Background
SCHICKEL, Richard was born on February 10, 1933 in Milwaukee. Son of Edward J. Schickel and Helen (nee Hendricks) Schickel.
(This book is necessarily a selective, or impressionistic,...)
This book is necessarily a selective, or impressionistic, history of the hall. The selection of events covered here is one man's. The purpose was to record events which have contributed most significantly to the artistic and intellectual currents of recent years.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0007DPAP0/?tag=2022091-20
(This classic history of Walt Disney's life and works take...)
This classic history of Walt Disney's life and works takes us from his wandering youth through the desperate gamble of opening his own animation studio, his daring decision to crash Hollywood, the sudden and inspired invention of Mickey Mouse―and on to the creation of a multimillion-dollar international entertainment empire. Throughout Richard Schickel asks penetrating questions about Disney's achievements and shortcomings, and the enormous popularity of the "Disney version." "The story of how Disney built an empire on corrupt popular culture…becomes a revealing part of American cultural history."―Pauline Kael. "One of the best studies ever done on American popular culture…unfailingly, consistently intelligent, and eminently readable."―Stephen J. Whitfield, Brandeis University. "Richard Schickel's unauthorized biography of Walt Disney…may be the single most illuminating work on America and the movies."―Robert W. Butler, Kansas City Star.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1566631580/?tag=2022091-20
(VERY SLIGHT DAMP STAIN AND SLIGHT WAVING OF PAGES TOP COR...)
VERY SLIGHT DAMP STAIN AND SLIGHT WAVING OF PAGES TOP CORNERS PAGES 51-58, ELSE FINE IN DJ WITH A TINY RUBBED SPOT AT THE FRONT FLAP EDGE. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0821205951/?tag=2022091-20
(One of our most thoughtful film critics here takes on eig...)
One of our most thoughtful film critics here takes on eight of Hollywood's finest directors in conversation, reminiscing about their working lives which spanned the most intriguing decades of American filmmaking. The directors are Alfred Hitchcock, Frank Capra, Vincente Minnelli, George Cukor, Howard Hawks, William A. Wellman, King Vidor, and Raoul Walsh. Speaking with them, Mr. Schickel found in these men a special quality: “They felt in their bones the character and quality of a vanished America.” There was something valuable to be learned from them, not merely about the cinema but about the conduct of life. Each of these directors created a canon of work that even today sustains critical analysis without sacrificing popular appeal. Each maintained his artistic integrity while working in an atmosphere generally credited with ruining rather than nurturing talent. Their attitudes, Mr. Schickel writes in his introduction, were "composed of a toughness that was never harsh, a pride in achievement that was never boastful, a self-reliance and an acceptance of the difficulties under which they had labored which contained neither self-pity nor a desire to blame others for the things that had gone wrong." Rich in behind-the-scenes stories about such modern classics as It Happened One Night, Dawn Patrol, The Champ, Born Yesterday, Father of the Bride, and Shadow of a Doubt, as well as in anecdotes about the men and women of Hollywood, this book is an enduring tribute to the men who made the movies. With 33 black-and-white photographs. “Immensely readable and richly informative...it provides a real education in just how movies are made.... One of the best introductions to the cinema that one could ask for.”―Library Journal.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1566633745/?tag=2022091-20
(With rare and never-before-published photographs, persona...)
With rare and never-before-published photographs, personal letters, and documents, this groundbreaking book reveals the style secrets that helped make Grant a fashion icon.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0821257609/?tag=2022091-20
(During Cary Grant's long life a great deal of testimony a...)
During Cary Grant's long life a great deal of testimony accumulated. Even early in the search for him, it can be established that he had a dark side and a light side. The source of Cary's art, argues Schickel, lay in his ability to colour his comedy with malice and self-absorption. The reverse was true also - he seemed easily able to get a laugh even in the midst of dramatic tension. This most private of men was an open actor, a performer willing to try anything to make a scene work. It is perhaps because he was able so artfully to reveal so much of himself in this way that he revealed almost nothing of himself under direct questioning. This tribute to Cary Grant's art is based on a re-evaluation of all his films and a re-interpretation of all the biographical information. Schickel maps the intersection where the man's personal history and his screen personality met.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/185471497X/?tag=2022091-20
(This magnificent and important biography . . . is the bes...)
