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White Heat by Patrick McGilligan 9780299096748
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $32.12Among the countless gangster films produced by Hollywood, few are as haunting, complex, or ingeniously crafted as White Heat (1948). Students of film history and screen writing will appreciate this... -
Funny Man: Mel Brooks by Patrick McGilligan
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $25.00A deeply textured and compelling biography of comedy giant Mel Brooks, covering his rags-to-riches life and triumphant career in television, films, and theater, from Patrick McGilligan, the acclaimed... -
Yankee Doodle Dandy by Patrick McGilligan 9780299084745
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $32.53Talks about a 1942 smash musical hit, a favorite among audiences and film buffs.ReviewsA notable collection of screenplays... All reproduce the film as shot, with extensive data... [and] full... -
A LIFE IN DARKNESS AND LIGHT by Patrick McGilligan 9780060988272
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $33.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060988272Author Patrick McGilliganFormat PaperbackPage Count 896Imprin -
Sydney Pollack: Collected Interviews Patrick McGilligan 9781985904170
Booksplease Price: $128.88Sydney Pollack was a true actor's director-a filmmaker who came up through the ranks, starting as a bit-part TV performer before turning to directing. From his debut feature The Slender Thread (1965)... -
Sydney Pollack: Collected Interviews Patrick McGilligan 9781985904187
Booksplease Price: $63.26Sydney Pollack was a true actor's director-a filmmaker who came up through the ranks, starting as a bit-part TV performer before turning to directing. From his debut feature The Slender Thread (1965)... -
Woody Allen: A Travesty of a Mockery of a Sham by Patrick McGilligan 9780062941336
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $54.21The acclaimed film biographer and author of Young Orson and Funny Man returns with the definitive look at the life and legacy of Woody Allen. The writer, director, and frequent star of more than... -
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Clint: The Life and Legend by Patrick McGilligan 9780006383543 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $5.83One of the most revealing and hard-hitting biographies of a Hollywood film star in recent times, this book discloses the controversial truth about Clint Eastwood and dispels the carefully preserved... -
Backstory 5: Interviews with Screenwriters of the 1990s by Patrick McGilligan 9780520260399
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $57.21Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Tender Comrades: A Backstory of the Hollywood Blacklist by Patrick McGilligan 9780816680375
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $40.79More than sixty years ago, McCarthyism silenced Hollywood. In the pages of Tender Comrades, those who were suppressed, whose lives and careers were ruined, finally have their say. A unique collection... -
Nicholas Ray: The Glorious Failure of an American Director by Patrick McGilligan 9780060731380
Booksplease Price: $29.60"The cinema is Nicholas Ray". (Jean-Luc Godard). The visionary filmmaker Nicholas Ray spent his lifetime creating films that were dark, emotionally charged, and haunted by social misfits and bruised... -
Oscar Micheaux: The Great and Only: The Life of America's First Black Filmmaker by Patrick McGilligan 9780060731403
Booksplease Price: $22.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060731403Author Patrick McGilliganFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprin -
Escape Artist: The Life and Films of John Sturges by Glenn Lovell
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $34.05Escape Artist - based on Glenn Lovell's extensive interviews with John Sturges, his wife and children, and numerous stars, including Clint Eastwood, Robert Duvall, and Jane Russell - is the first... -
The Haunted Cinema of Pedro Costa James Naremore 9780253073228
RRP: $109.20Booksplease Price: $89.97For over three decades, Portuguese director Pedro Costa has been widely admired for his unusual and innovative body of work, which has earned accolades and wide acclaim. The Haunted Cinema of Pedro... -
Black Dahlia: Murder, Monsters, and Madness in Midcentury Hollywood William J Mann 9781668075906
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $28.37Illuminating and captivating, New York Times bestselling author of Tinseltown and Bogart offers the first definitive account of the Black Dahlia murder-the most famous unsolved true crime case in... -
