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GRETA GARBO: A CINEMATIC LEGACY by Mark A. Vieira (Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2005) 288 pages 9 1/8" by 12 1/4" hardback condition: brand new dustjacket condition: brand new Notes: "Mark Vieira's well-researched, lively, anecdotal text chronicles Garbo's stellar, yet turbulent, career from her American debut in 1926 to her self-imposed retirement in 1941 at the height of her popularity. He draws extensively on letters, interviews, newly accessibkle studio production files, and publicity clippings to trace each film from story confereence to premiere, providing new insights into Garbo's surprising career moves, unconventioanl working methods, and notoriously stormy peronal and professiona relationships . . . Lavishly illustrated with luminous film stills, portraits, and behind-the-scenes photographs -- many previously unpublished -- the book shows how the leading Hollywood directors, cinematogrraphers, and portrait photographers of the era captured Garbo's unsurpassed beauty and glamous on film." Price: $29.00 Order no. 131 |
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STAR MAKER: THE STORY OF D.W. GRIFFITH By Homer Crow with an introduction by Mary Pickford (Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1959) 210 pages 5 1/2" by 8 1/4" hardback book condition: very good dustjacket condition: Good, minor aging and wear, in plastic protective sleeve. Notes: One of the first biographies on Griffith, doesn't propose to over analyze his life and films - very straightforward account, enjoyable to read. Price: $14.00 Order no. 132 |
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THE MOVIES IN AN AGE OF INNOCENCE By Edward Wagenknecht (Limelight Editions, 1997 reprint of 1962 edition) 280 pages 5 3/4" by 9" paperback book condition: brand new Notes: Wagenknecht's classic volume on the silent era. He lived it and met most of the stars, so his first-hand reminisces are excllent, with particular emphasis on Lillian Gish, Mary Pickford and D.W. Griffith Price: $10.00 Order no. 133 |
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VALENTINO: THE FIRST SUPERSTAR By Noel Botham (Metro, 2002) 353 pages 6 1/8" by 9 1/2" hardback book condition: brand new dustjacket condition: brand new Notes: "Bestsellgn author Noel Botham has spent more than twenty-five years and traveled over 30,000 miles search for and unraveling the mising ansswers which exlain Valentino's brief but incredible lie and has spoken to many of the people who shared, at first hand, as they happened, the good and the bad times of the cinema's first superstar. He conduced frank and revealing face-to-face interviews with movie stars of Belentiono's time -- Carmel Myers, Viola Dana, Gloira Swanson, Pola Negri, Gertrude Astor and othreers, enabling him to paint htis rounded and unique portrait of the screens most exciting and enduring legend. Glossy photos. Price: $18.00 Order no. 134 |
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THE LITTLE FELLOW By Peter Cotes and Thelma Niklaus - foreward by W. Somerset Maugham (The Citadel Press, 1965) 181 pages 5 3/8" by 8" paperback book condition: excellent, minor corner bumps Notes: A neat little biography of Chaplin that's accurate and good reading. Cotes and Niklaus don't try to pyschoanalyze or get into social implications. They just tell the story of the man and his films. Lots of good photos. Price: $10.00 Order no. 135 |
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EARLY CINEMA: FROM FACTORY GATE TO DREAM FACTORY By Simon Popple and Joe Kember (Wallflower, 2004) 136 pages 6" by 8" paperback book condition: brand new Notes: Explores the period from 1895 to 1914 from an aesthetic, technological, cultural, ideaological and economic perspective. It is divided into thematic sections, each dealing with a broad topic and making use of the latest research in this field presenting both critical and practical advice for the student through a series of case studies. Price: $8.00 Order no. 136 |
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PASSIONS AND DECEPTIONS: THE EARLY FILMS OF ERNST LUBITSCH By Sabine Hake (Princeton University Press, 1992) 215 pages 6" by 9 1/4" paperback book condition: brand new Notes: Excellent overview Lubitsch's early films - chapters on "The German Feature Films 1918-1922," "Hollywood - the Silent Films 1923-1929," "American Sound Films 1929-1932," and more - covers such films as "So This Is Paris," "Passion," "The Marriage Circle" and more. Price: $10.00 Order no. 137 |
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STROHEIM: A PICTORIAL RECORD OF HIS NINE FILMS By Herman G. Weinberg (Dover Publications, Inc., 1975) 259 pages 8 3/8" by 9 1/8" paperback book condition: excellent Notes: Amazing book with 202 high quality stills from Stroheim's nine films. Includes production credits, cast, synopsis and lots of publicity material, too. Price: $20.00 Order no. 138 |
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PICTORIAL BEAUTY ON THE SCREEN (orig. pub. 1923) By Victor Oscar Freeburg, Ph.D., with a prefatory note by Rex Ingram (Benjamin Blom, Inc., 1972 - originally published 1923) 218 pages 8 3/4" by 11 1/4" hardback book condition: very good, some tape residue on inside cover and first blank page (Note: title page is shown at left because there is no print on the cover) dustjacket condition: no dustjacket Notes: Ingram's prefatory note states, " . . . a motion picture must be composed of scenes that have certain pictorial qualifications, such as form, composition, and a proper distribution of light and shade. Dr. Freeburg handles his subject clearly and comprehensively, and I know that the majority who read this book will gain a great deal more enjoyment than previously from productions of the calibre of 'Broken Blossoms,' 'Dr. Caligari,' 'Blind Husbands,' 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,' 'Nanook of the North,' and films more numerous than I can mention by such picture makers as Messrs. Griffith, Seastrom, Tourneur, Von Stroheim and Lubitsch." Many great photos, too. Price: $10.00 Order no. 139 |
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REALISM AND THE CINEMA By edited by Christopher Williams (Rpit;edge & Kegan Paul, 1980) 285 pages 8 5/8" by 5 5/8" hardback book condition: excellent, owner's name written on inside front cover dustjacket condition: very good - small tear on corner, small white spot on front, minor wear Notes: From the BFI Readers in Film Studies series, addresses the debate about realism in cinema through critical commentary. In the first section are extracts from the works of the principal historical champions of realism, from Dziga Vertov to Eric Rohmer. The second section assembles a series of critical descriptions of Robert Flaherty's work. The third part deals with style and ideology from the 1920s to the 1970's, and the fourth part looks at ways in which specific film techniques have been associated with particular kinds of realism. The book includes a full reference section, with notes, brief biograhies of contributors, suggestions for further reading, and lists of films relevant to the arguments. Price: $6.00 Order no. 140 |
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