Books written by Bruce Babington
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Affairs to Remember: The Hollywood Comedy of the Sexes
... Touch of Mink ( 1962 ) , Cathy Timberlake ( Doris Day ) hits upon the strategy of confessing the unspeakable : ' I have an uncle who's a socialist .
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Launder and Gilliat
Analyses the achievement of one of the central partnerships in British film history
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The Sports Film: Games People Play
After covering the genre's early history and theorizing its general characteristics, this volume then focuses on specific instances of sports films, such as the biopic, the sports history film, the documentary, the fan film, the boxing film ...
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Blue Skies and Silver Linings: Aspects of the Hollywood Musical
Blue Skies and Silver Linings: Aspects of the Hollywood Musical
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The Sports Film: Games People Play
Games People Play Bruce Babington. THE SPORTS FILM GAMES PEOPLE PLAY BRUCE BABINGTON WALLFLOWER LONDON and NEW YORK A Wallflower Press Book Published by Columbia University Press Publishers.
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The Trouble with Men: Masculinities in European and Hollywood Cinema
A collection of original essays focusing on masculinity and film, particularly the representation of European masculinity.
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Family Films in Global Cinema: The World Beyond Disney
Whereas most previous studies of children's films and family films have concerned themselves with Disney, this book encompasses both live-action and animated films from the Hollywood, British, Australian, East German, Russian, Indian, ...
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British Stars and Stardom: From Alma Taylor to Sean Connery
This interesting collection looks at the whole of British stardom from circa 1910 onwards, and the many types of British stars who gained worldwide fame through national and international cinema.
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The Call of the Heart: John M. Stahl and Hollywood Melodrama
Ben Ames Williams's best-seller Leave Her to Heaven * was snapped up by Darryl F. Zanuck for production at 20th ... At this point, the novel simply goes into flashback, but in the film Richard's lawyer, Glen Robie (Ray Collins), ...
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A History of the New Zealand Fiction Feature Film: Staunch As?
A history of the New Zealand fiction feature film is the only comprehensive account of the New Zealand feature film from its beginnings to the present. Countering tendencies to think...
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The Call of the Heart: John M. Stahl and Hollywood Melodrama
Sirk is a far from neglected figure; Stahls much longer Hollywood career deserves attention and celebration in its own right, as this book definitively shows.