Americanizing Britain: The Rise of Modernism in the Age of the Entertainment Empire , by Genevieve AbravanelArchitecture for the Screen: A Critical Study of Set Design in Hollywood's Golden Age Beaton in Vogue Conversations at the American Film Institute With the Great Moviemakers: The Next Generation (From the 1950s to Hollywood Today) Dear Cary: My Life with Cary Grant Deeply Superficial: Noel Coward, Marlene Dietrich, & Me A Difficult Woman: The Challenging Life & Times of Lillian Hellman The Dinosaur Films of Ray Harryhausen: Features, Early 16mm Experiments and Unrealized Projects Directory of World Cinema: China Directory of World Cinema: Japan 2 Dressing Marilyn: How A Hollywood Icon Was Styled by William Tavilla Elizabeth Taylor, 1932–2011: Queen of the Silver Screen The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville Europe & Love in Cinema Feminist Film Studies The Film Encyclopedia: The Complete Guide to Film and the Film Industry The Godfather Was A Girl: . . . and Blanche Dubois Was A Guy – Real People Who Inspired Famous & Infamous Characters The Great Moviemakers: The Next Generation (Conversations at the American Film Institute) Gunfight at the Eco–Corral: Western Cinema & the Environment Hammer Films: An Exhaustive Filmography Hemingway: The 1930s Through the Final Years Historical Dictionary of Holocaust Cinema Hollywood's Copyright Wars: From Edison to the Internet An Introduction to Film Analysis: Technique & Meaning in Narrative Film The Irving Berlin Reader Irving Berlin's American Musical Theater Jean Epstein: Critical Essays & New Translations Jeannie Out of the Bottle Lady Blue Eyes: My Life With Frank Latino American Cinema: An Encyclopedia of Movies, Stars, Concepts, & Trends Marcel Pagnol (French Film Directors) Margarita Fischer: A Biography of the Silent Film Star Max Factor: The Man Who Changed the Faces of the World Music, Sound & Filmmakers: Sonic Style in Cinema Mystery Movie Series of 1930s Hollywood A New History of Documentary Film Olivia de Havilland & Joan Fontaine – Twisted Sisters: To Each Her Own 100 Ideas that Changed Film Paul R. Williams: Classic Hollywood Style • Postwar Renoir: Film & the Memory of Violence , by Colin Davis • Psychology at the Movies , by Skip Dine Young (paperback) • RKO Radio Pictures: A Titan Is Born , by Richard B. Jewell • Romantics & Modernists in British Cinema , by John Orr (hardcover reprint) • Stardom & the Aesthetics of Neorealism: Ingrid Bergman in Rossellini's Italy , • The Superhero Book: The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Comic–Book Icons & Hollywood Heroes , (2nd edition) by Gina Misiroglu (paperback) • Talk About Cinema , by Jean–Baptiste Thoret (paperback) • Theda Bara: A Biography of the Silent Screen Vamp (With a Filmography) , by • The Three Stooges Scrapbook , (revised) by Jeff Lenburg, et al. (paperback) • Weimar Film & Modern Jewish Identity , by Ofer Ashkenazi • Westerns: The Essential 'Journal of Popular Film & Television' Collection , edited • When Eagles Dared: The Filmgoers' History of World War II , by Howard Hughes • Women Vaudeville Stars: Eighty Biographical Profiles , by Armond Fields • Zombies A–Z , by Dan Oliver (paperback)
• An American Organist in Paris: The Letters of Orville Lee Erwin, 1930–1931 ,American Showman: Samuel 'Roxy' Rothafel & the Birth of the Entertainment Industry, 1908–1935 Animation Under the Swastika: A History of Trickfilm in Nazi Germany, 1933– 1945 Audrey Hepburn: A Charmed Life The Biographical Encyclopedia of Hollywood, Vol. 2 British Comedy Cinema The Classical Hollywood Reader A Companion to Chinese Cinema European Nightmares: Horror Cinema in Europe Since 1945 History on Film / Film on History Hollywood Cinema & the Real Los Angeles The Hollywood Film Musical J. Edgar Hoover Goes to the Movies: The FBI & the Origins of Hollywood's Cold War John Wayne, The Legend & the Man: An Exclusive Look Inside the Duke's Archives Lupe Vélez: The Life & Career of Hollywood's 'Mexican Spitfire' • Magic, Myth & Monsters: Music, Sound & Fantasy Cinema , edited by Janet K.Marc Blitzstein: His Life, His Work, His World Marilyn by Magnum Marilyn Monroe: Murder on Fifth Helena Drive Music Is My Life: Louis Armstrong, Autobiography, & American Jazz My Life As A Mankiewicz: An Insider's Journey Through Hollywood • The Philosophy of Horror , edited by Thomas Fahy (paperback reprint) • The Popular French Cinema: From the Classical to the Trans–national , by • Ray Harryhausen's Fantasy Scrapbook: Models, Artwork & Memories from 65 Years of Filmmaking , by Ray Harryhausen & Tony Dalton • The Rise of Spanish–Language Filmmaking: Out from Hollywood's Shadow, 1929–1939 , by Lisa Jarvinen • The Sacred & the Cinema: Reconfiguring the 'Genuinely' Religious Film , by • Sir John Gielgud: A Life in Letters , by John Gielgud (edited by Richard Mangan) • Stan Without Ollie: The Stan Laurel Solo Films, 1917–1927 , by Ted Okuda & • They Knew Marilyn Monroe: Famous Persons in the Life of the Hollywood Icon , • The Third Reich's Celluloid War: Propaganda in Nazi Feature Films, Documentaries & Television , by Ian Garden • 3–D A–to–Z: An Encyclopedic Dictionary , by Richard W. Kroon (paperback) • The Vampire Film: Undead Cinema (Short Cuts) , by Jeffrey Weinstock (paperback) • Weill's Musical Theater: Stages of Reform , by Stephen Hinton
