Film, TV, & Video / Film / Directors from LEFT COAST BOOKS

New York: HarperCollins, 2007. Cloth, vii, 402 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations; 24 cm. Firm binding, unmarked. Light foxing/expected browning. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket, lightly soiled on the back flap, protected in a mylar cover. "Oscar Micheaux was the Jackie Robinson of film, the black D. W. Griffith: a bigger-than-life American folk hero whose important life story is… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf; A Borzoi Book, 2007. x, 386 pages, [32] pages of plates, illustrations; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "The definitive biography of Leni Riefenstahl, the woman best known as 'Hitler's filmmaker,' one of the most fascinating and controversial personalities… Read more about this item

New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 2004. xxix, 322 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. Good+. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Moderate shelfwear. "In Martin Scorsese: A Journey, Mary Pat Kelly traces Scorsese's life and work through interviews with Scorsese, his family, and colleagues, providing a rare look at the process and inspiration behind the films of America's premier director." - Publisher.. Paperback.… Read more about this item

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2016. viii, 1014 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations, portraits; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. "Unevenly respected, easily hated, almost always suspected of being inferior to his reputation, Jean Cocteau has often been thought… Read more about this item

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1970. 223 pages, illustrations; 26 cm. Good+. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Wraps curling along the foreedges. Faded spine, age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. CONTENTS: Akira Kurosawa; Sanshiro Sugata (Sugata Sanshiro); Sanshiro Sugata Part II (Sugata Sanshiro Zoku); The most beautiful (Ichiban Utsukushiku); They who step on the tiger's… Read more about this item

New York: Thames and Hudson, 1996. Cloth, 175 pages, illustrations (some colour); 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. "The power of Derek Jarman's visual imagination has touched every one of his projects. In the various roles of painter, stage designer, film-maker and gardener, his intensity forged a compelling view of the world in… Read more about this item

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1972. Cloth, 255 pages, illustrations; 29 cm. Good+. Firm binding, unmarked. Dust spotting/edges, expected browning. Price-clipped dust jacket, with light edgewear. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. CONTENTS: Michelangelo Antonioni; Franc ois Truffaut; Robert Bresson; Rene Clair; Ermanno Olmi; Federico Fellini; Vittorio De Sica; Carol Reed; Ingmar Bergman; Jean Renoir; Alfred Hitchcock..… Read more about this item

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1995. 517 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. . 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992. 768 pages, [24] pages of plates, illustrations; 26 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine slightly rolled at the crown. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. "Moviegoers often assume Frank Capra's life resembled his beloved films: As in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington or It's a Wonderful… Read more about this item

London: Tate Publishing, 2020. 224 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Published to accompany exhibition held at Tate Modern: 12 March to 6 September 2020; Museum Ludwig: Cologne, 10 October 2020 to 21 February 2021; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto: 27 March to 13 June 2021; and the Dallas Museum of Art, Texas: 11 July to 7 November 2021. Firm… Read more about this item

New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 2000. Cloth, vii, 208 pages, illustrations (some colour); 32 cm. Revised edition. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. "On Cukor is finally being reissued in a revised, updated, and redesigned book, published to coincide with the broadcast of an American Masters… Read more about this item

London: Fourth Estate, 1994. Cloth, vii, 324 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "This biography draws on original interviews with family members and friends, unpublished documents, letters, and family records." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.

Milan: Skira, 2019. Pictorial boards, 149 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Translation of: Alfred Hitchcock: il cinema ai bordi del nulla. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Museo della grafica, Pisa, Italy, April 7 to September 1, 2019. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. "Despite the particularly short-sighted and obtuse critics… Read more about this item

New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1976. Cloth, xiii, 256 pages, illustrations; 22 cm. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Dust jacket lightly rubbed.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1978. xii, 297 pages, [8] leaves of plates, illustrations; 22 cm. Tight, clean copy. Droplet staining/top edge. Expected browning. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket age toned. CONTENTS: The bitter boyhood; Supple Karno; America; Keystone; Essanay; Mutual; First National; The Kid; The gregarious loner; A Woman of Paris; Lita; The Gold Rush; Carry on;… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1978. Cloth, xiv, 237 pages, [6] leaves of plates, illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Dust jacket worn at spine ends. . 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 1998. 247 pages; 20 cm. PRESENTATION COPY. Signed and warmly inscribed by the author Saul Landau to cinematographer Haskell Wexler. Wraps slightly sunned. Age toning, foreedge lightly soiled. Stated First Printing. Wexler made ten documentary films with Landau.. SIGNED. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. Collectible.

New York: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2005. xxxi, 510 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine slightly rolled at the crown. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "Few figures in film and theater history tower like Elia Kazan. Born in 1909 to Greek parents in Istanbul, Turkey, he arrived in America with incomparable vision… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf; A Borzoi Book, 1996. 463 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Front hinge slightly sprung. Remainder mark/tail edge. Stated First Edition. Fine DJ. "Orson Welles arrived in Hollywood as a boy genius, became a legend with a single perfect film, and then spent the next forty years floundering. But Welles floundered so… Read more about this item

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993. xxxiii, 346 pages; 22 cm. American Culture Series, Volume 9. PRESENTATION COPY. Signed by the author Michael Eric Dyson, with a personalized inscription. A fine copy of the First paperback edition. CONTENTS: PART 1 WHAT'S GOING ON? BLACK POPULAR CULTURE: The culture of hip-hop; Rap music and Black culture - an interview; Spike Lee's… Read more about this item