Chamberlin Phillip (58 results)

Staple-Bound Booklet. Condition: Near Fine. Book is clean & bright, no markings. Binding is tight. Brandon Films; The Lower Depths. Ingmar Bergman Smiles of a Summer Night. This vintage programming manual acts as an essential resource for campus film programmers and independent movie clubs, mapping out the 16mm regional distribution strategy managed by Brandon Films. The newsletter features comprehensive analyses of Maxim Gorky's timeless social-realist source material, exploring how the cinematic adaptation visualizes poverty, existential despair, and human dignity within an impoverished, cloistered community. The publication offers film societies contextual screening strategies, historical background, and technical commentary on the director's use of deep-focus framing and ensemble blocking to capture structural societal decay.…

Staple-Bound Booklet. Condition: Near Fine. Book is clean & bright, no markings. Binding is tight. Kuhle Wawpe: The Last Film Made In Germany Before The Nazis Seized Power. The phrase "Whither Germany" (originally Kuhle Wampe, oder: Wem gehört die Welt? / Who Owns the World?) is best known historically as the U.S. release title of the landmark 1932 German political drama film. Directed by Slatan Dudow and co-written by the legendary playwright Bertolt Brecht along with Ernst Ottwalt, the movie stands as the last and most significant communist-leftist feature film of the Weimar Republic era before the Nazi regime banned it entirely.…

Staple-Bound Booklet. Condition: Near Fine. Book is clean & bright, no markings. Binding is tight. Front cover has a small smudge and a ink mark from a pen, which effects nothing!!! The Gospel According to St. Mathew Film Society Newsletter (December 1966, Vol. 4, No. 4) stands as a significant, solemn entry in the monthly bulletin issued by the American Federation of Film Societies (AFFS). Released on the heels of Walt Disney's passing on December 15, 1966, this issue serves as both an immediate historical obituary and a critical, retrospective evaluation of his massive impact on the global moving-image medium. Bypassing standard theatrical promotional materials, the newsletter provides university film programmers and independent cinema club curators with a serious aesthetic analysis of Disney's career. The text traces his trajectory from early silent-era animation breakthroughs and synchronized sound innovation with Mickey Mouse to pioneering full-length masterworks like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Fantasia. Crucially for regional selectors, the bulletin examines the non-theatrical availability of 16mm prints from the Disney catalog, analyzing the studio's technical achievements in multiplane camera depth, classical music integration, and color processes. It also navigates the changing cultural perceptions of his studio's mid-century outputs, offering film societies contextual programming notes on how to curate retrospective screenings that bridge popular family entertainment with serious animation history studies. …

Staple-Bound Booklet. Condition: Near Fine. Book is clean & bright, no markings. Binding is tight. Brandon Films; The Lady From Shanghai. This archival issue serves as a curatorial manual for independent film societies, tracking the 16mm non-theatrical distribution rights handled by Brandon Films. The newsletter features programming notes and structural analyses of the movie's dense fatalism, analyzing the famous climatic mirror-maze shootout and Welles's subversive handling of his then-wife Rita Hayworth as the ultimate platinum-blonde femme fatale. …

Staple-Bound Booklet. Condition: Near Fine. Book is clean & bright, no markings. Binding is tight. Brandon Films; The Big Deal or TYhe Big Bungle of the Big Burgle. The May 1965 issue of the Film Society Newsletter features Mario Monicelli's 1958 classic Italian comedy The Big Deal on Madonna Street as distributed in 16mm by Brandon Films. The archival guide provides programmatic and thematic analysis of the film's parody of the heist genre and its foundational role in the Commedia all'italiana tradition.…

Staple-Bound Booklet. Condition: Near Fine. Book is clean & bright, no markings. Binding is tight. Brandon Films; The Devil Is A Woman Film Society Newsletter (November 1964) functions as a critical programming guide and non-theatrical reference manual issued by the American Federation of Film Societies. This particular late-1964 volume spotlights Josef von Sternberg's 1934 pre-Code historical masterpiece, The Scarlet Empress. The issue outlines regional film club booking strategies centered around the 16mm non-theatrical catalog distribution handled by Brandon Films. The bulletin delivers a sophisticated cinematic analysis of von Sternberg's highly stylized, camp-infused vision of Catherine the Great's rise to power in Imperial Russia, with particular emphasis on Marlene Dietrich's transformation from a naive German princess into a ruthless sovereign. The newsletter offers independent college curators background notes detailing the film's overwhelming visual design, from its grotesque, oversized palace statues to its dense, shadowy expressionist cinematography, guiding society directors on how to present the feature as a high-water mark of Hollywood auteur aestheticism.…