This magnificent and important biography . . . is the best ever written on the man. -The New Republic "Mr. Schickel's excellent and important biography makes it clear that when the movers of our century are tallied, D.W. Griffith, flawed genius that he was, can never lose his eminent position". -Peter Bogdanovich, The New York Times Book Review
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0671225960/?tag=2022091-20
(The study of James Cagney's screen persona is far more th...)
The study of James Cagney's screen persona is far more than a profile of a great beloved star. It is a meditation on over a half-century of social history. From Cagney's early days to such successes as Yankee Doodle Dandy, Schickel follows the star's spectacular career. A great dancer who became a great actor, James Cagney could play George M. Cohan or Public Enemy No. 1 with equal ease and conviction. This book explains how. (Richard Schickel is chief cinema critic of Time Magazine.)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316773093/?tag=2022091-20
(In trying to understand the power of celebrity in modern ...)
In trying to understand 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. He considers the careers of figures as diverse as John Kennedy and Marlon Brando, Marilyn Monroe and Dwight Eisenhower, Walter Cronkite and Andy Warhol, among dozens of others. And he reflects on the dangerous, sometimes deadly, political and social consequences of the fascinating, largely unacknowledged relationship between the famous elite and the unfamous majority. In demonstrating how the carefully fostered illusion of intimacy between these two groups has created a devastating confusion between public life and private life, in showing how the play of celebrity symbols has largely replaced the play of ideas in our society, Schickel takes us on a journey to the heart of contemporary darkness ― and offers, finally, a chilling warning about the psychopathic consequences of our national obsession with celebrity. "Intimate Strangers is, simply, in my estimation, the single most important book about celebrity." ― Neal Gabler.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1566633176/?tag=2022091-20
( Marlon Brando might be the most influential actor in fi...)
Marlon Brando might be the most influential actor in film history, a pioneer of a new method of theatrical self-presentation who changed the standards by which we judge performance. Brando traces the career of the actor from his birth in the mid-west to alcoholic parents, to his discovery of his talent at Stella Adler's acting school in New York from the early triumphs of A Streetcar Named Desire and On The Waterfront, to The Island of Dr. Moreau. This new biography, fully illustrated with 125 black and white photographs, sets the man and his films in context, drawing sharply observed connections between his life and developments in the motion picture industry, and in the social history of the last half of the 20th century. It is a rich, witty, and affectionate portrayal of one of the few, true icons of our age.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0689121083/?tag=2022091-20
(In films like The Wild One and On The Waterfront Marlon B...)
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 measure, shapes our private reveries. Richard Schickel is a member of the generation that came of age as Marlon Brando entered his first claims on the world's attention. In this book, he recreates the excitement, the danger, the controversy of the years when Brando challenged everyone's ideas of how a movie star's life should be lived, and provides the first serious analysis of all Marlon Brando's movies, offering fresh and often surprising judgements on his work and the conditions under which it was performed.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1862055378/?tag=2022091-20
(Presenting a portrait of Marlon Brando, the author offers...)
Presenting a portrait of Marlon Brando, the author offers a critique of his personal style and attempts to define and explore his charisma. This book provides an insight into the actor's influence over a generation and assesses the reasons behind his becoming a symbolic figure. His behaviour and attitudes still cause controversy today and this portrait of an actor is illustrated throughout with stills fom the Kobal collection, highlighting Brando's potent image which must take much of the credit for his unprecedented influence.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1851450475/?tag=2022091-20
(In this book the celebrated film critic and biographer tu...)
In this book the celebrated film critic and biographer turns to a story of his own life during the years of World War II. Richard Schickel's engaging memoir is not a fashionable tale of childhood abuse, but it does chart the growth of one addiction: a boy's attraction to the movies, which was to become a lifelong passion. In the dark movie palaces of his youth, Mr. Schickel confesses, he surrendered a great deal of his imaginative self and found the romance and heroic adventure so lacking in the serene and placid little world he inhabited. Looking back now, he finds that much of the drama in his young life was covered in silence, duplicity, and misdirection-a happy middle-class fiction that evaded the harsher facts of life. And so did Hollywood. It 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. Good Morning, Mr. Zip Zip Zip is Mr. Schickel's effort to set the record straight about that view of the war promoted by our popular culture, and he does it by illuminating the meaning of wartime films set against the background of his own growing up. It's a wonderful reading experience.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1566634911/?tag=2022091-20
( Few figures in film and theater history tower like Elia...)
