A behind-the-scenes look at the making of the classic movie that continues to enchant viewers 50 years after its release. Published to coincide with MGM's rerelease of the video in November, this stunning photographic retrospective captures all the glamour and excitement of a true film classic. 46 black-and-white photos; illustrations throughout.
A Los Angeles Times bestseller A New York Times Book Review “Editor’s Choice” Selection “Even the die-hardest Casablanca fan will find in this delightful book new ways to love the movie they were certain they could never love more ...
Translated by Donald A. Yates, Andrea Labinger, and Joanne M. Yates, this collection includes stories from two of Edgar Brau’s collections—El poema y otras historias and Tres cuentos—to bring to a fresh audience the very best new work ...
Learn about the making of the film that changed the industry, and discover the stories of the actors and creators of the movie-many of whom were refugees from Hitler's oppression, lending authenticity to the film.
Picking Up the Pieces from Portugal to Palestine: Quaker Refugee Relief in World War II. Washington, DC: University Press of America, 2004. EDITED DOCUMENT COLLECTIONS Bland, Larry I., and Sharon Ritenour Stevens, eds.
Blaine Williams has been obsessed by Casablanca since childhood.
The classic movie "Casablanca" is a WW II story, made during WW II for WW II audiences and is loaded with very accurate WW II history which is fully explained in this book.
"In late 1941, a play called Everybody Comes to Rick's made its way from the desk of Warner script reader Stephen Karnot to the office of producer Hal Wallis, who...
This book weaves together film criticism and memoir moving between the author’s insights into the film going experience and his reflections on his own life, the collective trauma of France’s wartime history, and how such events as the ...
In Casablanca Story, In Koli Jean Bofane trains his razor-sharp observations of a bitter reality and his mordant humor on corruption among the powerful, shady property deals, and the vulnerable situation of migrants and male sexual desire, ...
The Casablanca Man surveys Curtiz' unequalled mastery over a variety of genres which included biography, comedy, horror, melodrama, musicals, swashbucklers and westerns, and looks at his relationship with the Hollywood studio moguls on the ...