Staple-Bound Booklet. Condition: Near Fine. Book is clean & bright, no markings. Binding is tight. Brandon Films; Nobody Waved Goodbye. This archival bulletin acts as an expert programming guide for campus film societies, highlighting the 16mm non-theatrical distribution campaign managed by Brandon Films. The text explores how the film—originally commissioned by the National Film Board of Canada as a short documentary—blossomed into a vital narrative feature characterized by raw, improvised dialogue and a cinéma-vérité stylistic approach. The newsletter provides independent exhibitors with contextual notes on the story of Peter, an rebellious 18-year-old in suburban Toronto clashing with his parents' comfortable, middle-class materialist values. Curation notes praise John Spotton's gritty, hand-held black-and-white cinematography and the movie's uncompromising structural integrity, guiding programmers on how to present it as a definitive cinematic exploration of youth counterculture, generational friction, and modern alienation.…

Staple-Bound Booklet. Condition: Near Fine. Book is clean & bright, no markings. Binding is tight. Dr. Strangelove; Seconds.Nobody Waved Goodbye. The January 1967 issue of the Film Society Newsletter (Vol. 4, No. 5) provides a curatorial analysis and technical guide for exhibiting Chris Marker and Pierre Lhomme's 1962 documentary Le Joli Mai. The vintage bulletin details the 16mm regional booking campaign managed by Brandon Films and offers screening guidance highlighting the film's cinéma-vérité style.…

Staple-Bound Booklet. Condition: Near Fine. Book is clean & bright, no markings. Binding is tight. Brandon Films; The Given Word; Shanghai Express. Serves as a poignant, archival tribute issue dedicated to the legendary comedian Harpo Marx, who passed away on September 28, 1964, at the age of 75. This vintage bulletin functions as both an obituary and an essential curatorial blueprint for campus cinema clubs planning immediate retrospective screenings. Distributed alongside promotional booking circulars from Brandon Films, the newsletter outlines the non-theatrical availability of classic 16mm prints featuring the iconic silent Marx Brother. The text offers programming guides, historical assessments of Harpo's surreal slapstick genius, and critical praise for his unparalleled pantomime, physical comedy, and musical harp interludes, guiding independent film societies on how to best honor his profound impact on American cinematic history. …

Staple-Bound Booklet. Condition: Near Fine. Book is clean & bright, no markings. Binding is tight. Brandon Films; Les Enfants Du Pardis (The Children of Paradise) Film Society Newsletter (December 1964, Vol. 2, No. 4) provides a comprehensive programming brief and curatorial critique for the non-theatrical release of Anselmo Duarte's 1962 Brazilian dramatic masterpiece, The Given Word (O Pagador de Promessas). This archival bulletin serves as an expert guide for independent campus film societies, coordinating with the 16mm non-theatrical catalog distribution managed by Brandon Films. The text delivers a detailed thematic analysis of the Academy Award-nominated film—the only Brazilian feature ever to win the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. The newsletter provides exhibitors with historical context on the story of Zé do Burro, a naive peasant encountering rigid bureaucratic corruption, religious intolerance, and media exploitation while trying to fulfill a promise made to a Candomblé deity inside a Catholic church. Curatorial notes offer screening recommendations and praise for Duarte's sharp social commentary and editing techniques, guiding society directors on how to present the movie as a landmark achievement in Latin American cinema history.…

Staple-Bound Booklet. Condition: Near Fine. Book is clean & bright, no markings. Binding is tight. Roman Polanski's Knife in the Water. The circular catalogs how Brandon Films, a pioneer in bringing international art-house cinema to American colleges, acquired the 16mm non-theatrical distribution rights for the Academy Award-nominated psychological thriller. The text provides film societies with programmatic commentary, screening suggestions, and praise for the movie's sharp geometric framing, minimalist three-actor tension, and deep phallic and class symbolism, helping to solidify Polanski's entry into the Western cinematic lexicon.…

