Media Related Books

Richard Griffith's The Movie Stars (Doubleday $25.00, $19.95 before Christmas, and $11.95 from the Literary Guild or Mainstroam Book Clubs)

Bernard Rosenberg and Harry Silverstein, The Real Tinsel (Macmillan, $9.95)

Andrew Sarris' Confessions of a Cultist: On The Cinema, 1955-69 (Simon and Schuster, $9.95, also available in paperback edition)

P. Adams Sitney's Film Culture Reader (Praeger, $4.95)

Anthony Schillaci and John M. Culkin's edited collection Films Deliver (Citation Press book 1583, $5.25)

International Film Guide Series     

Books of the Month

James Monaco's American Film Now: The People, The Power, The Money, The Movies (New York: Oxford University Press, 1979—$19.95)

Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh's The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows: 1946-Present (New York: Ballentine Books, 1979—$19.95/9.95)     

Film History

Richard Meran Barsam's Nonfiction Film: A Critical History (New York: Dutton, 1973 -- $9.95/4.95)

Stanley Kauffmann and Bruce Henstell (eds.) American Film Criticism from the Beginnings to Citizen Kane: Reviews of Significant Films at the Time They First Appeared (New York: Liveright 1973 -- $12.00/3.95)

Donald C. Willis' Horror and Science Fiction Films: A Checklist (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1972 -- $15.00)

Chris Steinbrunner and Burt Goldblatt's Cinema of the Fantasic (New York: Saturday Review Press, 1972 -- $9.95)

Lawrence B. Thomas' The MGM Years: The Golden Age of Movie Musicals (New Rochelle, N.Y.: Columbia House (distribution by Arlington House), 1972 -- $14.95)     

More Film Books

Paul Trent and Richard Lawton's The Image Makers: Sixty Years of Hollywood Glamour (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1972—$20.00, but $16.95 before January 1, 1977)

Laurence Kardish's Reel Plastic Magic: A History of Films and Filmmaking in America (Boston: Little, Brown, 1972—$7.50)

David Manning White and Richard Averson's The Celluloid Weapon: Social Comment in the American Film (Boston: Beacon Press, 1972—$14.95)

Edward Mapp's Blacks in American Films: Today and Yesterday (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1972—$7.50)

Charles Higham's Hollywood at Sunset (New York: Saturday Review Press, 1972—$6.95)

Jean Narbonl and Tom Milne (eds), Godard on Godard: Critical Writings by Jean-Luc Godard (New York: Viking Press, 1972—$10.00)

Kenneth H. Roberts and Win Sharples, Jr. A Primer for Film-Making: A Complete Guide to 16 and 35 mm. Film Prodution (New York: Pegasus/Bobbs-Merrill, $15.00/6.95)

Stephen Farber's The Movie Rating Game (Washington, D.C.: Public Affairs Press, 1972—$4.50)     

Broadcasting

EMPIRE: WILLIAM S. PALEY AND THE MAKING OF CBS by Lewis J. Paper (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987—$19.95)

INVENTING AMERICAN BROADCASTING: 1899-1922 by Susan J. Douglas (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987—$29.50)

TELEVISION WESTERNS: MAJOR AND MINOR SERIES, 1946-1978 by Richard West (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1987—$19.95)

THE HISTORY OF PUBLIC BROADCASTING by John Witherspoon and Roselle Kovitz (Current, 2311 18th St. NW, Washington, DC 20009—$7.95, paper)

two illustrated discount books on TV history

RADIOS—THE GOLDEN AGE by Phillip Collins (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1987—$14.95, paper with a hardback available)

CHILDREN AND TELEVISION: A CHALLENGE FOR EDUCATION edited by Michael Manley-Casimir and Carmen Luke (New York: Praeger, 1987—$39.95)

PRIMETIME: NETWORK TELEVISION PROGRAMMING by Richard A. Blum and Richard D. Lindheim (Stoneham, MA: Focal Press, 1987—$19.95, paper)

three recent television texts from Sage Publications     

Hollywood: Films in General

Basil Wright's The Long View (New York: Knopf, 1974—$15.00)

Paul Sylbert's Final Cut: The Making and Breaking of Film (New York: Seabury Press, 1974—$7.95)

