Böcker av Larry Langman

Discussing Hollywood's version of journalism, this book covers cynical news hounds, grumbling editors, snooping television newscasters, inquisitive foreign correspondents, probing newsreel cameramen, and a host of others. It includes a preface, introduction, bibliography, a list of abbreviations, appendices, and an index of names.

The compilers of this book have brought together some of the funniest snatches of dialogue on film over a 60 year time period. Each entry sets the quotation in context, names the actor or actress, the name of the movie and the year of release. The quotations are arranged by category.

This comprehensive film guide lists the screen credits and provides synopses of more than 5,400 silent western features, documentaries, shorts and serials released from the 1890s through 1930. These westerns came from both the major and lesser known American film studios, many long defunct. The term western is hard to define;

Examining 40 cycles or themes and more than 1,000 silent films, the author attempts to discern how the screen reflected contemporary social, political, and national trends during the silent years.