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Hollywood Exile, or How I Learned to Love the Blacklist
University of Texas Press
In this highly readable memoir, Bernard Gordon tells a engrossing insider’s story of what it was like to be blacklisted and how he and others continued to work uncredited behind the scenes, writing and producing many box office hits of the era.
Selznick's Vision
Gone with the Wind and Hollywood Filmmaking
By Alan David Vertrees; Introduction by Thomas Schatz
University of Texas Press
Alan David Vertrees challenges the popular image of Selznick as a megalomaniacal meddler whose hiring and firing of directors and screenwriters created a patchwork film that succeeded despite his interference.
Living Room Lectures
The Fifties Family in Film and Television
University of Texas Press
Nina Leibman analyzes many feature films and dozens of TV situation comedy episodes from 1954 to 1963 to find surprising commonalities in their representations of the family.
The Unruly Woman
Gender and the Genres of Laughter
University of Texas Press
How the unruly woman uses humor and excess to undermine patriarchal norms and authority.
High Concept
Movies and Marketing in Hollywood
By Justin Wyatt
University of Texas Press
This pioneering study explores the development and dominance of the high concept movie within commercial Hollywood filmmaking since the late 1970s.
Hollywood TV
The Studio System in the Fifties
University of Texas Press
This pioneering study offers the first thorough exploration of the movie industry's shaping role in the development of television and its narrative forms.
National Identity in Indian Popular Cinema, 1947-1987
University of Texas Press
The first detailed account of the popular film as it has grown and changed during the tumultuous decades of Indian nationhood.
The New Latin American Cinema
A Continental Project
University of Texas Press
This book explores the institutional and aesthetic foundations of the New Latin American Cinema.
The Euro-American Cinema
By Peter Lev
University of Texas Press
This literate and lively study explores the spread of American culture into international cinema as reflected by the collision and partial merger of two important styles of filmmaking: the Hollywood style of stars, genres, and action, and the European art
Glasnost—Soviet Cinema Responds
By Nicholas Galichenko; Edited by Robert Allington
University of Texas Press
The first overall survey of the effects of glasnost on the work of Soviet filmmakers and their films.
The Cult Film Experience
Beyond All Reason
Edited by J. P. Telotte
University of Texas Press
J. P. Telotte and twelve other noted film scholars examine the appeal of the cult film in this groundbreaking study.
Soviet Cinema in the Silent Era, 1918–1935
University of Texas Press
A study of the lost golden age of Soviet cinema, which was a time of both achievement and contradiction, as reflected in the films of Eisenstein, Pudovkin, and Kuleshov.
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