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by David Thomson

Moss, Jack

  Mote (Teodoro)

  Mother (1926)

  Mother and the Whore, The (1973)

  Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals

  Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)

  Motion Picture Patents Company

  Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America

  Motion Pictures Patents Company

  Moulin Rouge (2001)

  Moullet, Luc

  Mountbatten, Louis

  Moussy, Marcel

  Moviegoer, The (Percy)

  movie industry: blacklist in; contracts in; financial misreporting by; founding fathers of; myth of discovery in; scandals and; self-regulation by

  movies: affinity with shopping and; clothes in; commercial cheerfulness in American; cost of; cultural disdain for; doppelgänger idea in; early reactions to; editing of; marriage of light and dark in; nudity in; ratings of; sex in; silver age of; smoking in; state film and; studio system in; town-country split and; of World War II

  Movietone

  Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

  Mr. Arkadin (1955)

  Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)

  Mr. Klein (1976)

  Mrs. Dalloway (Woolf)

  Mr. Skeffington (1944)

  Mrs. Miniver (1942)

  Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

  Mulholland Dr. (2001)

  Mulholland Falls (1996)

  Muni, Paul

  Munich (2005)

  Murch, Walter

  Murder in the Air (1940)

  Murder on the Orient Express (1974)

  Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932)

  Murdoch, Rupert

  Murnau, F. W.

  Murphy, Audie

  Murphy, Eddie

  Murray, James

  musicals

  Musil, Robert

  Mussolini, Benito

  Mussolini, Vittorio

  Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)

  Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)

  Muybridge, Eadweard

  Muybridge, Flora

  Muybridge, Florado Helios

  My Autobiography (Chaplin)

  My Face for the World to See (Hayes, A.)

  My Favorite Husband (radio show)

  My Man Godfrey (1936)

  My Night at Maud’s (1969)

  Myron Selznick Agency

  Mystic River (2003)

  My Three Sons (TV series)

  My Week with Marilyn (2011)

  NAACP

  Nabokov, Vera

  Nabokov, Vladimir

  Naked and the Dead, The (Mailer)

  Naked Island, The (1951)

  Naked Kiss, The (1964)

  Naked Spur, The (1953)

  Nana (1926)

  Napoléon (1927)

  Narita, Hiro

  Nashville (1975)

  Natanson, Jacques

  National Endowment for the Arts

  National Film School (Britain)

  National Film Theatre

  Natural Born Killers (1994)

  Nave Bianca, La (1942)

  Navigator, The (1924)

  Nazimova, Alla

  Nazism

  NBC (National Broadcasting Company)

  NBC Orchestra

  Negri, Pola

  Nelson, Barry

  Nelson, Ricky

  Nemec, Jan

  neorealism

  Net Delusion, The (Morozov)

  Netflix

  Network (1976)

  Neuromancer (Gibson)

  Newman, David

  Newman, Paul

  Newton, Robert

  New Wave

  New York, New York (1977)

  New York, N.Y.

  New Yorker, The

  New York Film Critics Circle

  New York Film Festival

  New York Movie (Hopper, E.)

  Next Time We Love (1936)

  Nibelungen, Die (1924)

  Niccol, Andrew

  Nichols, Mike

  Nicholson, Jack

  Night and Fog (1955)

  Night in an English Music Hall, A (ensemble sketch)

  Night Mail (1936)

  Night of the Hunter, The (1955)

  Nilsson, Maj-Britt

  Nine Men (1943)

  Ninotchka (1939)

  Niven, David

  Nixon (1995)

  Nixon, Marni

  Nixon, Richard

  Nixon at the Movies (Feeney)

  No Country for Old Men (2007)

  noir

  Nolan, Christopher

  Nolte, Nick

  No Man’s Land

  Normand, Mabel

  Norris, Frank

  North by Northwest (1959)

  Northern Exposure (TV series)

  Nosferatu (1922)

  Notebooks of Captain Georges, The (Renoir, J.)

  Notes (Coppola, E.)

