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• Encyclopedias (3) • Essays (6) • Studies (50) • Interviews (4) • Stories (38) • Photos (13) • Writings (1) • Novel (5)
• Encyclopedias (0) • Essays (1) • Studies (12) • Interviews (1) • Stories (9) • Photos (1) • Writings (0) • Novel (0)
• Encyclopedias (3 books)(0 book)
The Hollywood Story (2003)
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the American Movie Business but Didn't Know Where to Look
Publisher: Wallflower Press
• Essays (6 books)(1 book)
The Mind-Game Film (2021)
Distributed Agency, Time Travel, and Productive Pathology
Publisher: Routledge
Classical Hollywood Cinema (2015)
Point of View and Communication
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan . . . and Beyond (2003)
A Revised and Expanded Edition of the Classic Text
by Robin Wood
Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Studies (50 books)(12 books)
First Women of Hollywood (2025)
Female Pioneers in the Early Motion Picture Business
by Mary Mallory
Publisher: Lyons Press
Performing Chinatown (2024)
Hollywood, Tourism, and the Making of a Chinese American Community
by William Gow
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Hollywood and Israel (2022)
A History
by Tony Shaw and Giora Goodman
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Unsettled Scores (2019)
Politics, Hollywood, and the Film Music of Aaron Copland and Hanns Eisler
by Sally Bick
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Forbidden Hollywood (2019)
The Pre-Code Era (1930-1934): When Sin Ruled the Movies
Publisher: Running Press
Hollywood by Hollywood (2018)
The Backstudio Picture and the Mystique of Making Movies
by Steven Cohan
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Working in Hollywood (2018)
How the Studio System Turned Creativity into Labor
by Ronny Regev
Publisher: University of of North Carolina Press
Nobody's Girl Friday (2018)
The Women Who Ran Hollywood
by J. E. Smyth
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Hollywood Divided (2016)
The 1950 Screen Directors Guild Meeting and the Impact of the Blacklist
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Hollywood Is Everywhere (2016)
Global Directors in the Blockbuster Era
by Melis Behlil
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Independent Stardom (2016)
Freelance Women in the Hollywood Studio System
by Emily Carman
Publisher: University of Texas Press
The Classical Hollywood Cinema (2015)
Film Style and Mode of Production to 1960
by David Bordwell, Janet Staiger and Kristin Thompson
Publisher: Columbia University Press
The Roots of Modern Hollywood (2014)
The Persistence of Values in American Cinema, from the New Deal to the Present
by Nick Smedley
Publisher: Intellect Books
Like a Natural Woman (2014)
Spectacular Female Performance in Classical Hollywood
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Hollywood and Hitler 1933-1939 (2013)
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Precocious Charms (2013)
Stars Performing Girlhood in Classical Hollywood Cinema
Publisher: University of California Press
Censoring Hollywood (2011)
Sex and Violence in Film and on the Cutting Room Floor
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Hidden Talent (2009)
The Emergence of Hollywood Agents
by Tom Kemper
Publisher: University of California Press
The ABCs of Classic Hollywood (2008)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Hollywood's Censor (2007)
Joseph I. Breen and the Production Code Administration
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Balboa Films (2007)
A History and Filmography of the Silent Film Studio
by Jean-Jacques Jura and Rodney Norman Bardin II
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Poverty Row Studios, 1929–1940 (2005)
An Illustrated History of 55 Independent Film Companies, with a Filmography for Each
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Just Making Movies (2005)
Company Directors on the Studio System
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Dangerous Men (2002)
Pre-Code Hollywood and the Birth of the Modern Man
by Mick LaSalle
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Hearst Over Hollywood (2002)
Power, Passion, and Propaganda in the Movies
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Hollyworld (2001)
Space, Power, and Fantasy in the American Economy
by Aida Hozic
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Dead Ringers (2001)
The Remake in Theory and Practice
Dir. Jennifer Forrest and Leonard R. Koos
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Complicated Women (2001)
Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood
by Mick LaSalle
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Directed by Allen Smithee (2001)
