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"Silent Movies: The Birth of Film & The Triumph of Movie Culture (from the Archives of the Library of Congress)" [2007] by Peter Kobel Little, Brown 12x9½ hardcover [11/2007] for $29.70 |
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"Cinema: The Archaeology of Film & The Memory of A Century" [2005] by Jean-Luc Godard & Youssef Ishaghpour, translated by John Howe Berg Publrs 7½x5½ pb [3/2005] for $14.04 Berg Publrs 7½x5½ hardcover [3/2005] for $71.95 |
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"The Story of Film: A Worldwide History of Film From The Host of The BBC's Scene By Scene" [2004] by Mark Cousins Thunder's Mouth Press pb [9/2006] for $18.96 Thunder's Mouth Press 9½x6¾ hardcover [8/2004] for $26.40 |
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"A-Z of Silent Film Comedy: An Illustrated Companion" [2003] by Glenn Mitchell, Foreword by Kevin Brownlow B.T. Batsford 9¾x7 pb [6/2003] out of print/used |
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"Dangerous Men: Pre-Code Hollywood & The Birth of The Modern Man" [2002] by Mick LaSalle Thomas Dunne 9½x6½ hardcover [11/2002] for $16.47 |
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"Radical Hollywood: The Untold Story Behind America's Favorite Movies" [2002] by Paul Buhle & David Wagner New Press pb [8/2003] for $19.95 New Press hardcover [5/2002] for $29.95 |
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"Behind The Screen: How Gays & Lesbians Shaped Hollywood, 1910-1969" [2001] by William J. Mann Penguin pb [10/2002] for $12.48 Viking 9½x6½ hardcover [10/2001] out of print/used |
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"The Big Tomorrow" [2000] by Lary May "The most exhilarating work of revisionist film history since Pauline Kael's 'Citizen Kane' ... invigoratingly coherent" – Jay Carr, The Boston Globe Univ of Chicago Press 9x6 pb [12/2002] for $18.00 Univ of Chicago Press 9x6½ hardcover [6/2000] for $21.45 |
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"Bold! Daring! Shocking! True!: A History of Exploitation Films, 1919-1959" [1999] by Eric Schaefer Duke Univ Press 9x6¼ pb [12/99] for $24.95 Duke Univ Press 9¼x6½ hardcover [12/99] for $89.95 |
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"Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality & Insurrection In American Cinema, 1930-1934" [1999] by Thomas Doherty Columbia Univ Press 9x6 pb [8/99] for $23.50 Columbia Univ Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [8/99] for $73.50 |
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"Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of The Exploitation Film" [1999] by Felicia Feaster & Bret Wood Midnight Marquee Press 8¾x6 pb [5/99] for $25.00 |
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"Sin In Soft Focus: Pre-Code Hollywood" [1999] by Mark A. Vieira Harry N. Abrams 12½x9¼ hardcover [3/2003] for $19.98 |
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"Celebrating 1895: The Centenary of Cinema" [1998] Edited by John Fullerton Indiana Univ Press hardcover [11/98] out of print/used |
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"You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet: The American Talking Film - History & Memory, 1927-1949" [YR] by Andrew Sarris Oxford Univ Press 9x6 pb [1/2000] out of print/used Oxford Univ Press 8¾x6¼ hardcover [4/98] out of print/used |
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"On The History of Film Style" [1998] by David Bordwell Harvard Univ Press 9½x7¼ pb [1/98] for $33.00 Harvard Univ Press 10x7¾ hardcover [1/98] out of print/used |
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"The Oxford History of World Cinema: The Definitive History of Cinema Worldwide" [1996] Edited by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith Oxford Univ Press 9¾x7½ pb [2/99] for $29.95 Oxford Univ Press 10x7¾ hardcover [11/96] out of print/used |
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"City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood In The 1940s" [1987] by Otto Friedrich Univ Calif Press 9x6 pb [3/97] for $11.24 HarperCollins hardcover [10/87] out of print/used |
 | "The Classical Hollywood Cinema: Film Style & Mode of Production To 1960" [1985] by David Bordwell, Janet Staiger & Kristin Thompson Columbia Univ Press 9¾x7½ pb [9/85] for $50.00 Columbia Univ Press hardcover [6/85] out of print/used |
History By Decade
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"The Emergence of Cinema: The American Screen To 1907" [1990] by Charles Musser (History of The American Cinema, Vol. 1) Univ CA Press 10x7 pb [5/94] for $34.95 Scribner's 10¼x7½ hardcover [2/90] for $99.00 |
