Product Description: It's 1912 in Hollywood, the birth of the movies, and Mabel Normand, beautiful and funny, the model of the modern comedy star, was shocking the world. This intimate novel takes us inside the earliest days of the motion pictures, together with the queen of comedy...read more

Considers what happened in the life of foremost nineteenth-century American psychologist William James in the months after he suffered a devastating mental collapse, in a story that takes him to the side of street urchins in New York, where he works to save a troubled nine-year-old. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.

Product Description: MAKING MOVIES WORK is a fascinating and accessible guide for both filmmakers and serious film fans. It is about how filmmakers think about film. "Through thoughtful examination of the filmmaker's art, Jon Boorstin enhances our sense of enjoyment and appreciation of the results...read more

Considers what happened in the life of foremost nineteenth-century American psychologist William James in the months after he suffered a devastating mental collapse, in a story that takes him to the side of street urchins in New York, where he works to save a troubled nine-year-old. 25,000 first printing.

Product Description: Pay or Play, now in its first paperback edition, is a wickedly funny satire of the Hollywood film industry and its peculiar marriage of vision and ambition that breeds great accomplishment-and humiliating catastrophe. Screenwriter Elmo Zwalt, his psyche "like a clenched fist," was living on peanut butter and bananas atop the Hollywood Freeway when he finally finished his Very Good Script, The Agonizer...read more