Few figures in film and theater history tower like Elia Kazan. Born in 1909 to Greek parents in Istanbul, Turkey, he arrived in America with incomparable vision and drive, and by the 1950s he was the most important and influential director in the nation, simultaneously dominating both theater and film. His productions of A Streetcar Named Desire and Death of a Salesman reshaped the values of the stage. His films -- most notably On the Waterfront -- brought a new realism and a new intensity of performance to the movies. Kazan's career spanned times of enormous change in his adopted country, and his work affiliated him with many of America's great artistic moments and figures, from New York City's Group Theatre of the 1930s to the rebellious forefront of 1950s Hollywood; from Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy to Marlon Brando and James Dean. Ebullient and secretive, bold and self-doubting, beloved yet reviled for "naming names" before the House Un-American Activities Committee, Kazan was an individual as complex and fascinating as any he directed. He has long deserved a biography as shrewd and sympathetic as this one. In the electrifying Elia Kazan, noted film historian and critic Richard Schickel illuminates much more than a single astonishing life and life's work: He pays discerning tribute to the power of theater and film, and casts a new light on six crucial decades of American history.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060195797/?tag=2022091-20
(Lincoln Center's Repertory Theater opened in 1964 with th...)
Lincoln Center's Repertory Theater opened in 1964 with the premiere of Arthur Miller's "After the Fall," an explosive play based on Miller's personal life with an emphasis on his marriage to Marilyn Monroe. "Making the Fall" is a first-hand account of that production, starting with initial meetings and rehearsals, all the way through the final performances. This book includes verbatim conversations between Miller, Kazan, and the cast, as well as never-before-published excerpts from Kazan's personal notes and letters.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/148954044X/?tag=2022091-20
(CineMagicians is a Magazine about, for, and by the backya...)
CineMagicians is a Magazine about, for, and by the backyard, DIY, movie producer. Each issue offers histories and how-to's about movie special effects, makeup design, stop motion, sound and lighting, and a variety of other hints for the DIY movie maker. CineMagicians is YOUR magazine. Volume 1 Index: George Melies: First Man in the Moon The Dod's Vault: Highrise Movie Profile: Discursion Audio Ink and Paint Adventures of Pirx The Lone Animator
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1477451935/?tag=2022091-20
(With rare and never-before-published photographs, persona...)
With rare and never-before-published photographs, personal letters, and documents, this groundbreaking book reveals the style secrets that helped make Grant a fashion icon.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0821257609/?tag=2022091-20
(During Cary Grant's long life a great deal of testimony a...)
During Cary Grant's long life a great deal of testimony accumulated. Even early in the search for him, it can be established that he had a dark side and a light side. The source of Cary's art, argues Schickel, lay in his ability to colour his comedy with malice and self-absorption. The reverse was true also - he seemed easily able to get a laugh even in the midst of dramatic tension. This most private of men was an open actor, a performer willing to try anything to make a scene work. It is perhaps because he was able so artfully to reveal so much of himself in this way that he revealed almost nothing of himself under direct questioning. This tribute to Cary Grant's art is based on a re-evaluation of all his films and a re-interpretation of all the biographical information. Schickel maps the intersection where the man's personal history and his screen personality met.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/185471497X/?tag=2022091-20
(Rock Musical Characters: 7 males, 3 females Scenery:...)
Rock Musical Characters: 7 males, 3 females Scenery: Interior That sweet transvestite and his motley crew did the time warp on Broadway in a 25th anniversary revival. Complete with sass from the audience, cascading toilet paper and an array of other audience participation props, this deliberately kitschy rock 'n' roll sci fi gothic is more fun than ever. "A socko wacko weirdo rock concert."-WNBC TV. "A musical that deals with mutating identity and time warps becomes one of the most mutated, time warped phenomena in show business."-N.Y. Times. "Campy trash."-Time.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0573681120/?tag=2022091-20
(Dolores Hart stunned Hollywood in 1963, when after ten hi...)
