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If This Was Happiness: Biography of Rita Hayworth

By Barbara Leaming

'Have You Seen...?': a Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films including masterpieces, oddities and guilty pleasures (with just a few disasters)

By David Thomson

American Science Fiction and the Cold War: Literature and Film

By David Seed

The Ragman's Son

By Kirk Douglas

Pictorial History of the Talkies

By Daniel Blum, John Kobal

William Wyler

By Axel Madsen

Cinema Speculation

By Quentin Tarantino

Adventures in the Screen Trade

By William Goldman

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

By Geoff Andrew

Sundance Kids: How the Mavericks Took Over Hollywood

By James Mottram

The American Film Industry

By Tino Balio

Classical Hollywood Narrative: The Paradigm Wars

By Jane M. Gaines

Studying Contemporary American Film: A Guide to Movie Analysis

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

The American Film Industry

By Tino Balio (University of Wisconsin Madison USA)

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

By Diana Serra Cary

The World According To Hollywood,1918-1939

By Ruth Vasey

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

By M. Ray Lott

Brando: Songs My Mother Taught Me

By Marlon Brando

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

By Stephen P Powers, David J Rothman, Stanley Rothman

Hollywood vs. America

By Michael Medved

Peter Stackpole: Life in Hollywood, 1936-52

By Peter Stackpole

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

By Peter E. Bondanella

The Oxford History of World Cinema

By Geoffrey Nowell-Smith

Marilyn Monroe: the Biography

By Donald Spoto

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

From Under the Truck: A Memoir

By Josh Brolin

Judy Garland

By David Shipman

Gene Kelly: A Celebration

By Sheridan Morley, Ruth Leon, Leslie Caron

Hollywood Lovers: The Raunchy Revelations of Tinseltown's Rich, Famous and Beautiful People

By Mccoid, Sheridan

Norma Jean: A Hollywood Love Story

By Ted Jordan