Finalists
for
The Theatre Librarian Association Award
(for an outstanding book in recorded or broadcast performance including film,
television or radio)
The list of finalists for the Association's Awards includes every title which appeared among a juror's first five choices during the final voting process as well as every title mentioned by more than one juror in the final balloting period.
These books truly represent the best of the best, and the Theatre Library Association congratulates their authors and thanks their publishers for submitting them for consideration for this year's awards.
The Theatre Library Association invites publishers, if they choose, to promote any of these distinguished works as a FINALIST for the award(s) indicated among those books which were not recipients of the Freedley, TLA, or Honorable Mention honors.
2005
Chaplin and Agee: The Untold Story of the Tramp, the
Writer, and the Lost Screenplay; by John Wranovics; Palgrave
Despite the System: Orson Welles Versus the Hollywood Studios; by
Clinton Heylin; Chicago Review Press
Encyclopedia of Early Cinema; edited by Richard Abel; Routledge
(THEATRE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION AWARD)
A Fine Romance; by Darcie Denkert; Watson-Guptill Publications
Greta Garbo: A Cinematic Legacy; by Mark A. Vieira; Harry N. Abrams
Hollywood and the Cultural Elite: How the Movies Became American; by
Peter Decherney; Columbia University Press
Irving Berlin’s Show Business: Broadway—Hollywood—America; by David
Leopold; Harry N. Abrams
Lion of Hollywood: The Life and Legend of Louis B. Mayer; by Scott
Eyman; Simon & Schuster
Living Dangerously: The Adventures of Merian C. Cooper, Creator of King
Kong; by Mark Cotta Vaz; Villard Books (Random House Publishing Group)
The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre; by Stephen D. Youngkin;
University Press of Kentucky
Museum Movies: The Museum of Modern Art and the Birth of Art Cinema;
by Haidee Wasson; University of California Press
Robert and Frances Flaherty: A Documentary Life, 1883-1922; by Robert
J. Christopher; McGill-Queen’s University Press
Street Smart: The New York of Lumet, Allen, Scorsese and Lee; by
Richard A. Blake; University Press of Kentucky
Tunes for ‘Toons: Music and the Hollywood Cartoon; by Daniel Goldmark;
University of California Press (SPECIAL JURY PRIZE)
2004
Black Magic: White Hollywood and African American Culture; by Krin
Gabbard; Rutgers University Press
Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood; by Robert S. Birchard; University Press of
Kentucky
The Columbia Companion to American History on Film: How the Movies Have
Portrayed the American Past; edited by Peter C. Rollins; Columbia University
Press
Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance and the Rise of Independent
Film; by Peter Biskind; Simon & Schuster
European Cinema; edited by Elizabeth Ezra; Oxford University Press
Ray Harryhausen: An Animated Life; by Ray Harryhausen and Tony
Dalton; Billboard Books/ Watson-Guptill Publications (SPECIAL JURY PRIZE)
Schmucks with Underwoods: Conversations with Hollywood's Classic
Screenwriters; by Max Wilk; Applause Theatre & Cinema Books
Sidney Poitier: Man, Actor, Icon by Aram Goudsouzian; University of
North Carolina Press
Silent Film Sound; by Rick Altman; Columbia University Press (THEATRE
LIBRARY ASSOCIATION AWARD)
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson; by
Geoffrey C. Ward; Alfred A. Knopf
Who the Hell's in It: Portraits and Conversations; by Peter
Bogdanovich; Alfred A. Knopf
The Whole Equation: A History of Hollywood; by David Thomson;
Alfred A. Knopf
2003
Ball of Fire: The Tumultuous Life and Comic Art of Lucille Ball; by
Stefan Kanfer; Alfred A. Knopf
Blue-Collar Hollywood: Liberalism, Democracy, and Working people in
American Film; by John Bodnar; Johns Hopkins University Press
Chaplin: Genius of the Cinema; by Jeffrey Vance; Harry N. Abrams
Cold War, Cool Medium: Television, McCarthyism, and American Culture;
by Thomas Doherty; Columbia University Press
Entertaining America: Jews, Movies, and Broadcasting; by J.
Hoberman and Jeffrey Shandler; Princeton University Press
The Imperial Screen: Japanese Film Culture in the Fifteen Years' War,
1931-1945; by Peter B. High; University of Wisconsin Press
The Invention of the Western Film: A Cultural History of the Genre's
First Half-Century; by Scott Simmon; Cambridge University Press (THEATRE
LIBRARY ASSOCIATION AWARD)
Magic Circles: The Beatles in Dream and History; by Devin
McKinney; Harvard University Press
Making Pictures: A Century of European Cinematography; by Sven Nykvist
and others; Harry N. Abrams
River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West;
by Rebecca Solnit; Viking
Voice of America: A History; by Alan L. Heil, Jr.; Columbia University
Press
W. C. Fields: A Biography; by James Curtis; Alfred A. Knopf
(SPECIAL JURY PRIZE)
2002
Black Manhood on the Silent Screen; by Gerald R. Butters, Jr.; University
Press of Kansas
Disintegrating the Musical: Black Performance and American Musical Film;
by Arthur Knight; Duke University Press
The Emperor and the Wolf: The Lives and Films of Akira Kurosawa and
Toshiro Mifune; by Stuart Galbraith IV; Faber & Faber
French Cinema from Its Beginnings to the Present; by Remi Fournier Lanzon;
Continuum
Harold Lloyd: Master Comedian; by Jeffrey Vance and Suzanne Lloyd;
Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
Hearst Over Hollywood: Power Passion and Propaganda in the Movies;
by Louis Pizzitola; Columbia University Press (HONORABLE MENTION AWARD)
The Invisible Art: The Legends of Movie Matte Painting; by Mark
Cotta Vaz and Craig Barron; Chronicle Books (THEATRE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION AWARD)
Kafka Goes to the Movies; by Hanns Zischler; translated by Susan H.
