Hooray for Hollywood (non-fiction)
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The First King of Hollywood: The Life of Douglas Fairbanks
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Tracey Goessel
4.10 avg rating — 147 ratings 103. 
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I'll Have What She's Having: How Nora Ephron's Three Iconic Films Saved the Romantic Comedy
by:
Erin Carlson
3.66 avg rating — 2,259 ratings 
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We'll Always Have Casablanca: The Legend and Afterlife of Hollywood's Most Beloved Film
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Noah Isenberg
3.68 avg rating — 1,108 ratings 
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500 Ways to Beat the Hollywood Script Reader: Writing the Screenplay the Reader Will Recommend
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Jennifer Lerch
3.63 avg rating — 90 ratings 111. 
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Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema; 1930-1934
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Thomas Doherty
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 222 ratings 113. 
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Titanic and the Making of James Cameron: The Inside Story of the Three-Year Adventure That Rewrote Motion Picture History
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Paula Parisi
3.85 avg rating — 148 ratings 
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Last Night at the Viper Room: River Phoenix and the Hollywood He Left Behind
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Gavin Edwards
3.82 avg rating — 4,688 ratings 
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Cut!: Hollywood Murders, Accidents, And Other Tragedies
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Bruce Elder
3.86 avg rating — 194 ratings 
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Hank & Jim: The Fifty-Year Friendship of Henry Fonda and James Stewart
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Scott Eyman
4.08 avg rating — 1,124 ratings 123. 
High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic
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Glenn Frankel
4.12 avg rating — 960 ratings 123. 
The Making of The African Queen Or How I went to Africa with Bogart, Bacall and Huston and almost lost my mind 3.95 avg rating — 2,472 ratings
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The Purple Diaries: Mary Astor and the Most Sensational Hollywood Scandal of the 1930s
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Joseph Egan
3.77 avg rating — 1,289 ratings 
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Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton
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John Bengston
4.60 avg rating — 88 ratings 
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Back to the Fifties: Nostalgia, Hollywood Film, and Popular Music of the Seventies and Eighties
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Michael D. Dwyer
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 6 ratings 133. 
Stealing the Show: African American Performers and Audiences in 1930s Hollywood
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Miriam J. Petty
4.54 avg rating — 13 ratings 
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Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood
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Cari Beauchamp
4.35 avg rating — 319 ratings 136. 
An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood
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Neal Gabler
4.01 avg rating — 765 ratings 137. 
George Hurrell's Hollywood: Glamour Portraits 1925-1992
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Mark A. Vieira
4.55 avg rating — 110 ratings 
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Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood
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William J. Mann
3.63 avg rating — 5,110 ratings 
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Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War
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Mark Harris
4.12 avg rating — 2,102 ratings 
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Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood
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Mark Harris
4.26 avg rating — 4,737 ratings 146. 
The Castle on Sunset: Love, Fame, Death and Scandal at Hollywood’s Chateau Marmont
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Shawn Levy
3.67 avg rating — 4,471 ratings 146. 
Rebel Without a Crew, or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker with $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player
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Robert Rodríguez
4.18 avg rating — 5,314 ratings 
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Sleepless in Hollywood: Tales from the New Abnormal in the Movie Business
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Lynda Obst
3.43 avg rating — 468 ratings 152. 
Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood
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Mick LaSalle
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,176 ratings 
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City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940s
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Otto Friedrich
4.11 avg rating — 1,110 ratings 155. 
Chasing The Light: How I Fought My Way into Hollywood
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Oliver Stone
4.10 avg rating — 2,024 ratings 157. 
Little Sister: My Investigation into the Mysterious Death of Natalie Wood
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Lana Wood
3.56 avg rating — 934 ratings 
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Behind the Horror: True Stories That Inspired Horror Movies
by:
Lee Mellor
3.83 avg rating — 1,978 ratings 161. 
Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard
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Tom Felton
4.28 avg rating — 147,674 ratings 162. 
Hollywood Cartoons: American Animation in Its Golden Age
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Michael Barrier
4.02 avg rating — 130 ratings 
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Birth of an Industry: Blackface Minstrelsy and the Rise of American Animation
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Nicholas Sammond
4.03 avg rating — 61 ratings 
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Writing Treatments That Sell: How to Create and Market Your Story Ideas to the Motion Picture and TV Industry
by:
Kenneth Atchity
3.71 avg rating — 129 ratings 
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Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked
by:
Adam Alter
3.85 avg rating — 12,531 ratings 168. 
Hitchcock's Blondes: The Unforgettable Women Behind the Legendary Director's Dark Obsession
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Laurence Leamer
3.41 avg rating — 1,196 ratings 170. 
Monkey Business: The Lives and Legends of The Marx Brothers
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Simon Louvish
4.01 avg rating — 272 ratings 
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Blockbusters: Hit-making, Risk-taking, and the Big Business of Entertainment
by:
Anita Elberse
3.75 avg rating — 822 ratings 
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Bambi vs. Godzilla: On the Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business
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David Mamet
3.49 avg rating — 1,183 ratings 
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Screening Reality: How Documentary Filmmakers Reimagined America
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Jon Wilkman
3.76 avg rating — 17 ratings 179. 
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Aaaaalllviiinnn!: The Story of Ross Bagdasarian, Sr., Liberty Records, Format Films and The Alvin Show
by:
Mark Arnold
3.44 avg rating — 9 ratings 181. 
War, Politics and Superheroes: Ethics and Propaganda in Comics and Film
by:
Marc DiPaolo
3.91 avg rating — 112 ratings 
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The Man with the Golden Touch: How The Bond Films Conquered the World
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Sinclair McKay
3.54 avg rating — 108 ratings 184. 
The Coen Brothers: This Book Really Ties the Films Together
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Adam Nayman
4.02 avg rating — 655 ratings 185. 
The Best Film You've Never Seen: 35 Directors Champion the Forgotten or Critically Savaged Movies They Love
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Robert K. Elder
3.56 avg rating — 133 ratings 
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Gremlin Trouble!: The Cursed Roald Dahl Film Disney Never Made
by:
Jim Korkis
3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings 188. 
Pink-Slipped: What Happened to Women in the Silent Film Industries? (Women’s Media History Now!)
by:
Jane M. Gaines
2.77 avg rating — 26 ratings 189. 
The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film
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Michael Ondaatje
4.34 avg rating — 1,685 ratings 190. 
Giant: Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Edna Ferber, and the Making of a Legendary American Film
by:
Don Graham
3.91 avg rating — 313 ratings 191. 
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I Am Spartacus!: Making a Film, Breaking the Blacklist
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Kirk Douglas
4.20 avg rating — 1,053 ratings 
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Wayne and Ford: The Films, the Friendship, and the Forging of an American Hero 3.85 avg rating — 177 ratings
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Jazz and Cocktails: Rethinking Race and the Sound of Film Noir
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Jans B Wager
3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings 196. 
John Hughes: A Life in Film: The Genius Behind Ferris Bueller, The Breakfast Club, Home Alone, and more
by:
Kirk Honeycutt
3.62 avg rating — 239 ratings 197. 
Film After Film: Or, What Became of 21st Century Cinema?
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J. Hoberman
3.52 avg rating — 221 ratings 
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