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Peerless: Rouben Mamoulian, Hollywood, and Broadway
Fans of well-told film biographies will relish the film synopses, newspaper critics’ contemporary observations, and the striking photographs.
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The World Got Away: A Memoir
A detailed account of Rouse’s work that’s also part memoir. The latter is presented nonchronologically, which may be too difficult for some readers to easily follow.
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Dirty Real: Exile on Hollywood and Vine with the Gin Mill Cowboys
A challenging meditation on nonconformity in mid-20th-century cinema that includes a filmography list influenced by Italian and French New Wave cinema. Cultural critics might enjoy this book more than general readers.
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Leonard Cohen: The Man Who Saw the Angels Fall
This big biography of Cohen will appeal to a wide variety of readers, especially the philosophically minded.
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Jelly Roll Blues: Censored Songs and Hidden Histories
An insightful explication of how some blues songs were hidden and censored, with a revelatory oral history.
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A Light in the Darkness: The Music and Life of Joaquín Rodrigo
This exhaustive, annotated treatment about Rodrigo’s work is best for musicologists, although cultural historians will find it helpful.
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Playing the Percentages: How Film Distribution Made the Hollywood Studio System
A contribution to the lesser-known field of media distribution, this joins Joel Frykholm’s George Kleine and America Cinema and Michael Quinn’s dissertation “Early Feature Distribution,” which Long praises. Economic historians and attorneys interested in contracts and court rulings might be the most natural audience for this dissertation-styled book.
Making Movies with Liz Taylor | Performing Arts
Dive into Elizabeth Taylor’s filmography with these books about Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Cleopatra.
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Tuned In: Memoirs of a Piano Man
This vicarious adventure and engaging memoir teaches that learning a marketable trade, in this case piano tuning, can be a useful underpinning for seeking goals that seem out of reach. Includes insightful anecdotes about music stars.
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