Dolores Hart stunned Hollywood in 1963, when after ten highly successful feature films, she chose to enter a contemplative monastery. Now, fifty years later, Mother Dolores gives this fascinating account of her life, with co-author and life-long friend, Richard DeNeut. Dolores was a bright and beautiful college student when she made her film debut with Elvis Presley in Paramount's 1957 Loving You. She acted in nine more movies with other big stars such as Montgomery Clift, Anthony Quinn and Myrna Loy. She also gave a Tony-nominated performance in the Broadway play The Pleasure of His Company and appeared in two television shows, including The Virginian. A new chapter in her life occurred while playing Saint Clare in the movie Francis of Assisi, which was filmed on location in Italy. Born Dolores Hicks to a complicated and colorful Chicago family, Mother Hart has traveled a charmed yet challenging road in her journey toward God, serenity and, yes, love. She entered the Abbey of Regina Laudis in Bethlehem, Conn., at the peak of her career, not in order to leave the glamorous world of acting she had dreamed of since childhood, but in order to answer a mysterious summons she heard with the "ear of the heart". While contracted for another film and engaged to be married, she gave up everything to become a bride of Christ. Lavishly illustrated with 64 pages of photos. "Listen and attend with the ear of your heart." Saint Benedict "Mother Dolores Hart is a remarkable woman with a remarkable story-one of love, devotion and faith." --Maria Shriver, bestselling author of Just Who Will You Be? "Read now for some lively insights from the girl who kissed Elvis in the movies to the Mother Superior who gets the last laugh in real life." --Paula Prentiss, actress "I have been privileged to be in the presence of this extraordinary woman, Mother Dolores. And now with her book, The Ear of the Heart, those of us who wondered why she chose such a path in life will discover the answer lies in the journey. This is a courageous adventure. It is a thriller." --Richard Benjamin, actor and director "Read this fascinating story to learn how what seems like running away', is in reality running to' Love." --Maria Cooper Janis, daughter of Gary Cooper "Mother Dolores Hart's life story is one of the most amazing I've ever read. It's as if she has taken you by the hand and invited you to join her on the most incredible ride. Pulling back the curtains on both Hollywood and the Cloister with no holds barred, she tells it like it is.' This is a real page-turner of an adventure filled with unexpected twists and turns, laughs and tears, highs and lows. And in the end, truly uplifting. --Dan Goggin, Creator of the "Nunsense" Musicals "Mother Dolores Hart's prose is a reflection of the inner beauty she has always possessed. A fascinating read... and read again!" --Robert Evans, Film Producer "The Ear of the Heart, like Dolores Hart herself, is Hollywood on the surface, but tough and deeply spiritual on the inside. It is the story of a remarkable woman, Dolores Hart, who guided by her inner goodness, sense of community, mission, and faith, rose to become a star of the silver screen, transformational prioress of the cloistered Benedictine abbey of Regina Laudis, and national spokesperson for the neuropathy association. It is an American biblical story for the modern age, and a good read to boot." --Dr. Norman Latov Director, Peripheral Neuropathy Center, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1586177478/?tag=2022091-20
(In an unprecedented television program last year, Woody A...)
In an unprecedented television program last year, Woody Allen spoke to the camera for the first time about the entire range of his work, in an interview with Richard Schickel, the distinguished film critic and historian. Mr. Allen talked about how he does it, why he does it, its roots in his early life, and his current thinking about the state of his art. The result Woody Allen: A Life in Film, was one of the most popular and critically acclaimed programs in the history of Turner Classic Movies. But the presentation contained only a small fraction of Mr. Schickel's four-hour interview with the famed writer-director-actor. This new book reprints the complete conversation between the two men and includes a long essay of introduction by Mr. Schickel, which places Woody Allen's entire career in critical perspective. Readers will find Mr. Allen's reflections on his major preoccupations―the battle of the sexes; the conflict between reality and fantasy in his major films; mortality, religion, and the role that chance plays in the unfolding of our lives. The book also offers insights into Mr. Allen's working methods as a writer and the growth of his skills as a director, as well as his assessment of himself as an actor and his surprising views of his long life in the public eye. Brief but sharply honed, Woody Allen: A Life in Film is an essential book for anyone seeking to understand the life and times of one of the most important and least understood American filmmakers of our era.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1566635284/?tag=2022091-20
("So began Richard Schickel's 'The Great Second Chance,' a...)
