The Velvet Light Trap (No. 19, 1982) [cover: Henry Fonda in YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE]

Madison WI: John Davis. Near Fine. (c.1982). (No. 19). Periodical. [nice clean copy, light handling wear only]. (B&W photographs) Critical/historical film journal, this issue's stated theme being "Rereading Hollywood." Contents: Part Two of an analysis of the convention of the happy ending in Hollywood movies; an examination of the influence of Edith Head's film costume designs on the retail fashion market; an interview with Rouben Mamoulian; "Movie Audiences, Urban Geography, and the History of the American Film"; "The Art Cinema and Robert Altman"; an analysis of Max Steiner's music for MILDRED PIERCE; "Madness, Authority, and Ideology in the Domestic Melodrama of the 1950's"; a history of Metro Pictures Corporation, 1915-1920. ***NOTE that we have many more issues of this title (and other film magazines) in stock, and we welcome your inquiries. .