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Film Studies: An Introduction
Ed SikovEd Sikov builds a step-by-step curriculum for the appreciation of all types of narrative cinema, detailing the essential elements of film form and systematically training the spectator to be an active reader and critic.
Laughing Hysterically: American Screen Comedy of the 1950s
Ed Sikov'Sikov's work is an engaging quirky exploration of the comedy of the 1950s through the work of four directors- Howard Hawks, billy Wilder, Alfred Hitchcock, and Frank Tashlin...An excellent addition to a neglected area of study.' -Choice
On Sunset Boulevard: The Life and Times of Billy Wilder
Ed SikovThe Life and Times of Billy Wilder Ed Sikov. www.upress.state.ms.us The University Press of Mississippi is a member of the Association of American University Presses. A version of “The Day I Met God” previously appeared on LitReactor.com, ...
Dark Victory: The Life of Bette Davis
Ed SikovA compelling portrait of a legendary Hollywood star captures the colorful, iconoclastic world of an intelligent, opinionated, and unusual woman who became one of filmdom's most important talents, drawing on interviews, archival research, ...
Screwball: Hollywood's madcap romantic comedies
Ed SikovScrewball is the first richly illustrated tribute to the movies that tells one mad, illogical truth: Mutual loathing is no reason to give up on love. More than 240 pictures in striking duotone celebrate these exhilarating comedies.
Mr Strangelove: A Biography of Peter Sellers
Ed SikovTerry Southern's companion, Gail Gerber, recalls that Southern himself proposed the fat Bonanza cowboy, Dan Blocker, who also found Dr Strangelove too leftleaning for his taste. Slim Pickens had no such political qualms and so, at the end ...
Love Bug: An Epidemiological Comedy of Manners
Ed SikovLove Bug is an epidemiological comedy of manners set in New York City and western Pennsylvania in 2007. It’s funny, and it’s short. You’ll laugh, you’ll itch.
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