"So began Richard Schickel's 'The Great Second Chance,' an article about how to pick up the pieces of a broken relationship that received more reader response than any other in Esquire magazine's recent history. And now -- for all the men (and women) terrified of Starting Over, or starting at all -- Richard Schickel has gone beyond that piece to create a compendium of folk wisdom, sage advice, and sympathy that makes Lord Chesterfield look like Woody Allen."
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0670647101/?tag=2022091-20
(Dolores Hart stunned Hollywood in 1963, when after ten hi...)
Dolores Hart stunned Hollywood in 1963, when after ten highly successful feature films, she chose to enter a contemplative monastery. Now, fifty years later, Mother Dolores gives this fascinating account of her life, with co-author and life-long friend, Richard DeNeut. Dolores was a bright and beautiful college student when she made her film debut with Elvis Presley in Paramount's 1957 Loving You. She acted in nine more movies with other big stars such as Montgomery Clift, Anthony Quinn and Myrna Loy. She also gave a Tony-nominated performance in the Broadway play The Pleasure of His Company and appeared in two television shows, including The Virginian. A new chapter in her life occurred while playing Saint Clare in the movie Francis of Assisi, which was filmed on location in Italy. Born Dolores Hicks to a complicated and colorful Chicago family, Mother Hart has traveled a charmed yet challenging road in her journey toward God, serenity and, yes, love. She entered the Abbey of Regina Laudis in Bethlehem, Conn., at the peak of her career, not in order to leave the glamorous world of acting she had dreamed of since childhood, but in order to answer a mysterious summons she heard with the "ear of the heart". While contracted for another film and engaged to be married, she gave up everything to become a bride of Christ. Lavishly illustrated with 64 pages of photos. "Listen and attend with the ear of your heart." Saint Benedict "Mother Dolores Hart is a remarkable woman with a remarkable story-one of love, devotion and faith." --Maria Shriver, bestselling author of Just Who Will You Be? "Read now for some lively insights from the girl who kissed Elvis in the movies to the Mother Superior who gets the last laugh in real life." --Paula Prentiss, actress "I have been privileged to be in the presence of this extraordinary woman, Mother Dolores. And now with her book, The Ear of the Heart, those of us who wondered why she chose such a path in life will discover the answer lies in the journey. This is a courageous adventure. It is a thriller." --Richard Benjamin, actor and director "Read this fascinating story to learn how what seems like running away', is in reality running to' Love." --Maria Cooper Janis, daughter of Gary Cooper "Mother Dolores Hart's life story is one of the most amazing I've ever read. It's as if she has taken you by the hand and invited you to join her on the most incredible ride. Pulling back the curtains on both Hollywood and the Cloister with no holds barred, she tells it like it is.' This is a real page-turner of an adventure filled with unexpected twists and turns, laughs and tears, highs and lows. And in the end, truly uplifting. --Dan Goggin, Creator of the "Nunsense" Musicals "Mother Dolores Hart's prose is a reflection of the inner beauty she has always possessed. A fascinating read... and read again!" --Robert Evans, Film Producer "The Ear of the Heart, like Dolores Hart herself, is Hollywood on the surface, but tough and deeply spiritual on the inside. It is the story of a remarkable woman, Dolores Hart, who guided by her inner goodness, sense of community, mission, and faith, rose to become a star of the silver screen, transformational prioress of the cloistered Benedictine abbey of Regina Laudis, and national spokesperson for the neuropathy association. It is an American biblical story for the modern age, and a good read to boot." --Dr. Norman Latov Director, Peripheral Neuropathy Center, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1586177478/?tag=2022091-20
(At the height of America's anti-Communist Red Scare, play...)
At the height of America's anti-Communist Red Scare, playwright Arthur Miller traveled to Hollywood to work on a screenplay with Elia Kazan, the most important director in Hollywood and on Broadway in the 1950s. Kazan introduced Miller to Marilyn Monroe, then a minor actress and Kazan's lover. Miller and Monroe instantly fell in love; however, Miller was married. Subsequently, the artistic collaboration between Miller and Kazan shattered after Kazan "named names" of ex-Communists before Congress. Miller then wrote The Crucible, which condemns informing; Kazan directed On The Waterfront, which celebrates testifying as heroic, and Monroe went on to become an enduring sex symbol. Collaborators presents the story of the complex relationships among these towering figures from 1950s popular culture.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1329134265/?tag=2022091-20
(This comprehensive introduction to Hollywood cinema provi...)