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"The Transformation of Cinema, 1907-1915" [1990] by Eileen Bowser (History of The American Cinema, Vol. 2) Univ CA Press 10x7 pb [5/94] for $18.21 Scribner's 10¼x7½ hardcover [12/90] for $99.00 |
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"An Evening's Entertainment: The Age of The Silent Feature Picture, 1915-1928" [1990] by Richard Koszarski (History of The American Cinema, Vol. 3) Univ CA Press 10x7 pb [5/94] for $27.50 Scribner's 10½x7½ hardcover [12/90] for $99.00 |
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"The Talkies: American Cinema's Transition To Sound, 1926-1931" [1997] by Donald Crafton (History of The American Cinema, Vol. 4) Univ CA Press 9¾x7 pb [11/99] for $26.12 Scribner's 10¼x7½ hardcover [12/97] for $99.00 |
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"American Cinema of The 1930s: Themes & Variations" [2007] Edited by Ina Rae Hark Rutgers Univ Press pb [9/2007] for $22.95 Rutgers Univ Press hardcover [9/2007] for $68.00 |
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"Grand Design: Hollywood As A Modern Business Enterprise, 1930-1939" [1993] by Tino Balio (History of The American Cinema, Vol. 5) Univ CA Press 10x7 pb [1/96] for $23.70 Scribner's 10½x7½ hardcover [2/93] for $99.00 |
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"American Cinema of The 1940s: Themes & Variations" [2005] Edited by Wheeler Winston Dixon Rutgers Univ Press 9x6 pb [12/2005] for $21.80 Rutgers Univ Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [12/2005] for $62.00 |
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"Boom and Bust: American Cinema In The 1940s" [1997] by Thomas Schatz (History of The American Cinema, Vol. 6) Univ CA Press 10x7 pb [11/99] for $27.50 Scribner's 10x7 hardcover [11/97] for $99.00 |
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"American Cinema of The 1950s: Themes & Variations" [2005] Edited by Murray Pomerance Rutgers Univ Press 9¼x6¼ pb [10/2005] for $22.95 Rutgers Univ Press 9½x6¼ hardcover [10/2005] for $62.00 |
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"The Fifties: Transforming The Screen, 1950-1959" [2003] by Peter Lev (History of The American Cinema, Vol. 7) Univ CA Press 10x7 pb [11/2006] for $18.15 Scribner's 10¼x7½ hardcover [7/2003] out of print/used |
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"American Cinema of The 1960s: Themes & Variations"  [2008] Edited by Barry Keith Grant Rutgers Univ Press pb [3/2008] for $24.95 Rutgers Univ Press hardcover [3/2008] for $70.00 |
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"The Sixties, 1960-1969" [2000] by Paul Monaco (History of The American Cinema, Vol. 8) Univ CA Press 10x7 pb [6/2003] for $20.08 Scribner's 10¼x7¼ hardcover [12/2000] for $99.00 |
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"American Cinema of The 1970s: Themes & Variations" [2007] Edited by Lester D. Friedman Rutgers Univ Press 9¼x6 pb [4/2007] for $22.95 Rutgers Univ Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [4/2007] for $68.00 |
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"Lost Illusions: American Cinema In The Age of Watergate & Vietnam, 1970-1979" [1999] by David A. Cook (History of The American Cinema, Vol. 9) Univ CA Press 9½x7½ pb [3/2002] for $30.88 Scribner's 10¼x7½ hardcover [11/99] for $99.00 |
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"American Cinema of The 1980s: Themes & Variations" [2007] Edited by Stephen Prince Rutgers Univ Press pb [7/2007] for $22.95 Rutgers Univ Press hardcover [7/2007] for $68.00 |
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"New Pot of Gold: Hollywood Under The Electric Rainbow, 1980-1989" [1999] by Stephen Prince (History of The American Cinema, Vol. 10) Univ CA Press 10x7 pb [3/2002] for $26.12 Scribner's 10¼x7½ hardcover [11/99] for $99.00 |
History of Hollywood
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"Hollywood's Hellfire Club: The Misadventures of John Barrymore, W.C. Fields, Errol Flynn, and 'The Bundy Drive Boys'" [2007] by Gregory William Mank, with Charles Heard & Bill Nelson Among the notable off-screen hell-raisers here are John Barrymore, John Carradine, John Decker, W.C. Fields, Errol Flynn, Will Fowler, Sadakichi Hartmann & Ben Hecht Feral House 9½x6 pb [10/2007] for $15.61 |
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"Progressive Hollywood: A People's History of The United States" [2005] by Ed Rampell Disinformation 9x6 pb [5/2005] for $14.95 publisher official bookpage |
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"The Whole Equation: A History of Hollywood" [2004] by David Thomson Knopf 9½x6½ hardcover [11/2004] for $18.45 |
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"Blue-Collar Hollywood: Liberalism, Democracy & Working People In American Film" [2003] by John Bodnar Johns Hopkins Univ Press 9x6 pb [8/2006] for $25.00 Johns Hopkins Univ Press 9x6 hardcover [4/2003] for $45.00 |