Gerson Kanin's Hollywood: Stars and Starlets, Tycoons and Flesh-Peddlers, Moviemakers and Moneymakers, Frauds and Geniuses, Hopefuls and Has-Beens, Great Lovers and Sex Symbols (New York: Viking Press, 1974—$8.95)

John Milton Hagen's Holly-Would! (New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1974—$7.95)

David Madden's Remembering James Agee (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1974—$8.95)

Richard Lawton's A world of Movies: 70 Years of Film Art (New York: Delacorte Press, 1974—$19.95)

Bob Willoughby and Richard Schickel's The Platinum Years (New York: Random House, 1974—$25.00)

Stephen H. Scheuer's The Movie Book (New York: Playboy Press with distribution by Simon and Schuster, 1974— $17.95)

Cecil Munsey's Disneyana: Walt Disney Collectibles (New York: Hawthorne, 1974—$19.95)

George Barris and Jack Scagnetti's Cars of the Stars (Jonathan David, Publisher, Middle Village, N.Y. 11379, 1974—$16.95)     

Photography and Film History

Gordon Hendricks' Eadweard Muybridge: The Father of the Motion Picture (New York: Grossman Publishers/Viking Press, 1975—$25.00)

Eaton S. Lothrop Jr.'s A Century of Cameras from the Collection of the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House (Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.: Morgan and Morgan, 1973—$12.00)

John Stewart's Filmarama Volume I: The Formidable Years 1893-1919 (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1975— $15.00)

Kenneth W. Leish's Cinema (New York: Newsweek Books ”World of Culture“ series, 1974— cost not known, but available in regular and deluxe editions)

Donald F. Glut's The Dracula Book (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1975—$12.50)

Richard Schickel's The Men Who Made The Movies (New York: Atheneum, 1975—$12.95)     

Cinema History

Jack C. Ellis, A History of Film (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1979—$11.95, paper)

John L. Fell, A History of Films (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1979— $14.95/9.95)

William K. Everson American Silent Film (New York: Oxford University Press, 1978—$17.50)

Jack Ellis, Charles Derry, and Sharon Kern, The Film Book Bibliography: 1940-1975 (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1979—$28.50)

James Robert Parish and Michael R. Pitts, Hollywood on Hollywood (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1978—$17.50)

Gerald Peary and Roger Shatzkin, eds. The Modern American Novel and the Movies (New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing, 1978—$14.50/6.95)

Richard Shale, comp. Academy Awards: An Ungar Reference Index (New York: Frederick Ungar, 1978—$24.50/ 8.95)

David Zinman 50 from the 50's: Vintage Films from America's Mid-Century (New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1979—$25.00)

Darlene Geis Walt Disney's Treasury of Children's Classics (New York: Harry Abrams, 1978—$25.00)

James Monaco Alain Resnais (New York: Oxford University Press, 1978—$5.95, paper).     

Motion Pictures: Theory and Criticism

Richard Taylor, The Politics of Soviet Cinema, 1917 - 1929 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979 -- $19.95)

S.S. Prawer, Caligari's Children: The Film as Tale of Terror (New York: Oxford University Press, 1980 -- $19.95)

Thomas Sobcheck and Vivian C. Sobcheck, An Introduction to Film (Boston: Little Brown, 1980 -- $10.95 with instructor's manual)

Brian Henderson, A Critique of Film Theory (New York: E.P. Dutton, 1980 -- $8.95 paper)

Two more volumes have appeared in the Wisconsin/Warner Bros. Screenplay Series (both Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1980 -- $12.50/ $4.95 paper)

Paul Seydor, Peckinpah: The Western Films (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1980 -- $12.95 hardcover)

Vivian Carol Sobcheck, The Limits of Infinity: The American Science Fiction Film ( South Brunswick: A.S. Barnes, 1980 -- $14.50)

Richard Meyers in The World of Fantasy Films (South Brunswick: A.S. Barnes, 1980 -- $17.50)

Michael Chanan, The Dream That Kicks: The Prehistory and Early Years of Cinema in Britain (London: Routledge Kegan Paul, 190-- $32.50)     

Motion Pictures and Photograph

Reese V. Jenkins' Images & Enterprise: Technology and the American Photographic Industry, 1839 to 1925 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975—$20.00)