• The Aesthetics of Antifascist Film: Radical Projection , by Jennifer BarkerAlfred Hitchcock's 'Frenzy': The Last Masterpiece The American Success Myth on Film Cinema As Weather: Stylistic Screens & Atmospheric Change Collaborations With the Past: Reshaping Shakespeare Across Time & Media Colleen Moore: A Biography of the Silent Film Star A Companion to Early Cinema Creolizing the Metropole: Migrant Caribbean Identities in Literature & Film Culture of Class: Radio & Cinema in the Making of a Divided Argentina, 1920–1946 Directory of World Cinema: France Evaluating the Achievement of One Hundred Years of Scandinavian Cinema: Dreyer, Bergman, Von Trier, & Others Funny: The Book – Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Comedy Graphic Horror: Movie Monster Memories Heat Wave: The Life & Career of Ethel Waters Hermes Pan: The Man Who Danced With Fred Astaire Historical Dictionary of Chinese Cinema Historical Dictionary of Taiwan Cinema Hollywood Movie Stills: Art & Technique in the Golden Age of the Studios Horror & the Horror Film If You Like 'The Terminator' . . . Here Are Over 150 Movies, TV Shows, & Other Oddities That You Will Love Making Personas: Transnational Film Stardom in Modern Japan Margaret Mitchell's 'Gone With The Wind': A Bestseller's Odyssey from Atlanta to Hollywood • Marilyn At Rainbow's End: Sex, Lies, Murder, & the Great Cover–Up , by Darwin • Marilyn Monroe: Private & Confidential , by Michelle Morgan (paperback reprint) • Moving Color: Early Film, Mass Culture, Modernism , by Joshua Yumibe • Paul Robeson & the Cold War Performance Complex: Race, Madness, Activism , • Polanski & Perception: The Psychology of Seeing & the Cinema of Roman Polanski , by Davide Caputo (paperback) • Reeling with Laughter: American Film Comedies, From Anarchy to Mockumentary , by Michael V. Tueth • Reforming Hollywood: How American Protestants Fought for Freedom at the Movies , by William D. Romanowski • Shohei Imamura , edited by James Quandt (paperback reprint) • Siegfried Kracauer's American Writings: Essays on Film & Popular Culture , by • The Three Stooges: Hollywood Filming Locations , by Jim Pauley • 3–D Revolution: The History of Modern Stereoscopic Cinema , by Ray Zone • VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever, 2013 , published by Gale • What A Wonderful World: The Magic of Louis Armstrong's Later Years , by Ricky • The 'Wizard of Oz' Twister Kit: Kansas to Oz in One Spin , published by Running
• Allan Dwan & the Rise & Decline of the Hollywood Studios , by Frederic LombardiBetty Grable Paper Dolls Beverly Garland: Her Life & Career Character Actors in Horror & Science Fiction Films, 1930–1960 Cinema & Inter–American Relations: Tracking Transnational Affect The Cinema of Germany Cinema, Philosophy, Bergman: On Film As Philosophy Color & the Moving Image: History, Theory, Aesthetics, Archive (AFI Film Readers) The Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film Directory of World Cinema: Britain Directory of World Cinema: Sweden Electric Dreamland: Amusement Parks, Movies, & American Modernity Film Theories & Philosophies of Colour: The Residual Image The Films of Jean Seberg • Hammer Glamour 2013 Calendar , by Titan Books (wall calendar) • John Wayne: His Life & Films , by Ceri Thomas • Marilyn & Me: A Photographer's Memories , by Lawrence Schiller • Marilyn in Fashion: The Enduring Influence of Marilyn Monroe , by Christopher • Marilyn Monroe: The Final Years , by Keith Badman (hardcover reprint) • Marilyn Monroe: 2013 Wall Calendar , by Aquarius Images (calendar) • North Korea Cinema: A History , by Johannes Schönherr (paperback) • The Past is a Moving Picture: Preserving the Twentieth Century on Film , by • Pulp Fiction to Film Noir: The Great Depression & the Development of a Genre , • The Rat Pack: 2013 Wall Calendar , by Aquarius Images (calendar) • Revelations: The Passion & Paradox of Marilyn Monroe , by Lois Banner • Samuel Fuller: Interviews , edited by Gerald Peary • Science Fiction (Routledge Film Guidebooks) , by Mark Bould • Screen Nazis: Cinema, History, & Democracy , by Sabine Hake (paperback) • Screening the Face , by Paul Coates • The Titanic on Film: Myth versus Truth , by Linda Maria Koldau (paperback) • We Love Lucy: Celebrating Lucille Ball at 100 (LIFE Magazine) , by the Editors • The 'Wizard of Oz' As American Myth: A Critical Study of Six Versions of the Story, 1900–2007 , by Alissa Burger (paperback)
• Adapting Graham Greene: Cinema, Television, Radio , by Richard J. HandComedy & Cultural Critique in American Film D.W. Griffith: Interviews Directory of World Cinema: South Korea The Encyclopedia of B Westerns Hollywood's South Seas & the Pacific War: Searching for Dorothy Lamour • The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe , by Donald H. Wolfe (paperback reprint) • Leaving Home: A Hollywood Blacklisted Writer's Years Abroad , by Anne Edwards • Leonard Bernstein's 'On the Waterfront': A Film Score Guide , by Anthony Bushard • Nicholas Ray: The Glorious Failure of an Amercian Director , by Patrick McGilligan • Oxford Dictionary of Film Studies , by Annette Kuhn & Guy Westwell (paperback) • The Scene of the Mass Crime: History, Film, & International Tribunals , edited by • Sport & Film , by Sean Crosson
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