Directors and Writers

Eric Sherman's Directing the Film: Film Directors on Their Art (Boston: Little, Brown, 1976---$15.00)

Donald Spoto's The Art of Alfred Hitchcock: Fifty Years of His Motion Pictures (New York: Hopkinson and Blake, 1976---$13.00/8.95)

Kemp R. Niver's D.W. Griffith: His Biograph Films in Perspective (Historical Films, P.O. Box 46505, Los Angeles, Calif. 90046---$12.00)

Stephen Pendo's Raymond Chandler on Screen: His Novels into Film (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1976---$10.00)

Ronald Lloyd's American Film Directors: The World as They See It (New York: New Viewpoints/Franklin Watts, 1976---price not given, paper)

Maureen Lambray's The American Film Directors (New York: Whirlwind/Pathe Press, 1976---$22.50)

Bob Thomas' Walt Disney: An American Original (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1976---$9.95)

Richard Koszarski's Hollywood Directors, 1914-1940 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1976---$13.95/3.95)

Philip Cecchettini and Don Whittemore's Passport to Hollywood: Film Immigramts (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976---413.50)

Beatriz Reyes Nevares' The Mexican Cinema: Interviews with Thirteen Directors (Albuquerque, N.M.: University of New Mexico Press, 1976---$9.95/4.50)

Francisco Aranda's Luis Bunuel: A Critical Biography (New York: Da Capo Press, 1976---44.95, paper)

Glenn B. Infield's Leni Riefenstahl: The Fallen Film Goddess (New York: Crowell, 1976---$9.95)

Stuart Rosenthal's The Cinema of Federico Fellini (Cranbury, N.J.: A.S. Barnes, 1976---$9.95)

Edward Murray's Fellini the Artist (New York: Ungar, 1976---$10.00)     

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)     

Motion Picture History

Paul Smith (ed.) The Historian and Film (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1976---$13.95)

Tino Balio (ed.) The American Film Industry (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1976---$15.00/6.95)

Dale McConathy with Diane Vreeland's Hollywood Costume (New York: Abrams, 1976---$35.00)

David Chierichetti's Hollywood Costume Design (New York: Harmony Books/Crown, 1976---$15.00)

Anthony Slide's The Big V: A History of the Vitagraph Company (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1976---$9.00)

Michael G. Fitzgerald's Universal Pictures: A Panoramic History in Words, Pictures and Filmographies (New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1976---$25.00)

James R. Silke's Here's Looking at You, Kid: Fifty Years of Fighting, Working and Dreaming at Warner Brothers (Boston: Little, Brown, 1976---$24.95)

P. Adams Sitney (editorial director), The Essential Cinema: Essays on the Rims in the Collection of Anthology Film Archives (New York: New York University Press, 1976-420.00/ 8.95)

Leo Braudy's The World in a Frame: What We See in Films (New York: Anchor/Doubleday, 1976---$8.95)     

Films and Stars

The Citizen Kane Book (Boston: Little, Brown, 1971---$15.00)

Ronald Gottesman (ed.) Focus on Citizen Kane (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1971---$5.95/2.45)

Harry M. Guduld (ed.) Focus on D.W. Griffith (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1971--$5.95/2.45)

Thomas Quinn Curtiss' Von Stroheim (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1971---$10.00)

Garson Kanin's Tracy and Hepburn: An Intimate Memoir (New York: Viking Press, 1971---$7.95)

Rudi Blesh's Keaton (New York: Collier, 1971 ---$2.95, paper)

Gerald Fine, Fatty (Los Angeles, author, 1971---$1.95, paper)

Ture Sjolander, Garbo (New York: Harper & Row, 1971---$12.00)

Joe Morella and Edward Z. Epstein's Lana: The Public and Private Lives of Miss Turner (New York: Citadel Press, 1971---$6.95)

Mary Astor's A Life on Film (New York: Delacorte Press,1971 ---$7.50)

Robert Wilson (ed) The Film Criticism of Otis Ferguson (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1971---$12.50)

Beverly Houston and Marsha Kinder Close-Up: A Critical Perspective on Film (New York: Harcourt, Brace &Javanovich, March 1972---$4.95, paper)     

Motion Picture Reference Books

Leslie Halliwell's The Filmgoer's Companion (Hill & Wang, $15.00)

Peter Cowie's International Film Guide: 1971 (A.S. Barnes, $3.95 in paperback)

Cinema Catalog (Larry Edmunds Bookshop, 6658 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, Calif. 90028, $2.95)

Film File No. 7 (Gotham Book Mart, 41 West 47th St., New York)     

