Film, TV, & Video / Film / History & Criticism from LEFT COAST BOOKS

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019. Cloth, vi, 318 pages, illustrations, portraits; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "Why do so many people care so much about celebrities? Who decides who gets to be a star? What are the privileges and pleasures of fandom? Do celebrities ever… Read more about this item

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. xxi, 445 pages; 24 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. A tiny bit of wear along the front free endpaper. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "In his astute and deeply informed film reviews and essays, Jonathan Rosenbaum regularly provides new and brilliant insights into the cinema as art, entertainment, and commerce. Guided… Read more about this item

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. 164 pages, illustrations (some colour); 28 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Moderate shelfwear to wraps. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. "During the Roaring Twenties Walt Disney and his friends made upwards of one hundred films, turning them out as often as one- and two-per month. Years before Mickey Mouse, the… Read more about this item

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1995. ix, 337 pages; 24 cm. Good+. A little underlining on half a dozen pages. "Jonathan Rosenbaum, longtime contributor to such publications as Film Quarterly, Sight and Sound, and The Village Voice, is arguably the most eloquent, insightful film critic writing in America today. Placing Movies, the first collection of his work, gathers together… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991. vi, 346 pages; 24 cm. Culture and the Moving Image Series. A little underlining/marks on a dozen pages. "For the past dozen years, J. Hoberman has been publishing witty, impassioned, vivid film criticism in the pages of New York's alternative weekly, The Village Voice. His first collection includes a variety of these (mostly) movie reviews,… Read more about this item

New York: St. Martin's Press; Thomas Dunne Books, 2009. Cloth, 286 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First U.S. Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "The Boozy Biography of the Four Greatest Actors to Ever Walk--Or Stagger--Into a Pub. Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole,… Read more about this item

New York: Grove Press, 2015. Cloth, xvii, 425 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations, portraits; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "In The Comedians, comedy historian Kliph Nesteroff brings to life a century of American comedy with real-life characters, forgotten stars, mainstream heroes and counterculture iconoclasts. Based on over two hundred original interviews and… Read more about this item

Poughkeepsie, NY: Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, 2007. 48 pages, chiefly colour illustrations; 26 cm. Exhibition held at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, May 25 to July 29, 2007. Firm binding, clean inside copy. . 1st. Paperback. Fine. 4to. Collectible.

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

Seatlle: University of Washington Press, 2017. x, 365 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour); 26 cm. A good reading copy, marked on half a dozen pages. "Migrating the Black Body explores how visual media - from painting to photography, from global independent cinema to Hollywood movies, from posters and broadsides to digital media, from public art to graphic… Read more about this item

New York: Nan A Talese; Doubleday, 2014. viii, 289 pages, illustrations, portraits; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First United States Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "A concise portrait of the iconic film star traces his humble theatrical beginnings through his honorary Academy Award win, sharing anecdotes about his lesser-known… Read more about this item

Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999. 280 pages, illustrations; 22 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Remainder mark (ink dot)/top edge. "Examines American films that were set in Britain, based on British literature or history and included the work of British producers, directors, writers, stars and character actors." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Hollywood's foreign markets; Hollywood's foreign policy; The 'whiter and cliffier… Read more about this item

London and New York: Routledge, 1994. xiv, 282 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. Reprint 2002. Firm binding, with one spine crease. Clean inside copy. "In a historical investigation of the pleasures of cinema, Star Gazing puts female spectators back into theories of spectatorship. Combining film theory with a rich body of ethnographic research, Jackie Stacey investigates how female spectators understood Hollywood… Read more about this item

New York: Doubleday, 1998. 344 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. "For the first time, the full story of what happened when Frank Sinatra brought his best pals to party in a land called Vegas. January 1960. Las Vegas is at its smooth, cool peak. The… Read more about this item

New York: Penguin Press, 2016. xii, 291 pages; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "The New York Times film critic shows why we need criticism now more than everFew could explain, let alone seek out, a career in criticism. Yet what A. O. Scott shows in Better Living Through Criticism is that we are,… Read more about this item

Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2018. Pictorial boards, 287 pages, colour illustrations; 30 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "As long as there have been movies, there have been posters selling films to audiences. Posters came into existence just decades before the inception of film, and as movies… Read more about this item

Los Angeles, CA: Bonhams & Butterfields, 2010. 90 pages, illustrations (some colour); 27 cm. Sale 18245. Auction held Sunday June 13, 2010. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Lots.1000-1319.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 4to.

Los Angeles and London: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Thames and Hudson, 1990. 256 pages, illustrations (some colour); 26 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, endpapers lightly soiled. age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. CONTENTS: Foreword, by Earl A. Powell,… Read more about this item

South Brunswick and New York: A. S. Barnes and Company; The Tantivy Press, 1976. Cloth, 171 pages, illustrations; 26 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Tips lightly bumped, age toning. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear, protected in a mylar cover. CONTENTS: The surrealist sensibility; Luis Bunuel; Josef von Sternberg; Alfred Hitchcock; Samuel Fuller; Animated film; The artist-inventor.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very… Read more about this item

Honolulu, Hawai'i: University of Hawai'i Press, 2014. xii, 264 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Foreedge lightly soiled. "Throughout the twentieth century, American filmmakers have embraced cinematic representations of China. Beginning with D.W. Griffith's silent classic Broken Blossoms (1919) and ending with the computer-animated Kung Fu Panda (2008), this book explores China's changing role in… Read more about this item