George Cukor's People: Acting for a Master Director Joseph McBride 9780231210829
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $60.04The director of classic films such as Sylvia Scarlett, The Philadelphia Story, Gaslight, Adam's Rib, A Star Is Born, and My Fair Lady, George Cukor is widely admired but often misunderstood... -
Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided Scott Eyman 9781982176365
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.85The "shocking" (The Wall Street Journal), must-read story of Charlie Chaplin's years of exile from the United States during the postwar Red Scare, and how it ruined his film career, from bestselling... -
Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided by Scott Eyman 9781982176358
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $28.51The remarkable, must-read story of Charlie Chaplin's years of exile from the United States during the postwar Red Scare, and how it ruined his film career, from bestselling biographer Scott Eyman... -
Frames of Minds: A History of Neuropsychiatry on Screen Eelco F.M. Wijdicks 9780197615898
Booksplease Price: $119.75As a medium that aims to connect people through the communication and interpretation of experiences, cinema is uniquely positioned to showcase cultural misunderstandings around issues of mental... -
Cinema, MD: A History of Medicine On Screen by Eelco F.M. Wijdicks 9780190685799
Booksplease Price: $204.50Cinema, MD follows the intersection of medicine and film and how filmmakers wrote a history of medicine over time. The narrative follows several main story lines: How did the portrayal of physicians,... -
Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood by William J. Mann
Booksplease Price: $27.81New York Times Bestseller Edgar Award winner for Best Fact Crime The Day of the Locust meets The Devil in the White City and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil in this juicy, untold Hollywood... -
Dylan: The Biography by Dennis McDougal
RRP: $56.53Booksplease Price: $39.84The ultimate biography of the musical icon. A groundbreaking and vibrant look at the music hero to generations, DYLAN: The Biography digs deep into Bob Dylan lore-including subjects Dylan... -
Dylan: The Biography Dennis McDougal 9781630260682
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $28.37The ultimate biography of the musical icon. A groundbreaking and vibrant look at the music hero to generations, DYLAN: The Biography digs deep into Bob Dylan lore-including subjects Dylan... -
Clint: The Man and the Movies by Shawn Levy 9780063251021
RRP: $54.60Booksplease Price: $40.56New York Times "Editors Choice," Los Angeles Times "Must Read Book for Summer," and a New Yorker "Best Book of the Year So Far""This is the biography of Clint Eastwood we've been waiting for." - Sir... -
Show Trial: Hollywood, HUAC, and the Birth of the Blacklist by Thomas Doherty 9780231184892
RRP: $54.60Booksplease Price: $46.20In 1947, the Cold War came to Hollywood. Over nine tumultuous days in October, the House Un-American Activities Committee held a notorious round of hearings into alleged Communist subversion in the... -
Show Trial: Hollywood, HUAC, and the Birth of the Blacklist by Thomas Doherty 9780231187787
RRP: $212.55Booksplease Price: $166.47In 1947, the Cold War came to Hollywood. Over nine tumultuous days in October, the House Un-American Activities Committee held a notorious round of hearings into alleged Communist subversion in the... -
All That Heaven Allows: A Biography of Rock Hudson by Mark Griffin
Booksplease Price: $40.33SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREThe definitive biography of the deeply complex and widely misunderstood matinee idol of Hollywood's Golden Age.Devastatingly handsome, broad-shouldered and clean-cut,... -
All That Heaven Allows: A Biography of Rock Hudson by Mark Griffin 9780062408860
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.68The inspiration for the HBO (R) Original Documentary, Rock Hudson: All that Heaven Allowed, airing June 28!The definitive biography of the deeply complex and widely misunderstood matinee idol of... -
When Women Invented Television: The Untold Story of the Female Powerhouses Who Pioneered the Way We Watch Today by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $34.28New and Noteworthy -New York Times Book ReviewMust-Read Book of March -Entertainment WeeklyBest Books of March -HelloGiggles"Leaps at the throat of television history and takes down the patriarchy...