Films

J. Dudley Andrew's The Major Film Theories (New York: Oxford University Press “Galaxy Book,” 1976---$3.95, paper)

Allan Casebier's Film Appreciation (New York: Harcourt, Brace, Javanovich, 1976---price not given, paper)

Ben Parker and Patricia Drabik's Creative Intention: About Audiovisual Communication from Hollywood to John Doe (New York: Law-Arts Publishers, 1974---$14.50)

Eric Rhode's A History of the Cinema From its Origins to 1970 (New York: Hill and Wang, 1976---$17.50)

Paul Monaco's Cinema and Society:France and Gerrranurin the Twenties (New York: Elsevier, 1976---$9.95)

Will Wright's Sixguns and Society: A Structural Study of the Western (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976---$10.00)

Ken Sutak's The Great Motion Picture Soundtrack Robbery: An Analysis of Soundtrack Protection (Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1976---$10.00)     

Flics

Cinema 6: A Catalog of Cinema & Television Books & Magazines & Related Material (Hampton Books, Rt. 1, Box 76, Newberry, S.C. 29108, 1971— $1.00, paper)

R.A.E. Pickard's Dictionary of 1,000 Best Films (New York: Association Press, 1971—$12.00)

James Robert Parish's The Great Movie Series (Cranbury, N.J.: A.S. Barnes, 1971— $15.00)     

General Film Overviews

Andrew Tudor's Image and Influence: Studies in the Sociology of Film (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1975---$17.95)

Paul Weiss' Cinematics (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1975---$8.95)

James F. Scott's Film: The Medium and the Maker (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1975---$7.95 1 paper)

Douglas Brode's Crossroads to the Cinema (Boston: Holbrook Press, 1975---price not given, paper)

William Kuhns' The Moving Picture Book (Dayton, Ohio: Pflaum, 1975---price not given, paper)

Richard M. Blumenberg's Critical Focus: An Introduction to Film (Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth, 1975---price not given, paper)

Axel Madsen's The New Hollywood: American Movies in the 70s (New York: Crowell, 1975---$7.95)

George Rehrauer's The Film User's Handbook: A Basic Manual for Managing Library Film Services (New York: Bowker, 1975---$14.95)     

Film Reference Works

John M. Smith and Tim Cawkwell (eds.) The World Encyclopedia of the Film (New York: World, 1972 -- $25.00)

The Working Teacher's Personal Guide to Film Sources (Stanford, Ca.: ERIC Clearinghouse on Media and Technology, 1972 -- single copies free on request, paper)

D. Richard Bach (ed.) The Film Buff's Bible of Motion Pictures (1915-1972) (Hollywood, Calif.: Hollywood Film Archive, 8344 Melrose Ave., 1972 -- $24.00)

John Willis' Screen World: 1972 (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972 -- $8.95)

George Sadoul, Dictionary of Films, and Dictionary of Film Makers (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972 -- $16.50/5.95 and $14.50/4.95 respectively)

Clifford McCarty's Published Screenplays: A Checklist (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1971 -- $6.50)

James M. Salem, A Guide to Critical Reviews, Part IV: The Screenplay from the Jazz Singer to Dr. Strangelove (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1971 -- S30.00 for the set)

Cinema Catalog (Larry Edmunds Bookshop Inc., 6658 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, California 90028 -- $2.95, paper)

Catalog of Film Literature (Cinemabilia, 10 Cornelia St., New York 10014 -- $2.50, paper)     

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)     

General Film History

Jack C. Ellis' A History of Film (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1978---$11.95, paper)

John L. Fell's A History of Films (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1978---price not given, paper)

Anthony Slide's Aspects of American Film History Prior to 1920 (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1978---$7.50). In the short (173 pages)

Two recent additions to the Ungar Film Library (New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1978---at prices shown)     

Foreign Film

George Perry's The Great British Picture Show from the 90s to the 70s (New York: Hill and Wang, 1974---$12.50)

Mildred Constantine and Alan Fern's Revolutionary Soviet Film Posters (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1974---$12.95)

Michael Jon Stoil's Cinema Beyond the Danube: The Camera and Politics (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1974---$6.00)

Antonin J. Liehn's Closely Watched Films: The Czechoslovak Experience (International Artistic Sciences Press, 901 North Broadway, White Plains, N.Y. 10603, 1974---$15.00)

Eleanor Beatty's A Handbook of Canadian Film (Toronto: Peter Martin Association with Take One, 1973---price not known, paper)

Kuleshov on Film: Writings by Lev Kuleschov (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974--- $10.00)

Susan Sontag's Brother Carl (New York: Noonday Press/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1974---$10.95/4.95)     

