Charles McGraw - Biography of a Film Noir Tough Guy

Alan K. Rode     

McFarland  2007   216 pages

Since the earliest days of silent films, Hollywood and cinema  have been leading subjects of literary work.   The public’s fascination with the film industry has become part of the American culture and the volumes written fill entire wings of libraries.  The pipeline of books is never ending and covers every detail and nuance of the process  and the people who make it happen.    Wether tabloid or scholarly, there is a never ending pursuit of informatiion about the institution of filmmaking.   Here is a posting of books among those I have read that I feel worthy of attention to those interested not only in film noir but film history and Hollywood in general.

Dark Borders- Film Noir and American Citizenship

Jonathan Auerbach    

Duke University Press  2011  226 pages

Dark City - The Lost World of Film Noir

Eddie Muller

St Martin’ Griffin  1998    226 pages

Film Noir - The Dark Side Of The Screen

Foster Hirsch  

Da Capo Press  1981  229 pages

Fearing the Dark - The Val Lewton Career

Edmund G. Bansak  

McFarland  1995  570 pages

Film Noir

Andrew Spicer  

Pearson Education  2002   250 pages

Von - The Life & Films of Eric Von Stroheim

Richard Koszarski

Limelight Editions   2001     404 pages

King Cohn - The Life And Times of Hollywood Mogul Harry Cohn

Bob Thomas

New Millennium Press  2000  376 pages

Clown Prince of Hollywood - The Antic Life and Times of Jack L. Warner

Bob Thomas

McGraw-Hill 1990   323 pages

Wanderer

Sterling Hayden

Alfred A. Knopf 1967

(Reprint Sheridan House 2000)   434 pages

Hollywood

Garson Kanin

Viking Press  1974   343 pages

Goldwyn - A Biography Of The Man Behind The Myth

Arthur Marx

W.W. Norton  1980    400 pages