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Book

A thousand cuts : the bizarre underground world of collectors and dealers who saved the movies

Call Number

  • 791.4375 B292 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2016.

Physical Description

xix, 241 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Contents

  • Introduction
  • Hollywood vs. Evan H. Foreman
  • An expensive hobby
  • The Theodore Huff Memorial Film Society
  • The Tuesday Night Film Club
  • Rock Hudson's hidden film vault
  • Lockdown
  • South of Sunset Boulevard
  • A dying art?
  • The house of clocks
  • Child of Frankenstein
  • Have some onions, they'll make you fat
  • Restoring the audience
  • A woman in film
  • Captain Ahab and The Triffids
  • Something weird
  • The theory of creative destruction
  • A thousand cuts
  • The score
  • A younger generation of collectors
  • The man who went to jail for the movies
  • Epilogue
  • Special thanks
  • Notes
  • Glossary.

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Added Authors

Jeff Joseph