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Film studies Abraham Polonsky: Interviews Albert and David Maysles: Interviews Alfred Hitchcock: Interviews Alice Faye: A Life Beyond the Silver Screen American Horror Film: The Genre at the Turn of the Millennium Andrei Tarkovsky: Interviews Anthony Minghella: Interviews Arthur Penn: Interviews Atom Egoyan: Interviews Barbara Stanwyck: The Miracle Woman Bernardo Bertolucci: Interviews Beyond The Chinese Connection: Contemporary Afro-Asian Cultural Production Beyond Paradise: The Life of Ramon Novarro Billy Wilder: Interviews Black Diva of the Thirties: The Life of Ruby Elzy Brian De Palma: Interviews Buster Keaton: Interviews Carlos Saura: Interviews Carole Landis: A Most Beautiful Girl Charles Burnett: Interviews Charles M. Schulz: Conversations Charlie Chaplin: Interviews Chronicle of a Camera: The Arriflex 35 in North America, 1945-1972 Claudette Colbert: She Walked in Beauty Clint Eastwood: Interviews Clint Eastwood: Interviews, Revised And Updated The Coen Brothers: Interviews D. W. Griffith: Interviews Daniel Clowes: Conversations Danny Boyle: Interviews David Lean: Interviews David Lynch: Interviews Dennis Hopper: Interviews Elia Kazan: Interviews Elvis and Gladys The Enchanted Quest of Dana and Ginger Lamb Eric Rohmer: Interviews Errol Morris: Interviews Film and Comic Books The Films of Martin Ritt: Fanfare for the Common Man Forever Mame: The Life of Rosalind Russell Francis Ford Coppola: Interviews Frank Capra: The Catastrophe of Success Frank Capra: Interviews Fred Zinnemann: Interviews Fritz Lang: Interviews George A. Romero: Interviews George Cukor: Interviews George Lucas: Interviews George Stevens: Interviews Global Neorealism: The Transnational History of a Film Style Grotowski's Objective Drama Research Guiltless Pleasures: A David Sterritt Film Reader Guy Maddin: Interviews Hal Ashby: Interviews Hi There, Boys and Girls! America's Local Children's TV Programs Hollywood Enigma: Dana Andrews Hollywood Madonna: Loretta Young Hollywood Unknowns: A History of Extras, Bit Players, and Stand-Ins Horror Film: Creating and Marketing Fear Ingmar Bergman: Interviews Inside Peyton Place: The Life of Grace Metalious Inside the Hollywood Fan Magazine: A History of Star Makers, Fabricators, and Gossip Mongers James Cameron: Interviews Jane Campion: Interviews Jean-Luc Godard: Interviews Jim Jarmusch: Interviews Joan Blondell: A Life between Takes John Ford: Interviews John Huston: Interviews John Sayles: Interviews John Singleton: Interviews John Waters: Interviews John Woo: Interviews Jonathan Demme: Interviews Just Making Movies: Company Directors on the Studio System Kathryn Bigelow: Interviews Knockout: The Boxer and Boxing in American Cinema Ladies First: Women in Music Videos Lars von Trier: Interviews Lew Ayres: Hollywood's Conscientious Objector The Life of Dick Haymes: No More Little White Lies Liv Ullmann: Interviews Living Life inside the Lines: Tales from the Golden Age of Animation The Magic Behind the Voices: A Who's Who of Cartoon Voice Actors Mario Lanza: Singing to the Gods Martin Ritt: Interviews Martin Scorsese: Interviews Merchant-Ivory: Interviews Michael Powell: Interviews Michael Winterbottom: Interviews Mike Leigh: Interviews Mouse Tracks: The Story of Walt Disney Records Moving Pictures, Migrating Identities Neil Jordan: Interviews Oliver Stone: Interviews Orson Welles: Interviews Ousmane Sembène: Interviews Out of the Past: Adventures in Film Noir Pedro Almodóvar: Interviews Peter Greenaway: Interviews Quentin Tarantino: Interviews Ridley Scott: Interviews Robert Aldrich: Interviews Robert Altman: Interviews Robert Rodriguez: Interviews Roger Corman: Interviews Roman Polanski: Interviews Sam Peckinpah: Interviews Samuel Fuller: Interviews Searching for John Ford Sidney Lumet: Interviews Sitting Pretty: The Life and Times of Clifton Webb Spike Lee: Interviews Stan Lee: Conversations Stanley Kubrick: Interviews Stepping into the Picture: Cartoon Designer Maurice Noble Steven Soderbergh: Interviews Steven Spielberg: A Biography, Second Edition Steven Spielberg: Interviews Super Heroes: A Modern Mythology Terry Gilliam: Interviews Theo Angelopolous: Interviews Tim Burton: Interviews Van Johnson: MGM's Golden Boy Walt Disney: Conversations Warring Fictions: Cultural Politics and the Vietnam War Narrative William Wyler: Interviews Woody Allen: Interviews Words into Images: Screenwriters on the Studio System Working with Disney: Interviews with Animators, Producers, and Artists Working with Walt: Interviews with Disney Artists Zachary Scott: Hollywood's Sophisticated Cad Zhang Yimou: Interviews	Download the BOOKFRIENDS newsletter BOOKFRIENDS JUKE JOINT Membership Party Join us on Facebook See our authors READ OUR BLOG On the Horizon: Scotty and Elvis When Elvis Presley first showed up at Sam Phillips’s Memphis-based Sun Records studio, he was a shy teenager in search of a sound. Phillips invited a local guitarist named Scotty Moore to stand in. Scotty listened carefully to the young singer and immediately realized that Elvis had something special. Along with bass player Bill Black, the trio recorded an old blues number called “That’s All (read more...)

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