Film Bibliography and Documentary

George Rehrauer's Cinema Booklist (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1972---$10.00)

Film Index (1941, Arno Press reissued it in 1966 at $22.50)

Adam Reilly's Current Film Periodicals in English (New York: Educational Film Library Association, 17 West 60th St., 1972---$2.00, paper)

Lewis Jacobs (ed.) The Documentary Tradition From Nanook to Woodstock (New York: Hopkinson & Blake, 1971--$10.00/5.50)     

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)     

Film: General

Michael F, Mayer's The Film Industries (New York: Hastings House, 1978---$11.50/5.95)

Joseph M. Boggs' The Art of Watching Films: A Guide to Film Analysis (Menlo Park, Calif.: Benjamin/Cummings Publishing, 1978---$6.95, paper)

Bernard F. Dick's Anatomy of Film (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1978---$10.00)

Film periodicals: Chamba Notes (P.O. Box U, Brooklin, N.Y. 11202---$3.00 for students, $5.00 for other individuals, and $10.00 for institutions/quarterly)     

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)     

The Works of Orrin Dunlap

Julien Caunter's How to Make Movie Magic in Amateur Films (Philadelphia: Chilton Books, 1971---price not known)

Stanley J. Solomon The Film Idea (New York: Harcourt, Brace, Javanovich, March 1972---$4.95 paper)

Jerry Lewis' The Total Filmmaker (New York: Random House, 1971---$6.95)

William Bayer's Breaking Through, Selling Out, Dropping Dead, and Other Notes on Film Making (New York: Macmillan, 1971---$5.95)

Alan Rosenthal (ed.) The New Documentary in Action: A Casebook in Film Making (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971---$11.95)     

Film Biography

Kenneth L. Geist's Pictures will Talk: The Life and Films of Joseph L. Mankiewicz (New York: Scribner's, 1978---$12.95)

Two new books, one a revision, deal with another important director, Alfred Hitchcock

Donald Spoto's Stanley Kramer: Filmmaker (New York: Putnam, 1978---$12.95)

James Robert Parish, et al., Hollywood Character Actors (New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1978--- $30.00)

Jesse L. Lasky Jr. with Pat Silver, Love Scene: The Story of Lawrence Olivier and Vivien Leigh (New York: Crowell, 1978---$10.95)

Hollywood actress and actor biographies, a round up of recent titles

Danny Peary, ed. Close-Ups: The Movie Star Book--Intimate Profiles of Movie Stars by their Co-Stars, Directors, Screenwriters and Friends (New York: Workman Press, 1978---$8.95 in paper with a hardback also available)     

Media Nostalgia

Frank Buxton and Bill Owen's The Big Broadcast: 1920-1950 (New York: Viking Press, 1972---$12.95)

Summers' A Thirty-Year History of Programs Carried on National Radio Networks in the United States (1958: reprinted by Arno Press, 1971---$10.00)

Hello Again (Mr. Jay Hickerson, 6 Koczak Court, North Haven, Conn. 06473)

Mary E. Bickel's George W. Trendle: An Authorized Biography (Jericho, N.Y.: Exposition Press, 1972---$5.00)

Joe Morella, Edward Z. Epstein, and Eleanor Clark's Those Great Movie Ads (New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1972--- $14.95)

Ron Goulart's Cheap Thrills: an Informal History of the Pulp Magazines (New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1972---$7.95)     

The World of Popular Music

Tony Palmer's All You Need is Love: The Story of Popular Music (New York: Viking Press, 1976---$15.00)

Ron Schaumburg's Growing Up with the Beatles (New York: Pyramid Books, 1976---$5.95, paper)

Paul Gambaccini's Paul McCartney in His Own Words (New York: Flash Books/Quick Fox Inc., 1976---$3.95, paper)

Ritchie Yorke's The History of Rock 'n Roll (New York: Methuen/Two Continents, 1976---$5.95, paper)

Sharon Lawrence's So You Want to Be a Rock & Roll Star (New York: Dell, 1976---$1.75, paper)

Geoffrey Stokes' Star-Making Machinery: The Odyssey of an Album (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1976---$8.95)

Dave Dexter, Jr.'s Playback: A Newsman/Record Producer's Hits and Misses from the Thirties to the Seventies (New York: Billboard Publications, Inc., 1976---$9.95)

Ralph J. Gleason's Celebrating the Duke, and Louis, Bessie, Billie, Bird, Carmen, Miles, Dizzy, and Other Heroes (New York: Delta Books, 1976---$3.95, paper)

Alec Wilder's American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1975---$6.95, paper)