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	AGEE, JAMES Agee on Film: Reviews and Comments New York, McDowell, Obolensky. 1958. Hard Cover , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Ungerer, Tomi (Drawings by). Cloth, 432 pp. illus. index; 24 cm. Topstained red. Agee on Film, Vol. 1. Tight, clean copy. Pages browning at extremities. Please note: Volume One only. A solid copy. Very Good/No DJ. USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1589] Book number: 025899 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	BAGDIKIAN, BEN H. The Media Monopoly Boston, MA, Beacon Press. 1997, Fifth Edition. (ISBN: 0807061557) Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 4th printing, 1998. xlix, 289 pp.; 21 cm. Tight, clean copy. "When the first edition of The Media Monopoly was published in 1983, critics called Ben Bagdikian's warnings about the chilling effects of corporate ownership and mass advertising on the nation's news "alarmist." Since then, the number of corporations controlling most of America's daily newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations, book publishers, and movie companies has dwindled from fifty to ten to five. / Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ben H. Bagdikian is dean emeritus of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley. His other books include Double Vision: Reflections on My Heritage, Life, and Profession." - Publisher. Fine. USD 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 2.75 \| £UK 2.5 \| JP¥ 353] Book number: 007464 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	BERG, A. SCOTT Goldwyn: A Biography New York, Alfred A. Knopf; A Borzoi Book. 1989. (ISBN: 0394510593) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth, gilt, 579 pp. [56] pp. of plates, illus. ports. biblio. index; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Fine/Fine. USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1589] Book number: 001401 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	BISKIND, PETER Gods and Monsters: Thirty Years of Writing on Film and Culture from One of Americas's Most Incisive Writers New York, Nation Books. 2004, First Edition, First Printing. (ISBN: 1560255455) Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xx, 362 pp.; 23 cm. Firm binding, gently creased spine. Clean inside copy. "Here is Hollywood over the last three decades--the superfreaks, lowlifes, charlatans and occasional geniuses who have left their bite marks on American culture, as refracted through the trajectory of Peter Biskind's career. Biskind began as a radical journalist and film critic, excavating films like Thunderbolt and Lightfoot for their hidden political subtexts in small lefty rags. Now he can legitimately describe himself--as he does in his autobiographical introduction to this book--as a 'recovering celebrity journalist.' The ghosts of McCarthyism and the blacklist haunt Gods and Monsters as do the casualties of counterculture and the New Hollywood. At the heart of the book are the likes of Martin Scorsese, Robert Redford, Terrence Malick, Sue Mengers and uber-producer Don Simpson, all of whom Biskind portrays in great Dickensian detail, charting how they have had a simultaneously strangulating and liberating effect on the industry. / Peter Biskind is the author of several books, including Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance and the Rise of Independent Film; Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock Roll Generation Saved Hollywood; and Seeing is Believing: How Hollywood Taught Us to Stop Worrying and Love the Fifties. He was editor-in-chief of American Film and the executive editor of Premiere. He is currently a contributing writer to Vanity Fair." - Publisher. Very Good. USD 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 3.5 \| £UK 3.25 \| JP¥ 441] Book number: 035832 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	BOK, SISSELA Mayhem: Violence as Public Entertainment Reading, MA, Addison-Wesley; A Merloyd Lawrence Book. 1998, First Edition, First Printing. (ISBN: 0201489791) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. x, 194 pp. bib. notes, index; 24 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Remainder mark/tail edge. Stated "First Printing: March 1998." Fine DJ. Very Good/Fine. USD 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.25 \| £UK 3.75 \| JP¥ 530] Book number: 031405 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	CARNES, MARK C. (EDITED BY) Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies New York, Henry Holt and Company; An Owl Book. 1996, Revised and Expanded Edition. (ISBN: 0805037608) Soft Cover , 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. First edition thus. 320 pp. illus. maps, ports.; 26 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. "In this widely-acclaimed volume, some of our greatest historians address the facts - and fiction - as seen in Hollywood's often epic recreations of historical events. Distinghuished historians such as Stephen Ambrose, Antonia Fraser, James McPherson, Gerda Lerner, Dee Brown, Frances FitzGerald, David Levering Lewis, and Simon Schama explore the relationship between film and the historical record. Offering hundreds of movie stills, archival photographs, maps, and other illustrations, along with sidebars on related historical events, Past Imperfect sheds new light on the uses of history in popular culture. / Mark C. Carnes is the chairman of the department of history at Barnard College, Columbia University, and the executive secretary of the Society of American Historians." - Publisher. Fine. USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1589] Book number: 012058 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	CHESEBRO, JAMES W., AND BERTELSEN, DALE A. Analyzing Media: Communication Technologies as Symbolic and Cognitive Systems New York, Guilford Press. 