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Pre-Code Hollywood (1999)
Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930-1934
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Movies about the Movies-Pa (1997)
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
America in the Movies (1989)
Or, "Santa Maria, It Had Slipped My Mind"
by Michael Wood
Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Interviews (4 books)(1 book)
Hollywood Heyday (2018)
75 Candid Interviews with Golden Age Legends
by David Fantle and Tom Johnson
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Conversations with Classic Film Stars (2016)
Interviews from Hollywood's Golden Era
by James Bawden and Ron Miller
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Movies Were Always Magical (2003)
Interviews with 19 Actors, Directors, and Producers from the Hollywood of the 1930s through the 1950s
Publisher: McFarland & Co
• Stories (38 books)(9 books)
Hollywood Boozers, Brawlers and Hard-Luck Cases (2025)
Fifteen Ill-Fated Actors of the Golden Age
by Laura Wagner
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Moxie (2024)
The Daring Women of Classic Hollywood
by Ira M. Resnick and Raissa Bretaña
Publisher: Abbeville Press
The Hollywood Behind the Lens (2024)
Treasures from the Bison Archives
by Marc Wanamaker and Steven Bingen
Publisher: Lyons Press
Forbidden Cocktails (2024)
Libations Inspired by the World of Pre-Code Hollywood
Publisher: Running Press
The Beginning or the End (2020)
How Hollywood - and America - Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Publisher: The New Press
The Castle on Sunset (2020)
Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont
by Shawn Levy
Publisher: Doubleday
Hollywood's Hard-Luck Ladies (2020)
23 Actresses Who Suffered Early Deaths, Accidents, Missteps, Illnesses and Tragedies
by Laura Wagner
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Glamour Girls of Sixties Hollywood (2018)
Seventy-Five Profiles
by Tom Lisanti
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Hard-Boiled Hollywood (2017)
Crime and Punishment in Postwar Los Angeles
by Jon Lewis
Publisher: University of California Press
My Life in Focus (2017)
A Photographer's Journey with Elizabeth Taylor and the Hollywood Jet Set
by Gianni Bozzacchi and Joey Tayler
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Latino Image Makers in Hollywood (2014)
Performers, Filmmakers and Films Since the 1960s
by Frank Javier Garcia Berumen
Publisher: McFarland & Co
From Radio to the Big Screen (2014)
Hollywood Films Featuring Broadcast Personalities and Programs
by Hal Erickson
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Hollywood Unknowns (2012)
A History of Extras, Bit Players, and Stand-Ins
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
The Hollywood Sign (2012)
Fantasy and Reality of an American Icon
by Leo Braudy
Publisher: Yale University Press
Stardust Monuments (2012)
The Saving and Selling of Hollywood
by Alison Trope
Publisher: Dartmouth College Press
The Genius of the System (2010)
Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Made for Each Other (2008)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Adventures of a Hollywood Secretary (2006)
Her Private Letters from Inside the Studios of the 1920s
by Valeria Belletti and Cari Beauchamp
Publisher: University of California Press
Shoot Out (2004)
Surviving the Fame and (Mis)Fortune of Hollywood
by Peter Bart and Peter Guber
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Radical Hollywood (2003)
The Untold Story Behind America's Favorite Movies
by Paul Buhle and David Wagner
Publisher: The New Press
Headline Hollywood (2001)
A Century of Film Scandal
by Adrienne L. McLean and David A. Cook
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Photos (13 books)(1 book)
Hollywood Dogs (2019)
Photographs from the John Kobal Foundation
Dir. Gareth Abbott
Publisher: ACC Art Books
Hollywood at Play (2017)
The Lives of the Stars Between Takes
by Stephen X. Sylvester, Mary Mallory and Donovan Brandt
Publisher: Lyons Press
Hollywood Cats (2014)
Photographs from the John Kobal Foundation
by Gareth Abbott and Simon Crocker
Publisher: Antique Collectors' Club
Hollywood Unseen (2012)
Photographs from the John Kobal Foundation
by Robert Dance and John Kobal
Publisher: Antique Collectors' Club
Hollywood Glamor Portraits (2011)
145 Photos of Stars, 1926-1949
by John Kobal
Publisher: Dover Publications
Movie-Star Portraits of the Forties (2011)
163 Glamour Photos
by John Kobal
Publisher: Dover Publications
Film-Star Portraits of the Fifties (2011)
163 Glamour Photos
by John Kobal
Publisher: Dover Publications
Silver Screen Silver Prints (2011)
