Please visit our summer exhibit celebrating old Hollywood movies and movie stars. This exhibit consists of old movie posters from the private collection of an MU staff member and several books about Hollywood from the library’s collection.
If you want to watch some classic movies this summer, you can check out DVDs at Ellis Library.
Special thanks to Farris Craddock for providing movie reels and to Catherine Hutinett for choosing the books for the exhibit.
Books on Display
Stealing the show: African American Performers and Audiences in 1930s Hollywood by Miriam J. Petty
Black manhood on the silent screen by Gerald R. Butters, Jr.
Cinematic appeals: the experience of new movie technologies by Ariel Rogers
Queer love in film and television: critical essays by Pamela Demory and Christopher Pullen
Beyond the Stars by Paul Loukides and Linda K. Fuller
Women on screen: feminism and femininity in visual culture edited by Melanie Waters
Heroines of film and television: portrayals in popular culture edited by Norma Jones, Maja Bajac-Carter, and Bob Batchelor
The cool and the crazy: pop fifties cinema by Peter Stanfield
Queen of the Plaza; a biography of Adah Isaacs Menken by Paul Lewis
Hollywood destinies: European directors in America, 1922-1931
Classic Hollywood: lifestyles and film styles of American cinema, 1930-1960 by Veronica Pravadelli
The many lives of Marilyn Monroe by Sarah Churchwell
This ‘n that by Bette Davis with Michael Herskowitz
The Hollywood family film: a history, from Shirley Temple to Harry Potter by Noel Brown
The Hollywood economist: the hidden financial reality behind the movies by Edward Jay Epstein
The ABCs of classic Hollywood by Robert B. Ray
The girl who walked home alone: Bette Davis, a personal biography by Charlotte Chandler
On film: a history of the motion picture by Frank E. Beaver
The phantom of the cinema: character in modern film by Lloyd Michaels
Matinee melodrama: playing with formula in the sound serial by Scott Higgins
Out at the movies: a history of gay cinema by Steven Paul Davies; foreword by Simon Callow
85 years of the Oscar by Robert Osborne
The films of Bette Davis by Gene Ringgold