1996, First Edition, First Printing. (ISBN: 1572301546) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ix, 228 pp. biblio. index; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket with a creased back flap. Fine/Very Good. USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6.25 \| JP¥ 883] Book number: 008522 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	COOK, DAVID A. Lost Illusions: American Cinema in the Shadow of Watergate and Vietnam, 1970-1979 Berkeley, CA, University of California Press. 2002, First paperback edition. (ISBN: 0520232658) Soft Cover , 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. xxii, 695 pp. illus. filmography, biblio. indexes; 25 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. "Some of the films discussed in this book include: Five Easy Pieces, Chinatown, Carnal Knowledge, Straw Dogs, A Clockwork Orange, Mean Streets, The Conversation, Nashville, Shampoo, Taxi Driver, Apocalypse Now. / David A. Cook is Founding Director of the Film Studies program at Emory University, where he is Professor of Film. He is the author of A History of Narrative Film (1996) and the 'Motion Picture History' entry in the Encyclopedia Britannica." - Publisher. Fine. USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 20.25 \| £UK 18.25 \| JP¥ 2648] Book number: 022617 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	DOLAN, EDWARD F. History of the Movies Greenwich, CT, Longmeadow Press; A Bison Book. 1983, Revised Edition. (ISBN: 0681400447) Hard Cover with dust jacket, Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Cloth, gilt, 256 pp. illus. (some col.), filmography, index; 31 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine slightly rolled at the crown. Dust jacket, nicked once, protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated, with several colour plates. Very Good/Very Good. USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1589] Book number: 037823 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	DOWNING, JOHN Radical Media: The Political Experience of Alternative Communication Boston, South End Press. 1983. (ISBN: 0896081915) Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 370 pp.; 22 cm. Tight, clean copy. Thick book tape used on inside front cover as reinforcement to keep first flyleaf in place. Chiefly concerned with film & radio as alternative media in America (e.g. Third World Newsreel) and Europe. Good. USD 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 \| £UK 5 \| JP¥ 706] Book number: 015873 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	FRENCH, PHILIP The Movie Moguls Chicago, Henry Regnery Company. 1971. Hard Cover , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. x, 170 pp, 16 plates. ports.; 23 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Droplet staining/foreedge. Very Good/No DJ. USD 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 \| £UK 5 \| JP¥ 706] Book number: 010994 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	FRENCH, PHILIP Westerns New York, Oxford University Press; A Galaxy Book. 1977, Revised Edition. (ISBN: 0195199871) Mass Market Paperback , 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 208 pp. illus. filmography, biblio.; 19 cm. First published, 1973. Cinema One Ser. no. 25. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Very Good. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 010471 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	FRIEDRICH, OTTO City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940's New York, Perennial; Harper & Row. 1987. (ISBN: 0060914394) Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xiii, 495 pp. illus. biblio. index; 23 cm. Tight, clean copy. Corner crease/back cover. Very Good. USD 7.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.75 \| £UK 4.25 \| JP¥ 618] Book number: 010264 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	FRIEDRICH, OTTO City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940's New York, Perennial; Harper & Row. 1987, First paperback edition. (ISBN: 0060914394) Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xiii, 495 pp. illus. biblio. index; 23 cm. Good+. Firm binding, creased spine. Clean inside copy. Another copy available. Good. USD 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 3.5 \| £UK 3.25 \| JP¥ 441] Book number: 018157 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	FRIEDRICH, OTTO City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940's New York, Harper & Row, Publishers. 1986, Book Club (BCE/BOMC). (ISBN: 0060156260) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xiii, 495 pp. illus. biblio. index; 25 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Superficial crayon mark/top edge. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar book cover. Very Good/Very Good. USD 13.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.75 \| £UK 8 \| JP¥ 1147] Book number: 028220 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	SHAHEEN, JACK G.; GREIDER, WILLIAM (FOREWORD BY) Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People New York, Olive Branch Press. 2001. (ISBN: 1566563887) Soft Cover , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. viii, 574 pp. bib. notes, index; 23 cm. Good+. Some bracketing & underlining in the Introduction, otherwise tight & clean. A superb book, the main body of which is an alphabetical filmography, with detailed descriptions of stereotypical stock Arabs in Hollywood cinema. Good. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 043976 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	HENDERSON, BRIAN, AND MARTIN, ANN, AND AMAZONAS, LEE (JOINT EDITORS) Film Quarterly: Forty Years, A Selection Berkeley, University of California Press. 1999, First Printing. (ISBN: 0520216032) Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xii, 571 pp. illus.; 27 cm. Firm binding, gently creased spine. Clean inside copy. "During its forty years as a forum for scholars, filmmakers, critics, and film lovers, Film Quarterly has looked in depth at the most critical elements in the political, social, theoretical, and aesthetic history of the cinema. Once closely tied to Hollywood, the journal was investigated by the Tenney committee in 1946 and two of its board members came under fire from the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1951. After several metamorphoses, however, and with the dedicated participation of its editors, board members, and authors, the journal now stands as the oldest and most prominent journal in cinema studies, publishing film (and video and television) history, criticism, theory, analysis, interviews, and film and book reviews. Spanning the 1950s to the 1990s, Film Quarterly: Forty Years--A Selection is a collaborative effort by the past and present editors and the editorial board to celebrate and illuminate the medium that has prompted so much thought and exchange during the journal's lifetime. From articles on documentary and genre to history and technology, narrative and the avant-garde, this carefully selected collection proposes groundbreaking theoretical models, fresh approaches to individual film classics, reassessments of filmmakers' bodies of work, and discussions of new films and technologies." - Publisher. Brian Henderson is Professor of Film at the State University of New York, Buffalo, and has been a member of the Film Quarterly editorial board since 1973. His books include A Critique of Film Theory (1980) and two volumes of screenplays by Preston Sturges. Ann Martin has been the editor of Film Quarterly since 1991. She has worked for The New Yorker and American Film magazine; she was also a member of the American Film Institute's Education Program, where she was the first Series Editor of the AFI Monographs. Very Good. USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 \| £UK 7.25 \| JP¥ 1059] Book number: 006207 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	HENSTELL, BRUCE American Film Criticism, from the Beginnings to Citizen Kane: Reviews of Significant Films at the Time They First Appeared New York, Liveright. 1972. (ISBN: 0871400774) Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xxiii, 443 pp.; 24 cm. Firm binding, creased spine. Clean inside copy. Bumped at tail/spine, browning. Good. USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6.25 \| JP¥ 883] Book number: 015422 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	HOLDEN, ANTHONY Behind the Oscar: The Secret History of the Academy Awards New York, Simon & Schuster. 1993, First Edition, First Printing. (ISBN: 0671701290) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Collectible, 672 pp. illus. biblio. index; 24 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine slightly rolled at crown. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Very Good/Fine. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 023756 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	HUGHES, HOWARD C. Once Upon A Time in the Italian West: The Filmgoers' Guide to Spaghetti Westerns London and New York, I. B. Tauris. 2006. (ISBN: 185043896X) Soft Cover , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xxii, 266 pp. illus. biblio. index; 25 cm. AS NEW. "Covering every Italian Spaghetti Western--mainly the good but also the bad and the ugly--this is an authoritative, entertaining and comprehensive companion to the implausible international fusion of producers, directors, actors and composers who created the mythical Spaghetti West under the most improbable circumstances. Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy led the field but many more major Spaghetti Westerns were made by important directors, including Sergio Corbucci's Navajo Joe, Carlo Lizzani's The Hills Run Red, Duccio Tessari's A Pistol for Ringo. Combining analysis, information and lively anecdotes, this popular guide explores all of these films through the biographies and filmographies of key personnel, stories of the films' making, their locations and sets, sources, musical scores, detailed cast information and many illustrations, including original posters and stills. / Howard Hughes is an expert on the Spaghetti Western and the author of The Pocket Essentials Guide to Spaghetti Westerns (Trafalgar Square)." - Publisher. Fine. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 028946 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	JACOBS, DIANE Hollywood Renaissance New York, Dell Publishing Company. 1980, First edition thus. (ISBN: 0440533821) Soft Cover , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. x, 276 pp. illus. biblio. filmographies, index; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Price-clipped wraps. Subtitle on wraps: "The New Generation of Filmmakers and their Works." Includes: John Cassavetes, Robert Altman, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Paul Mazursky, Michael Ritchie, and Hal Ashby. Very Good. USD 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 \| £UK 5 \| JP¥ 706] Book number: 016441 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	KASHNER, SAM, AND MACNAIR, JENNIFER The Bad & the Beautiful: Hollywood in the Fifties New York and London, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2002, First Edition, First Printing. (ISBN: 0393043215) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Collectible, 380 pp. illus. biblio. index; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated "First Edition." Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. "The drama and tragedy of Hollywood's most scandalous and dynamic decade, and the legends who have endured. In these tantalizing stories of momentous events and legendary characters, Sam Kashner and Jennifer MacNair brilliantly re-create the drama and contradictions of Hollywood's most scandalous and dynamic decade. Colorful and humorous anecdotes of such public icons as Lana Turner, Rock Hudson, Kim Novak, and Mae West profile the celebrities' lives away from the camera, telling of the private moments that were exploited by tabloids such as Confidential and gossip queens Louella Parsons, Hedda Hopper, and Sheilah Graham. Chronicling the unique obsessions of the era, the authors also offer behind-the-scenes commentary on the making of classic films: Hollywood's curious religious revival with The Robe; the film industry's exploitation of the potboiler Peyton Place, even as it rejected the housewife who penned it; and the anarchic director Nick Ray, who, on the set of the enduring classic Rebel without a Cause, taught his teenage stars about much more than acting. Guided by the authors' historical savvy and intimate storytelling, we discover a city at a crossroads, attempting to reinvent the magic and mystery of its past glories. Tragic, irreverent, and always entertaining, The Bad and the Beautiful reveals the underground history of this turbulent decade in American film. / Sam Kashner writes for GQ and Vanity Fair and is the author of the novel Sinatraland and other nonfiction books on Hollywood. Jennifer MacNair, a graduate of Columbia University's School of Journalism, is a contributor to the online edition of PBS's NewsHour with Jim Lehrer." - Publisher. Fine/Fine. USD 45.00 [Appr.: EURO 30.25 \| £UK 27.25 \| JP¥ 3972] Book number: 034928 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	KUHN, ANNETTE (EDITED BY) Alien Zone: Cultural Theory and Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema London and New York, Verso. 1990. (ISBN: 0860919935) Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. viii, 231 pp. illus. biblio.; 23 cm. Tight, clean copy. Browning. "Perhaps because of its very popularity and cult status, science fiction in all its forms has blong suffered from critical neglect. This is especially true of the science fiction film--a genre as old as cinema itself--which has rarely received the serious attention devoted to such genres as the western, the film noir and recently, under the aegis of feminist film theory, the so-called 'woman's film.' Alien Zone aims to bring science fiction cinema fully into the ambit of cultural theory in general and of film theory in particular. The essays in this book--some newly written, others gathered from scattered sources--look at the ways in which contemporary science fiction films draw on, rework, and transform established themes and conventions of the genre: the mise-en-scène of future worlds; the myth of masculine mastery of nature; power and authority and their relation to technology. This material is ordered and contextualized by the editor with a view to exploring how science fiction cinema has been approached critically and theoretically by commentators on the genre: as a mirror of society, as bearing or producing ideology; as caught up in an intertext of media productions, or as expressing unconscious desires. Contributors include Giuliana Bruno, Scott Bukatman, Thomas B. Byers, Barbara Creed, Anne Cranny-Francis, Daniel Dervin, H. Bruce Franklin, James H. Kavanagh, Douglas Kelner, Steve Neale, Judith Newton, Constance Penley, Hugh Ruppersberg, Michael Ryan, Vivian Sobchack, Michael Stern, J.P. Telotte, and Paul Virilio. / Annette Kuhn's previous books include Cinema, Censorship and Sexuality, The Power of the Image: Essays on Reprentation and Sexuality and Women's Pictures: Feminism and Cinema. A compansion volume, Alien Zone 2: The Spaces of Science Fiction Cinema, also edited by Annette Kuhn, is available from Verso." - Publisher. Very Good. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 034636 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	LEYDA, JAY, ET AL. Before Hollywood: Turn-of-the-Century American Film New York, Hudson Hills Press in association with the American Federation of Arts. 1987, First Edition. (ISBN: 0933920911) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Collectible, Cloth, 169 pp. illus. (some col.), biblio. index; 30 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Light edgewear to boards and dust jacket, protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Very Good/Very Good. USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.5 \| £UK 30.25 \| JP¥ 4413] Book number: 027103 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	MALTIN, LEONARD The Great Movie Comedians: Updated Edition from Charlie Chaplin to Woody Allen New York, Bell Publishing Company. 1982, Updated Edition. (ISBN: 0517361841) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth, xvii, 238 pp. illus. filmographies, index; 24 cm. "187 illustrations." Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Dust jacket, nicked once/top edge, front cover. Very Good/Very Good. USD 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 \| £UK 5 \| JP¥ 706] Book number: 009814 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.

