Dance crazy in Hollywood / directed by Robert Kuperberg.

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The gods must be crazy I & II.

Scriptwriter For Film : Richard Squires / TMW Media Group.

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Scriptwriter For Film : Richard Squires / TMW Media Group.

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The adventures of Oswald, the lucky rabbit / by Walt Disney : a Winkler Production ; Universal Pictures Corporation.

Starring John Wayne as Genghis Khan : Hollywood's all-time worst casting blunders / Damien Bona. by Bona, Damien, 1955-2012

Table of Contents: “…Out of their league: movie stars whose attempts at roles different than those they usually played were stymied by either a too strongly established screen persona or simply by limited acting skills -- June Allyson in They only kill their masters (1972): psycho Sappho -- Humphrey Bogart in The return of Dr. …”

The Oliver Hardy collection Lobster Films ; produced for video by Eric Lange and Serge Bromberg.

James Cagney Films of the 1930s. by Neibaur, James L.

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The Best of Ernie Kovacs.

Richard Pryor in Hollywood : the narrative films, 1967-1997 / Anthony Balducci. by Balducci, Anthony, 1958-

Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland collection.

White material / IFC Films ; Why Not Productions présente ; un coproduction Why Not Productions, Wild Bunch, France 3 Cinéma ; avec la participation de Canal+, France Télévisions, TPS Star, et du Centre National de la Cinématographie ; en association avec Les Films Terre Africaine, Cinémage 2, et Sofica UGC 1, avec le soutien de la Procirep ; un film de Claire Denis ; scénario, Clair Denis et Marie N'Diaye ; producteur, Pascal Caucheteux.

Will & Grace. KoMut Entertainment in association with Three Sisters Entertainment and NBC Studios, Inc. ; producers, Tim Kaiser, Gail Lerner ; directed by James Burrows.

Crime scenes : movie poster art of the film noir : the classic period, 1941-1959 / written and collected by Lawrence Bassoff ; foreword with Robert Wise. by Bassoff, Lawrence

Table of Contents: “…-- Antecedents of the film noir -- Fifty stars of the film noir: a rogues gallery -- The movies and the posters: -- I am a fugitive from a chain gang -- The maltese falcon -- Suspicion -- This gun for hire -- The glass key -- Double indemnity -- Laura -- The woman in the window -- Murder, my sweet -- Mildred Pierce -- Detour -- Leave her to heaven -- The blue dahlia -- The big sleep -- The postman always rings twice -- Gilda -- Lady in the lake -- The brasher boubloon -- They won't believe me -- Kiss of death -- Nightmare alley -- Out of the past -- The lady from Shanghai -- Raw deal -- The set up -- White heat -- Gun crazy -- The asphalt jungle -- Sunset boulevard -- Ace in the hole/the big carnival -- Strangers on a train -- On dangerous ground -- The narrow margin -- The big combo -- The killing -- Touch of evil.…”

Classical Hollywood comedy / edited by Kristine Brunovska Karnick and Henry Jenkins.

Table of Contents: “…/ Frank Krutnik -- Comedy, melodrama, and gender / Kathleen Rowe -- Funny stories / Kristine Brunovska Karnick and Henry Jenkins -- Crazy machines in the garden of forking paths : mischief gags and the origins of American film comedy / Tom Gunning -- Pie and chase : gag, spectacle and narrative in slapstick comedy / Donald Crafton -- Responses to "pie and chase" / Tom Gunning -- Commitment and reaffirmation in Hollywood romantic comedy / Kristine Brunovska Karnick -- Acting funny / Henry Jenkins and Kristine Brunovska Karnick -- The Keystone Film Company / Doug Riblet -- The making of a comic star : Buster Keaton and The saphead (1920) / Peter Kramer -- Goin' to town and beyond : Mae West, film censorship and the comedy of unmarriage / Ramona Curry -- The laughing stock of the city : male dread, performance anxiety and Unfaithfully yours / Henry Jenkins -- Comedy and the social world / Kristine Brunovska Karnick and Henry Jenkins -- Divorce, DeMille, and the comedy of remarriage / Charles Musser -- Romantic love and friendship : the redefinition of gender relations in screwball comedy / Tina Olsin Lent -- Queerness, comedy, and The women / Alex Doty.…”
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That was entertainment : the golden age of the MGM musical / Bernard F. Dick. by Dick, Bernard F.

