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Gene Kelly: A Celebration

By Sheridan Morley, Ruth Leon, Leslie Caron

Judy Garland

By David Shipman

From Under the Truck: A Memoir

By Josh Brolin

Life Moves Pretty Fast: The lessons we learned from eighties movies (and why we don't learn them from movies any more)

By Hadley Freeman

Marilyn Monroe: the Biography

By Donald Spoto

The Oxford History of World Cinema

By Geoffrey Nowell-Smith

Hollywood Italians: Dagos, Palookas, Romeos, Wise Guys and Sopranos

By Peter E. Bondanella

Peter Stackpole: Life in Hollywood, 1936-52

By Peter Stackpole

Hollywood vs. America

By Michael Medved

Hollywood's America: Social And Political Themes In Motion Pictures

By Stephen P Powers, David J Rothman, Stanley Rothman

Brando: Songs My Mother Taught Me

By Marlon Brando

Police on Screen: Hollywood Cops, Detectives, Marshals and Rangers

By M. Ray Lott

The World According To Hollywood,1918-1939

By Ruth Vasey

The Hollywood Posse: The Story of a Gallant Band of Horsemen Who Made Movie History

By Diana Serra Cary

The American Film Industry

By Tino Balio (University of Wisconsin Madison USA)

Studying Contemporary American Film: A Guide to Movie Analysis

By Thomas Elsaesser (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Dr. Warren Buckland (Oxford Brookes University, UK)

Classical Hollywood Narrative: The Paradigm Wars

By Jane M. Gaines

The American Film Industry

By Tino Balio

Sundance Kids: How the Mavericks Took Over Hollywood

By James Mottram

Stranger Than Paradise: Maverick Film-makers in Recent American Cinema

By Geoff Andrew

Adventures in the Screen Trade

By William Goldman

Man on the Flying Trapeze: the Life & Ti

By Simon Louvish

Family Secrets: Acts of Memory and Imagination

By Annette Kuhn

Our Town

By Thornton Wilder

Mr Wilder and Me: 'A love letter to the spirit of cinema' Guardian

By Jonathan Coe

Celluloid Skyline: New York and the Movies

By James Sanders

Empire Building: Remarkable, Real-life Story of "Star Wars"

By Garry Jenkins

The Disappearing Act: The gripping new psychological thriller from the bestselling author of Something in the Water

By Catherine Steadman

The Rat Pack: Neon Nights with the Kings of Cool

By Lawrence J. Quirk

Superhero: Biography of Christopher Reeve

By Chris Nickson