American Classic Screen Features

American Classic Screen Features

by JohnC.Tibbetts (Author)

Synopsis

In American Classic Screen Features, editors John C. Tibbetts and James M. Welsh have assembled some of the most significant and memorable essays and critical pieces written for the magazine over its ten-year history. This collection contains fascinating accounts of Hollywood history including articles on Marilyn Monroe's first screen test, John Ford's favorite film, Olivia De Havilland's lawsuit against Warner Bros., Walt Disney's unfinished projects, and Stanley Kubrick's early noir classics. This volume also contains in-depth examinations of classic films, including Birth of a Nation, The Big Parade,The Jazz Singer, King Kong, and Citizen Kane. This compendium of essays recaptures the spirit and scholarship of that time and will appeal to both scholars and fans who have an abiding interest in the American motion picture industry.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 312
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 16 Sep 2010

ISBN 10: 0810876787
ISBN 13: 9780810876781

Media Reviews
American Classic Screen Features is a collections of essays previously published in the periodical American Classic Screen, published from 1976 to 1984. The book contains essays within six content sections: actors and actresses, great pairs, directors, from silents to sounds, films and film history. * Communication Booknotes Quarterly *
Author Bio
John C. Tibbetts is Associate Professor, Film and Media Studies at the University of Kansas. He is the coauthor of The Encyclopedia of Novels into Film (2005) and author of Composers in the Movies (2005). James M. Welsh is the cofounder of the journal Literature/Film Quarterly, coeditor of The Literature/Film Reader (2007) and coauthor of The Francis Ford Coppola Encyclopedia (2010), both published by Scarecrow Press.