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050 1 4 _aPN 1994
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082 0 0 _a791.45/75
100 1 _aGiddins, Gary,
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245 1 0 _aWarning shadows :
_bhome alone with classic cinema /
_cGary Giddins.
250 _a1st ed.
260 _aNew York :
_bW.W. Norton & Co.,
_cc2010.
300 _a416 pages ;
_c24 cm.
500 _aIncludes index.
505 0 _apt. 1. Home alone with classic cinema. You pays your money Peeping Screening Televising Digitizing Laughter and tears pt. 2. Directors and stars. Touched by Ernst Lubitsch The John Ford code Three by Howard Hawks Frank Capra, true believer Guilty: Alfred Hitchcock That wild so-and-so William A. Wellman The Orson Welles dilemma John Brahm: the evil that men do Michael Curtiz's Doris Day period Anthony Mann of the west Sam Fuller's pulp cinema Akira Kurosawa's deep focus Medieval Ingmar Bergman: God is in the house, maybe Sergio Leone: heroes, villains, and idiots Sidney Lumet's family plots The magical unreality of Lech Majewski Edward Yang's family ties Houdini escapes! from the vaults! of the past! Joan Crawfor is dangerous Bette Davis, bigger than life The serenity of Alice Faye Edward G. Robinson, see Humphrey Bogart: falcons and fascists Let's be Frank [Sinatra] James Stewart: no more Mr. Nice Guy Boris Karloff: he's alive! pt. 3. Movies by genre. Biopics. A legend in his own mind (El Cid) Lust for lives (Young Mr. Lincoln, Lust for life) Felonious Munch (Edvard Munch) Hitler's magic flute (Hamsun, Hunger) Fantasy/Horror. Early German psychos (German expressionism collection) It wasn't Beauty killed the Beast (King Kong, Grass, Chang) Masters and grandmasters (The thief of Bagdad, Icons of adventure) Urban legend (Blade runner) Carnivores (Dark Sky Films) Comedy. Running for a train (The general) Road warrior (Traffic) Literary adaptations. Prestige and pretense (Pride and prejudice) An unhappy film in its own way (Anna Karenina) Classics and semi-classics illustrated (Literary Classics Collection) A Rosetta Stone for the 1950s (Ben-Hur, The man who fell to earth, Bad timing) John Huston's novel approach (Under the volcano) Lights! camera! talk! (Tennessee Williams) Maxiseries (A dance to the music of time, Fabio Montale) Musicals. Who's afraid of Al Jolson? (The jazz singer) Pennies from heaven (The threepenny opera) Habit forming (The Busby Berkeley Collection) Smilin' them to death (Hallelujah, The green pastures, Cabin in the sky) Vaudeville (Bing Crosby: Screen Legend Collection) Techni-glory (The tales of Hoffman, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Gregory Hines) Casting doubts (Fiddler on the roof, Presenting Lily Mars) How jazzed can you get? (Passing through, A great day in Harlem, Blues in the night, Pete Kelly's blues) The Disney (and anti-Disney) version. Battling Nazis with sambas (Saludos amigos, The three caballeros) Dog days (Lady and the the tramp, Hayao Miyazaki, Max and Dave Fleischer) Uncle Walt's prairie home companion (True-life adventures) Crime/Noir. Men without Molls (Gangsters Collection, vol.3) Elementary (Charlie Chan, Michael Shayne) To coin a genre (Kino's film noir) New Grubb Streets (Film Noir Classic Collection, vol.4) The deadly forties (I wake up screaming, When strangers marry) Who is Harry Lime? (The third man) Joker (Ace in the hole) Salvage jobs (Affair in Trinidad, The garment jungle) Mob mentality (Mafioso, Excellent cadavers) War/Agitprop. Wars to end wars (All quiet on the western front, 49th parallel) Love the warriors (Overlord, The guns of Navarone, The Caine mutiny) Theater of the absurd (Merrill's marauders) In search of lost time (Muriel, La belle captive) A Soviet guide to Cuba (I am Cuba) The redmen are coming (Indianerfilmes) Recalling the future of nuclear war (The war game, Culloden)
520 _aThe author explores more than 200 films, classics and neglected gems
650 0 _aMotion pictures.
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