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Bernard Vorhaus

• Hardcover | Engels | Scarecrow Filmmakers | nr. 77
• Before being black-listed in the McCarthy era, Bernard Vorhaus was one of the foremost silent film directors in America, working for studios such as P... Lees meer

Music from the House of Hammer

Randall D Larson

• Hardcover | Engels | Scarecrow Filmmakers | nr. 47
• In the 1950s, Hammer Film Productions, a small British filmmaking company, introduced the world to a new genre of motion picture. Referred to by some ... Lees meer

Films of Steven Spielberg

• Paperback | Engels | Scarecrow Filmmakers | nr. 94
• The Films of Steven Spielberg provides for the first time a collection of critical writings by professional film critics about the director and his fi... Lees meer

Hugo Friedhofer

Linda Danly

• Paperback | Engels | Scarecrow Filmmakers | nr. 66
• New in Paperback! Surveys the impressive career of Hugo Friedhofer, one of Hollywood's extraordinary composers of music for the movies. The composer o... Lees meer

Straight from the Horse's Mouth

Ronald Neame, With Barbara Roisman Cooper

• Hardcover | Engels | Scarecrow Filmmakers | nr. 98
• Now in Paperback! Ronald Neame's autobiography takes its title from one of his best-loved films, The Horse's Mouth (1958), starring Alec Guinness. In ... Lees meer

Budd Schulberg

Nicholas Beck

• Hardcover | Engels | Scarecrow Filmmakers | nr. 91
• This is the first overview of Schulberg's career 1937-2000 (his own autobiography, Moving Pictures , covers his life only to age 17). This book covers... Lees meer

Showdown at High Noon

Jeremy Byman

• Paperback | Engels | Scarecrow Filmmakers | nr. 111
• This is a study of one of the most enduring Westerns, High Noon , a film whose political, cultural, and thematic implications have had a profound infl... Lees meer

Charlie Chaplin

Georgia Hale

• Paperback | Engels | Scarecrow Filmmakers | nr. 44
• Details Hale's long and close relationship with the famous comedian. Lees meer

Joseph H. Lewis

Francis M Nevins

• Hardcover | Engels | Scarecrow Filmmakers | nr. 59
• The first full-length account of the life and work of Joseph H. Lewis, the noted director of films such as My Name is Julia Ross (1945) and The Hallid... Lees meer

Body and Soul

Tony J Williams

• Paperback | Engels | Scarecrow Filmmakers | nr. 110
• Body and Soul explores the work of Robert Aldrich, a producer and director responsible for several notable films, including The Flight of the Phoenix ... Lees meer

Robert Goldstein and 'The Spirit of '76'

Anthony Slide, Robert Goldstein

• Hardcover | Engels | Scarecrow Filmmakers | nr. 34
• Impressed by the success of The Birth of a Nation , Robert Goldstein, owner of a well-known Los Angeles costume supply house, produced his own epic fi... Lees meer

Reinventing Reality-The Art and Life of Rouben Mamoulian

Mark J Spergel

• Hardcover | Engels | Scarecrow Filmmakers | nr. 37
• Theatre and film director Rouben Mamoulian (1897-1987) is known chiefly as a technical innovator and stylist. His stage credits include the original B... Lees meer

Irene Dunne

Wes D Gehring

• Paperback | Engels | Scarecrow Filmmakers | nr. 104
• This is the first full-length biography of Irene Dunne, one of the most versatile actresses of Hollywood's Golden Age. A recipient of the Kennedy Cent... Lees meer

Stanley Donen

Joseph Andrew Casper

• Hardcover | Engels | Scarecrow Filmmakers | nr. 5
• A clear and insightful analysis of the life and work of American director and coreographer, Stanley Donen. Lees meer

No Film in My Camera

Bill Gibson, Jack R Lousma

• Hardcover | Engels | Scarecrow Filmmakers | nr. 76
• Why would you purposefully shoot scenes with no film in your camera? To find the answer, you will need to read this memoir, in which internationally-k... Lees meer

Worms in the Winecup

John Bright

• Hardcover | Engels | Scarecrow Filmmakers | nr. 97
• An extraordinarily hard-hitting autobiography of John Bright, a screenplay writer who gained a major reputation with his first Hollywood script, Publi... Lees meer

Confessions of a Hollywood Director

Richard L Bare

• Hardcover | Engels | Scarecrow Filmmakers | nr. 89
• Richard Bare is primarily known as the sole director of the television series Green Acres , but his Hollywood career spanned over 40 years, starting w... Lees meer

Between the Bullets

Michael Bliss

• Hardcover | Engels | Scarecrow Filmmakers | nr. 92
• Through an examination of representative films from the director's Hong Kong and American periods, Michael Bliss demonstrates that Woo should be regar... Lees meer

Malcolm St. Clair

Ruth Anne Dwyer

• Hardcover | Engels | Scarecrow Filmmakers | nr. 38
• Malcolm St. Clair was a master director of sophisticated silent comedy. This book traces his career, from his start as a Mack Sennett Keystone Kop, th... Lees meer

The Creative Producer

James Curtis

• Hardcover | Engels | Scarecrow Filmmakers | nr. 36
• In 1938, Warner Brothers production chief Hal Wallis grudgingly described David Lewis-one of his six "supervisors" and a veteran of 15 feature films-t... Lees meer

The Silent Feminists

Anthony Slide

• Paperback | Engels | Scarecrow Filmmakers
• American women who contributed their talent to the silent film industry are still largely unrecognized today. In The Silent Feminists , Anthony Slide ... Lees meer

On Actors and Acting

Anthony Slide

• Hardcover | Engels | Scarecrow Filmmakers | nr. 63
• Alexander Knox (1907-1995) was a distinguished stage and screen actor, who is best remembered today for his title performance in the 1944 production o... Lees meer

The Films of Michael Powell and the Archers

Scott Salwolke

• Hardcover | Engels | Scarecrow Filmmakers | nr. 52
• Michael Powell was introduced to film relatively late in life, and feeling dissatisfied with what British films had to offer, he took his primary infl... Lees meer

Some Cutting Remarks

Ralph E Winters

• Hardcover | Engels | Scarecrow Filmmakers | nr. 88
• Drawing from his own ascent through the MGM studio system, Mr. Winters guides the reader through a history of American film editing, beginning with it... Lees meer