  “Notes on the Auteur Theory in 1962” (Sarris)

  Notes on the Cinematographer (Bresson)

  Nothing Sacred (1937)

  Notorious (1946)

  Notte, La (1961)

  Novak, Kim

  Now, Voyager (1942)

  Nowell-Smith, Geoffrey

  Nuit du Carrefour, La (1932)

  Nutty Professor, The (1963)

  Nykvist, Sven

  NYPD Blue (TV series)

  Oakes, Philip

  Oates, Joyce Carol

  Obama, Barack

  Oberon, Merle

  Objective, Burma! (1945)

  O’Brien, George

  O’Brien, Margaret

  O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

  Obst, Lynda

  Ocean’s Eleven (1960)

  Ocean’s Eleven (2001)

  Ocean’s Thirteen (2007)

  Ocean’s Twelve (2004)

  O’Connor, Donald

  October (Ten Days That Shook the World) (1928)

  Odd Man Out (1947)

  Odets, Clifford

  Odlum, Floyd

  O’Donnell, Cathy

  Of Human Bondage (1934)

  Ogier, Bulle

  Okada, Eiji

  Oklahoma! (1943)

  Old Maid, The (1939)

  Oliver! (1968)

  Oliver Twist (1948)

  Olivier, Laurence

  Olympia (1938)

  Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)

  On Dangerous Ground (1952)

  O’Neal, Ryan

  One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)

  One from the Heart (1982)

  O’Neill, Eugene

  O’Neill, Oona

  On Golden Pond (1981)

  Only Angels Have Wings (1939)

  On the Beach (1959)

  On The Town (1949)

  On the Waterfront (1954)

  Ophüls, Marcel

  Ophüls, Max

  Oppenheimer, Jess

  Oppenheimer, Max

  Orbison, Roy

  Orpheum

  Osborne, John

  Oscars

  Ôshima, Nagisa

  Ossessione (1943)

  Oswald, Lee Harvey

  Othello (1952)

  Other Side of the Wind, The (unfinished)

  Otsep, Fyodor

  Our Daily Bread (1934)

  Our Hospitality (1923)

  Our Miss Brooks (TV series)

  Ouspenskaya, Maria

  Out of Africa (1985)

  Outlaw, The (1943)

  Outlaw Josey Wales, The (1976)

  Out of the Past (1947)

  Out One (1974)

  “Oval Portrait, The” (Poe)

  Overlanders, The (1946)

  Ovitz, Mike

  Oz (TV series)

  Ozu, Yasujirô

  Pabst, G. W.

  Pacific, The (TV series)

  Pacific Film Archive

  Pacino, Al

  Paini, Dominique

  Paisà (1946)

  Pakula, Alan

  Palance, Jack

  Palermi, Amle
to

  Paley, Isaac

  Paley, Samuel

  Paley, William

  Pallette, Eugene

  Palm Beach Story, The (1942)

  Palmer, Tony

  panchromatic black-and-white film

  Pandora’s Box (1929)

  Panic in Needle Park, The (1971)

  Panic in the Streets (1950)

  Panorama du Film Noir Américain, 1941–1953 (Borde and Chaumeton)

  Paper Moon (1973)

  Parain, Brice

  Parallax View, The (1974)

  Paramount

  Paris, Texas (1984)

  Paris Nous Appartient (1961)

  Paris Qui Dort (1924)

  Park, Arthur

  Parker, Bonnie

  Parker, Charlie

  Parlo, Dita

  Parr, Jack

  Parsifal (1983)

  Parsons, Estelle

  Partie de Campagne (1936)

  “Partie de Campagne” (Maupassant)

  Pasolini, Pier Paolo

  Passenger, The (1975)

  Passer, Ivan

  Passionate Friends, The (1949)

  Passion of Joan of Arc, The (1928)

  Passion Play, The (1900)

  Passport to Pimlico (1949)

  Paths of Glory (1957)

  Patterson, John

  Patton (1970)

  Paul, Robert

  Paulson, Hank

  Paxinou, Katina

  PBS (Public Broadcasting System)

  Pease, Frank

  Peck, Gregory

  Peckinpah, Sam

  Peeping Tom (1960)

  Penn, Arthur

  Pennebaker, D. A.

  People on Sunday (1930)

  People vs. Larry Flynt, The (1996)

  Percy, Walker

  Périnal, Georges

  Perkins, Anthony

  Perkins, V. F.

