American classic screen features / edited by John C. Tibbetts, James M. Welsh ; foreword by Gene D. Phillips.
| Other author | Tibbetts, John C. |
| Other author | Welsh, James Michael. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, Inc., |
| Description | xx, 324 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction / by James M. Welsh and John C. Tibbetts -- ACTORS AND ACTRESSES -- Olivia De Havilland, plaintiff / Joanne L. Yeck -- The lost movie of Errol Flynn / Wade Ward -- How a cinema legend was born: the screen testing of Marilyn Monroe / James Robert Haspiel -- The screen testing of Kim Novakáá / James Robert Haspiel -- The search for John Barrymore / Spencer Berger -- Steamboat around the bend: Will Rogers / Peter C. Rollins -- Uncensored Garbo / Charles Affron -- Will Rogers: the story behind his first talking picture / Reba Neighbors Collins -- THE GREAT PAIRS -- The Berkeley and Astaire-Rogers musicals / Rocco Fumento -- The screwball satirists: Wheeler and Woolsey / William M. Drew -- DIRECTORS. Kubrick, Killer's kiss, The killing, and film noir / Gene D. Phillips -- The twilight world of Roland West / Scott MacQueen -- William Wellman: the Paramount years (1927-1930) / Frank Thompson -- William Wellman's westerns / Frank Thompson -- FROM SILENTS TO SOUND. The squaw man returns / Roger Holden -- The birth of a nation: an assessment / Seymour Stern -- Innocence abroad: hearts of the world / James M. Welsh -- The big parade: a standard for the future / Lawrence H. Suid -- 50th anniversary of The jazz singer / Rosalind Rogoff -- From silence to sound / Rosalind Rogoff -- Important words from a film pioneer, made at the beginning of the era of sound / Irving Thalberg -- FILMS. King Kong and the military / Lawrence H. Suid -- The other authors of Gone with the wind / Rodney Richey -- Citizen Kane on the drawing board / John C. Tibbetts -- Val Lewton's The ghost ship: uncharted waters / J.P. Telotte -- The set-Up / James M. Welsh -- Wagon master / James M. Welsh -- "I want stone-age faces!" a behind-the-scenes look with Harry Carey, Patrick Ford, and Wes Jeffries at the making of John Ford's favorite film / James V. D'Arc -- Project RXM / John C. Tibbetts -- FILM HISTORY. Charlie Chan meets O.W.I. racism in World War II films / Gregory D. Black -- Disney outfoxed: The tale of Reynard / John Cawley, Jr. -- The movie adventures of Lewis Carroll's Alice / David and Maxine Schaefer -- The singing screen / David L. Parker -- Red alert images of Communism in Hollywood / J. Thomas Brown -- The rise and fall of the California Motion Picture Company / Geoffrey Bell -- Walt Disney and "The gremlins" / John Cawley, Jr. |
| General note | Collection of essays previously published in the periodical, American classic screen. |
| General note | Includes index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| Other title | American classic screen. |
| LCCN | 2010014976 |
| ISBN | 9780810876781 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780810876798 (ebook) |
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