Historical Atlas of California with Original Maps by Derek Hayes
Los Angeles Before the Freeways, 1850-1950: Images of an Era by Arnold Hylen
Hollywood on Trial: The Story of the 10 Who Were Indicted by Gordon Kahn
City Center to Regional Mall by Richard Longstreth
Naming Names by Victor S. Navasky
Fatalism in American Film Noir: Some Cinematic Philosophy by Robert B. Pippin
The New Renié Atlas of Los Angeles City and County by Jack J. Renié
Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics by Steven J. Ross
Hollywood Cinema and the Real Los Angeles by Mark Shiel
California: A History by Kevin Starr
Coast of Dreams: A History of Contemporary California by Kevin Starr
Los Angeles: Portrait of a City by Kevin Starr, David L. Ulin, Jim Heimann
Maynard L. Parker: Modern Photography and the American Dream edited by Jennifer A. Watts
NEWSPAPERS AND PERIODICALS
Los Angeles Times
Red Channels: The Report of Communist Influence in Radio and Television Variety
ARCHIVES
Herbert Biberman prison correspondence, Ring Lardner, Jr. files, selected files from the Production Code Administration archive, Margaret Herrick Library, Beverly Hills, California.
David O. Selznick files, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, Austin, Texas.
Home movies of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, Richard Brooks, Henry Koster, Ginger Rogers, Esther Williams, and James Telfer, in the AMPAS Film Archive, The Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study, Hollywood, California.
FILMS
1924
Aelita. Dir. Yakov Protazanov.
1926
Secrets of a Soul. Dir. G.W. Pabst.
1927
October: Ten Days That Shook the World. Dir. Sergei Eisenstein.
1929
Un Chien Andalou. Dir. Luis Buñuel.
Man with a Movie Camera. Dir. Dziga Vertov.
1937
Thunder in the City. Dir. Marion Gering.
1940
His Girl Friday. Dir. Howard Hawks.
The Philadelphia Story. Dir. George Cukor.
1942
Casablanca. Dir. Michael Curtiz.
1943
Meshes of the Afternoon. Dir. Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid.
Ossessione. Dir. Luchino Visconti.
Shadow of a Doubt. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock.
1944
Double Indemnity. Dir. Billy Wilder.
1945
Anchors Aweigh. Dir. George Sidney.
Detour. Dir. Edgar G. Ulmer.
The Lost Weekend. Dir. Billy Wilder.
Mildred Pierce. Dir. Michael Curtiz.
Scarlet Street. Dir. Fritz Lang.
Spellbound. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock.
1946
The Big Sleep. Dir. Howard Hawks.
The Killers. Dir. Robert Siodmak.
The Postman Always Rings Twice. Dir. Tay Garnett.
The Stranger. Dir. Orson Welles.
1947
Brute Force. Dir. Jules Dassin.
Crossfire. Dir. Edward Dmytryk.
Fireworks. Dir. Kenneth Anger.
Kiss of Death. Dir. Henry Hathaway.
The Lady from Shanghai. Dir. Orson Welles.
Out of the Past. Dir. Jacques Tourneur.
1948
Bicycle Thieves. Dir. Vittorio de Sica.
The Big Clock. Dir. John Farrow.
Force of Evil. Dir. Abraham Polonsky.
Hollow Triumph. Dir. Steve Sekely.
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House. Dir. H.C. Potter.
The Naked City. Dir. Jules Dassin.
Rope. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock.
Secret Beyond the Door. Dir. Fritz Lang.
Sorry, Wrong Number. Dir. Anatole Litvak.
1949
Adam’s Rib. Dir. George Cukor.
Africa Screams. Dir. Charles Barton.
All the King’s Men. Dir. Robert Rossen.
The Big Steal. Dir. Don Siegel.
The Heiress. Dir. William Wyler.
I Married A Communist. Dir. Robert Stevenson.
I Was a Male War Bride. Dir. Howard Hawks.
Knock on Any Door. Dir. Nicholas Ray.
On the Town. Dir. Stanley Donen.
Thieves’ Highway. Dir. Jules Dassin.
The Third Man. Dir. Carol Reed.
Tokyo Joe. Dir. Stuart Heisler.
White Heat. Dir. Raoul Walsh.
1950
All About Eve. Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz.
The Asphalt Jungle. Dir. John Huston.
The Big Lift. Dir. George Seaton.
Born to be Bad. Dir. Nicholas Ray.
Born Yesterday. Dir. George Cukor.
The Damned Don’t Cry. Dir. Vincent Sherman.
Harvey. Dir. Henry Koster.
In A Lonely Place. Dir. Nicholas Ray.
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye. Dir. Gordon Douglas.
The Nevadan. Dir. Gordon Douglas.
Night and the City. Dir. Jules Dassin.
Stage Fright. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock.
Sunset Boulevard. Dir. Billy Wilder.
Where the Sidewalk Ends. Dir. Otto Preminger.
Young Man with a Horn. Dir. Michael Curtiz.
1951
A Place in the Sun. Dir. George Stevens.
Don’t Bother to Knock. Dir. Roy Ward Baker.
Strangers on a Train. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock.
A Streetcar Named Desire. Dir. Elia Kazan.
The Idiot. Dir. Akira Kurosawa
1953
From Here to Eternity. Dir. Fred Zinnemann.
I Confess. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock.
Pickup on South Street. Dir. Samuel Fuller.
1954
Dial M for Murder. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock.
It Should Happen to You. Dir. George Cukor.
On the Waterfront. Dir. Elia Kazan.
1955
Kiss Me Deadly. Dir. Robert Aldrich.
Night of the Hunter. Dir. Charles Laughton.
Rififi. Dir. Jules Dassin.
1956
The Wrong Man. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock.
1958
Touch of Evil. Dir. Orson Welles.
1961
The Misfits. Dir. John Huston.
La Notte. Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni.
1962
The Trial. Dir. Orson Welles.
NOTE ON THE AUTHOR
Patrick Flanery is an American writer living in London. His first novel, Absolution, was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, the Ondaatje Prize and the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award; it was longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Desmond Elliott Prize. His second novel, Fallen Land, was published in 2013, and his third, I Am No One, in 2016. He is Professor of Creative Writing at Queen Mary University of London.
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