Hollywood Glamour Portraits from the Robert Dance Collection
by Anne H. Hoy
Publisher: The Grolier Club
• Writings (1 book)(0 book)
• Novel (5 books)(0 book)
The Seventh Veil of Salome (2025)
Publisher: Del Rey
The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece (2024)
A novel
by Tom Hanks
Publisher: Vintage Books
The Star and the Strange Moon (2024)
Publisher: Redhook
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Everywhere an Oink Oink (2025)
An Embittered, Dyspeptic, and Accurate Report of Forty Years in Hollywood
by David Mamet
Subject: Director > David Mamet
Hollywood Independent (2024)
How the Mirisch Company Changed Cinema
by Paul Kerr
Subject: Economics > Tim Matheson
MCU (2024)
The Reign of Marvel Studios
by Joanna Robinson, Dave Gonzales and Gavin Edwards
Subject: Studio > Marvel Studios
Opening Weekend (2024)
An Insider's Look at Marketing Hollywood's Hits and Flops
by Jim Fredrick
Subject: Economics
Moguls (2024)
The Lives and Times of Hollywood Film Pioneers Nicholas and Joseph Schenck
by Michael Benson and Craig Singer
Subject: Others persons > Joseph Schenck, Nicholas Schenck
Dueling Harlows (2024)
The Race to Bring the Actress's Life to the Silver Screen
by Tom Lisanti
Subject: One Film > Harlow (Segal), Harlow (Douglas)
Dirty Real (2024)
Exile on Hollywood and Vine with the Gin Mill Cowboys
Subject: Countries > United States
Hollywood Remaking (2024)
How Film Remakes, Sequels, and Franchises Shape Industry and Culture
Subject: Economics
Starmaker (2023)
David O. Selznick and the Production of Stars in the Hollywood Studio System
by Milan Hain
Subject: Others persons > David O. Selznick
Guilty Pleasures (2023)
European Audiences and Contemporary Hollywood Romantic Comedy
Subject: Genre > Romantic films
The Women Who Built Hollywood (2023)
12 Trailblazers in Front of and Behind the Camera
Subject: History of Cinema
Aline Macmahon (2022)
Hollywood, the Blacklist, and the Birth of Method Acting
Subject: Actor > Aline MacMahon
Hollywood Films in North Africa and the Middle East (2022)
A History of Circulation
Subject: Economics
The Encyclopedia of Hollywood Film Actors (2022)
From the Silent Era to 1965
by Barry Monush
Subject: On Films > Guides and dictionaries
Hollywood Remakes of Iconic British Films (2022)
Class, Gender and Stardom
Subject: Countries > Great Britain
Hollywood Remembrance and American War (2022)
Dir. Andrew Rayment and Paul Nadasdy
All for Beauty (2022)
Makeup and Hairdressing in Hollywood's Studio Era
Hollywood's Embassies (2022)
How Movie Theaters Projected American Power Around the World
by Ross Melnick
Subject: Economics
Play It Again, Sam (2022)
Retakes on Remakes
Dir. Andrew Horton and Stuart Y. McDougal
Subject: Economics
Batman's Batman (2022)
A Memoir from Hollywood, Land of Bilk and Money
Subject: One Film > Batman (1989)
Robert Riskin (2021)
The Life and Times of a Hollywood Screenwriter
by Ian Scott
Subject: Others persons > Robert Riskin
City of Dreams (2021)
The Making and Remaking of Universal Pictures
Engulfed (2021)
The Death of Paramount Pictures and the Birth of Corporate Hollywood
20th Century-Fox (2021)
Darryl F. Zanuck and the Creation of the Modern Film Studio
by Scott Eyman
Subject: Studio > 20th Century Fox
Hollywood Shutdown (2021)
Production, Distribution, and Exhibition in the Time of COVID
Subject: Economics
The Limits of #MeToo in Hollywood (2021)
Gender and Power in the Entertainment Industry
Subject: Sociology
Engineering Hollywood (2021)
Technology, Technicians, and the Science of Building the Studio System
by Luci Marzola
Subject: Technique > All techniques
How Not to Make a Movie (2020)
An Independent Filmmaker in Hollywood Hell
Subject: Genre > Independent cinema
Stars and Silhouettes (2020)
The History of the Cameo Role in Hollywood
Hollywood's Artists (2020)
The Directors Guild of America and the Construction of Authorship
Subject: Economics
Produced by Irving Thalberg (2020)
Theory of Studio-Era Filmmaking
by Ana Salzberg
Subject: Others persons > Irving Thalberg
A Piece of the Action (2019)
Race and Labor in Post–Civil Rights Hollywood
by Eithne Quinn
Subject: Sociology
Preston Sturges (2019)
The Last Years of Hollywood's First Writer-Director
by Nick Smedley and Tom Sturges
Subject: Director > Preston Sturges
The Cultural Politics of Contemporary Hollywood Film (2019)
Power, Culture, and Society
by Chris Beasley and Heather Brook
Subject: Sociology
In Theaters Everywhere (2019)
A History of the Hollywood Wide Release, 1913–2017
by Brian Hannan
Subject: Economics
Postfeminist Whiteness (2018)
Problematising Melancholic Burden in Contemporary Hollywood
Subject: Sociology
Black Male Frames (2018)
African Americans in a Century of Hollywood Cinema, 1903-2003
by Roland Leander Williams Jr.
