André Bazin, the Critic as Thinker American Cinema from Early Chaplin to the Late 1950s

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgements -- List of Film Images -- Introduction -- I: Themes and Genres -- Westerns and Americans -- Howard Hughes’s The Outlaw -- A Meta-Western: Fred Zinnemann’s High Noon -- The Western, or the American Film Par Excellence -- The Evolution of the Western -- Brilliant Variations on Some Well-Known Notes: Nicholas Ray’s Johnny Guitar -- The Exemplary Beauty of Westerns: Anthony Mann’s The Man from Laramie and Budd Boetticher’s Seven Men from Now -- War and Peace -- Howard Hawks’s Air Force -- On Frank Capra’s Why We Fight: History, Documentation, and the Newsreel -- On Ambiguity: John Huston’s The Red Badge of Courage -- War Films: Richard Fleischer’s Between Heaven and Hell and Anthony Mann’s Men in War -- Stanley Kramer’s The Pride and the Passion -- High Infidelity: David Lean’s The Bridge on the River Kwai -- Stars and Goddesses -- Entomology of the Pin-Up Girl -- Henry Hathaway’s Niagara -- Doll in the Flesh, Cotton on Fire: Elia Kazan’s Baby Doll -- The Death of Humphrey Bogart -- The Question of James Dean -- Off the Beaten Path: John Cromwell’s The Goddess -- Fugitives and Criminals -- Howard Hawks’s Scarface and the Gangster Film -- Joseph Losey’s M: Remade in the U.S.A. -- Women in Cages: John Cromwell’s Caged -- Film through a Telephoto Lens: Ray Ashley, Morris Engel, & Ruth Orkin’s The Little Fugitive -- Sociological Routines: Philip Dunne’s Ten North Frederick -- Jean Renoir’s The Woman on the Beach, The Southerner, and The Diary of a Chambermaid -- II: Artists and Directors -- Charles Chaplin [1889–1977] -- Charlie Chaplin -- The Myth of Monsieur Verdoux -- Limelight, or the Death of Molière -- The Grandeur of Limelight -- Alfred Hitchcock [1899–1980] -- On Shadow of a Doubt, Lifeboat, and Rear Window -- Pan Shot of Hitchcock -- Must We Believe in Hitchcock? …”
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George Stevens a filmmaker's journey by Davis, Carl, 1936-

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George Stevens : a filmmaker's journey by Davis, Carl, 1936-

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The National Society of Film Critics on movie comedy

Table of Contents: “…Chaplin / Roger Ebert -- High comedy in the thirties / Bernard Drew -- American madness -- Hawksian comedy / Andrew Sarris -- The front page and His girl Friday / Richard Corliss -- Frank Capra / William S. Pechter -- Lubitsch and his disciples -- Ernst Lubitsch / Richard Schickel, Arthur Knight, Andrew Sarris -- Trouble in paradise / Richard Corliss -- Marriage Cukor style / Molly Haskell -- The Philadelphia story / Penelope Gilliatt -- Some like it hot / Richard Corliss -- The forties and fifties -- Preston Sturges / Andrew Sarris -- The miracle of Morgan's Creek / Gary Arnold -- Frank Tashlin / Stuart Byron -- Jerry Lewis / Stuart Byron -- Blake Edwards / Stuart Byron -- Spoofing -- Against spoofing / Pauline Kael -- Beat the devil / Charles Champlin -- Cat Baillou / Judith Crist -- Up from underground -- Lonesome cowboys / Richard Schickel -- Trash / Vincent Canby -- Putney Swope / Vincent Canby -- Mel Brooks -- The producers / Andrew Sarris -- Blazing saddles / Richard Schickel, Gary Arnold -- Young Frankenstein / Colin L. …”


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Why we fought : America's wars in film and history

Table of Contents: “…Miller -- Why we fight and Projections of America: Frank Capra, Robert Riskin, and the making of World War II propaganda / Ian S. …”
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The scroll and the marble : studies in reading and reception in Hellenistic poetry by Bing, Peter

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This is Orson Welles by Welles, Orson, 1915-1985

Table of Contents: “…Bernstein -- Roger Hill -- Makeup -- The march of time -- Color vs. black-and-white -- Kane's release -- Oscars -- Grand Detour -- pt. 3: New York -- The magnificent Ambersons -- Tarkington and Twain -- Don Quixote -- The deep -- Chimes at midnight -- Black magic -- Greta Garbo -- Cyrano de Bergerac -- Alexander Korda -- Russian writers -- Around the world in 80 days -- pt. 4: Van Nuys: Charlie Chaplin -- Monsieur Verdoux -- Greta Garbo -- W.C. Fields -- Frank Capra -- Federico Fellini -- Jean-Luc Godard -- Censored -- Kenji Muzoguchi -- Vittorio de Sica -- Directing -- James Cagney -- Eisenstein and Ivan the terrible -- Carl Dreyer -- Harry D'Arrast -- Cecil B. …”


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100 Cult Films. by Mathijs, Ernest

Table of Contents: “…Harold and Maude, Hal Ashby, 1971Häxan, Benjamin Christensen, 1922; Hellraiser, Clive Barker, 1987; The Holy Mountain, Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1973; The House with the Laughing Windows, Pupi Avati, 1976; I Walked with a Zombie, Jacques Tourneur, 1943; Ichi the Killer, Takashi Miike, 2001; In Bruges, Martin McDonagh, 2008; Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Don Siegel, 1956; Invocation of My Demon Brother, Kenneth Anger, 1969; It's a Wonderful Life, Frank Capra, 1946; The Killer, John Woo, 1989; Lady Terminator, H. …”
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Barbara Stanwyck : the miracle woman by Callahan, Dan, 1977-

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Billy Jack 35th anniversary ultimate collection

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The VES handbook of visual effects : industry standard VFX practices and procedures

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The films in my life. by Truffaut, François

Table of Contents: “…*; God bless john ford; Fritz lang in america; Frank Capra, the healer; Howard Hawks; Scarface; Gentlemen Prefer Blondes; Land of the Pharaohs; Joseph Von Sternberg; Jet Pilot; Alfred hitchcock; Rear Window; To Catch a Thief; The Wrong Man…”
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