Gillespie; University of Chicago Press
Literary Adaptations in Black American Cinema: from Micheaux to
Morrison; by Barbara Tepa Lupack; University of Rochester Press
Screened Out: Playing Gay in Hollywood from Edison to Stonewall; by
Richard Barrios; Routledge
Selling Hollywood to the World: U.S. and European Struggles for Mastery
of the Global Film Industry, 1920-1950; by John Trumpbour; Cambridge
University press
Stan and Ollie: The Roots of Comedy: The Double Life of Laurel
and Hardy; by Simon Louvish; St. Martin's Press
Stardust Melody: The Life and Music of Hoagy Carmichael; by Richard
M. Sudhalter; Oxford University Press
A Third Face: My Tale of Writing, Fighting, and Filmmaking; by
Samuel Fuller and others; Alfred A. Knopf
2001
Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams: The Early years, 1903-1940;
by Gary Giddins; Little, Brown & Company (THEATRE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION AWARD)
Celluloid Skyline: New York and the Movies; by James Sanders;
Alfred A. Knopf (HONORABLE MENTION AWARD)
Dalton Trumbo, Hollywood Rebel: A Critical Survey and Filmography;
by Peter Hanson; McFarland
Early American Cinema in Transition: Story, Style and Filmmaking,
1907-1913; by Charles Keil; University of Wisconsin Press
Fast-Talking Dames; by Maria DiBattista; Yale University Press
Fire and Desire: Mixed-Race Movies in the Silent Era; by Jane M.
Gaines; University of Chicago Press
Lillian Gish: Her Legend, Her Life; by Charles Affron, Scribner
Maya Deren and the American Avant-Garde; eidted by Bill Nichols;
University of California Press
Melodrama and Modernity: Early Sensational Cinema and Its Contexts;
by Ben Singer; Columbia University Press
Playing the Race Card: Melodramas of Black and White from Uncle Tom to O. J. Simpson; by Linda Williams; Princeton University Press
Primetime Blues: African Americans on Network Television; by Donald
Bogle; Farra, Straus & Giroux
Silent Film and the Triumph of the American Myth; by Paula Marantz Cohen,
Oxford University Press
Writing in Light: The Silent Scenario and the Japanese Pure Film Movement;
by Joanne Bernardi; Wayne State University Press
2000
The Big Tomorrow: Hollywood and the Politics of the American Way;
by Lary May; University of Chicago Press
The Black Image in the White Mind: Media and Race in America; by
Robert M. Entman and Andrew Rojecki; University of Chicago Press
Brotherhood in Rhythm: The Jazz Tap Dancing of the Nicholas Brothers;
by Constance Valis Hill; Oxford University Press (also a Freedley Award
finalist)
Burt Lancaster: An American Life; by Kate Buford; Alfred A. Knopf
Comedy is a Man in Trouble: Slapstick in American Movies; by Alan
Dale; University of Minnesota Press (HONORABLE MENTION AWARD)
Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood; by Mick
LaSalle; St. Martin's Press
Emile de Antonio: Radical Filmmaker in Cold War America; by
Randolph Lewis; University of Wisconsin Press
Encyclopedia of American Radio, 1920-1960; by Luther F. Sies; McFarland
Movie-Struck Girls: Women and Motion Picture Culture after the
Nickelodeon; by Shelley Stamp; Princeton University press
Oz Before the Rainbow: L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz on
Stage and Screen to 1939; by Mark Evan Swartz; Johns Hopkins University
Press (HONORABLE MENTION AWARD) (also a Freedley Award finalist)
Planet Hong Kong: Popular Cinema and the Art of Entertainment; by
David Bordwell; Harvard University Press
Screen Style: Fashion and Femininity in 1930s Hollywood; by Sarah
Berry; University of Minnesota Press
Straight Lick: The Cinema of Oscar Micheaux; by J. Ronald Green;
Indiana University Press
Thirty Frames Per Second: The Visionary Art of the Music Video; by
Steven Reiss and others; Harry N. Abrams
Writing Himself into History: Oscar Micheaux, His Silent Films, and His
Audiences; by Pearl Bowser and Louise Spence; Rutgers University Press
(THEATRE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION AWARD)
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