This comprehensive introduction to Hollywood cinema provides a fascinating account of the world's most powerful film industry and examines its cultural and aesthetic significance. Taking a wide-ranging approach, and spotlighting such films as A Star is Born, Singing in the Rain, Forrest Gump, and Titanic, it explores and interprets Hollywood cinema in history and in the present, in theory and in practice. For this new edition, the book has been extensively revised, with the historical material updated, and including references to Hollywood movies after 1990. New features include box sections, further reading lists, and chapter summaries. Well illustrated and clearly written, this is an indispensable text for students and readers of Hollywood history and culture.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0631216154/?tag=2022091-20
(This comprehensive book illuminates the most fertile and ...)
This comprehensive book illuminates the most fertile and exciting period in American film, a time when the studio system was at its peak and movies played a critical role in elevating the spirits of the public. Richard B. Jewell offers a highly readable yet deeply informed account of the economics, technology, censorship, style, genres, stars and history of Hollywood during its "classical" era. * A major introductory textbook covering what is arguably the most fertile and exciting period in film, 1929-1945 * Analyzes many of the seminal films from the period, from The Wizard of Oz to Grand Hotel to Gone with the Wind, considering the impact they had then and still have today * Tackles the shaping forces of the period: the business practices of the industry, technological developments, censorship restraints, narrative strategies, evolution of genres, and the stars and the star system * Explores the major social, political, economic, and cultural events that helped to shape contemporary commercial cinema, as well as other leisure activities that influenced Hollywood production, including radio, vaudeville, theatre and fiction * Written in a jargon-free, lively style, and features a number of illustrations throughout the text
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1405163739/?tag=2022091-20
(This classic history of Walt Disney s life and works asks...)
This classic history of Walt Disney s life and works asks penetrating questions about Disney s achievements and shortcomings, and the enormous popularity of the Disney version." "One of the best studies ever done on American popular culture...unfailingly, consistently intelligent, and eminently readable." Stephen J. Whitfield, Brandeis University. "This may be the single most illuminating work on
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00FKYNYZY/?tag=2022091-20
(This comprehensive book illuminates the most fertile and ...)
This comprehensive book illuminates the most fertile and exciting period in American film, a time when the studio system was at its peak and movies played a critical role in elevating the spirits of the public. Richard B. Jewell offers a highly readable yet deeply informed account of the economics, technology, censorship, style, genres, stars and history of Hollywood during its "classical" era. * A major introductory textbook covering what is arguably the most fertile and exciting period in film, 1929-1945 * Analyzes many of the seminal films from the period, from The Wizard of Oz to Grand Hotel to Gone with the Wind, considering the impact they had then and still have today * Tackles the shaping forces of the period: the business practices of the industry, technological developments, censorship restraints, narrative strategies, evolution of genres, and the stars and the star system * Explores the major social, political, economic, and cultural events that helped to shape contemporary commercial cinema, as well as other leisure activities that influenced Hollywood production, including radio, vaudeville, theatre and fiction * Written in a jargon-free, lively style, and features a number of illustrations throughout the text
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1405163739/?tag=2022091-20
(This comprehensive book illuminates the most fertile and ...)
This comprehensive book illuminates the most fertile and exciting period in American film, a time when the studio system was at its peak and movies played a critical role in elevating the spirits of the public. Richard B. Jewell offers a highly readable yet deeply informed account of the economics, technology, censorship, style, genres, stars and history of Hollywood during its "classical" era. * A major introductory textbook covering what is arguably the most fertile and exciting period in film, 1929-1945 * Analyzes many of the seminal films from the period, from The Wizard of Oz to Grand Hotel to Gone with the Wind, considering the impact they had then and still have today * Tackles the shaping forces of the period: the business practices of the industry, technological developments, censorship restraints, narrative strategies, evolution of genres, and the stars and the star system * Explores the major social, political, economic, and cultural events that helped to shape contemporary commercial cinema, as well as other leisure activities that influenced Hollywood production, including radio, vaudeville, theatre and fiction * Written in a jargon-free, lively style, and features a number of illustrations throughout the text
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1405163739/?tag=2022091-20
(9 1/2" x 13 1/4" colour special anniversary souvenir broc...)
