Hollywood Movie Stills: The Golden Age

By Joel W. Finler

Book Overview

This book is devoted solely to the subject of movie-stills and photography. It traces the early growth of stills photography from the first development of the star system and the increase in feature-length films, through to the rise of the giant studios and their subsequent decline in the 1940s and 1950s. It focuses on the photographers and the stars they photographed - from Theda Bara, Greta Garbo and Dietrich up to Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn - as well as many of the key films - Intolerance (1916), Greed (1924), King Kong (1933), Psycho (1960), My Fair Lady (1964) - and the film-makers themselves - Stroheim, D.W. Griffith, C.B. De Mille and Hitchcock.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0713472650
• ISBN13: 9780713472653
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: B T Batsford Ltd
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.8" x 0.8" x 8.3"