Encyclopedia of Early Cinema

Encyclopedia of Early Cinema
Author: Richard Abel
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 824
Release: 2005
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0415234409

One-volume reference work on the first twenty-five years of the cinema's international emergence from the early 1890s to the mid-1910s.

Film Noir

Film Noir
Author: Eddie Robson
Publisher: Virgin Books Limited
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2005
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN:

Hollywood showed its dark side in the 1940s and 50s with a wave of highly stylized movies featuring sinister plots, shady characters, sexual tension, chaos and confusion. These films have fascinated critics, students, moviegoers, and moviemakers ever since. Classics including THE MALTESE FALCON, THE BIG SLEEP, and THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE are analysed, with iconic actors, such as Robert Mitchum and legendary directors including Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick and Orson Welles profiled.

Encyclopedia of Censorship

Encyclopedia of Censorship
Author: Jonathon Green
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Total Pages: 721
Release: 2014-05-14
Genre: Censorship
ISBN: 1438110014

Articles examine the history and evolution of censorship, presented in A to Z format.

The Film Encyclopedia

The Film Encyclopedia
Author: Ephraim Katz
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 4150
Release: 2013-02-26
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0062277111

“Wow! What a book!” — Katharine Hepburn “Recommended for any reference collection in need of a world view of film.” — Booklist “The best movie reference book, hands down.” — Newsweek

Motion Pictures

Motion Pictures
Author: University of California, Los Angeles. Library
Publisher: Boston : G. K. Hall
Total Pages: 814
Release: 1976
Genre: Education
ISBN:

American Film Studios

American Film Studios
Author: Gene Fernett
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001-12-27
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780786413256

The business of filmmaking began with the Thomas Edison Studio in West Orange, New Jersey. Many studios have come and gone since then. From the little guys like feisty Mark Dintenfass and his 1905 "Actophone" unit (an unlicensed Pathe camera furtively grinding out films in defiance of the Motion Picture Patents Company) to heavyweights like Samuel Goldwyn and M-G-M, 66 studios of all sizes and specialties are covered in this book. The culmination of many years of exhaustive research, these detailed histories discuss films, stars, successes, and catastrophes. Numerous rare photographs are included.

Hollywood Goes Latin

Hollywood Goes Latin
Author: María de las Carreras
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2019-05-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 2960029674

In the 1920s, Los Angeles enjoyed a buoyant homegrown Spanish-language culture comprised of local and itinerant stock companies that produced zarzuelas, stage plays, and variety acts. After the introduction of sound films, Spanish-language cinema thrived in the city's downtown theatres, screening throughout the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s in venues such as the Teatro Eléctrico, the California, the Roosevelt, the Mason, the Azteca, the Million Dollar, and the Mayan Theater, among others. With the emergence and growth of Mexican and Argentine sound cinema in the early to mid-1930s, downtown Los Angeles quickly became the undisputed capital of Latin American cinema culture in the United States. Meanwhile, the advent of talkies resulted in the Hollywood studios hiring local and international talent from Latin America and Spain for the production of films in Spanish. Parallel with these productions, a series of Spanish-language films were financed by independent producers. As a result, Los Angeles can be viewed as the most important hub in the United States for the production, distribution, and exhibition of films made in Spanish for Latin American audiences. In April 2017, the International Federation of Film Archives organized a symposium, "Hollywood Goes Latin: Spanish-Language Cinema in Los Angeles," which brought together scholars and film archivists from all of Latin America, Spain, and the United States to discuss the many issues surrounding the creation of Hollywood's "Cine Hispano." The papers presented in this two-day symposium are collected and revised here. This is a joint publication of FIAF and UCLA Film & Television Archive.

Blacks in American Films and Television

Blacks in American Films and Television
Author: Donald Bogle
Publisher: Touchstone
Total Pages: 532
Release: 1989
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN:

Encyclopedia of blacks in the motion picture and television industry over the past 90 years with over 200 rare photographs.