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Brown cloth binding. Clean pages with no markings in the text. There is a name and stamp on the front end paper. The cover has a few small soil spots.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hardcover with two small dings along the lower edges, one on the board, the other on the page edges, the former of which is covered by the excellent dust jacket (slight handling). The DJ is protected by new, clear, removeable cover. 177 pages. [1.1 lbs]. Book.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 200 pp. Digest format. Light wear. The cover features a photograph by Ruth Bushman; the back cover features a full colour ad for Camel Cigarettes. This issue contains: The Dog That Reformed a Killer by Fred Bodsworth; The Search for a Phantom Father by Rona Jaffe; How to Indulge a Bulge by Jo Hubbard Chamberlin; Bendigo the Bruiser by D. L. Champion; The Man Behind the Menace by Lee Edson; Strange Genius of the Jungle Wars, Charles Wingate by Joseph Stocker; Big Wind in Washington by Al Toffler; They're Stealing Time from Our Schools by Philip Reaves; What's in a Name? Plenty by John Carlova; How to Find a Job After 40 by Harold W. Williams; Light in the Twilight of My Life by Ernest Ek as told to Helen Burrowes; Money Wise by Sidney Margolius; Are Our Family Doctors Good Enough? by Martin L. Cross; Sweet Slice of Lemon by Richard G. Hubler; Half Brother in a Shaggy Coat by Gary Webster; Uncle Sam's Conscience Fund by Erwin van Swol; The Damage Demons of Chicago by W. B. Furlong; Where Senior Citizens Act Like Junior by J. W. Noble; Remarkable Rebirth of Our Rural Towns by Peter Farb; New York's Heroic Heli-cops by Theodore Irwin; They Called It Justice by Will Bernard; The Many Moods of Marlon Brando by Mark Nichols and Sam Shaw; A Father's Adventure with Sweet Sixteen by Michael Morris and Dan Budnik; and Land of Smoke and Dreams, photographs by Burt Glenn; along with all the usual features. Size: 12mo. Book.…

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine condition. Near Fine dust jacket. First Edition. Washington, D. C.:: American Enterprise Association, 1958. A clean, square, tight copy. Sharp corners. The Dust Jacket is just a little sunned at the spine/edges. NOT price clipped (4.50). No chips. No tears. No creases. Protected by a removable Brodart clear plastic sleeve. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Pages are fresh and crisp. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Includes a foreword by W. Glenn Campbell and 4 papers: THE ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF LABOR UNION POWER by Edward H. Chamberlin; INVOLUNTARY PARTICIPATION IN UNIONISM by Philip D. Bradley; STATES RIGHTS AND THE LAW OF LABOR RELATIONS by Gerard D. Reilly; LEGAL IMMUNITIES OF LABOR UNIONS by Roscoe Pound. Footnotes/Bibliographical references. Index. Bound in the original brick-color cloth, lettered in black on the spine. From the Dust Jacket: "In this volume four distinguished scholars explore several important facets of the problem. These studies are the first results of a comprehensive research project under the aegis of the American Enterprise Association through which the legal economic and sociological aspects of the power position of organized labor are being analyzed." . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine condition./Near Fine dust jacket. 8vo. (xi), 177pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. The second printing from 1958, 177 pages. "In this volume four distinguished scholars explore several important facets of the problem: The Economic Analysis of Labor Union Power; Involuntary Participation in Unionism; States Rights and the Law of Labor Relations and Legal Immunities of Labor Unions." FINE HARDCOVER, VERY GOOD DUST JACKET. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

First Edition. Fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 177 pages; Description: 177 p. ; 23 cm. Bibliographical footnotes. Subjects: Labor unions --United States. 1 Kg.…

gebundene Ausgabe. Condition: Gut. 177 Seiten; Das hier angebotene Buch stammt aus einer teilaufgelösten Bibliothek und kann die entsprechenden Kennzeichnungen aufweisen (Rückenschild, Instituts-Stempel.); der Buchzustand ist ansonsten ordentlich und dem Alter entsprechend gut. In ENGLISCHER Sprache. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 420.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 177 pages. (SL#58/2).

First Edition. Fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 177 pages; Description: 177 p. ; 23 cm. Bibliographical footnotes. Subjects: Labor unions --United States. 1 Kg.…

Condition: New.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Illustrated. Blue and white wrappers. Octavo. 623-800pp. Spine slightly cocked, else fine in the original manilla envelope addressed to fellow author Daniel Hoffman. Contributions by Joyce Carol, David Bromige, Laurence Lieberman, Alain, Nancy Cardozo, Robert S. Clark, Daniel Hoffman, John Hollander, John Tagliabue, Charles W. Millard, Philip Booth, Grace Schulman, Colette Inez, Roger Sale, Vernon Young, Bruce Allen, John Simon, B.H. Fussell, Hayden Carruth, Gerald Weales, Ronald De Feo, and J.E. Chamberlin. Featuring "Kafka's Paradise" by Joyce Carol Oates, and more. …

Condition: good. A copy that has been read, remains in good condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine and cover show signs of wear. Pages can include notes and highlighting and show signs of wear, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships via media mail.…

Condition: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 395p.

Condition: New.

Condition: New. In English.

Condition: New.

Brown Cloth. Condition: Near Fiine. First Ediition. Ex-college lib with small stamps. 394pp. Uncommon Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.