African Americans and the Oscar : decades of struggle and achievement by Mapp, Edward

Table of Contents: “…1958 Sidney Poitier, The Defiant Ones…”
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Unfriendly witnesses : gender, theater, and film in the McCarthy era by Barranger, Milly S.

Table of Contents: “…McCarthyism -- Billie Dawn goes to Washington: Judy Holliday -- Death by innuendo: Mady Christians -- Unfriendly witness: Anne Revere -- The defiant ones: Lilian Hellman and Dorothy Parker -- Guilt by association: Margaret Webster -- The blacklist is on fire: Kim Hunter.…”
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The flying Garcias by García, Richard, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…The Book of Dreams -- La Calle del Nino Perdido -- Shadow Captain -- Why I Left the Church -- Reflections of a Stowaway -- In the Year 1946 -- Mi Mamma, the Playgirl -- Thing -- Reception at the Yacht Club -- Some Mornings -- Watching a French Movie with Hebrew Subtitles -- Fish Grow as They Leave the Water -- Like a Chicken About to Cross a Road -- Chickens Everywhere -- Sideways Angel -- While Trading Clothes in a Rest Stop Bathroom -- Fly Fishing in England -- Glass -- Pen -- Dixit Dominus, Domino Meo -- My Life as a Dancer -- Doing the Tarantella with Lola Montez -- Sadness and the Movies -- Eternal Return -- A Good Year -- I was a Teenage Zombie -- The Death of Zorro -- Pancho Villa in the Land of Forever -- Waking to the Radio -- The Defiant Ones -- The Quiet Ones -- Held at Gunpoint, I Remember the Fourth Grade -- A Hero in the War -- The Flying Garcias -- The Real Jesse James -- Wide Awake at 3:30 A.M. -- The Experts, the Man in the Street, the Crowd -- The Contras -- Roustabout.…”
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Show people : a history of the film star by Newton, Michael (Michael Stuart), 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Mary Pickford: the biograph girl -- Pola Negri: inventing the star -- Charlie Chaplin: the tramp -- 'Asta' and Cheeta': the animal star -- Peter Lorre: character actor -- Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Gene Kelly: a star danced -- Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant: the public image -- Vivien Leigh: ruinous selves -- Veronica Lake: half-obscured faces -- Carole Lombard: the screwball heroine -- Greer Garson and Joan Fontaine: the forgotten star -- Orson Welles: the film star as fragment and failure -- Ingrid Bergman: intermezzo -- Lamberto Maggiorani and Maria Pia Casilio: absent film stars in Vittorio de Sica's films -- Moira Shearer: the marionette -- Gloria Swanson: having a face -- Ava Gardner: I am not an actress -- Montgomery Clift: he's not there -- Setsuko Hara: the still point -- Toshiro Mifune: studying lions -- Nargis and Raj Kapoor: my heart is Hindustani -- Giulette Masina and Marcello Mastroianni: nothing is sadder than laughter -- John Wayne: how to grow old -- Audrey Hepburn: Frankenstein's creature -- Marilyn Monroe: the suffering star -- Juanita Moore and Susan Kohner: Imitation of life -- Janet Leigh and Tippi Hedren: torturing the audience -- Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant: the strange death of the Hollywood golden age -- Anna Karina: the muse -- Celia Johnson and Julie Christie: the adulterous star -- Sidney Poitier: the defiant one -- Dustin Hoffman: little big man -- Woody Allen: the director as star -- Robert de Niro: for real -- Harrison Ford: Blade runner and the replication of the person -- Maggei Cheung: centre stage -- Naomi Watts: Mulholland Drive -- Scarlett Johansson: a new kind of emptiness -- Shu Qi: a placeless heaven -- Andy Serkis: Lear's shadow.…”
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