Subject: Sociology
The Man Who Made the Movies (2017)
The Meteoric Rise and Tragic Fall of William Fox
by Vanda Krefft
Subject: Others persons > William Fox
Rethinking the Hollywood Teen Movie (2017)
Gender, Genre and Identity
Subject: Countries > United States
Reinventing Hollywood (2017)
How 1940s Filmmakers Changed Movie Storytelling
Subject: History of Cinema
You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again (2017)
Subject: Others persons > Julia Phillips
Kirk and Anne (2017)
Letters of Love, Laughter, and a Lifetime in Hollywood
by Kirk Douglas and Anne Douglas
Subject: Actor > Kirk Douglas
Twentieth Century Fox (2017)
A Century of Entertainment
by Michael Troyan, Stephen X. Sylvester and Jeffrey Paul Thompson
Subject: Studio > 20th Century Fox
Almost Hollywood, Nearly New Orleans (2017)
The Lure of the Local Film Economy
by Vicki Mayer
Subject: Economics
The Writers (2016)
A History of American Screenwriters and Their Guild
Subject: Technique > Scriptwriting
Transgression in Anglo-American Cinema (2016)
Gender, Sex, and the Deviant Body
Dir. Joel Gwynne
Subject: Sociology
Abstinence Cinema (2016)
Virginity and the Rhetoric of Sexual Purity in Contemporary Film
Subject: Sociology
Stealing the Show (2016)
African American Performers and Audiences in 1930s Hollywood
Subject: Countries > United States
Creating the Illusion (2015)
A Fashionable History of Hollywood Costume Designers
by Jay Jorgensen and Donald L. Scoggins
A Special Relationship (2015)
Britain Comes to Hollywood and Hollywood Comes to Britain
Subject: History of Cinema
Hollywood's Second Sex (2015)
The Treatment of Women in the Film Industry, 1900–1999
Subject: Sociology
Cecil B. Demille (2014)
The Art of the Hollywood Epic
by Cecilia DeMille Presley and Mark A. Vieira
Subject: Director > Cecil B. DeMille
100 Years of Brodies with Hal Roach (2014)
The Jaunty Journeys of a Hollywood Motion Picture and Television Pioneer
by Craig Calman
Subject: Studio > Hal Roach Studios
Showmen, Sell It Hot! (2013)
Movies As Merchandise in Golden Era Hollywood
by John McElwee
Subject: Economics
The Kid Stays in the Picture (2013)
A Notorious Life
by Robert Evans
Subject: Others persons > Robert Evans
Lion of Hollywood (2012)
The Life and Legend of Louis B. Mayer
by Scott Eyman
Subject: Others persons > Louis B. Mayer
The Fox Film Corporation, 1915–1935 (2012)
A History and Filmography
Hollywood Movie Stills (2012)
Art and Technique in the Golden Age of the Studios
Subject: On Films > On Set Photos
Indie, Inc. (2012)
Miramax and the Transformation of Hollywood in the 1990s
by Alisa Perren
Subject: Genre > Independent cinema
21st-Century Hollywood (2011)
Movies in the Era of Transformation
by Wheeler Winston Dixon and Gwendolyn Audrey Foster
Subject: Economics
Silent Visions (2011)
Discovering Early Hollywood and New York Through the Films of Harold Lloyd
Subject: Actor > Harold LLoyd
Funny Pictures (2011)
Animation and Comedy in Studio-Era Hollywood
Dir. Daniel Goldmark and Charles Keil
Minding Movies (2011)
Observations on the Art, Craft, and Business of Filmmaking
by David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson
Subject: General
A Divided World (2011)
Hollywood Cinema and Emigré Directors in the Era of Roosevelt and Hitler, 1933-1948
by Nick Smedley
Subject: Countries > United States
Nordic Exposures (2010)
Scandinavian Identities in Classical Hollywood Cinema
by Arne Lunde
Subject: Countries > United States
Edith Head (2010)
The Fifty-Year Career of Hollywood's Greatest Costume Designer
Subject: Others persons > Edith Head
Post-Classical Hollywood (2010)