R. C. Smith's Antique Cameras (North Pomfret, Vt.: David & Charles, 1976—$12.95)

Gerald Mast's A Short History Movies (Indianapolis: Bobbs- Merrill, 1976—$7.50, paper)

Lix-Anne Bawden's The Oxford Companion to Film (New York: Oxford University Press, 1976—$24.95)

John Brosnan's Marie Manic: The Story of Special Effects in the Cinema (New York: New American Library Plume Books, 1976—$3.95, paper)

Ronald Gottesman and Harry Geduld (eds.) The Girl in the Hairi Paw:King Kong as Mtyh, Magic, and Monster (New York: Avon Books, 1976—$5.95)

Guy Phelps' Film Censorship (London: Victor Gollancz, 1975—about $10.00)

James Robert Parish, et al. Film Directors Guide: Western Europe (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1976—$11.00)

James Robert Parish and Don E. Stanke's The Swashbucklers (New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1976—$19.95)

Andrew Sarris' The John Ford Movie Mystery (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1976—$8.95)

Laurence Goldstein and Jay Kaufman's Into Film (New York: Dutton, 1976—$19.95/12.95)

Daniel Arijon's Grammar of the Film Language (New York: Hastings House, 1976—$27.50)     

General Film Histories

Michael Wood's America in the Movies, or "Santa Maria, It Had Slipped My Mind" (New York: Basic Books, 1975---$10.00)

Adam Garbicz and Jacek Klinowski's Cinema, The Magic Vehicle: A Guide to its Achievement (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1975---$18.50)

Tino Balio's United Artists: The Company Built by the Stars (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1975-- $15.00)

Charles Higham's Warner Brothers (New Y( Scribner's, 1975---$9.95)

John Douglas Eames' The MGM Story: The Complete History of Fifty Roaring Years (New York: Crown, 1975---$25.00)

Rochelle Larkin's Hail, Columbia (New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1975---$17.95)

Datid E. Scherman (ed.) Life Goes to the Movies (New York: Time-Life Books, 1975-- $19.95)

Paul Trent's Those Fabulous Movie Years: The 30s (New York: Crown, 1975---$14.95)

Griffith and Mayer's The Movies (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1969)

Sidney Skolsky's Don't Get Me Wrong-- I Love Hollywood (New York: Putnam's, 1975---$8.95)

Leo Handel's Hollywood Looks at its Audience: A Report of Film Audience Research (originally issued by the University of Illinois Press in 1950)     

The Flood of Film Books Continues

Peter Pollack, The Picture History of Photography (Abrams, $25.00)

David Simon, Fifty Classic Motion Pictures (Crown, $9.95)

David Essoe's The Films of Clark Gable (Citadel, $10.00)

John Springer's The Fondas (Citadel, $10.00)

Pola Negri's Memoirs of a Star (Doubleday, $7.95)

Alexander Walker's Stardom (Stein & Day, $10.00)

T.J. Ross, Film and the Liberal Arts (Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, price unknown)

Lewis Jacob's The Movies as Medium (Farrar Straus & Giroux, $8.95; or Noonday paporback, $3.95)

Benjamin B. Hampton, A History of the Movies, originally published in 1931 and re-issued now as History of the American Film Industry (Dover paporbacks, $4.00)

The Literature of Cinema

Don Slay, Conversations: Volume I (Kaleidoscope Press (Albuquerque, New Mexico), $10.00)

Raymond Durgnat, The Crazy Mirror: Hollywood Comedy and the American Imago (Horizon Press, $7.50)

Harry M. Geduld and Ronald Gottesman's edited collection Serge Eisenstein and Upton Sinclair: Tho Making and Unmaking of “Quo Viva Mexico” (Iniana University gross, $15.00)

Verne and Sylvia Carlson's Professional 16/35 mm Cameraman's Handbook (Hastings House, $15.00)

Julius Bellone's edited collection, Rennaisance of the Film (Collier paperbacks, $2.95)

Richard Randall's excellent Censorship of the Movies (University of Wisconsin Press, $7.95)     

General Motion Pictures

Eileen Sheahan's Moving Pictures: An Annotated Guide to Selected Film Literature With Suggestions for the Study of Film (South Brunswick: A.S. Barnes and Company, 1979 – $9.95 hardcover)

