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• Biographies (22) • Encyclopedias (9) • Dictionaries (2) • Essays (2) • Films Reviews (11) • Studies (132) • Stories (7) • Photos (5) • Didactic (1) • Writings (1)
• Biographies (13) • Encyclopedias (0) • Dictionaries (0) • Essays (0) • Films Reviews (2) • Studies (34) • Stories (1) • Photos (2) • Didactic (1) • Writings (0)
• Biographies (22 books)(13 books)
Deanna Durbin, Judy Garland, and the Golden Age of Hollywood (2026)
by Melanie Gall
Publisher: Lyons Press
Subject: Actor > Deanna Durbin, Judy Garland
Lionel Barrymore (2024)
Character and Endurance in Hollywood's Golden Age
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Subject: Actor > Lionel Barrymore
Becoming the Ex-Wife (2024)
The Unconventional Life and Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Others persons > Ursula Parrott
Clarence Brown (2023)
Hollywood's Forgotten Master
by Gwenda Young
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Subject: Director > Clarence Brown
Captain of Her Soul (2022)
The Life of Marion Davies
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Actor > Marion Davies
The Savvy Sphinx (2021)
How Garbo Conquered Hollywood
by Robert Dance
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Actor > Greta Garbo
Mary Ellen Bute (2020)
Pioneer Animator
Publisher: John Libbey Publishing
Subject: Director > Mary Ellen Bute
Miriam Hopkins (2018)
Life and Films of a Hollywood Rebel
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Subject: Actor > Miriam Hopkins
Winnie Lightner (2016)
Tomboy of the Talkies
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Actor > Winnie Lightner
Cecil B. Demille (2014)
The Art of the Hollywood Epic
by Cecilia DeMille Presley and Mark A. Vieira
Publisher: Running Press
Subject: Director > Cecil B. DeMille
Joan Blondell (2014)
A Life Between Takes
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Actor > Joan Blondell
Victor Fleming (2013)
An American Movie Master
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Subject: Director > Victor Fleming
Ann Dvorak (2013)
Hollywood's Forgotten Rebel
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Subject: Actor > Ann Dvorak
Harlow in Hollywood (2011)
The Blonde Bombshell in the Glamour Capital, 1928-1937
by Darrell Rooney and Mark A. Vieira
Publisher: Angel City Press
Subject: Actor > Jean Harlow
Von Sternberg (2010)
by John Baxter
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Subject: Director > Josef von Sternberg
Warren William (2010)
Magnificent Scoundrel of Pre-Code Hollywood
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Actor > Warren William
Victor Fleming (2008)
An American Movie Master
Publisher: Pantheon (USA)
(previous edition)
Subject: Director > Victor Fleming
Vixens, Floozies and Molls (2005)
28 Actresses of Late 1920s and 1930s Hollywood
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Countries > United States
When I'm Bad, I'm Better (1997)
Mae West, Sex, and American Entertainment
Publisher: University of California Press
• Encyclopedias (9 books)(0 book)
Universal Horrors (2017)
The Studio's Classic Films, 1931–1946
by Tom Weaver, Michael Brunas and John Brunas
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Unsung Hollywood Musicals of the Golden Era (2016)
50 Overlooked Films and Their Stars, 1929–1939
Publisher: McFarland & Co
The Charlie Chan Film Encyclopedia (2005)
Publisher: McFarland & Co
The Screwball Comedy Films (2001)
A History and Filmography, 1934-1942
by Duane Byrge and Robert Milton Miller
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
The Talkies 1926-1931 (1999)
History of American Cinema vol.4
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: History of Cinema
Grand Design, 1930–1939 (1996)
History of American Cinema vol.5
by Tino Balio
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: History of Cinema
• Dictionaries (2 books)(0 book)
Sound Films, 1927–1939 (2010)
A United States Filmography
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: On Films > Per period
Feature Films, 1931–1940 (1993)
American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: On Films > Per period
• Essays (2 books)(0 book)
Spectacle in Classical Cinemas (2018)
Musicality and Historicity in the 1930s
by Tom Brown
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: On Films > Per period
Waving the Flag (1997)
Constructing a National Cinema in Britain
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Countries > Great Britain
• Films Reviews (11 books)(2 books)
Thrills Untapped 2 (2025)
More Discoveries for Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Movie Fans, 1928–1936