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"Hollywood In Vintage Postcards" [2003] Created by Rod Kennedy Jr., text by Elizabeth Ellis Gibbs Smith 7¾x7¾ pb [4/2003] for $14.95 |
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"Life: In Hollywood" [2003] by The Editors of Life Magazine Time-Life 11½x9¼ hardcover [3/2003] for $18.96 |
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"Hollywood 1900-1950 In Vintage Postcards" [2002] by Thomas Dangcil Arcadia Publng 9½x6½ pb [9/2002] for $13.59 |
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"The Bad & The Beautiful: Hollywood In The Fifties" [2002] by Sam Kashner & Jennifer MacNair W.W. Norton 8½x5½ pb [5/2003] for $15.15 Konecky & Konecky 9¼x6 hardcover [2/2006] for $10.98 W.W. Norton 9¼x6½ hardcover [6/2002] out of print/many used |
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"Hollywood Noir: Featuring Ronald Reagan" [2001] by Richard Olsen Xlibris 8½x5½ pb [10/2001] for $21.99 Xlibris 8¾x6 hardcover [10/2001] for $31.99 |
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"Lost Hollywood" [2001] by David Wallace
"A treat for Hollywood history buffs." St. Martin 9½x6¼ pb [3/2002] for $10.47 St. Martin 9½x6½ hardcover [4/2001] for $16.77 |
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"Sins of The City: The Real Los Angeles Noir" [1999] by Jim Heimann Chronicle Books 10x7½ pb [7/99] for $13.27 |
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"Negotiating Hollywood: The Cultural Politics of Actors' Labor" [1995] by Danae Clark A pioneering study of labor struggles in 1930s Hollywood Univ MN Press 9x6 pb [10/95] for $22.00 Univ MN Press 9¼x6 hardcover [10/95] for $44.95 |
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"The Hollywood Studio System: A History" [1986] by Douglas Gomery British Film Institute pb [9/2005] for $19.29 British Film Institute hardcover [9/2005] for $80.00 |
Hollywood & History
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"Reconstructing American Historical Cinema: From Cimarron To Citizen Kane" [2006] by J.E. Smyth Univ Press KY hardcover [10/2006] for $50.00 |
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"History In The Media: Film and Television" [2006] by Robert Niemi ABC-CLIO 10x7 hardcover [7/2006] for $85.00 |
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"Hollywood's History Films" [2006] by David Eldridge I.B. Tauris 9x6 pb [6/2006] for $26.95 I.B. Tauris 8¼x6¼ hardcover [6/2006] for $79.95 |
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"Screening America: United States History Through Film Since 1900" [2005] by James J. Lorence Longman 9x7¾ pb [4/2005] for $40.80 |
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"The Columbia Companion To American History On Film: How The Movies Have Portrayed The American Past" [2004] Edited by Peter C. Rollins Columbia Univ Press 10½x7½ hardcover [3/2004] for $93.50 |
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"Reel History: In Defense of Hollywood" [2002] by Robert Brent Toplin Univ Press of KS 9¼x6 pb [10/2002] for $17.95 Univ Press of KS 9¼x6 hardcover [10/2002] for $35.00 |
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"History By Hollywood: The Use & Abuse of The American Past" [1996] by Robert Brent Toplin Univ IL Press 9x6 pb [7/96] for $17.95 Univ IL Press 9½x6½ hardcover [7/96] out of print/used |
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"Past Imperfect: History According To The Movies” [1995] Edited by Mark C. Carnes Owl 10x7½ pb [11/96] for $15.30 Henry Holt & Co. 10¼x8 hardcover [9/95] out of print/many used |
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"Hollywood's America: United States History Through It's Films" [1993] Edited by Steven Mintz & Randy Roberts Wiley-Blackwell 8¾x6 pb [8/2001] out of print/used Brandywine Press 9x6 pb [6/93] out of print/used |
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"Bio/Pics: How Hollywood Constructed Public History" [1992] by George F. Custen Rutgers Univ Press 9x6 pb [6/92] for $17.94 Rutgers Univ Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [6/92] out of print/used |
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"Hollywood As Historian: American Film In A Cultural Context" [1983] by Peter C. Rollins Univ Press of KY 9x6 pb [6/97] for $22.00 Univ Press of KY 9¼x6¼ hardcover [4/98] out of print/many used Univ Press of KY hardcover [4/83] out of print/rare |
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"Movie-Made America: A Cultural History of American Movies" [orig 1975; rev 1994] by Robert Sklar Vintage 9x6 pb [12/94] for $14.28 Vintage 9x6 pb [7/76] out of print/many used |
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