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  • Assembly-Line Auteur
    David Meuel
    Of the many stories from Hollywood’s vibrant, free-wheeling pre-Code era, one of the most intriguing is also one that, until now, has not received its full due: the astonishing achievement of director William 'Wild Bill' Wellman during his epic three-year run at Warner Brothers. Between 1930 and 1933, Wellman directed 18 feature films and co-directed another, almost all on...
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    57,44 €

  • Joan Crawford in Film Noir
    David Meuel
    Joan Crawford’s contribution to film noir during the 1940s and 1950s, though rarely discussed in its totality, is one of her most impressive and far-reaching career achievements. Several of her noir and noir-tinged efforts contain arguably her best acting work, and all bear her personal stamp. These aren’t conventional film noirs, they are Joan Crawford noirs: highly distinc...
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    57,46 €

  • Silent Film’s Last Hurrah
    David Meuel
    This is a history and critical appreciation of an unusually fertile period for the production of great or near-great silent films: late 1927 through early 1929, in the midst of the tumult and upheaval of Hollywood’s transition from silent to sound. The book offers in-depth looks at several of the best of these films and discusses the gifted artists such as Charlie Chaplin, M...
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    57,52 €

  • Women Film Editors
    David Meuel
    When the movie business adopted some of the ways of other big industries in 1920s America, women--who had been essential to the industry’s early development--were systematically squeezed out of key behind-the-camera roles. Yet, as female producers and directors virtually disappeared for decades, a number of female film editors remained and rose to the top of their profession...
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    50,21 €

  • The Noir Western
    David Meuel
    Beginning in the mid-1940s, the bleak, brooding mood of film noir began seeping into that most optimistic of film genres, the western. Story lines took on a darker tone and western films adopted classic noir elements of moral ambiguity, complex anti-heroes and explicit violence. The noir western helped set the standard for the darker science fiction, action and superhero f...
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    42,86 €

  • Women in the Films of John Ford
    David Meuel
    While John Ford (1894-1973) remains one of the most influential and revered directors in film history, he is also one of the most frequently misunderstood. One widespread assumption is that he was almost exclusively a man’s director, dismissive of, or at best not well attuned to, the stories, perspectives and concerns of women. This book forthrightly challenges such an ass...
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    42,94 €