Publisher: McFarland & Co
The Screen Chills Companion, 1931–1939 (2025)
Films of the Golden Age of Hollywood Horror
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Roots of Film Noir (2022)
Precursors from the Silent Era to the 1940s
by Kevin Grant
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Chinese Film Classics, 1922-1949 (2021)
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Hollywood Musicals You Missed (2020)
Seventy Noteworthy Films from the 1930s
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Thrills Untapped (2019)
Neglected Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Films, 1928–1936
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Genre > Science Fiction
Sex in the Cinema (2017)
The Pre-Code Years (1929-1934)
by Lou Sabini
Publisher: BearManor Media
Subject: On Films > Film selections
French Cinema (2015)
A Critical Filmography - vol.1, 1929-1939
by Colin Crisp
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Golden Horrors (2006)
An Illustrated Critical Filmography of Terror Cinema, 1931–1939
by Bryan Senn
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Of Gods and Monsters (2005)
A Critical Guide to Universal Studios' Science Fiction, Horror and Mystery Films, 1929–1939
Publisher: McFarland & Co
• Studies (132 books)(34 books)
Literature and Sound Film in Mid-Century Britain (2025)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Countries > Great Britain
The Flash Gordon Serials, 1936–1940 (2025)
An Illustrated Guide
by Roy Kinnard, Tony Crnkovich and R.J. Vitone
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: One Film > Flash Gordon
Silent to Sound (2024)
British Cinema in Transition
by Geoff Brown
Publisher: John Libbey Publishing
Subject: Countries > Great Britain
Yiddish Cinema (2024)
The Drama of Troubled Communication
by Jonah Corne and Monika Vrečar
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Subject: Sociology
The Routledge Companion to Global Film Music in the Early Sound Era (2024)
Dir. Jeremy Barham
Publisher: Routledge
The Life and Times of Betty Boop (2023)
The 100-Year History of an Animated Icon
Publisher: Applause Books
Aesthetics of Early Sound Film (2023)
Media Change Around 1930
Dir. Daniel Wiegand
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Film and Fashion in Japan, 1923-39 (2023)
Consuming the 'West'
by Lois Barnett
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Becoming Nick and Nora (2023)
The Thin Man and the Films of William Powell and Myrna Loy
Publisher: Applause Books
Subject: One Film > The Thin Man
Woman-Centered Brazilian Cinema (2023)
Filmmakers and Protagonists of the Twenty-First Century
Dir. Jack A. Draper III and Cacilda M. Rêgo
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Behind the Screen (2023)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Hollywood Screwball Comedy 1934-1945 (2023)
Sex, Love, and Democratic Ideals
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Colonial Tactics and Everyday Life (2023)
Workers of the Manchuria Film Association
by Yuxin Ma
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Action, Action, Action (2022)
The Early Cinema of Raoul Walsh
by Tom Conley
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Subject: Director > Raoul Walsh
Recollecting Lotte Eisner (2022)
Cinema, Exile, and the Archive
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: History of Cinema
The White Indians of Mexican Cinema (2022)
Racial Masquerade throughout the Golden Age
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Transpacific Convergences (2022)
Race, Migration, and Japanese American Film Culture before World War II
by Denise Khor
Publisher: University of of North Carolina Press
Subject: Countries > United States
Angels and Ministers of Grace Defend Us! (2022)
More Dark Alleys of Classic Horror Cinema
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Clark Gable in the 1930s (2021)
The Films That Made Him King of Hollywood
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Actor > Clark Gable
The City Symphony Phenomenon (2021)
Cinema, Art, and Urban Modernity Between the Wars
Dir. Steven Jacobs, Eva Hielscher and Anthony Kinik
Publisher: Routledge
Decoding the Movies (2021)
Hollywood in the 1930s
Publisher: University of Exeter Press
Subject: Film Analysis
Jumping the Color Line (2021)
Vernacular Jazz Dance in American Film, 1929-1945
by Susie Trenka
Publisher: John Libbey Publishing
Paris in the Dark (2020)
Going to the Movies in the City of Light, 1930–1950
by Eric Smoodin
Publisher: Duke University Press
Subject: General
Powers of the Real (2019)
Cinema, Gender, and Emotion in Interwar Japan
Publisher: Harvard University Press
