From "Over the Rainbow" to "Moon River" and from Al Jolson to Barbra Streisand, The Songs of Hollywood traces the fascinating history of song in film, both in musicals and in drama...9999903260844Philip Furia Laurie Patte...
Oxford University Press
jueves, 16 de enero de 2025
The Cinema of Michael CurtizMichael Curtiz (1888-1962) was without doubt one of the most important directors in film history, yet he has never been granted his deserved recognition and no full-scale work on h...9999903260769James C. Robertson
Routledge
jueves, 16 de enero de 2025
"What I set out to do is to help you see movies better, to experience them more deeply and sharply and richly," says James Harvey. And his critical method-reading a movie moment by...9999903260707James Harvey
Da Capo Press
jueves, 16 de enero de 2025
The Films of Clint EastwoodClint Eastwood is one of the world's most popular action stars, who has matured into a fine American producer-director. Entertaining, illuminating and packed with information, up t...9999903260653Howard Hughes
Tauris Parke Paperbacks
jueves, 16 de enero de 2025
The Autobiography of Stephen SpenderVirtually from its first appearance in 1951, this book was considered one of the most illuminating literary autobiographies to have come out of the 1930s and 40s. In writing it the...9999903255925Spender, Stephen
London : Faber, 1977.
miércoles, 8 de enero de 2025
Music and MadnessThis book charts the career of a man who has always been respected for his compassion, quirky way of thinking and fearless opposition to orthodox psychiatry. More importantly, he t...9999903251842Ivor Browne
Editors Varis
martes, 24 de diciembre de 2024
The central thesis of this book is that a genre approach provides the most effective means for understanding, analyzing and appreciating the Hollywood cinema. Taking into account n...9999903250265Thomas Schatz
Mcgraw-Hill
sábado, 21 de diciembre de 2024
Directing the Western from John Ford to Clint EastwoodWhen first published in 1969, Horizons West was immediately recognised as the definitive critical account of the Western film and some of its key directors. This greatly expanded n...9999903249795Jim Kitses
Editors Varis
viernes, 20 de diciembre de 2024
A Critical Guide to British Poetry, 1960-1984This survey of contemporary British poetry from 1960-1995 provides a succinct overview of British poets, movements and themes, ideal for English courses and the general reader alik...9999903243649Anthony Thwaite
Longman
domingo, 8 de diciembre de 2024
Journeys into Fame and MadnessYou can tell a lot about somebody in a minute. If you choose the right minute. Here are 228 of them. Join Neil Strauss, "The Mike Tyson of interviewers," (Dave Pirner, Soul Asylum)...9999903241997Neil Strauss
HarperCollins
viernes, 6 de diciembre de 2024
Scenes of London Literary Life in 1846Wine and dine with Victorian London's literati in a heatwave in one of the first ever group biographies, introduced by Francesca Wade (author of Square Haunting). Though she loved ...9999903241911Alethea Hayter
Faber & Faber
viernes, 6 de diciembre de 2024
Haydn was born in humble circumstances in 1732. In this fascinating biography, the author traces the rise of the composer from his early years to his death in Vienna in 1809. The m...9999903238591Neil Butterworth
Omnibus Press
sábado, 30 de noviembre de 2024
A Creative Spring: Russia and France 1882 - 1934Aimed at the interested layperson, this biography reveals to what extent Igor Stravinsky was a major figure of the 20th century, not just in music, but in cultural and intellectual...9999903237518Stephen Walsh
Century
viernes, 29 de noviembre de 2024
American HeroThis definitive biography of a Hollywood icon portrays Gary Cooper as a man of complex and sophisticated tastes, as well as large appetites.9999903236474Jeffrey Meyers
Cooper Square Press
jueves, 28 de noviembre de 2024
'A compelling personal account of the dramas of a singular British band' Neil TennantThe trajectory of Suede - hailed in infancy as both 'The Best New Band in Britain' and 'effete ...9999903223504Brett Anderson
Abacus
viernes, 15 de noviembre de 2024
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