Performing Arts / Film from Chris Hartmann, Bookseller

Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc.. Paperback. 2002. 8vo 221pp . Near Fine with no DJ. B&W Photographs. Front cover top corner has very slight crease .

New York: Columbia Univ. Press. Hardcover. 2000. 1st Edition. 8vo 325pp . Fine in Fine DJ. B&W Photographs .

New York: William Morrow And Company. Hardcover. 1979. 1st Edition. 8vo 218pp . Fine in Fine DJ. B&W Photographs. Examines turbulent years in Hollywood when talking pictures took over from silent films .

Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc.. Hardcover. 1991. 1st Edition. 8vo 532pp . Fine with no DJ. Black cloth with white lettering. No DJ as issued .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Hardcover. 1982. 1st Edition. 8vo 334pp . Fine in Very Good DJ. B&W Photographs. Small remainder mark rubber stamped on bottom edges. DJ has light edgewear. How the formation of the Screen Writers Guild, and the political passions it aroused among Hollywood writers, actors, directors, and producers in the 1930s and 40s, shattered the closely… Read more

Hong Kong: Derbibooks. Softcover. 1975. 1st Edition. Thin 4to 160pp . Fine with no DJ. B&W and Color Photographs .

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Hardcover. 1972. 1st Edition. 8vo 276pp . Very Good in Very Good DJ. B&W Photographs. Bottom corners lightly bumped, DJ price clipped, lightly rubbed, and stretched at front fold . Examines the films and career of George Cukor, a celebrated Hollywood director .

New York: St. Martin's Press. Hardcover. 1985. 1st Edition. 8vo 373pp . Fine in Very Good DJ. B&W Photographs. DJ has some edgewear .

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co.. Hardcover. 1980. 1st Edition. 8vo 355pp . Very Good in Very Good DJ. B&W Photographs. Rubber stamped name and address on front endpaper. DJ has light edgewear. Dunne was a reader in Hollywood in 1930 and played a central role in defending constitutional rights trough Americans for Democratic Action during the 1940s and 1950s Hollywood… Read more

New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers. Hardcover. 2000. 1st Edition. 8vo 237pp . Fine in Fine DJ. B&W Photographs .

New York: St. Martin's Press. Hardcover. 2004. 1st Edition. 8vo 308pp . Fine in Fine DJ. Color Photographs. Autobiography by the young actor who stared in The Lord of the Rings produced by Peter Jackson .

New York: Columbia Univ. Press. Hardcover. 1986. 1st Edition. 8vo 328pp . Fine in Very Good DJ. B&W Photographs. Written from a radical political viewpoint, this outspoken book views the transition in American film from the 1970s--when Vietnam and Watergate caused many to question American institutions--to the reactionary and recuperative films of the 80 s .

New York: Donald I. Fine, Inc.. Hardcover. 1993. 1st Edition. Thick 8vo 488pp . Fine in Fine DJ. B&W Photographs .

Lexington: Univ. Of Kentucky Press. Hardcover. 1993. 1st Edition. 8vo 218pp . Fine in Fine DJ. B&W Photographs .

New York: Da Capo Press. Softcover. 1986. Reprint. 8vo 416pp . Fine with no DJ. B&W Photographs. An unabridged republication of a book originally published in London in 1976. Lang (1890-1976) was an Austrian-born U. S. Film director. He found work at a movie studio in Berlin, where he later directed successful films such as Between Two Worlds (1921) ,… Read more

New York: Scribner. Hardcover. 1979. 1st Edition. 8vo 340pp . Very Good in Very Good DJ. B&W Photographs Review copy with publisher's slip and promotional letter laid in DJ spine faded Biography of comedian Buster Keaton (1895-1966) .

Columbia: Univ. Of South Carolina Pres. Paperback. 1992. 1st Paperback. 8vo 274pp . Fine with no DJ. 8vo - 8" to 9" tall 274 pp B&W Illustrations Trade PB .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Hardcover. 1975. 1st Edition. 8vo 273pp . Very Good in Very Good DJ. B&W Illustrations Name on pastedown blacked-out with Magic Marker .

Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. Hardcover. 1992. 1st Edition. Thin 8vo 97pp . Fine in Fine DJ. Intertwines fond recollections of films he watched as a boy with strands of autobiography and observations about politics .

New York: W. W. Norton & Co.. Hardcover. 1993. 1st Edition. 8vo 281pp . Fine in Fine DJ. Examines the worldwide psychological impact of motion pictures .