On the Screen (2019)
Displaying the Moving Image, 1926–1942
by Ariel Rogers
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Subject: History of Cinema
Forbidden Hollywood (2019)
The Pre-Code Era (1930-1934): When Sin Ruled the Movies
Publisher: Running Press
Antisemitism in Film Comedy in Nazi Germany (2019)
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Screening Transcendence (2018)
Film Under Austrofascism and the Hollywood Hope, 1933-1938
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Mock Classicism (2018)
Latin American Film Comedy, 1930–1960
by Nilo Couret
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Countries > Latin America
Becoming John Wayne (2018)
The Early Westerns of a Screen Icon, 1930–1939
by Larry Powell and Jonathan H. Amsbary
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Actor > John Wayne
Who's in the Money? (2018)
The Great Depression Musicals and Hollywood's New Deal
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Visions of Vienna (2018)
Narrating the City in 1920s and 1930s Cinema
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Making Music in Selznick's Hollywood (2017)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Cinema and the Wealth of Nations (2017)
Media, Capital, and the Liberal World System
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Sociology
Boats on the Marne (2017)
Jean Renoir's Critique of Modernity
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Subject: Director > Jean Renoir
The Lost Jungle (2017)
Cliffhanger Action and Hollywood Serials of the 1930s and 1940s
by Guy Barefoot
Publisher: University of Exeter Press
Subject: History of Cinema
Across the World with the Johnsons (2016)
Visual Culture and American Empire in the Twentieth Century
by Prue Ahrens, Lamont Lindstrom and Fiona Paisley
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Celluloid Pueblo (2016)
Western Ways Films and the Invention of the Postwar Southwest
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Hollywood and the Great Depression (2016)
American Film, Politics and Society in the 1930s
Dir. Iwan Morgan and Philip John Davies
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Subject: Sociology
Continuity and crisis in German cinema, 1928-1936 (2016)
Dir. Barbara Hales, Mihaela Petrescu and Valerie Weinstein
Publisher: Camden House
Cinema, Literature & Society (2016)
Elite and Mass Culture in Interwar Britain
by Peter Miles and Malcolm Smith
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Countries > Great Britain
Americanism, Media and the Politics of Culture in 1930s France (2016)
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Subject: Sociology
Stealing the Show (2016)
African American Performers and Audiences in 1930s Hollywood
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Countries > United States
Matinee Melodrama (2016)
Playing with Formula in the Sound Serial
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Subject: History of Cinema
Governing Visions of the Real (2016)
The National Film Unit and Griersonian Documentary Film in Aotearoa/New Zealand
Publisher: Intellect Books
Subject: Genre > Documentary
B Movies (2015)
An informal survey of the American low-budget film 1933-1945
by Don Miller
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Italian Fascism's Empire Cinema (2015)
Publisher: Indiana University Press
After the Silents (2014)
Hollywood Film Music in the Early Sound Era, 1926-1934
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Fascism in Film (2014)
The Italian Commercial Cinema, 1931-1943
by Marcia Landy
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Continental Strangers (2014)
German Exile Cinema, 1933-1951
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Subject: History of Cinema
Saying It with Songs (2013)
Popular Music and the Coming of Sound to Hollywood Cinema
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Buffoon Men (2013)
Classic Hollywood Comedians and Queered Masculinity
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
The Art of the Screwball Comedy (2013)
Madcap Entertainment from the 1930s to Today
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Visions of a New Land (2012)
Soviet Film from the Revolution to the Second World War
by Emma Widdis
Publisher: Yale University Press
Subject: Countries > Russia / USSR
Destination London (2012)
German-Speaking Emigrés and British Cinema, 1925-1950
Dir. Tim Bergfelder and Christian Cargnelli
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Subject: Countries > Great Britain
Pulp Fiction to Film Noir (2012)
The Great Depression and the Development of a Genre
