Previous Winners
of
The Theatre Library Association Award
2005
Richard Abel. Encyclopedia of
Early Cinema. (Routledge)
Special Jury Prize: Daniel Goldmark. Tunes for 'Toons: Music and the Hollywood Cartoon (University of California Press)
2004
Rick Altman. Silent Film Sound. (Columbia University Press)
Special Jury Prize: Ray Harryhausen and Tony Dalton. Ray Harryhausen: An Animated Life. (Billboard Books)
2003
Scott Simmon. The Invention of the Western Film: A Cultural
History of the Genre's First Half Century. (Cambridge University Press)
Special Jury Prize: James Curtis. W. C. fields: A Biography. (Alfred A. Knopf)
2002
Mark Cotta Vaz and Craig Barron. The Invisible Art: The Legends
of Movie Matte Painting. (Chronicle Books)
Honorable Mention: Louis Pizzitola. Hearst Over Hollywood: Power, Passion and Propaganda in the Movies. (Columbia University Press)
2001
Gary Giddins. Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams--The Early Years
1903-1940. (Little Brown & Company)
Honorable Mention: James Sanders. Celluloid Skyline: New York and the Movies. (Alfred A. Knopf)
2000
Pearl Bowser and Louise Spence. Writing Himself into History:
Oscar Micheaux, His Silent Films, and His Audiences. (Rutgers
University Press)
Honorable Mention: Alan Dale. Comedy is a Man in Trouble: Slapstick in American Movies. (University of Minnesota Press)
Honorable Mention: Mark Evan Swartz. Oz Before the Rainbow: L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz on Stage and Screen to 1939. (John Hopkins University Press)
1999
Thomas Doherty. Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and
Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930-1934. (Columbia University
Press)
Honorable Mention: Eric Schaefer. Bold! Daring! Shocking! True!: A History of Exploitation Films, 1919-1959. (Duke University Press)
1998
Steven J. Ross. Working Class Hollywood: Silent Film and the
Shaping of Class in America. (Princeton University Press)
Honorable Mention: Charles Musser. Edison Motion Pictures, 1890-1900: An Annotated Filmography. (Smithsonian Institution Press)
1997
Cari Beauchamp. Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the
Powerful Women of Early Hollywood. (Charles Scribner's Sons)
Honorable Mention: Donald C. Crafton. The Talkies: Hollywood Sound Cinema 1926-1931. (Charles Scribner's Sons/Twayne)
1996
Geoffrey Nowell-Smith. The Oxford History of World Cinema.
(Oxford University Press)
Honorable Mention: Frank Walsh. Sin and Censorship: The Catholic Church and the Motion Picture Industry (Yale University Press)
1995
Gregory A. Waller. Main Street Amusements; Movies and Commercial
Entertainment in a Southern City, 1896-1930. (Smithsonian Institution)
Honorable Mention: Richard Barrios. A Song in the Dark: The Birth of the Musical Film. (Oxford University Press)
1994
Richard Abel. The Cine Goes to Town: French Cinema,
1896-1914. (University of California Press)
Honorable Mention: Neal Gabler. Winchell: Gossip, Power, and the Culture of Celebrity. (Knopf)
1993
David Bordwell. The Cinema of Eisenstein. (Harvard University
Press)
Honorable Mention: Ed Guerrero. Framing Blackness: The African American Image in Film. (Temple University Press)
1992
Donald Kirihara. Patterns of Time: Mizoguchi and the 1930's.
(University of Wisconsin Press)
Honorable Mention: Douglas Gomery. Shared Pleasures: A History of Movie Presentation in the United States. (University of Wisconsin Press)
1991
Tom Gunning. D. W. Griffith and the Origins of American Narrative
Film: The Early Years at Biograph. (University of Illinois
Press)
Honorable Mention: Melvin Patrick Ely. The Adventures of Amos 'n' Andy: A Social History of an American Phenomenon. (The Free Press)
1990
Charles Musser. The Emergence of Cinema: The American Screen to
1907. Part of The History of the American Cinema Series (Charles
Scribner's Sons)
Honorable Mention: Kevin Brownlow. Behind the Mask of Innocence. (Knopf)
1989
Charles J. Maland. Chaplin and American Culture: The Evolution of
a Star Image. (Princeton University Press)
Honorable Mention: Edward Baron Turk. Child of paradise: Marcel Carn, and the Golden Age of French Cinema. (Harvard University Press)
1988
Neal Gabler. An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented
Hollywood. (Crown Publisher)
Honorable Mention: Joseph E. Persico. Edward R. Murrow: An American Original. (McGraw-Hill)
1987
John Canemaker. Winsor McCay: His Life and Art.
(Abbeville Press)
Honorable Mention: John Sayles. Thinking in Pictures: The Making of the Movie "Matewan". (Houghton Mifflin)
1986
Ann M. Sperber. Murrow: His Life and Times. (Freundlich)
Honorable Mention: Donald Albrecht. Designing Dreams: Modern Architecture in the Movies. (Harper & Row)
1985
No Award
1984
Richard Abel. French Cinema: The First Wave, 1915-1929.
(Princeton University Press)
1983
Richard Roud. A Passion for Films: Henri Langlois and the
Cinematheque Francais. (Viking Press)
Honorable Mention: Richard Koszarski. The Man You loved to Hate: Erich von Stroheim and Hollywood. (Oxford University Press)
1982
Jay Leyda and Zina Voynow. Einstein at Work. (Pantheon/MOMA)
Honorable Mention: Thomas Nelson. Kubrick: Inside a Film Artist's Maze. (Indiana University Press)
1981
William Alexander. Film on the Left: American Documentary Film
from 1931 to 1942. (Princeton University Press)
1980
Kevin Brownlow and John Kobal. Hollywood: The Pioneers.
(Knopf)
Honorable Mention: Alexander Sesonske. Jean Renoir: The French Films, 1924-1939. (Harvard University Press)
1979
Herbert J. Gans. Deciding What's News: A Study of CBS Evening
News, NBC Nightly News, Newsweek and Time. (Pantheon)
Honorable Mention: James Monaco. American Film Now: The People, the Power, the Money, the Movies. (Oxford University Press)
1978
Kevin Brownlow. The War, the West and the Wilderness. (Knopf)
1977
Mira and Antonin J. Liehm. The Most Important Art: East European
Film After 1945. (University of California Press)
1976
Fred W. Friendly. The Good Guys, The Bad Guys and the First
Amendment: Free Speech and Fairness in Broadcasting. (Random
House)
1975
Robert J. Skiar. Movie-Made America: A Social History of American
Movies. (Random House)
1974
Gerald S. Lesser. Children and Television: Lessons from Sesame
Street. (Random House)
1973
Donald Bogle. Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, and Bucks: An
Interpretative History of Blacks in American Films. (Viking Press)
Honorable Mention: David C. Yellin. Special: Fred Freed and the Television Documentary. (Macmillan)
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