Toms, coons, mulattoes, mammies, and bucks : an interpretive history of Blacks in American films / Donald Bogle. by Bogle, Donald

Table of Contents: “…s, bid for movie stardom -- Super Sidney of the 1960s -- Jim Brown: black buck hero for a separatist age -- The new-style black film -- The 1970s: bucks and a black movie boom -- Preludes -- Melvin van Peebles: the black movie director as folk hero -- Shaft: he's a badd mother--shut your mouth -- Super fly: mixed messages -- Buckmania -- The jock as movie star -- Lady sings the blues: black stars, black romance -- Sounder -- Sidney strikes again -- Superbadd, supermama -- Sisters in distress -- Other films, other voices -- Richard Pryor: the crazy nigger as conquering hero -- The wiz -- The 1980s: black superstars and the era of Tan -- Holding up the fort -- Dramatic possibilities -- Buddy buddy -- Richard Pryor, superstar: the ups and downs -- Trading places: Eddie Murphy -- A soldier's story -- Say it with music -- Different directions -- Women: as exotics and non-racials -- A controversy about Color -- Whipping Whoopie -- Independents -- Hollywood and the race theme -- Burning history: the white man's burden -- The bird doesn't fly -- Focusing on apartheid -- Bringing history to light: Glory -- Denzel Washington: on the road to stardom -- Driving Miss Daisy: the matter of perspective -- Morgan Freeman: the long journey to get there -- Other films -- Sidney returns -- Closing the era on the right note -- The 1990s: new stars, new filmmakers , and a new African American cinema -- The good, the bad, the bonded, the typed -- Whoopi's back -- An emerging new African American cinema -- Charles Burnett: a new career direction -- A breakthrough year -- New Jack movies -- A black new wave -- John Singleton's south central -- Rising from the dust -- More by Spike -- Other new directors and films -- Carl Franklin: film noir from another point of view -- Actresses in search of roles -- Waiting to exhale: reaching the black female audience -- Angela Bassett: still holding her breath -- Whitney Houston: pop goddess turned movie star -- Post-Exhale women -- Oprah's opus: Beloved -- Movies for the smart young hip crowd: love jones and Love and basketball -- New actors -- Eddie Murphy: all grown up, looking for a place to go -- Laurence Fishburne: from child actor to leading man -- Wesley Snipes: action hero -- Character actors turned stars: Morgan Freeman and Samuel L. …”

Capturing the culture : film, art, and politics / Richard Grenier ; introduction by Robert H. Bork. by Grenier, Richard, 1926-

Table of Contents: “…Spielberg's E.T. and Scott's Blade Runner -- Fassbinder, Germany, and the Bloomingdale's Factor -- The Gandhi Nobody Knows -- The Hard Left and the Soft: Hollywood Tests Its Radical Limits -- The Feminization of Henry James: Vanessa Redgrave and the Bostonians -- The Clint Eastwood Phenomenon: How He Became the World's Favorie Movie Star -- Treason Chic: Britain Acclaims Its Traitors -- Eddie Murphy in Post-Racist America -- The 'Auter' Cult: Truffaut and What France's Nouvelle Vague Was All About -- Quick Takes -- Writing Under a Dark Spell: George Orwell's 1984 -- The Serene Republic of Letters: The PEN Club -- Are Writers Crazy? …”

Classical Hollywood comedy / edited by Kristine Brunovska Karnick and Henry Jenkins.

Table of Contents: “…/ Frank Krutnik -- Comedy, melodrama, and gender / Kathleen Rowe -- Funny stories / Kristine Brunovska Karnick and Henry Jenkins -- Crazy machines in the garden of forking paths : mischief gags and the origins of American film comedy / Tom Gunning -- Pie and chase : gag, spectacle and narrative in slapstick comedy / Donald Crafton -- Responses to "pie and chase" / Tom Gunning -- Commitment and reaffirmation in Hollywood romantic comedy / Kristine Brunovska Karnick -- Acting funny / Henry Jenkins and Kristine Brunovska Karnick -- The Keystone Film Company / Doug Riblet -- The making of a comic star : Buster Keaton and The saphead (1920) / Peter Kramer -- Goin' to town and beyond : Mae West, film censorship and the comedy of unmarriage / Ramona Curry -- The laughing stock of the city : male dread, performance anxiety and Unfaithfully yours / Henry Jenkins -- Comedy and the social world / Kristine Brunovska Karnick and Henry Jenkins -- Divorce, DeMille, and the comedy of remarriage / Charles Musser -- Romantic love and friendship : the redefinition of gender relations in screwball comedy / Tina Olsin Lent -- Queerness, comedy, and The women / Alex Doty.…”

Babel and Babylon : spectatorship in American silent film / Miriam Hansen. by Hansen, Miriam, 1949-2011

Table of Contents: “…Reception, textual system, and self-definition / "A radiant crazy-quilt": patterns of narration and address / Genesis, causes, concepts of history / Film history, archeology, universal language / Heiroglyphics, figuaratures of writing / Riddles of maternity / Crisis of femininity, fantasies of rescue.…”