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	1 Longley, Bernique; King, Alma S. (Compiled by), and Harris, Mark (Introduction by) Bernique Longley: A Retrospective Santa Fe, NM Santa Fe East 1982 0941430030 / 9780941430036 First Edition Soft Cover Very Good Exhibition Catalogue  80 pp., illus. (some col.) ; 29 cm. Exhibition held June 11-July 11, 1982. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning.  Price: 49.95 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	2 Harris, Mark Jonathan, and Oppenheimer, Deborah; Attenborough, Richard (Preface by), and Cesarini, David (Introduction by) Into the Arms of Strangers New York MJF Books; Fine Communications 2005 1567317146 / 9781567317145 First U.S. Edition Hard Cover Very Good Fine Movie Tie-in  xi, 292 pp., illus., biblio.; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Lower right corner bumped. Browning. Fine DJ. Another copy available. Stories of the Kindertransport. Holocaust.  Price: 5.95 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	3 Harris, Mark Jonathan, and Oppenheimer, Deborah; Attenborough, Richard (Preface by), and Cesarini, David (Introduction by) Into the Arms of Strangers New York MJF Books; Fine Communications 2005 1567317146 / 9781567317145 Hard Cover Fine Fine Movie Tie-in  xi, 292 pp., illus., biblio.; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. Stories of the Kindertransport. Holocaust.  Price: 12.95 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	4 Harris, Mark Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood New York Penguin Press 2008 1594201528 / 9781594201523 First Edition, First Printing Hard Cover Fine Fine Collectible  490 pp., [16] pp. of plates, illus., biblio., index; 25 cm. AS NEW. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. "An epic account of how the revolution hit Hollywood, told through the stories of the five films nominated for the 1967 Academy Awards. The year is 1963. The studios are churning out westerns, war movies, prudish sex comedies and overblown historical epics, but audiences whose interests have been piqued by an influx of innovative films from abroad are hungering for something more, something new. At Esquire, two young writers hatch a plan to create a movie treatment that they hope will attract the director Francois Truffaut: the story of the gangsters Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow. Mike Nichols, an improvisatory comedian turned neophyte theater director, gets his hands on an obscure first novel called The Graduate and wonders if he's ready to make the jump to Hollywood. Warren Beatty, just 26 years old and struggling through a series of flops after the success of Splendor in the Grass, decides to take his career into his own hands, but can't seem to settle on his next move. Dustin Hoffman, sleeping on friends' floors and scrounging for temp work in New York, struggles just to get an off-Broadway audition. Sidney Poitier, after two dozen movies, still yearns for something that seems completely unattainable: a good role. And 20th Century Fox, on the brink of financial catastrophe, puts all its hopes in a genre-the family musical-that will revitalize the company and then nearly destroy it again. Pictures at a Revolution tracks five movies-the milestones Bonnie and Clyde and The Graduate, the popular hits Guess Who's Coming To Dinner and In the Heat of the Night, and the big-budget disaster Doctor Dolittle-on their five-year journey to Oscar night in the spring of 1968. It follows their fortunes through the last days of the studio system and the first sparks of a cultural upheaval that would launch maverick new stars and directors, topple more than one industry titan from his pedestal, and redefine what American movies could be. In 1967, moviegoers witnessed the arrival of taboo-shattering sex and violence on screen, the debuts of Dustin Hoffman and Faye Dunaway, the return of Katharine Hepburn and the poignant farewell of Spencer Tracy, the audacious risks taken by Warren Beatty, Arthur Penn, Mike Nichols and Norman Jewison, and Hollywood's agonized attempt to grapple with an incendiary moment in American race relations, with results that would change Sidney Poitier's career forever. By tracing the gambles, the stumbles, the clashes and the creative partnerships that produced these films, Mark Harris captures both the twilight of old Hollywood and the dawn of a new golden age in studio filmmaking. Based on unprecedented access to the actors, directors, screenwriters, producers and executives whose movies defined the era, as well a wealth of previously unexplored archival material, Pictures at a Revolution is an utterly original, revealing, and entertaining history of a true cultural watershed. / For fifteen years, Mark Harris worked as a writer and editor covering movies, television and books for Entertainment Weekly, where he now writes the 'Final Cut' back-page column. He has written about pop culture for several other magazines as well. A graduate of Yale University, he lives in New York City with his husband, Tony Kushner." - Publisher.  Price: 49.95 USD Add to Shopping Cart