Stroheim (Movie Paperbacks)

Finler, Joel W.

Studio Vista

Explores the history of the Hollywood movie industry as a whole, provides eight in-depth portraits of leading studios and concludes with a reference section packed with facts and figures, charts and diagrams and hundreds of stills and production shots.

The Hollywood Story

Random House Value Publishing

Explores the history of the Hollywood movie industry as a whole, provides eight in-depth portraits of leading studios and concludes with a reference section packed with facts and figures, charts and diagrams and hundreds of stills and production shots.

Hollywood Story

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

Crown

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Cooking by Ingredient

Octopus Books

This book is devoted solely to the subject of movie-stills and photography. It traces the early growth of stills photography from the first development of the star system and the increase in feature-length films, through to the rise of the giant studios and their subsequent decline in the 1940s and 1950s. It focuses on the photographers and the stars they photographed - from Theda Bara, Greta Garbo and Dietrich up to Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn - as well as many of the key films - "Intolerance" (1916), "Greed" (1924), "King Kong" (1933), "Psycho" (1960), "My Fair Lady" (1964) - and the film-makers themselves - Stroheim, D.W. Griffith, C.B. De Mille and Hitchcock. Illustrations include: portrait and scene shots, production shots, behind-the-scenes photographs, poster art, calendar art, leg shots, photograph collages, trick shots, and photographs showing the stars' private lives and special events in Hollywood.

Hollywood Movie Stills: The Golden Age

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

B.T.BATSFORD LTD

Looking at the advent of the film industry world-wide, this book covers the absolute beginnings of cinema. It includes information on major genres, studios, stars and directors.

Silent Cinema

There have been many homages to the Master. But it has been almost a decade since the most recent spate of books, and Hitchcock in Hollywood admirably fills a new need. In this new and original assessment of Hitchcock's American career from his arrival in Hollywood in 1939 up to his last films in the 1970s, Joel Finler shows how Hitchcock succeeded in quickly fitting into the American studio system with its emphasis on stars, technical expertise, and success at the box office to become one of the most influential directors of all time. These years cover Hitchcock's most accomplished period of filmmaking and the author uncovers many links with the best of Hitchcock's earlier British films from the 1930s. Hitchcock used the thriller as a means of probing deep into our fears and neuroses. His films work on many levels: his mastery of the cinematic medium is demonstrated not only through the movies, plot lines, characters, and relationships within his films, but also in his use of the camera, editing, color, and widescreen techniques. As well as the films themselves, Joel Finler discusses the director's working methods - his relations with producers and production companies, Hollywood stars, writers, and other collaborators - with reference to budgets, boxoffice receipts, and Hitchcock's involvement in virtually every aspect of each production from script and design to editing and scoring. A detailed filmography with plot synopses completes the text, which is illustrated throughout with production shots and film stills.

Hitchcock in Hollywood

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Continuum Intl Pub Group

Outlines the plot and gives background information for the motion pictures that were the most successful, commercially, from the thirties through the seventies

All Time Box Office Hits

GALLERY BOOKS

200 of the screen's greatest hits from the beginning of cinema history to 1975 are featured in this book.

All-Time Movie Favorites

Bookthrift Co

Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe... It is through the eye of the stills camera that we experience and recall some of the cinema's most memorable events and faces. Still images are so powerful that they can easily pass for actual scenes for the movies they represent - rather than separately posed, lighted and photographed shots that may not even find their way into the finished film. This book is the most detailed and perceptive survey ever devoted to this neglected aspect of film-making. It traces the origin of stills photography during the silent era and the early development of the star system, through to the rise of the giant studios in the 1930s and their eventual decline. Finler focuses on the photographers, on the stars they photographed, and on many key films and film-makers. Hollywood Movie Stills is illustrated with hundreds of rare and unusual stills from the author's own collection, including not only portraits and scene stills but production shots, behind-the-scenes photos, poster art, calendar art, photo collages and trick shots. There are also photos showing the stars' private lives and special events in Hollywood. This lavishly presented new edition of Finler's classic work includes many new stills and much new insight and information into this fascinating aspect of the great film studios in their heyday.

Hollywood Movie Stills: Art and Technique in the Golden Age of the Studios

Fashion

Titan Books

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Stroheim (Movie Paperbacks)

The Hollywood Story

Hollywood Story

The Hollywood Story

Hollywood Movie Stills: The Golden Age

Silent Cinema

Hitchcock in Hollywood

All Time Box Office Hits

All-Time Movie Favorites

Hollywood Movie Stills: Art and Technique in the Golden Age of the Studios