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	AGEE, JAMES Agee on Film: Reviews and Comments New York, McDowell, Obolensky. 1958. Hard Cover , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Ungerer, Tomi (Drawings by). Cloth, 432 pp. illus. index; 24 cm. Topstained red. Agee on Film, Vol. 1. Tight, clean copy. Pages browning at extremities. Please note: Volume One only. A solid copy. Very Good/No DJ. USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1589] Book number: 025899 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	BAGDIKIAN, BEN H. The Media Monopoly Boston, MA, Beacon Press. 1997, Fifth Edition. (ISBN: 0807061557) Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 4th printing, 1998. xlix, 289 pp.; 21 cm. Tight, clean copy. "When the first edition of The Media Monopoly was published in 1983, critics called Ben Bagdikian's warnings about the chilling effects of corporate ownership and mass advertising on the nation's news "alarmist." Since then, the number of corporations controlling most of America's daily newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations, book publishers, and movie companies has dwindled from fifty to ten to five. / Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ben H. Bagdikian is dean emeritus of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley. His other books include Double Vision: Reflections on My Heritage, Life, and Profession." - Publisher. Fine. USD 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 2.75 \| £UK 2.5 \| JP¥ 353] Book number: 007464 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	BERG, A. SCOTT Goldwyn: A Biography New York, Alfred A. Knopf; A Borzoi Book. 1989. (ISBN: 0394510593) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth, gilt, 579 pp. [56] pp. of plates, illus. ports. biblio. index; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Fine/Fine. USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1589] Book number: 001401 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	BISKIND, PETER Gods and Monsters: Thirty Years of Writing on Film and Culture from One of Americas's Most Incisive Writers New York, Nation Books. 2004, First Edition, First Printing. (ISBN: 1560255455) Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xx, 362 pp.; 23 cm. Firm binding, gently creased spine. Clean inside copy. "Here is Hollywood over the last three decades--the superfreaks, lowlifes, charlatans and occasional geniuses who have left their bite marks on American culture, as refracted through the trajectory of Peter Biskind's career. Biskind began as a radical journalist and film critic, excavating films like Thunderbolt and Lightfoot for their hidden political subtexts in small lefty rags. Now he can legitimately describe himself--as he does in his autobiographical introduction to this book--as a 'recovering celebrity journalist.' The ghosts of McCarthyism and the blacklist haunt Gods and Monsters as do the casualties of counterculture and the New Hollywood. At the heart of the book are the likes of Martin Scorsese, Robert Redford, Terrence Malick, Sue Mengers and uber-producer Don Simpson, all of whom Biskind portrays in great Dickensian detail, charting how they have had a simultaneously strangulating and liberating effect on the industry. / Peter Biskind is the author of several books, including Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance and the Rise of Independent Film; Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock Roll Generation Saved Hollywood; and Seeing is Believing: How Hollywood Taught Us to Stop Worrying and Love the Fifties. He was editor-in-chief of American Film and the executive editor of Premiere. He is currently a contributing writer to Vanity Fair." - Publisher. Very Good. USD 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 3.5 \| £UK 3.25 \| JP¥ 441] Book number: 035832 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	BOK, SISSELA Mayhem: Violence as Public Entertainment Reading, MA, Addison-Wesley; A Merloyd Lawrence Book. 1998, First Edition, First Printing. (ISBN: 0201489791) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. x, 194 pp. bib. notes, index; 24 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Remainder mark/tail edge. Stated "First Printing: March 1998." Fine DJ. Very Good/Fine. USD 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.25 \| £UK 3.75 \| JP¥ 530] Book number: 031405 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	CARNES, MARK C. (EDITED BY) Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies New York, Henry Holt and Company; An Owl Book. 1996, Revised and Expanded Edition. (ISBN: 0805037608) Soft Cover , 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. First edition thus. 320 pp. illus. maps, ports.; 26 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. "In this widely-acclaimed volume, some of our greatest historians address the facts - and fiction - as seen in Hollywood's often epic recreations of historical events. Distinghuished historians such as Stephen Ambrose, Antonia Fraser, James McPherson, Gerda Lerner, Dee Brown, Frances FitzGerald, David Levering Lewis, and Simon Schama explore the relationship between film and the historical record. Offering hundreds of movie stills, archival photographs, maps, and other illustrations, along with sidebars on related historical events, Past Imperfect sheds new light on the uses of history in popular culture. / Mark C. Carnes is the chairman of the department of history at Barnard College, Columbia University, and the executive secretary of the Society of American Historians." - Publisher. Fine. USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1589] Book number: 012058 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	CHESEBRO, JAMES W., AND BERTELSEN, DALE A. Analyzing Media: Communication Technologies as Symbolic and Cognitive Systems New York, Guilford Press. 