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1	The Essential Chaplin: Perspectives on the Life and Art of the Great Comedian more books like this by Richard Schickel (Editor) The most important criticism of the great comedian's work, including pieces by Andrew Sarris, David Thomson, Gilbert Seldes, Alistair Cooke, Robert E. Sherwood, Stark Young, Edmund Wilson, Stanley Kauffmann, Alexander Woollcott, George Jean Nathan, Max Eastman, Robert Warshow, Water Kerr, and James Agee. Richard Schickel, one of our outstanding ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| SVS
2	Elia Kazan: A Biography more books like this by Richard Schickel From the late forties through the sixties, Elia Kazan was the most important and influential director in America, and the only one who managed simultaneously to dominate both theater and film. In that role he manifestly shaped the conception and writing, as well as the presentation, of many of the period's iconic works. His various achievements ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.40! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Clint Eastwood: A Biography more books like this by Richard Schickel For 30 years Clint Eastwood has been at the top of his profession, first as an actor and more recently as a director. This biography uses interviews with Eastwood, his friend and colleagues, to explore the contradictions between the generally perceived image of the man and the realities of his personality and career. Eastwood's life is covered in ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.21! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Disney Version: The Life, Times, Art and Commerce of Walt Disney more books like this by Richard Schickel Richard Schickel's classic history of Walt Disney's life and times was the first to look behind the carefully nurtured avuncular image of the man. Some howled in protest at this criticism of their hero, but they failed to see that Mr. Schickel's book acknowledged Disney's profound influence on American popular culture. The Disney Version takes us ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.49! \| first editions \| SVS
5	D.W. Griffith: An American Life more books like this by Richard Schickel He transformed a nickelodeon novelty into a new art form and a powerful, glamorous American Industry. He codified the rules and techniques of screen story-telling, pioneered the conventions that brought films to life, from surging spectacle to soul-baring close ups. see all copies from $2.00! new only from $8.17! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Harold Lloyd : the shape of laughter more books like this by Richard Schickel see all copies from $3.20! new only from $99.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Bogie: A Celebration of the Life and Films of Humphrey Bogart more books like this by Stephen Humphrey Bogart (Foreword by), Richard Schickel, George Perry "He is the only man I have ever known who truly and completely belonged to himself .... His convictions about life, work and people were so strong they were unshakeable. Nothing -- no one -- could make him lower his standards, lessen his character .... He had the greatest gifts a man coudl have: respect for himself, for his craft; integrity about ... see all copies from $4.09! new only from $9.66! \| first editions \| SVS
8	You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story more books like this by Richard Schickel, George Perry From Casablanca to Harry Potter, eighty-five years of screen icons, legendary films, and history-making achievements come to life in this treasure trove of cinema magic.The Warner Bros. story is the history of Hollywood. No other studio has had more legendary films, more stars, or more influence on the course of Hollywood. Among the superstars the ... see all copies from $32.13! new only from $32.13! \| SVS
9	The Men Who Made the Movies: Interviews with Frank Capra, George Cukor, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, Vincente Minnelli, King Vidor, Raoul Walsh, and William A. Wellman more books like this by Richard Schickel Mr. Schickel takes on eight of HollywoodAIs finest directors in conversation-Hitchcock, Capra, Minnelli, Cukor, Hawks, Wellman, Vidor, and Walsh-reminiscing about their working lives which spanned the most intriguing decades of American filmmaking. Each of these directors created a canon of work that even today sustains critical analysis without ... see all copies from $2.35! new only from $16.60! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Intimate Strangers: The Culture of Celebrity in America more books like this by Richard Schickel In explaining the power of celebrity in modern life, Richard Schickel ranges through every realm of our culture-film, theatre, television, literature, art, the media, pop music, politics-for examples of how celebrity shapes our world and bends our minds. The single most important book about celebrity.-Neal Gabler. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.49! \| SVS
11	Brando: A Life in Our Times more books like this by Richard Schickel In films like The Wild One and On The Waterfront Marlon Brando redefined the nature of screen heroism, redefined the standards of screen acting and helped the entire postwar generation to define itself. He became something more than a star; he became a cultural icon, one of those rare figures whose public life permanently invades, and in some ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.94! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Film on Paper: The Inner Life of Movies more books like this by Richard Schickel In absorbing essays on books about film, the distinguished critic Richard Schickel offers more insights into moviemaking on every page than a reader will find in an entire shelf of film encyclopedias. His trenchant observations about films, actors, directors, producers, and the machinations of an always fascinating industry are consistently ... see all copies from $2.42! new only from $2.42! \| SVS
13 view cover	Matinee Idylls: Reflections on the Movies more books like this by Richard Schickel Some of the movies' greatest figures, some of the most important issues raised by the medium, come under close, highly personal, and deeply informed reflection in this new book by one of our most prominent and influential critics. A pleasure to read...intelligent, well-informed, insightful and unfailingly gracious.-Martin Scorsese. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	Woody Allen: A Life in Film more books like this by Richard Schickel This book reprints a four-hour conversation between Mr. Schickel and Mr. Allen and includes a long essay of introduction by Mr. Schickel, which places Woody Allen's entire career in critical perspective, as well as a complete filmography. Readers will find Mr. Allen's reflections on his major preoccupations--the battle of the sexes; the conflict ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| first editions
15 view cover	James Cagney: A Celebration more books like this by Richard Schickel This is an analysis of Cagney's screen characters and career. It recounts how he began his Hollywood career, and claims that he was the movies' symbol of the aspirations of America's urban second generation. Himself the child of immigrants, Cagney represented the spirit they believed could lift them out of the ghetto to power and prosperity. The ... see all copies from $2.79! new only from $10.33! \| first editions
16 view cover	Good Morning, Mr. Zip Zip Zip: Movies, Memory and World War II more books like this by Richard Schickel World War II-era Hollywood showed us fantastic possibilities and made them plausible, but in so doing it profoundly misled us about the nature of the war, our soldiers, our government, and the home front. Here Mr. Schickel, the film critic and biographer, sets the record straight about that view of the war, and he does it by illuminating the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $16.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
17	Schickel on Film: Encounters--Critical and Personal--With Movie Immortals more books like this by Richard Schickel Long-time film critic Richard Schickel takes an unabashedly opinionated look at the men who have changed the way we look at film. He explores their contributions to the art of filmmaking. Photos. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.74! \| first editions
18	His picture in the papers; a speculation on celebrity in America based on the life of Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. - more books like this by Richard Schickel see all copies from $1.99! new only from $85.58! \| first editions
19	Lena more books like this by Lena Horne, Richard Schickel see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
20	Intimate Strangers: The Culture of Celebrity more books like this by Richard Schickel see all copies from $1.99! new only from $99.00! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Double Indemnity more books like this by Richard Schickel A new kind of film emerged from Hollywood in the early 1940s, thrillers that derived their plots from the hard-boiled school of crime fiction but with a style all their own. Appearing in 1944, "Double Indemnity "was a key film in the definition of the genre that came to be known as film noir. Its script creates two unforgettable criminal ... see all copies from $4.95! new only from $10.98!
22	The World of Tennis more books like this by Richard Schickel see all copies from $1.99! first editions
23	Singled Out more books like this by Richard Schickel see all copies from $1.99! first editions
24	Striking poses more books like this by Schickel see all copies from $3.07! first editions
25	Another I, Another You more books like this by Richard Schickel see all copies from $1.99! first editions

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