Bigger than life /... by Raksin, David, Roueché, Berton, 1911-1994

Bigger than life : the history of gay porn cinema from beefcake to hardcore / by Jeffrey Escoffier. by Escoffier, Jeffrey

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The films of Nicholas Ray : the poet of nightfall / Geoff Andrew. by Andrew, Geoff

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Biographical summary -- Themes and styles -- Films: They live by night (1948) -- A woman's secret (1949) -- Knock on any door (1949) -- Born to be bad (1950) -- In a lonely place (1950) -- On dangerous ground (1951) -- Flying leathernecks (1951) -- The lusty men (1952) -- Johnny Guitar (1954) -- Run for cover (1954) -- High green wall (1954) -- Rebel without a cause (1955) -- Hot blood (1956) -- Bigger than life (1956) -- The true story of Jesse James (1957) -- Bitter victory (1957) -- Wind across the Everglades (1958) -- Party girl (1958) -- The savage innocents (1960) -- King of kings (1961) -- 55 days at Peking (1963) -- We can't go home again (1973-76) -- Lightning over water (1980-81) -- Nicholas Ray in the twenty-first century.…”

Larger than life : movie stars of the 1950s / edited by R. Barton Palmer.

Table of Contents: “…Barton Palmer -- James Stewart and James Dean : the darkness within / Murray Pomerance -- James Mason : a star is born bigger than life / Amy Lawrence -- Reflexivity and metaperformance : Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, and Kim Novak / Matthew Solomon -- Audrey Hepburn : the film star as event / William A. …”

Larger than life : movie stars of the 1950s / edited by R. Barton Palmer.

Table of Contents: “…Barton Palmer -- James Stewart and James Dean : the darkness within / Murray Pomerance -- James Mason : a star is born bigger than life / Amy Lawrence -- Reflexivity and metaperformance : Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, and Kim Novak / Matthew Solomon -- Audrey Hepburn : the film star as event / William Brown -- Doris Day and Rock Hudson : the girl next door and the brawny he-man / Foster Hirsch -- Marlon Brando : actor, star, liar / Susan White -- Jerry Lewis : from Hamlet to clown / Frank Krutnik -- Judy Holliday : the hungry star / Pamela Robertson Wojcik -- What a swell party this was : Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Bing Crosby, and Frank Sinatra / Adrienne L. …”
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Rum stories / by Marie-Jose Corajoud, Kanpai Productions. by Corajoud, Marie-Jose

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African-American folktales for young readers : including favorite stories from African and African-American storytellers / collected and edited by Richard Alan Young and Judy Dockrey Young.

Table of Contents: “…Elephant -- Brother Lion and Brother Man -- How Br'er Rabbit outsmarted the frogs -- Trickster stories -- Anansi tries to steal all the wisdom in the world -- Why Anansi has a narrow waist -- Anansi and Turtle -- Fling-a-mile -- Anansi and Candlefly -- That mule won't work -- Clever Mollie -- Why Brother Alligator has a rough back -- Parables about people -- The faithful brother -- Meat of the tongue -- The gluttonous rich man -- Three young men go out to find death -- Bigger than life -- John Henry -- Annie Christmas -- Casey Jones and his friends -- In the park and in the dark -- Jack and the fish -- Tillie -- Johnny and the liver -- My friend Bennie -- Brother Rabbit today -- The cabbage inspector -- Brother Possum and Brother Snake.…”

Billy the kid / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; directed by King Vidor.

Stanislavsky from the outside in : react and act. produced by TMW Media Group.

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Indianara / directors, Aude Chevalier-Beaumel, Marcelo Barbosa ; producers, Aude Chevalier-Beaumel, Marcelo Barbosa.

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Chuck Yeager / 3 Roads Communications, Inc.

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Bashert : a granddaughter's Holocaust quest / Andrea Simon. by Simon, Andrea, 1945-

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Legends and Folklore of the Old West / A&E Television Networks, LLC.

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Moguls & movie stars : a history of Hollywood / Turner Classic Movies presents in association with Turner Entertainment Co. ; from Ostar Productions and Wilkman Productions ; executive producer, Bill Haber ; produced and written by Jon Wilkman.

Optic antics : the cinema of Ken Jacobs / edited by Michele Pierson, David E. James, and Paul Arthur.

Table of Contents: “…Joseph -- Ken Jacobs, moralist / Richard Foreman -- The sky socialist : film as an instrument of thought, cinema as an augury of redemption / David E. James -- Bigger than life : between Ken Jacobs and Nicholas Ray / Larry Gottheim -- Acts of delay : the play between stillness and motion in Tom, Tom, The piper's son / Eivind Røssaak -- The piper's son : content and performance in the films of Ken Jacobs / Abigail Child -- Ken Jacobs' Two wrenching departures / Tony Pipolo -- Some Jacobs family photos / Flo Jacobs -- Flo talks! …”
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Lonely places, dangerous ground : Nicholas Ray in American cinema / edited by Steven Rybin and Will Scheibel.

Table of Contents: “…Larsen -- Nicholas Ray's wilderness films : word, law, and landscape / Susan White -- Bigger than life : melodrama, masculinity, and the American dream / Will Scheibel -- Ray, widescreen, and genre : The true story of Jesse James / Harper Cossar -- Disequilibrium, or : love interest (on Party girl) / Adrian Martin -- King of kings and the politics of masculinity in the Cold War biblical epic / Jason McKahan -- "As surely as a criminal would die" : Nicholas Ray's The doctor and the devils / Larysa Smirnova and Chris Fujiwara -- The pedagogical aesthetics of We can't go home again / Steven Rybin -- Postscript : The class : interview with Nicholas Ray / Bill Krohn.…”
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Therapeutic revolutions : film dramas in the borderlands. by Halliwell, Martin

Table of Contents: “…Figure 5.3  A psychotic Ed Avery (James Mason) destroys his suburban house and his family during a fight with Wally Gibbs (Walter Matthau). Bigger Than Life (Nicholas Ray, Twentieth Century-­Fox, 1956).; Chapter 6. …”
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Message to Aztlán : selected writings of Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales / compiled, with an introduction, by Antonio Esquibel ; with a preface by Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales, a foreword by Rodolfo F. Acuña and an editor's note by Henry A.J. Ramos. by Gonzales, Rodolfo, 1928-2005

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The films in my life. by Truffaut, François

Table of Contents: “…Otto PremingerBonjour Tristesse; Nicholas Ray; Johnny Guitar; Bigger Than Life; Douglas Sirk; Written on the​ Wind; Frank Tashlin; The Girl Can'​t Help It; Hollywood or Bust; Edgar Ulmer; The Naked Dawn; Charles Vidor; Lo​ve Me or Leave Me; Billy Wilder; The Seven Year Itch; Stalag 17; Robert Wise; So Big; Destination Gobi; The Generation of the Talkies: The French; Claude Autant-Lara; La Trave​rsée de Paris; En Cas de Malheur; Jacques Becker; Casqu​e d'Or *; Touchez Pas au Grisbi; Arsène Lupin; Le Trou; Jacques Becker, a Year After His Death; Robert Bresson; Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne…”
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