1996, First Edition, First Printing. (ISBN: 1572301546) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ix, 228 pp. biblio. index; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket with a creased back flap. Fine/Very Good. USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6.25 \| JP¥ 883] Book number: 008522 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	COOK, DAVID A. Lost Illusions: American Cinema in the Shadow of Watergate and Vietnam, 1970-1979 Berkeley, CA, University of California Press. 2002, First paperback edition. (ISBN: 0520232658) Soft Cover , 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. xxii, 695 pp. illus. filmography, biblio. indexes; 25 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. "Some of the films discussed in this book include: Five Easy Pieces, Chinatown, Carnal Knowledge, Straw Dogs, A Clockwork Orange, Mean Streets, The Conversation, Nashville, Shampoo, Taxi Driver, Apocalypse Now. / David A. Cook is Founding Director of the Film Studies program at Emory University, where he is Professor of Film. He is the author of A History of Narrative Film (1996) and the 'Motion Picture History' entry in the Encyclopedia Britannica." - Publisher. Fine. USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 20.25 \| £UK 18.25 \| JP¥ 2648] Book number: 022617 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	DOLAN, EDWARD F. History of the Movies Greenwich, CT, Longmeadow Press; A Bison Book. 1983, Revised Edition. (ISBN: 0681400447) Hard Cover with dust jacket, Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Cloth, gilt, 256 pp. illus. (some col.), filmography, index; 31 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine slightly rolled at the crown. Dust jacket, nicked once, protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated, with several colour plates. Very Good/Very Good. USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1589] Book number: 037823 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	DOWNING, JOHN Radical Media: The Political Experience of Alternative Communication Boston, South End Press. 1983. (ISBN: 0896081915) Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 370 pp.; 22 cm. Tight, clean copy. Thick book tape used on inside front cover as reinforcement to keep first flyleaf in place. Chiefly concerned with film & radio as alternative media in America (e.g. Third World Newsreel) and Europe. Good. USD 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 \| £UK 5 \| JP¥ 706] Book number: 015873 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	FRENCH, PHILIP The Movie Moguls Chicago, Henry Regnery Company. 1971. Hard Cover , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. x, 170 pp, 16 plates. ports.; 23 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Droplet staining/foreedge. Very Good/No DJ. USD 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 \| £UK 5 \| JP¥ 706] Book number: 010994 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	FRENCH, PHILIP Westerns New York, Oxford University Press; A Galaxy Book. 1977, Revised Edition. (ISBN: 0195199871) Mass Market Paperback , 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 208 pp. illus. filmography, biblio.; 19 cm. First published, 1973. Cinema One Ser. no. 25. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Very Good. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 010471 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	FRIEDRICH, OTTO City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940's New York, Perennial; Harper & Row. 1987. (ISBN: 0060914394) Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xiii, 495 pp. illus. biblio. index; 23 cm. Tight, clean copy. Corner crease/back cover. Very Good. USD 7.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.75 \| £UK 4.25 \| JP¥ 618] Book number: 010264 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	FRIEDRICH, OTTO City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940's New York, Perennial; Harper & Row. 1987, First paperback edition. (ISBN: 0060914394) Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xiii, 495 pp. illus. biblio. index; 23 cm. Good+. Firm binding, creased spine. Clean inside copy. Another copy available. Good. USD 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 3.5 \| £UK 3.25 \| JP¥ 441] Book number: 018157 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	FRIEDRICH, OTTO City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940's New York, Harper & Row, Publishers. 1986, Book Club (BCE/BOMC). (ISBN: 0060156260) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xiii, 495 pp. illus. biblio. index; 25 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Superficial crayon mark/top edge. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar book cover. Very Good/Very Good. USD 13.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.75 \| £UK 8 \| JP¥ 1147] Book number: 028220 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	SHAHEEN, JACK G.; GREIDER, WILLIAM (FOREWORD BY) Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People New York, Olive Branch Press. 2001. (ISBN: 1566563887) Soft Cover , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. viii, 574 pp. bib. notes, index; 23 cm. Good+. Some bracketing & underlining in the Introduction, otherwise tight & clean. A superb book, the main body of which is an alphabetical filmography, with detailed descriptions of stereotypical stock Arabs in Hollywood cinema. Good. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 043976 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	HENDERSON, BRIAN, AND MARTIN, ANN, AND AMAZONAS, LEE (JOINT EDITORS) Film Quarterly: Forty Years, A Selection Berkeley, University of California Press. 1999, First Printing. (ISBN: 0520216032) Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xii, 571 pp. illus.; 27 cm. Firm binding, gently creased spine. Clean inside copy. "During its forty years as a forum for scholars, filmmakers, critics, and film lovers, Film Quarterly has looked in depth at the most critical elements in the political, social, theoretical, and aesthetic history of the cinema. Once closely tied to Hollywood, the journal was investigated by the Tenney committee in 1946 and two of its board members came under fire from the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1951. After several metamorphoses, however, and with the dedicated participation of its editors, board members, and authors, the journal now stands as the oldest and most prominent journal in cinema studies, publishing film (and video and television) history, criticism, theory, analysis, interviews, and film and book reviews. Spanning the 1950s to the 1990s, Film Quarterly: Forty Years--A Selection is a collaborative effort by the past and present editors and the editorial board to celebrate and illuminate the medium that has prompted so much thought and exchange during the journal's lifetime. From articles on documentary and genre to history and technology, narrative and the avant-garde, this carefully selected collection proposes groundbreaking theoretical models, fresh approaches to individual film classics, reassessments of filmmakers' bodies of work, and discussions of new films and technologies." - Publisher. Brian Henderson is Professor of Film at the State University of New York, Buffalo, and has been a member of the Film Quarterly editorial board since 1973. His books include A Critique of Film Theory (1980) and two volumes of screenplays by Preston Sturges. Ann Martin has been the editor of Film Quarterly since 1991. She has worked for The New Yorker and American Film magazine; she was also a member of the American Film Institute's Education Program, where she was the first Series Editor of the AFI Monographs. Very Good. USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 \| £UK 7.25 \| JP¥ 1059] Book number: 006207 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	HENSTELL, BRUCE American Film Criticism, from the Beginnings to Citizen Kane: Reviews of Significant Films at the Time They First Appeared New York, Liveright. 1972. (ISBN: 0871400774) Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xxiii, 443 pp.; 24 cm. Firm binding, creased spine. Clean inside copy. Bumped at tail/spine, browning. Good. USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6.25 \| JP¥ 883] Book number: 015422 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	HOLDEN, ANTHONY Behind the Oscar: The Secret History of the Academy Awards New York, Simon & Schuster. 1993, First Edition, First Printing. (ISBN: 0671701290) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Collectible, 672 pp. illus. biblio. index; 24 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine slightly rolled at crown. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Very Good/Fine. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 023756 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	HUGHES, HOWARD C. Once Upon A Time in the Italian West: The Filmgoers' Guide to Spaghetti Westerns London and New York, I. B. Tauris. 2006. (ISBN: 185043896X) Soft Cover , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xxii, 266 pp. illus. biblio. index; 25 cm. AS NEW. "Covering every Italian Spaghetti Western--mainly the good but also the bad and the ugly--this is an authoritative, entertaining and comprehensive companion to the implausible international fusion of producers, directors, actors and composers who created the mythical Spaghetti West under the most improbable circumstances. Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy led the field but many more major Spaghetti Westerns were made by important directors, including Sergio Corbucci's Navajo Joe, Carlo Lizzani's The Hills Run Red, Duccio Tessari's A Pistol for Ringo. Combining analysis, information and lively anecdotes, this popular guide explores all of these films through the biographies and filmographies of key personnel, stories of the films' making, their locations and sets, sources, musical scores, detailed cast information and many illustrations, including original posters and stills. / Howard Hughes is an expert on the Spaghetti Western and the author of The Pocket Essentials Guide to Spaghetti Westerns (Trafalgar Square)." - Publisher. Fine. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 028946 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	JACOBS, DIANE Hollywood Renaissance New York, Dell Publishing Company. 1980, First edition thus. (ISBN: 0440533821) Soft Cover , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. x, 276 pp. illus. biblio. filmographies, index; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Price-clipped wraps. Subtitle on wraps: "The New Generation of Filmmakers and their Works." Includes: John Cassavetes, Robert Altman, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Paul Mazursky, Michael Ritchie, and Hal Ashby. Very Good. USD 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 \| £UK 5 \| JP¥ 706] Book number: 016441 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	KASHNER, SAM, AND MACNAIR, JENNIFER The Bad & the Beautiful: Hollywood in the Fifties New York and London, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2002, First Edition, First Printing. (ISBN: 0393043215) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Collectible, 380 pp. illus. biblio. index; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated "First Edition." Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. "The drama and tragedy of Hollywood's most scandalous and dynamic decade, and the legends who have endured. In these tantalizing stories of momentous events and legendary characters, Sam Kashner and Jennifer MacNair brilliantly re-create the drama and contradictions of Hollywood's most scandalous and dynamic decade. Colorful and humorous anecdotes of such public icons as Lana Turner, Rock Hudson, Kim Novak, and Mae West profile the celebrities' lives away from the camera, telling of the private moments that were exploited by tabloids such as Confidential and gossip queens Louella Parsons, Hedda Hopper, and Sheilah Graham. Chronicling the unique obsessions of the era, the authors also offer behind-the-scenes commentary on the making of classic films: Hollywood's curious religious revival with The Robe; the film industry's exploitation of the potboiler Peyton Place, even as it rejected the housewife who penned it; and the anarchic director Nick Ray, who, on the set of the enduring classic Rebel without a Cause, taught his teenage stars about much more than acting. Guided by the authors' historical savvy and intimate storytelling, we discover a city at a crossroads, attempting to reinvent the magic and mystery of its past glories. Tragic, irreverent, and always entertaining, The Bad and the Beautiful reveals the underground history of this turbulent decade in American film. / Sam Kashner writes for GQ and Vanity Fair and is the author of the novel Sinatraland and other nonfiction books on Hollywood. Jennifer MacNair, a graduate of Columbia University's School of Journalism, is a contributor to the online edition of PBS's NewsHour with Jim Lehrer." - Publisher. Fine/Fine. USD 45.00 [Appr.: EURO 30.25 \| £UK 27.25 \| JP¥ 3972] Book number: 034928 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	KUHN, ANNETTE (EDITED BY) Alien Zone: Cultural Theory and Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema London and New York, Verso. 1990. (ISBN: 0860919935) Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. viii, 231 pp. illus. biblio.; 23 cm. Tight, clean copy. Browning. "Perhaps because of its very popularity and cult status, science fiction in all its forms has blong suffered from critical neglect. This is especially true of the science fiction film--a genre as old as cinema itself--which has rarely received the serious attention devoted to such genres as the western, the film noir and recently, under the aegis of feminist film theory, the so-called 'woman's film.' Alien Zone aims to bring science fiction cinema fully into the ambit of cultural theory in general and of film theory in particular. The essays in this book--some newly written, others gathered from scattered sources--look at the ways in which contemporary science fiction films draw on, rework, and transform established themes and conventions of the genre: the mise-en-scène of future worlds; the myth of masculine mastery of nature; power and authority and their relation to technology. This material is ordered and contextualized by the editor with a view to exploring how science fiction cinema has been approached critically and theoretically by commentators on the genre: as a mirror of society, as bearing or producing ideology; as caught up in an intertext of media productions, or as expressing unconscious desires. Contributors include Giuliana Bruno, Scott Bukatman, Thomas B. Byers, Barbara Creed, Anne Cranny-Francis, Daniel Dervin, H. Bruce Franklin, James H. Kavanagh, Douglas Kelner, Steve Neale, Judith Newton, Constance Penley, Hugh Ruppersberg, Michael Ryan, Vivian Sobchack, Michael Stern, J.P. Telotte, and Paul Virilio. / Annette Kuhn's previous books include Cinema, Censorship and Sexuality, The Power of the Image: Essays on Reprentation and Sexuality and Women's Pictures: Feminism and Cinema. A compansion volume, Alien Zone 2: The Spaces of Science Fiction Cinema, also edited by Annette Kuhn, is available from Verso." - Publisher. Very Good. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 034636 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	LEYDA, JAY, ET AL. Before Hollywood: Turn-of-the-Century American Film New York, Hudson Hills Press in association with the American Federation of Arts. 1987, First Edition. (ISBN: 0933920911) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Collectible, Cloth, 169 pp. illus. (some col.), biblio. index; 30 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Light edgewear to boards and dust jacket, protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Very Good/Very Good. USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.5 \| £UK 30.25 \| JP¥ 4413] Book number: 027103 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	MALTIN, LEONARD The Great Movie Comedians: Updated Edition from Charlie Chaplin to Woody Allen New York, Bell Publishing Company. 1982, Updated Edition. (ISBN: 0517361841) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth, xvii, 238 pp. illus. filmographies, index; 24 cm. "187 illustrations." Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Dust jacket, nicked once/top edge, front cover. Very Good/Very Good. USD 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 \| £UK 5 \| JP¥ 706] Book number: 009814 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.