Film Industry, Style and Ideology since 1945
Subject: Countries > United States
Epics, Spectacles, and Blockbusters (2010)
A Hollywood History
by Sheldon Hall and Steve Neale
Subject: Countries > United States
The Universal Silents (2009)
A Filmography of the Universal Motion Picture Manufacturing Company, 1912–1929
Joseph P. Kennedy's Hollywood Years (2009)
Subject: Others persons > Joseph P. Kennedy
United Artists (2009)
Volume 1: 1919-1950 - The Company Built by the Stars
by Tino Balio
Subject: Studio > United Artists
United Artists (2009)
Volume 2: 1951-1978 - The Company That Changed the Film Industry
by Tino Balio
Subject: Studio > United Artists
You Must Remember This (2008)
The Warner Bros. Story
by Richard Schickel and George Perry
Subject: Studio > Warner Bros
Hollywood Bohemians (2008)
Transgressive Sexuality and the Selling of the Movieland Dream
Subject: Sociology
Dressed (2007)
A Century of Hollywood Costume Design
Actors Organize (2007)
A History of Union Formation Efforts in America, 1880–1919
Subject: Jobs and Trainings
We'll Always Have the Movies (2006)
American Cinema During World War II
by Robert L. McLaughlin and Sally E. Parry
Subject: On Films > Per period
Silent Traces (2006)
Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Charlie Chaplin
Subject: Director > Charlie Chaplin
Kay Francis (2005)
A Passionate Life And Career
by Lynn Kear and John Rossman
Subject: Actor > Kay Francis
The First Lady of Hollywood (2005)
A Biography of Louella Parsons
Subject: Others persons > Louella Parsons
Body And Soul (2005)
Jazz And Blues In American Film, 1927-63
Eighty Odd Years in Hollywood (2004)
Memoir of a Career in Film and Television
Subject: Others persons > John Meredyth Lucas
Hollywood Cartoons (2004)
American Animation in Its Golden Age
The Golden Girls of Mgm (2003)
Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Lana Turner, Judy Garland, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly, and Others
by Jane Wayne
Hollywood Outsiders (2003)
The Adaptation of the Film Industry, 1913-1934
by Anne Morey
Subject: History of Cinema
The Inquisition in Hollywood (2003)
Politics in the Film Community, 1930-1960
by Larry Ceplair and Steven Englund
Subject: History of Cinema
American Gangster Cinema (2002)
From Little Caesar to Pulp Fiction
by Fran Mason
Subject: Genre > Gangster films
The Dark Mirror (2002)
German Cinema Between Hitler and Hollywood
Famous Hollywood Locations (2001)
Descriptions and Photographs of 382 Sites Involving 289 Films and 105 Television Series
by Leon Smith
Keyframes (2001)
Popular Cinema and Cultural Studies
Dir. Matthew Tinkcom and Amy Villarejo
Subject: Countries > United States
Class Struggle in Hollywood, 1930-1950 (2001)
Moguls, Mobsters, Stars, Reds, and Trade Unionists
by Gerald Horne
Subject: History of Cinema
American Cinema and Hollywood (2000)
Critical Approaches
Dir. John Hill and Pamela Church Gibson
Subject: History of Cinema
Silent Echoes (2000)
Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton
Subject: Director > Buster Keaton
Without Lying Down (1998)
Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood
Subject: Others persons > Frances Marion
Grand Design, 1930–1939 (1996)
History of American Cinema vol.5
by Tino Balio
Subject: History of Cinema
King Vidor (1988)
interviewed by Nancy Dowd and David Shepard
by Nancy Dowd and David Shepard
Subject: Director > King Vidor
The Man Who Invented Hollywood (1972)
The Autobiography of D.W. Griffith
Subject: Director > David W. Griffith
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