Anthony Slide, Films on Film History (Metuchen, New Jersey: The Scarecrow Press, 1979 – $12.00 hardcover)

Hannah Elsas Miller, Films in the Classroom: A Practical Guide (Metuchen, New Jersey: The Scarecrow Press, 1979 – $12.50)

Roy Pickard, Hollywood Gold: The Award Winning Movies (New York: Taplinger, 1979 – $1 4 .95/$9.95)

Legal and Business Problems of Financing Motion Pictures 1979 (Practising Law Institute, 810 Seventh Ave., New York, N.Y. 10019—$20, paper)

Nancy Allen's Film Study Collections: A Guide to Their Development and Use (New York: Frederik Ungar, 1979—$14.00)

David McNicoll, eds. A Guide to Film and Television Courses in Canada (Canadian Film Institute, 75 Albert Street, Suite 1105, Ottawa, Ontario K1P 5E7 – $6.95)

Film Periodicals: A new journal, Discourse: Berkeley Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture (P.O. Box 4667, Berkeley, California 94704 – $9.00 for three issues for individuals, $12.00 for institutions, and $18.00 foreign)

Don Allen, ed. The World of Film and Filmmakers: A Visual History (New York: Crown, 1979—$19.95)

Raymond Fielding, comp. A Bibliography of Theses and Dissertations on the Subject of Film: 1916-1979 (Houston, Tx.: University Film Association Monograph No. 3, 1979—$6.50, paper)     

Popular Music

Donald M. Marquis' In Search of Buddy Bolden, First Man of Jazz (Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 1978—$9.95)

David A. Jasen and Trebar Jay Tichenor's Rags and Ragtime: A Musical History (New York: Seabury Press, 1978—$14.95)

Arnold Shaw's Honkers and Shouters: The Golden Years of Rhythm and Blues (New York: Macmillan, 1978—$19.95/9.95)

Robert Stephen Spitz's The Making of Superstars: Artists and Executives of the Rock Music World (Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1978—$8.95)

Vivian Claire's Judy Collins, and Linda Ronstadt (New York: Quick Fox (33 West 60th St.), 1978—$3.95, each, paper)

Edward Greenfield, Robert Layton, and Ivan March's The Penguin Stereo Record Guide (New York: Penguin Books, 1977—$8.95, paper)     

Film Biography

Gary Carey, All the Stars in Heaven: Louis B. Mayer's M-G-M (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1981 -- $18.50 hardcover).

Wyn Wachhorst, Thomas Alva Edison: An American Myth (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1981 -- $15.00).

Alexander Walker, Garbo: A Portrait (New York: Macmillan, 1980 -- $19.95 cloth).

Henry C. Rogers, Walking the Tightrope: The Private Confessions of a Public Relations Man (New York: William Morrow, 1980 -- $10.95 hardcover).

Scott Palmer, A Who's Who of British Film Actors (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1981 -- no price given).

Tony Thomas, The Films of Ronald Reagan (Secaucus, N.J.: Citadel Press, 1980 -- $16.95).

Jim Connor, Ann Miller: Tops in Taps, An Authorized Pictorial History (New York: Franklin Watts, 1981 -- $10.95 paper).

Raymond Strait and Terry Robinson in Lanza: His Tragic Life (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: 1981 -- $10.00 hardcover)

Irene Adler in I Remember Jimmy: The Life and Times of Jimmy Durante (New York: Arlington House, 1981 -- $8.95 paper)

Jack Oakie, Jack Oakie's Double Takes (San Francisco: Strawberry Hill Press, 1980 -- $10.95 paper).

Marilyn Henry and Ron De Sourdis, The Films of Alan Ladd (Secaucus, N.J.: The Citadel Press, 1981 -- $16.95).     

