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Unsung Heroes of White Hollywood

Published June 18, 2020June 28, 2020 by Privilege Of Legends in black actors, black cinema, black entertainment history, black films, calypso legends, cinema essay, cult film, film blog, film essay, film noir, film posters, film studies, film theory, minorities in hollywood, Uncategorized

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The Deadly Gent: British Crime Films of 1970-1972

Published May 9, 2019 by Privilege Of Legends in 70's cinema, 70's film, al capone, art direction, art in film, bfi, blaxploitation, blog essay, british board of film censors, british cinema, british crime films, british films, cinematography, classic film, composers, creative writing, crime fiction, crime film, criterion, cult film, directing, directing film, director of photography, directors, experimental film, film art, film blog, film censorship, film design, film distribution, film essay, film genre, film music, film noir, film parody, film posters, film production, film scores, film studies, film theory, filmmaking, foreign film, french cinema, french new wave, gangster films, hard boiled, hollywood, hollywood satire, independent film, jazz, london art, london film, michael caine, mickey spillane, musical theatre, musicals, neo noir, nicolas roeg, organised crime, parody, period films, playwrights, politics, privilege of legends, pulp crime, pulp crime fiction, pulp fiction, raoul walsh, raymond chandler, realism in film, richard burton, satire, screen adaptations, screenwriting, sonny and his pen, sonny syah, symbolism in film, theatre in film, thriller, Uncategorized, walkabout, warner brothers

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Crime and Crane

Published February 22, 2019May 7, 2019 by Privilege Of Legends in crane wilbur, crime fiction, crime film, eagle-lion films, film essay, film genre, film noir, film posters, film production code, film studies, film theory, john alton, organised crime, postwar films, propaganda films, pulp crime fiction, Uncategorized

Film Censorship & Pre-Code Hollywood

Published August 12, 2018August 16, 2018 by Privilege Of Legends in 30's films, al capone, barbara stanwyck, british board of film censors, charles laughton, crime fiction, crime film, edward g. robinson, ernst lubitsch, fatty arbuckle scandal, femme fatale, film censorship, film production code, gangster films, george raft, h.g wells, hays code, hollywood court cases, horror, island of lost souls, james cagney, jean harlow, joan crawford, john dillinger, lewis milestone, little caesar, mccarthyism, murders in the zoo, organised crime, paul muni, pre-code hollywood, pre-code horror, privilege of legends, pulp crime, pulp crime fiction, realism in film, red-headed woman, scarface, science fiction, silent films, sonny and his pen, sonny syah, stock market collapse 1929, the great depression, the island of dr. moreau, the jazz age, the public enemy, tod browning, Uncategorized, w. somerset maugham, walter huston, warner brothers, william desmond taylor, william hays, william wellman

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Six Fatal Kisses

Published March 11, 2018February 27, 2019 by Privilege Of Legends in 40's film, 50's film, academy awards, art direction, art in film, ben hecht, bfi, billy wilder, blog essay, classic film, cold war, creative writing, crime fiction, crime film, criterion, cult film, directing film, directors, double indemnity, fascism, femme fatale, film art, film blog, film censorship, film design, film essay, film genre, film noir, film production, film studies, film theory, filmmaking, gangster films, hard boiled, hays code, hollywood, independent american cinema, independent film, james cagney, james m cain, london film, mccarthyism, mickey spillane, neo noir, privilege of legends, pulp crime, pulp crime fiction, pulp fiction, ralph meeker, raoul walsh, raymond chandler, richard conte, rko pictures, robert aldrich, robert siodmak, sam fuller, samuel fuller, scorsese, screen adaptations, screenwriting, sonny syah, spy films, spy movies, stanley kubrick, Uncategorized, war films

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The Spy Films Of Fritz Lang

Published January 5, 2018January 6, 2018 by Privilege Of Legends in 40's film, academy awards, adventure films, alfred hitchcock, anti-nazi, anti-war film, art direction, art in film, auteurs, bfi, blog essay, british cinema, carol reed, cinematography, classic film, cold war, creative writing, crime fiction, crime film, criterion, cult film, directing, directing film, directors, fascism, film art, film blog, film censorship, film design, film essay, film genre, film noir, film production, film studies, film theory, film vienna, filmmaking, foreign cinema, foreign film, fritz lang, german expressionism, graham greene, graphic art, hard boiled, hays code, hitchcock, hollywood, independent american cinema, independent film, italian neo-realism, london film, mccarthyism, michael curtiz, neo-realism, neorealism, NIDA, paramount pictures, period films, politics, post production, post-war film, pre-war film, privilege of legends, propaganda film, screen adaptations, screenwriting, silent films, sonny syah, spy films, spy movies, the third man, thriller, Uncategorized, war films, warner brothers, world cinema

Take A Stroll Through S. Parajanov Museum

Published June 11, 2017June 11, 2017 by Privilege Of Legends in 60's film, academy awards, andrei tarkovsky, anti-war film, armenian film, art direction, art in film, ashik kerib, auteurs, avant garde, best film design, bfi, blog essay, british cinema, cinematography, classic film, classical music, cold war, color of pomegranates, colour in film, costume design, creative writing, criterion, cult film, dadaism, directing film, director of photography, directors, eastern european film, experimental film, fascism, film art, film blog, film censorship, film design, film essay, film genre, film posters, film production, film scores, film sound, film studies, film theory, filmmaking, foreign cinema, foreign film, georgian film, hollywood satire, independent film, legend of suram fortress, london art, london film, neo-realism, neorealism, NIDA, parody, period films, poetic realism, politics, post production, post-war film, privilege of legends, propaganda, propaganda film, russian film, satire, screenwriting, sergei paradjanov museum, sergei parajanov, set design, shooting technique, sonny syah, soviet film, soviet montage theory, surrealism, symbolism in film, Uncategorized, world cinema

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The Good Pulp Novelist Always Rings True

Published November 20, 2016January 9, 2017 by Privilege Of Legends in 30's films, 40's film, 50's film, academy awards, AFTRS, art in film, auteurs, avant garde, bfi, blog essay, cinematography, classic film, creative writing, crime fiction, crime film, criterion, cult film, directing film, directors, fascism, femme fatale, film art, film blog, film censorship, film design, film essay, film genre, film noir, film production, film studies, film theory, filmmaking, foreign cinema, foreign film, france, french cinema, french new wave, gangster films, hard boiled, hays code, hollywood, italian neo-realism, london art, london film, michael curtiz, mildred pierce, neo noir, neo-realism, neorealism, period films, poetic realism, post production, post-war film, pre-code hollywood, privilege of legends, pulp crime fiction, raymond chandler, rko pictures, screenwriting, sonny syah, symbolism in film, Uncategorized, world cinema

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