9 1/2" x 13 1/4" colour special anniversary souvenir brochure. Signed by Jason Donovan. Includes full songsheet. Also includes signed insert from the evening's performance. The Rocky Horror Show is a long-running British horror comedy stage musical, which opened in London on 19 June 1973. It was written by Richard O'Brien, produced and directed by Jim Sharman. It came eighth in a BBC Radio 2 listener poll of the "Nation's Number One Essential Musicals". It tells the story of a newly engaged couple getting caught in a storm and coming to the home of a mad transvestite scientist unveiling his new creation, a muscle man named Rocky Horror. The musical was adapted into the 1975 film The Rocky Horror Picture Show, which today has a worldwide cult following and has the longest running release in film history.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008PEO7G6/?tag=2022091-20
(This comprehensive book illuminates the most fertile and ...)
This comprehensive book illuminates the most fertile and exciting period in American film, a time when the studio system was at its peak and movies played a critical role in elevating the spirits of the public. Richard B. Jewell offers a highly readable yet deeply informed account of the economics, technology, censorship, style, genres, stars and history of Hollywood during its "classical" era. * A major introductory textbook covering what is arguably the most fertile and exciting period in film, 1929-1945 * Analyzes many of the seminal films from the period, from The Wizard of Oz to Grand Hotel to Gone with the Wind, considering the impact they had then and still have today * Tackles the shaping forces of the period: the business practices of the industry, technological developments, censorship restraints, narrative strategies, evolution of genres, and the stars and the star system * Explores the major social, political, economic, and cultural events that helped to shape contemporary commercial cinema, as well as other leisure activities that influenced Hollywood production, including radio, vaudeville, theatre and fiction * Written in a jargon-free, lively style, and features a number of illustrations throughout the text
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1405163739/?tag=2022091-20
SCHICKEL, Richard was born on February 10, 1933 in Milwaukee. Son of Edward J. Schickel and Helen (nee Hendricks) Schickel.
Bachelor of Science, University Wisconsin, 1955.
The History of an Art and an Institution 1964, The Disney Version 1968, The World of Goya 1968, Second Sight: Notes on Some Movies 1972, His Pictures in the Papers 1974, Harold Lloyd: The Shape of Laughter 1974, The Men Who Made the Movies 1975, The World of Tennis 1975, The Fairbanks Album 1975, Another I, Another You 1978, Singled Out 1981, Cary Grant: A Celebration 1984, D. W. Griffith: An American Life 1984, Intimate Strangers: The Culture of Celebrity 1985; Co-Editor Film 1967-1968; Producer, Director, Writer: TV The Man Who Made the Movies 1973, Funny Business 1978, Into the Morning: Willa Cather’s America 1978, The Horror Show 1979, James Cagney: That Yankee Doodle Dandy 1981; Producer, Writer: TV Life Goes to the Movies 1976, SPFX 1980. Senior editor Look magazine, 1957-1960, Show magazine, 1960-1963. Freelance writer, since 1963. Film critic Life magazine, 1965-1972, Time magazine, since 1973.
Consultant Rockefeller Brothers Fund, 1964, Rockefeller Foundation, 1965. Lecturer in history art Yale, 1972, 76. Adjunct professor film, University Son of California, 1989.
President Lorac Productions, since 1986.
(This classic history of Walt Disney's life and works take...)
(In trying to understand the power of celebrity in modern ...)
(In an unprecedented television program last year, Woody A...)
(One of our most thoughtful film critics here takes on eig...)
("So began Richard Schickel's 'The Great Second Chance,' a...)
(At the height of America's anti-Communist Red Scare, play...)
(This comprehensive book illuminates the most fertile and ...)
(This comprehensive book illuminates the most fertile and ...)
(This comprehensive book illuminates the most fertile and ...)
(This comprehensive book illuminates the most fertile and ...)
(Lincoln Center's Repertory Theater opened in 1964 with th...)
(In films like The Wild One and On The Waterfront Marlon B...)
