American Icons: Movie Stars as Folk Heroes Comparative Study of Gary Cooper, Henry Fonda, John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart Alternate Title: Coop, Hank, Duke, and Jimmy The screen images of durable powerful movie stars do not emerge spontaneously–they are created and fabricated gradually and systematically by various social forces. Most movie stars, as Jeanine Basinger has […]

Gay Fiction: Gay Novels and Writers–Select Bibliography

Select Biblio of books about Hollywood and World War II.

Essential books about directors and the process of filmmaking: Belton, John, Cinema Stylists, 1983. Braudy, Leo and Morris Dickstien (eds). Great Film Directors: A Critical Anthology, 1978. Coursdon, Jean Pierre and Pierre Sauvage, American Directors, 1983. Crist, Judith, Take 22: Moviemakers on Moviemaking, 1984. DeNitto, Dennis and William Herman. Film and the Critical Eye, 1975. […]