The American Film Institute Desk Reference
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The American Film Institute Desk Reference
Author: Melinda Corey
language: en
Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Release Date: 2002
A compendium of information about the movies, covering the evolution of the cinema, the fundamentals of film, the hands-on aspects of the movie business, and people in film, and including listings of significant movies according to various criteria.
The Hollywood Story
This fully revised and updated edition of an award-winning classic traces the history of Hollywood from the silent era to the present day. The Hollywood Storycomprehensively covers every aspect of movie-making in America, taking in nickelodeans, drive-ins and multiplexes; the transition from silent to sound, black and white to color; the relationships of producers, directors, stars and technicians; and the function and output of the studios - their major hits and most expensive flops.
Motion Pictures From the Fabulous 1940's
In Europe the war was already old, but while feeding nickels into roadhouse jukeboxes, the Presidential conventions, where the biggest question would be whether That Man in the White House would shatter yet another precedent and run for a third term. To many Americans, there seemed little else worth worrying about. As with all time periods, the 1940s had a set of specific fads that were popular around the country. Read this book and find out about the films of this decade and more...