by William Hare
Publisher: McFarland & Co
The Rise of Spanish-Language Filmmaking (2012)
Out from Hollywood's Shadow, 1929-1939
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Subject: History of Cinema
The Projection of Britain (2011)
A History of the GPO Film Unit
Dir. James G. Mansell and Scott Anthony
Publisher: BFI Publishing
Subject: Countries > Great Britain
Hollywood's African American Films (2011)
The Transition to Sound
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Subject: History of Cinema
The History of the British Film 1929 - 1939 (2011)
Volume VI: Films of Comment and Persuasion of the 1930's
Dir. Rachael Low
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Countries > Great Britain
The History of the British Film 1929 - 1939 (2011)
Volume V: Documentary and Educational Films of the 1930s
Dir. Rachael Low
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Countries > Great Britain
The History of British Film 1929 - 1939 (2011)
Volume VII: Film Making in 1930's Britain
Dir. Rachael Low
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Countries > Great Britain
The Flash Gordon Serials, 1936–1940 (2011)
A Heavily Illustrated Guide
by Roy Kinnard, Tony Crnkovich and R.J. Vitone
Publisher: McFarland & Co
(previous edition)
Subject: One Film > Flash Gordon
Left of Hollywood (2010)
Cinema, Modernism, and the Emergence of U.S. Radical Film Culture
by Chris Robé
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Hitchcock's British Films (2010)
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Subject: Director > Alfred Hitchcock
Bowery to Broadway (2010)
The American Irish in Classic Hollywood Cinema
Publisher: University of Scranton Press
Subject: Sociology
Chanteuse in the City (2010)
The Realist Singer in French Film
Publisher: University of California Press
British Cinema and Middlebrow Culture in the Interwar Years (2009)
Publisher: University of Exeter Press
Subject: Countries > Great Britain
Fear Itself (2009)
Horror on Screen and in Reality During the Depression and World War II
Publisher: McFarland & Co
He Was Some Kind of a Man (2009)
Masculinities in the B Western
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
A Great Big Girl Like Me (2009)
The Films of Marie Dressler
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Subject: Actor > Marie Dressler
Hollywood Bohemians (2008)
Transgressive Sexuality and the Selling of the Movieland Dream
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Sociology
Alternative Film Culture in Interwar Britain (2008)
by Jamie Sexton
Publisher: University of Exeter Press
Subject: Countries > Great Britain
This Side of Despair (2008)
How the Movies and American Life Intersected during the Great Depression
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Subject: Countries > United States
The Decline of Sentiment (2008)
American Film in the 1920s
by Lea Jacobs
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Sociology
Harnessing the Technicolor Rainbow (2007)
Color Design in the 1930s
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Subject: History of Cinema
Uncanny Bodies (2007)
The Coming of Sound Film and the Origins of the Horror Genre
Publisher: University of California Press
American Cinema of the 1930s (2007)
Themes and Variations
Dir. Ina Rae Hark
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Subject: On Films > Per period
Film Clowns of the Depression (2007)
Twelve Defining Comic Performances
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Censored Screams (2006)
The British Ban on Hollywood Horror in the Thirties
by Tom Johnson
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
Museum Movies (2005)
The Museum of Modern Art and the Birth of Art Cinema
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Economics
Women in Horror Films, 1930s (2005)
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Just Making Movies (2005)
Company Directors on the Studio System
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Charlie Chan at the Movies (2004)
History, Filmography, and Criticism
by Ken Hanke
Publisher: McFarland & Co
City of Darkness, City of Light (2003)
Emigre Filmmakers in Paris 1929-1939
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Subject: History of Cinema
Imperial Screen (2003)
Japanese Film Culture In The Fifteen Years War, 1931-1945
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Dangerous Men (2002)
Pre-Code Hollywood and the Birth of the Modern Man
by Mick LaSalle
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
American Gangster Cinema (2002)
From Little Caesar to Pulp Fiction
by Fran Mason
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Genre > Gangster films
