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McGilligan, Patrick Film Crazy: Interviews with Hollywood Legends
St. Martin 2001 0312280386 / 9780312280383 Paperback Fine n/a Paperback
New. Fine in publisher's decorated wrappers. Available in our UK premises for prompt dispatch worldwide.Before cable, videos, and DVDs, the only way to see many old films was through a film archive. Eminent film biographer McGilligan (Fritz Lang; Cagney: The Actor as Auteur) is a self-described film crazy who caught the bug at the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research archives in the late Sixties and early Seventies. There, the author and fellow film crazies had access to prints of every Warner Brothers, RKO, and Republic motion picture, and they would bask in their good fortune as they watched an early William Wellman or Jimmy Cagney film. In the book reviewed here, McGilligan, after a brief introduction, offers a series of interviews that he conducted during the Seventies and Eighties. His one-on-one question-and-answer process lends new insight into the lives and works of such film greats as Alfred Hitchcock and George Stevens. He also includes short biographical sketches and filmographies for each subject interviewed. Essential reading for the true film buff and scholar, this book is for academic and public libraries."Rosellen Brewer, Monterey Cty. Free Libs., Salinas, CA Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. ... "We often felt like angels of death," McGilligan says of himself and his assistants, when they met the screen legends interviewed in this book, for most of the aged luminaries were in their eighties at the time. They debriefed some of the greatest names in film history, such as Hitchcock, William Wellman, Dore Schary, Joel McCrea, and Ida Lupino, and they caught Ronald Reagan during the 1976 campaign. With a book like this one, great subjects make great reading. Take Raoul Walsh. He started out acting in silents because he could ride a horse. After apprenticing at D. W. Griffith's immortal knee, he directed some fine silent films (The Thief of Baghdad, What Price Glory?, The Honor System). When the talkies arrived, he directed Cagney, Bogart, and Flynn in classic he-man stuff. Or take Ida Lupino, more appreciated now than in her prime, who provides insight into the distaff side of Hollywood's golden age. Great subjects; great reading. Film history comes alive immediately and joyfully, perhaps even for the most casual film fans. Mike Tribby Copyright ® American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Mcgilligan, Patrick Oscar Micheaux: The Great and Only: The Life of America's First Black Filmmaker
Harper 2007 0060731397 / 9780060731397 Hardcover Fine Fine Hardcover
New. Fine in publisher's cloth in like dust jacket. Available in our UK premises for prompt dispatch worldwide.At a time when Hollywood was so white that conditions would have had to be improved one hundredfold before it could even qualify as Jim Crow, Micheaux (1884–1951) was forced to pursue his creative ambitions as an independent filmmaker in the race picture market. McGilligan, the author of several acclaimed biographies of film directors (George Cukor: A Double Life), returns again and again to the image of Micheaux as a lone wolf, churning out two or three pictures a year at his peak while barely managing to stay ahead of creditors. And it wasn't just the all-black casts that put his films outside the mainstream; the stories often ran afoul of censors and critics for their uncompromising portrayals of contemporary African-American society. McGilligan sketches a crucial portrait of his subject's life before motion pictures, including an attempt to work a South Dakota homestead and a failed marriage that would provide the impulse for much of his creative output. The story isn't always as detailed as readers might like, but that's due to the limited available historical record. McGilligan does a fine job of reaffirming Micheaux's significance beyond the appreciation of cineastes. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From Booklist: The author of George Cukor (1991) and Alfred Hitchcock (2003) here limns a far less renowned but equally compelling figure: Oscar Micheaux, foremost director of race films, featuring all-black casts and aimed at black audiences during the era of segregation. After stints as a Pullman porter and homestead farmer, Micheaux, the son of freed slaves, penned autobiographical novels. When Hollywood wouldn't buy his stories, he took up filmmaking in 1919. The quality of his efforts was restricted by financial constraints and the limitations of his talents (McGilligan implies he was more skilled at marketing movies than at making them), yet they shed valuable light on the harsh realities of African American life. Despite thorough research, gaps remain in McGilligan's account. But then, two-thirds of Micheaux's 40-plus films are lost, and the rest survive only as truncated by censorship. Micheaux's career began to fizzle, along with race films, in the late 1930s, and he died in obscurity in 1951. Rediscovered decades later, he is now considered, as McGilligan puts it, the Jackie Robinson of American film. Flagg, Gordon
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