Film Directors

Alexander Sesonske, Jean Renoir: The French Films, 1924-1939 ( Cambridge: Harvard University Press -- $25.00 cloth/ $9.95 paper)

Martin Williams, Griffith: First Artist of of the Movies (New York: Oxford University Press -- $12.95)

Tony Rayns (ed.), Fas sbinder ($8.25 paper/$17.50 cloth)

Peter Baxter (ed.), Sternberg ($9.50 paper/$17.50 cloth)

G. K. Hall "Reference Publications III Film" series (Boston: C.K. Hall, 1979 except 1980 for Penn volume -- at prices shown below)     

Books on Broadcasting

Eric Reade's Australian Silent Films: A Pictorial History, 1896-1929 (Melbourne: Lansdowne, 1970—$6.20)

Andrew Bergman's We're in the Money: Depression America and Its Films (New York: New York University Press, 1971—$7.95)

James Robert Parish's The Fox Girls (New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1971—$14.95)

Peter Cowie The Concise History of the Cinema: Volume II, After 1940 (Cranbury, N.J.: A.S. Barnes, 1971—$3.50, paper)

Louis M. Sarary and J. Paul Carrico Contemporary Film and the New Generation. (New York: Association Press, 1971—$2.95, paper)

Richard Rudisill, Mirror Image: The Influence of the Daguerreotype on American Society (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1971—$30.00)     

Film Genre Studies

Les Adams and Buck Rainey's Shoot-em-Ups: The Complete Reference Guide to Westerns of the Sound Era (New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1978---$30.00)

David Rothel's The Singing Cowboys (Cranbury, N.J.: A.S. Barnes, 1978---$19.95)

Lawrence H. Suid's Guts & Glory: Great American War Movies (Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1978---$12.95/6.95)

Jack G. Shaheen, ed. Nuclear War Films (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1978---$10.00/4.95)

Thomas Cripps' Black Film as Genre (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1978---$10.00)

Neil P. Hurley's The Reel Revolution: A Film Primer on Liberation (Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1978---$7.95, paper)

Anita Loos' San Francisco, A Screenplay (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1979---$10.00/4.95)

Eugene Rosow's Born to Lose: The Gangster Film in America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1978---$19.95)     

Foreign Cinema

Noel Burch, To the Distant Observer: Form and Meaning in the Japanese Cinema (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979 – $19.50/ $9.75)

Peter Cowie, Dutch Cinema: An Illustrated History (South Brunswick, New Jersey: A. S. Barnes, 1979–$12.00)

Documentary and Educational Films of the 1930s (244 pp.)

Films of Comment and Persuasion of the 1930s (256 pp.)

Peter Morris, Embattled Shadows: A History of Canadian Cinema, 1895-1939 (Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 1978–$19.95/$7.95)     

Motion Pictures

George Rehrauer's Cinema Booklist: Supplement Two (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1977– $15.00), a 482 page update to the main volume (1972–see 4:1:9)

Bab-bars Anne Price and Theodore Price, Federico Felini: An Annotated International Bibliography (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1978—$11.00).

Dennis R. Bohnenkamp and Sam L. Grogg Jr., eds. The American Film Institute Guide to College Courses in Film and Television (Princeton, N.J.: Peterson's Guides, 1978—$9.75, paper)

Ian C. Jarvie's Movies as Social Criticism: Aspects of their Social Psychology (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1978—$10.00)

Robert Stanley's The Celluloid Empire: A History of the American Motion Picture Industry (New York: Hastings House, 1978—$15.75/7.95)

Richard Koszarski, ed. Hollywood Directors 1941-1976 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1977—$4.95, paper)

Andre Bazin's Orson Welles: A Critical View (New York: Harper & Row, 1978— $10.00)

James Naremore's The Magic World of Orson Welles (New York: Oxford University Press, 1978—$15.95)

Paul Michael's The Academy Awards: 50th Anniversary Edition (New York: Crown, 1978— $14.95)

James Beveridge's John Grierson, Film Master (New York: Macmillan, 1978— $17.95)

John McCabe's Charlie Chaplin (New York: Doubleday, 1978—$10.00)

Leonard Maltin's The Great Movie Comedians, From Charlie Chaplin to Woody Allen (New York: Crown, 1978—$10.95)

S. C. Earley An Introduction to American Movies (New York: New American Library Mentor Books, 1978—$2.25, paper)

Ron Haydock's Deerstalker! Holmes and Watson on Screen (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1978—$12.50)

Matthew J. Bruccoli, ed., F.Scott Fitzgerald's Screenplay for Three Comrades (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1978—$10.00/3.95)