Re-Viewing Fascism (2002)
Italian Cinema, 1922-1943
Dir. Jacqueline Reich and Piero Garofalo
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Horse Opera (2002)
The Strange History of the 1930s Singing Cowboy
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
The Runaway Bride (2002)
Hollywood Romantic Comedy of the 1930's
Publisher: Cooper Square
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Complicated Women (2001)
Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood
by Mick LaSalle
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Hollywood Modernism (2001)
Film and Politics in the Age of the New Deal
Publisher: Temple University Press
Subject: Sociology
Wheeler & Woolsey (2001)
The Vaudeville Comic Duo and Their Films, 1929–1937
by Edward Watz
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Actor > Wheeler & Woolsey
Class Struggle in Hollywood, 1930-1950 (2001)
Moguls, Mobsters, Stars, Reds, and Trade Unionists
by Gerald Horne
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Subject: History of Cinema
Popular Filmgoing in 1930s Britain (2000)
A Choice of Pleasures
Publisher: University of Exeter Press
Subject: Countries > United States
You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet (2000)
The American Talking Film, History and Memory, 1927-1949
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: History of Cinema
A Chorus Of Raspberries (2000)
British Film Comedy 1929-1939
by David Sutton
Publisher: University of Exeter Press
Subject: Countries > Great Britain
Pre-Code Hollywood (1999)
Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930-1934
Publisher: Columbia University Press
'Film Europe' and 'Film America' (1999)
Cinema, Commerce and Cultural Exchange 1920-1939
Dir. Andrew Higson and Richard Maltby
Publisher: University of Exeter Press
Subject: History of Cinema
The Folklore of Consensus (1998)
Theatricality in the Italian Cinema, 1930-1943
by Marcia Landy
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Romantic Comedy in Hollywood (1998)
From Lubitsch to Sturges
by James Harvey
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Lovers of Cinema (1998)
The First American Film Avant-Garde 1919-1945
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Subject: Genre > Experimental
The Wages of Sin (1997)
Censorship and the Fallen Woman Film, 1928-1942
by Lea Jacobs
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Sociology
The World According To Hollywood (1997)
1918-1939
by Ruth Vasey
Publisher: University of Exeter Press
Subject: History of Cinema
Entertaining the Third Reich (1996)
Illusions of Wholeness in Nazi Cinema
Publisher: Duke University Press
Mists of Regret (1995)
Culture and Sensibility in Classic French Film
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Soviet Cinema in the Silent Era (1991)
1918-1935
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Subject: Countries > Russia / USSR
French Film Theory and Criticism 1907-1939 (1988)
vol.1: 1907-1929 - vol. 2: 1929-1939
by Richard Abel
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Pursuits of Happiness (1981)
The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
• Stories (7 books)(1 book)
Odeon Relics (2019)
Nineteen-Thirties Icons in the 21st Century
Collective
Publisher: Art Deco Magpie
Subject: Economics
Glamour in a Golden Age (2011)
Movie Stars of the 1930s
Dir. Adrienne L. McLean
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Subject: On Films > Per period
Radical Hollywood (2003)
The Untold Story Behind America's Favorite Movies
by Paul Buhle and David Wagner
Publisher: The New Press
• Photos (5 books)(2 books)
Film Posters of the Russian Avant-Garde (2021)
by Susan Pack
Publisher: Taschen
(in English, French and German)
Subject: Countries > Russia / USSR
Film Posters of the Russian Avant-Garde (2016)
by Susan Pack
Publisher: Taschen
(previous edition)(in English, French and German)
Subject: Countries > Russia / USSR
Film Posters of the 30s (2005)
The essential movies of the decade
by Tony Nourmand and Graham Marsh
Publisher: Taschen
Film Posters of the 30s (2003)
by Tony Nourmand and Graham Marsh
Publisher: Aurum Press
(previous edition)
• Didactic (1 book)(1 book)
A Divided World (2011)
Hollywood Cinema and Emigré Directors in the Era of Roosevelt and Hitler, 1933-1948
by Nick Smedley
Publisher: Intellect Books
Subject: Countries > United States
• Writings (1 book)(0 book)
There Are No Hispanic Stars! (2023)
Collected Writings of a Latino Film Critic in Hollywood, 1921–1939
Publisher: UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press
Subject: General
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