( Marlon Brando might be the most influential actor in fi...)
(This comprehensive introduction to Hollywood cinema provi...)
(This classic history of Walt Disney s life and works asks...)
(With rare and never-before-published photographs, persona...)
(With rare and never-before-published photographs, persona...)
(Rock Musical Characters: 7 males, 3 females Scenery:...)
(Presenting a portrait of Marlon Brando, the author offers...)
(VERY SLIGHT DAMP STAIN AND SLIGHT WAVING OF PAGES TOP COR...)
(Dolores Hart stunned Hollywood in 1963, when after ten hi...)
(Dolores Hart stunned Hollywood in 1963, when after ten hi...)
(In this book the celebrated film critic and biographer tu...)
(The whole gory story in song! Vocal selections from the h...)
(Nicely done short illustrated study of the film, Billy Wi...)
(The study of James Cagney's screen persona is far more th...)
(CineMagicians is a Magazine about, for, and by the backya...)
(This book is necessarily a selective, or impressionistic,...)
(During Cary Grant's long life a great deal of testimony a...)
(During Cary Grant's long life a great deal of testimony a...)
( Few figures in film and theater history tower like Elia...)
(9 1/2" x 13 1/4" colour special anniversary souvenir broc...)
(The Rocky Horror Picture Show Original Movie Script.)
(Shelf and edge wear with creasing to DJ at edges. There m...)
(Time-Life Library of Art hardcover book from 1977)
(This magnificent and important biography . . . is the bes...)
(A fine copy in a very good dust jacket. First edition. Cl...)
(Book by Schickel, Richard)
(Book by Schickel, Richard)
(Book by Schickel, Richard)
(Book by Richard schickel)
(world tennis book)
(First Edition)
(no dust cover)
(Reprint)
(Art)
(3)
Author: The World of Carnegie Hall, 1960, The Stars, 1962, Movies: The History of an Art and an Institution, 1964, The Gentle Knight, 1964, The Disney Version, 1968, The World of Goya, 1968, Second Sight: Notes on Some Movies, 1972, His Picture in the Papers, 1974, Harold Lloyd: The Shape of Laughter, 1974, The Men Who Made the Movies, 1975, The World of Tennis, 1975, The Fairbanks Album, 1975, Singled Out, 1981, Cary Grant, A Celebration, 1984, D.W. Griffith. An American Life, 1984, James Cagney, A Celebration, 1985, Intimate Strangers: The Culture of Celebrity, 1985, Striking Poses, 1987, Schickel on Film, 1989, Brando: A Life In Our Times, 1991, Double Indemnity, 1992, Clint Eastwood: A Biography, 1996, Matinee Idols: Reflections on the Movies, 1999, Good Morning Mr. Zip Zip Zip: Movies, Memory, and World World War II, 2003, Elia Kazan, 2005.Co-author: Lena, 1965, The Platinum Years, 1974, Hollywood at Home, 1990 (novel) Another I, Another You, 1978. Co-editor: Film 67-68, 1968. Producer, director, writer (television series) The Men Who Made the Movies, 1973.Producer, writer: (television specialists) Life Goes to the Movies, 1976, SPFX, 1980, Cary Grant, A Celebration, 1989. Producer, writer, director: (television specialists) Funny Business, 1978, Into the Morning: Willa Cather's America, 1978, The Horror Show, 1979, James Cagney: That Yankee Doodle Dandy, 1981, From Star Wars to Jedi: The Making of a Saga, 1983, Minnelli on Minnelli. Liza Remebers Vincent, 1987, Gary Cooper: American Life, American Legend, 1989, Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To, 1990, Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire, 1991, Eastwood & Company: Making Unforgiven, 1992, Hollywood on Hollywood, 1993, Elia Kazan: A Director's Journey, 1995, The Moviemakers, 1996, Eastwood on Eastwood, 1997, The Harryhausen Chronicles, 1998.Executive producer: American Film Institute's 100 Years 100 Movies, 1998. Director, producer (television) Shooting War, 2000, Woody Allen: A Life in Film, 2002.
Member National Society Film Critics, New York Film Critics, Directors Guild American, Writers Guild Am, chairman American Film Institute Motion Pictures Nominating Committee, 2001.
children: Erika Tracy, Jessica Avery.