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Richard Koszarski chronicles the compelling and often surprising origins of New York's postwar film renaissance. He examines the social, cultural, and economic forces that shaped New York filmmaking, from city politics to union regulations.

Richard Koszarski chronicles the compelling and often surprising origins of New York's postwar film renaissance. He examines the social, cultural, and economic forces that shaped New York filmmaking, from city politics to union regulations

The Depression-era vogue for horror and the supernatural produced some of Hollywoood's most memorable chillers, among them "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (Paramount), "Frankenstein, " (Universal), and "King Kong" (RKO). At Warner Brothers, the main entry was "Mystery of the Wax Museum, " directed by Michael Curtiz, a grand thriller of 1933 in which Fay Wray (Who would appear opposite Kong later that same year) was threatened with waxy immortality b...

Traces the rise and fall of Fort Lee, New Jersey, one of the first film towns in the U.S.

This series is the most thorough history yet published of the business, technology, and art of the film industry from its earliest roots 100 years ago, through the 1990s.

In this study, the author examines the underlying structures that made the silent-movie era work, from the operations of eastern bankers to the problems of neighborhood theater musicians. He offers a new perspective on the development of a major industry and art form and provides a revealing new context for the creative contributions of the screen icons.

Meticulously researched and richly detailed, this superb book documents film and, later, television production in the New York City area during the first half of the twentieth century. Koszarski covers every imaginable aspect of moving-image production of the East Coast during this period. The depth of the research is astounding. Koszarski brings to life a period when much of television, and even theatrical films, were centered in Manhattan to...

In this revised and expanded edition of Richard Koszarski's The Man You Loved to Hate, about a third of the material is completely new or significantly rewritten. It includes information recently unearthed in France and Austria and makes use of documents, scrapbooks, photographs and correspondence belonging to the Stroheim family. Reshaped and enriched, Von becomes once again what Sight and Sound called ., ."the best biographical treatment of ...