{"product_id":"warning-shadows-home-alone-with-classic-cinema-9780393337921","title":"Warning Shadows: Home Alone with Classic Cinema","description":"In his illuminating new work, Gary Giddins explores the evolution of film, from the first moving pictures and peepshows to the digital era of DVDs and online video-streaming. New technologies have changed our experience of cinema forever; we have peeled away from the crowded theater to be home alone with classic cinema. Recounting the technological developments that films have undergone, \u003cem\u003eWarning Shadows\u003c\/em\u003e travels through time and across genres to explore the impact of the industry's most famous classics and forgotten gems. Essays such as \"Houdini Escapes! From the Vaults! Of the Past!,\" \"Edward G. Robinson, See,\" and \"Prestige and Pretension (\u003cem\u003ePride and Prejudice\u003c\/em\u003e)\" capture the wit and magic of classic cinema. Each chapter--ranging from the horror films of Hitchcock to the fantastical frames of Disney--provides readers with engaging analyses of influential films and the directors and actors who made them possible.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gary Giddins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/19\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 418\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.02lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.54h x 6.58w x 1.13d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780393337921\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/08\/2010 pg. 37\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/22\/2010 pg. 17\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGiddins, Gary:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eGary Giddins\u003c\/strong\u003e is the Executive Director of the Leon Levy Center for Biography at the City University of New York. He was the \u003cem\u003eVillage Voice\u003c\/em\u003e jazz columnist for over 30 years and remains a preeminent jazz critic who received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award, and the Bell Atlantic Award for \u003cem\u003eVisions of Jazz: The First Century\u003c\/em\u003e in 1998. His other books include \u003cem\u003eBing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams: The Early Years, 1903-1940\u003c\/em\u003e, which won the Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award and the ARSC Award for Excellence in Historical Sound Research; \u003cem\u003eWeatherbird: Jazz at the Dawn of Its Second Century\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eFaces in the Crowd\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eNatural Selection\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eWarning Shadows\u003c\/em\u003e; and biographies of Louis Armstrong and Charlie Parker. He has won an unparalleled six ASCAP-Deems Taylor Awards, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Peabody Award in Broadcasting.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40171899814003,"sku":"9.78039E+12","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_8771873f-b69e-4e33-a253-164c22e8e281.jpg?v=1655212806","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/warning-shadows-home-alone-with-classic-cinema-9780393337921","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}