Movie Moguls

French, Philip

Penguin Putnam~trade

The political, historical, and cultural forces that shaped the development of the Western film genre—especially the 30 years after World War II—are explored in this book. Addressing the treatment of Native Americans, African Americans, women, and children, the role of violence, the landscape, and poker playing, this cultural analysis advances the theory that most Westerns of those years can be put into four principal categories that reflect the styles and ideologies of the four leading politicians of that era: John F. Kennedy, Barry Goldwater, Lyndon Johnson, and William F. Buckley. The argument further contends that this genre continues to be highly influential in reflecting the social and psychological currents in American life.

Westerns: Aspects of a movie genre (Cinema one ; 25)

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

Oxford University Press

plastic covered, superbly kept hardcover reder. This book came from the Larry Edwards Bookshop in Hollywood, California!!! Clean inside an dout. A lion of a book (get it? MGM...)

The movie moguls: An informal history of the Hollywood tycoons

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

Secker and Warburg in association with the British Film Institute

In the latest addition to the noted Directors on Directors series--which includes volumes on Scorsese, Shrader, and Cronenberg--Louis Malle talks to film critic Philip French about his life and career, his controversial films dealing with child prostitution and incest, his move to the U.S., his work with Jeanne Moreau, Burt Lancaster, Jeremy Irons, and others, and more. 60 illustrations.

Malle on Malle

Reference

Malle, Louis

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Faber&Faber

A collection of more than 300 poems by 227 poets covers different aspects of motion pictures, including film idols, going to the movies, and setting a VCR to record the late-night movie

The Faber Book of Movie Verse

This collection of poetry about the cinema includes work by almost 100 English-language poets. It guides readers through the silent era to talkies, movie stars, home movies and beyond - the final poem being about recording TV films onto VHS.

Westerns is the classic account of the emergence, growth and flowering of one of the most perennially popular film genres. When it was first published thirty years ago it was welcomed by reviewers in Europe and the United States as a major work. In this new edition, fully revised and updated, with a new introduction, both movie buffs and general readers have the opportunity to engage again with one of the sharpest film critics of our time. The book focuses on the political, historical and cultural forces that shaped the western, dealing especially with the thirty years after World War II. It considers the treatment of Indians and Blacks, women and children, the role of violence, landscape and pokerplaying, and it advances the theory that most westerns of those years fit into four principal categories that reflect the styles and ideologies of four leading politicians of the John F. Kennedy, Barry Goldwater, Lyndon Johnson and William Buckley. Since the book was first revised in 1977, there has been, as the author predicted there would be, a steady decline in the number of westerns made for TV and the cinema, but the genre remains highly influential and reflects the social and psychological currents in American life. In the 1990s Academy Awards for best movie went to Kevin Costner's Dances with Wolves and Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven, the first time that westerns were so honoured since Cimarron won an Oscar in 1930. French takes in these and other films, such as Heaven's Gate, the costly failure that brought down the studio that produced it, and brings the story of the western into the twenty-first century as the genre that was renewed in Cold Mountain, Open Range, Hidalgo and The Alamo.

Westerns: aspects of a movie genre (Cinema one, 25)

Viking Press

Westerns (Cinema One Series, No. 25)

Literature & Fiction

The Viking Press

Possibly a future cult object itself, this volume's odd facts, memorable moments, and key lines from all-time favorite films make it an endlessly entertaining and engrossing read that cuts across all generations of cultist movie fans. Informative and all-inclusive, the book focuses on 150 unique films that have withstood the test of time: comedies, dramas, mysteries, westerns, political thrillers, war movies, horror and sci-fi, foreign films, and even early soft-core nudies. Classic titles include Airplane, Blowup, Manhunter, Bad Day at Black Rock, The Deer Hunter, Blade Runner, Mad Max, and The Battleship Potemkin. Entries include credits, running time, plot synopsis, and unforgettable lines, along with great still shots from each film.

Cult Movies

Watson-Guptill

French, Karl

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Movie Moguls

Westerns: Aspects of a movie genre (Cinema one ; 25)

The movie moguls: An informal history of the Hollywood tycoons

Westerns: Aspects of a movie genre (Cinema one ; 25)

Malle on Malle

The Faber Book of Movie Verse

The Faber Book of Movie Verse

Westerns: aspects of a movie genre (Cinema one, 25)

Westerns (Cinema One Series, No. 25)

Cult Movies