  Perry Mason (TV series)

  Perske, Betty Joan

  Persona (1966)

  Pesci, Joe

  Petite Marchande d’Allumettes, La (1928)

  Petit Soldat, Le (1963)

  Pevere, Geoff

  Peyton Place (1957)

  Philadelphia Story, The (1940)

  Philby, Kim

  Philip Morris

  Phillips, Michelle

  photographic gun

  photography

  Piano Teacher, The (2001)

  Picasso, Pablo

  Piccoli, Michel

  Pickford, Mary

  Picnic (1955)

  Pidgeon, Walter

  Pierrot le Fou (1965)

  Pierson, Frank

  Pignières, René

  Pillow Talk (1959)

  Pilota Ritorna, Un (1942)

  Pink String and Sealing Wax (1945)

  Pinky (1949)

  Pinter, Harold

  Pirate, The (1948)

  Pirates of the Caribbean series

  Pisier, Marie-France

  Pixar

  Place in the Sun, A (1951)

  Plainsman, The (1936)

  Plaisir, Le (1952)

  Platt, Polly

  Playhouse 90 (TV series)

  Play Misty for Me (1971)

  Pleasure Garden, The (1925)

  Plenty (1985)

  Poe, Edgar Allan

  Poggioli, Ferdinando Maria

  Point Blank (1967)

  Poland

  Polanski, Roman

  Pollard, Michael J.

  Polley, Sarah

  Pollock, Jackson

  Poltergeist (1982)

  PolyVision

  Pommer, Erich

  Pong (Atari game)

  Ponti, Carlo

  population, U.S.

  Pordenone

  Porgy and Bess (1959)

  pornography

  Port of Call (1948)

  Porter, Cole

  Porter, Eric

  Portrait of a Lady, The (James, H.)

  Positif

  Postman Always Rings Twice, The (Cain)

  Potter, Dennis

  Powell, Charles

  Powell, Dick

  Powell, Eleanor

  Powell, Harry

  Powell, Michael

  Powell, Sandy

  Powell, William

  Power, Tyrone

  Prague

  Prague Spring

  Premier Pictures

  Preminger, Otto

  Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, The (Goffman)

  Pressburger, Emeric

  Pretty Woman (1990)

  Prévert, Jacques

  Previn, André

  Price, Dennis

  Price, Vincent

  Pride of the Marines (1945)

  Pride and Prejudice (1940)

  Priestley, J. B.

  Primary (1960)

  Prince and the Showgirl, The (1957)

  Prince Who Was a Thief, The (1951)

  Private Life of Don Juan, The (1934)

  Private Life of Henry VIII, The (1933)

  Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, The (1939)

  Production Code (1930) (Hays Code)

  Production Code Administration

  production design

  production management

  Professor Unrat (Mann, H.)

  Profumo, John

  Prohibition

  Prokofiev, Sergei

  Proletkult Workers’ Theatre

  Prometheus (2012)

  propaganda

  Protazanov, Yakov

  Proust, Marcel

  Prowler, The (1951)

  Psycho (1960)

  Public Enemies (2009)

  Public Enemy (1931)

  publicity

  Public Speaking (2010)

  Puccini, Giacomo

  Pudovkin, Vsevolod

  Pugh, Madelyn

  Pulp Fiction (1994)

  Punch-Drunk Love (2002)

  Purple Mask, The (1955)

  Purple Rose of Cairo, The (1985)

  Pushkin, Alexander

  Puzo, Mario

  Pylon (Faulkner)

  Quaid, Randy

  Quai des Brumes (1938)

  Quatre Cent Coups, Les (1959)

  Queen Christina (1933)

  Queen Kelly (1929)

  Queen of Spades, The (1916)

  Que Viva Mexico! (1933)

  Quiet Man, The (1952)

  Quirke, Antonia

  Quo Vadis? (1913)

  Quo Vadis? (1925)

  Rachmaninoff, Sergei

  RADA (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art)

  radio

  Radio City Music Hall

  Radio Days (1987)

  Rafelson, Bob

  Raft, George

  Raging Bull (1980)

  Ragtime (Doctorow)

  Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

  Rainer, Luise

  Raines, Ella

  Rain People, The (1969)

  Rains, Claude

  “Raising Kane” (Kael)

  Rambo series

  Rand, Ayn

  Rankin, John

  Rank Organisation

  Rapf, Harry

  Rappe, Virginia

  Rashomon

  Rasputin and the Empress (1932)

  Ratoff, Gregory

  Rat Pack

  Rattigan, Terence

  Rauschenberg, Robert

  Rawhide (TV series)

  Ray, Aldo

  Ray, Nicholas

  Ray, Satyajit

  Ray, Susan

  Raybert Productions

  Rayns, Tony

  RCA

  Reach for the Sky (1956)

  Reagan, Michael

  Reagan, Ronald

  realism

  reality shows

  Rear Window (1954)

  Rebecca (1940)

  Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

  Reckless Moment, The (1949)

  Red Buttons Show, The (TV series)

  Redford, Robert

  Redgrave, Michael

  Redgrave, Van
essa

  Red Riding (2009)

  Red River (1948)

  Reds (1981)

  Red Shoes, The (1948)

  Red Skelton Hour, The (TV series)

  Reed, Carol

  Reed, Donna

  Reed, Oliver

  Reeling (Kael)

  Règle du Jeu, La (1939)

  Reid, Wallace

  Reimann, Walter

  Reinhardt, Gottfried

  Reinhardt, Max

  Reisch, Walter

  Reiser, Leonard

  Reissar, Jenia

  Reisz, Karel

  Reith, John

  Religieuse, La (1966)

  Remarque, Erich Maria

  Rembrandt (1936)

  Remick, Lee

  Remnick, David

  Renoir, Aline

  Renoir, Jean

  Renoir, My Father (Renoir, J.)

  Renoir, Pierre

  Renoir, Pierre-Auguste

  rentals

  Repulsion (1965)

  Reservoir Dogs (1992)

  Resnais, Alain

  Return of the Jedi, The (1984)

  Return of the Secaucus Seven (1979)

  Reville, Alma

  Revue Productions

  Rey, Fernando

  Reynolds, Debbie

  Reynolds, William

  Rich, Frank

  Richards, I. A.

  Richardson, Miranda

  Richardson, Ralph

  Richardson, Robert

  Richardson, Tony

  Richie, Donald

  Rickles, Don

  Ridgely, John

  Riefenstahl, Leni

  Riesenfeld, Hugo

  Riesman, David

  Rifleman, The (TV series)

  Right Stuff, The (1983)

  Rin Tin Tin

  Rio Bravo (1959)

  Riskin, Robert

  Ritt, Martin

  Riva, Emmanuelle

  River, The (1951)

  Rivera, Diego

  Rivette, Jacques

  Rizzoli, Angelo

  RKO (Radio-Keith-Orpheum)

  Roadside Attractions

  Road to Morocco (1942)

  Robards, Jason

  Robe, The (1953)

  Roberta (1935)

  Robert-Houdin, Jean-Eugène

  Roberts, Julia

  Robinson, Casey

  Robinson, Edward G.

  Robinson, Jackie

  Rocco, Alex

  Rocco and His Brothers (1960)

  Rockford Files, The (TV series)

  Rocky (1976)

  Rocky series

  Rodgers, Gaby

  Rodgers, Richard

  Roeg, Nicolas

  Rogers, Ginger

  Rogers, Will

  Rohmer, Eric

  Röhrig, Walter

  Rolph, James, Jr.

  Roman Scandals (1933)

  Rome

  Rome, Open City (1945)

  Ronde, La (1950)

  Ronet, Maurice

  Room Service (1938)

  Rooney, Mickey

  Roos, Fred

  Roosevelt, Franklin D.

  Rope (1948)

  Rosellini, Anne

  Rosemary’s Baby (1968)

  Rosenthal, Lisa

  Rose Scarlatte (1940)

  Rose Tattoo, The (1955)

  Rosher, Charles

  Rosita (1923)

  Rossellini, Isabella

  Rossellini, Roberto

  Rota, Nino

  Rothman, Tom

  Roud, Richard

  Roue, La (1923)

  Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In (TV series)

  Roxy

  Rubicon (TV series)

 

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