The Big Screen (98 page)

Misérables, Les
(1935)

Misfits, The
(1961)

Mishima
(1985)

Mission: Impossible
(TV series)

Mississippi Mermaid
(1969)

Miss Julie
(1951)

Miss Mend
(1926)

Missouri Breaks, The
(1976)

Mister Roberts
(1955)

Mistons, Les
(1957)

Mitchum, Robert

Mix, Tom

Mizoguchi, Kenji

Moderns, The
(1988)

Modern Times
(1936)

Molina, Ángela

Monroe, Marilyn

Monsieur Verdoux
(1947)

montage

Montagu, Ivor

Montgomery, Robert

Monty Python's Flying Circus
(TV series)

Moore, Julianne

Moore, Mary Tyler

Moorehead, Agnes

Moran, Dolores

Moran, Lois

Moravia, Alberto

Moreau, Jeanne

Morecambe, Eric

Moreuil, François

Morgan, Peter

Morgenstern, Ignace

Morgenstern, Joe

Morgenstern, Madeleine

Morning Departure
(1950)

Morocco
(1930)

Morose, Jeanne

Morozov, Evgeny

Morricone, Ennio

Morris, Edmund

Mortal Storm, The
(1940)

Mortimer, John

Morton, Samantha

Moscow Art Theatre

Moss, Jack

Mote
(Teodoro)

Mother
(1926)

Mother and the Whore, The
(1973)

Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals

Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)

Motion Picture Patents Company

Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America

Motion Pictures Patents Company

Moulin Rouge
(2001)

Moullet, Luc

Mountbatten, Louis

Moussy, Marcel

Moviegoer, The
(Percy)

movie industry: blacklist in; contracts in; financial misreporting by; founding fathers of; myth of discovery in; scandals and; self-regulation by

movies: affinity with shopping and; clothes in; commercial cheerfulness in American; cost of; cultural disdain for; doppelgänger idea in; early reactions to; editing of; marriage of light and dark in; nudity in; ratings of; sex in; silver age of; smoking in; state film and; studio system in; town-country split and; of World War II

Movietone

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Mr. Arkadin
(1955)

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
(1936)

Mr. Klein
(1976)

Mrs. Dalloway
(Woolf)

Mr. Skeffington
(1944)

Mrs. Miniver
(1942)

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
(1939)

Mulholland Dr.
(2001)

Mulholland Falls
(1996)

Muni, Paul

Munich
(2005)

Murch, Walter

Murder in the Air
(1940)

Murder on the Orient Express
(1974)

Murders in the Rue Morgue
(1932)

Murdoch, Rupert

Murnau, F. W.

Murphy, Audie

Murphy, Eddie

Murray, James

musicals

Musil, Robert

Mussolini, Benito

Mussolini, Vittorio

Mutiny on the Bounty
(1935)

Mutiny on the Bounty
(1962)

Muybridge, Eadweard

Muybridge, Flora

Muybridge, Florado Helios

My Autobiography
(Chaplin)

My Face for the World to See
(Hayes, A.)

My Favorite Husband
(radio show)

My Man Godfrey
(1936)

My Night at Maud's
(1969)

Myron Selznick Agency

Mystic River
(2003)

My Three Sons
(TV series)

My Week with Marilyn
(2011)

NAACP

Nabokov, Vera

Nabokov, Vladimir

Naked and the Dead, The
(Mailer)

Naked Island, The
(1951)

Naked Kiss, The
(1964)

Naked Spur, The
(1953)

Nana
(1926)

Napoléon
(1927)

Narita, Hiro

Nashville
(1975)

Natanson, Jacques

National Endowment for the Arts

National Film School (Britain)

National Film Theatre

Natural Born Killers
(1994)

Nave Bianca, La
(1942)

Navigator, The
(1924)

Nazimova, Alla

Nazism

NBC (National Broadcasting Company)

NBC Orchestra

Negri, Pola

Nelson, Barry

Nelson, Ricky

Nemec, Jan

neorealism

Net Delusion, The
(Morozov)

Netflix

Network
(1976)

Neuromancer
(Gibson)

Newman, David

Newman, Paul

Newton, Robert

New Wave

New York, New York
(1977)

New York, N.Y.

New Yorker, The

New York Film Critics Circle

New York Film Festival

New York Movie
(Hopper, E.)

Next Time We Love
(1936)

Nibelungen, Die
(1924)

Niccol, Andrew

Nichols, Mike

Nicholson, Jack

Night and Fog
(1955)

Night in an English Music Hall, A
(ensemble sketch)

Night Mail
(1936)

Night of the Hunter, The
(1955)

Nilsson, Maj-Britt

Nine Men
(1943)

Ninotchka
(1939)

Niven, David

Nixon
(1995)

Nixon, Marni

Nixon, Richard

Nixon at the Movies
(Feeney)

No Country for Old Men
(2007)

noir

Nolan, Christopher

Nolte, Nick

No Man's Land

Normand, Mabel

Norris, Frank

North by Northwest
(1959)

Northern Exposure
(TV series)

Nosferatu
(1922)

Notebooks of Captain Georges, The
(Renoir, J.)

Notes
(Coppola, E.)

“Notes on the Auteur Theory in 1962” (Sarris)

Notes on the Cinematographer
(Bresson)

Nothing Sacred
(1937)

Notorious
(1946)

Notte, La
(1961)

Novak, Kim

Now, Voyager
(1942)

Nowell-Smith, Geoffrey

Nuit du Carrefour, La
(1932)

Nutty Professor, The
(1963)

Nykvist, Sven

NYPD Blue
(TV series)

 

Oakes, Philip

Oates, Joyce Carol

Obama, Barack

Oberon, Merle

Objective, Burma!
(1945)

O'Brien, George

O'Brien, Margaret

O Brother, Where Art Thou?
(2000)

Obst, Lynda

Ocean's Eleven
(1960)

Ocean's Eleven
(2001)

Ocean's Thirteen
(2007)

Ocean's Twelve
(2004)

O'Connor, Donald

October
(
Ten Days That Shook the World
) (1928)

Odd Man Out
(1947)

Odets, Clifford

Odlum, Floyd

O'Donnell, Cathy

Of Human Bondage
(1934)

Ogier, Bulle

Okada, Eiji

Oklahoma!
(1943)

Old Maid, The
(1939)

Oliver!
(1968)

Oliver Twist
(1948)

Olivier, Laurence

Olympia
(1938)

Once Upon a Time in the West
(1968)

On Dangerous Ground
(1952)

O'Neal, Ryan

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
(1975)

One from the Heart
(1982)

O'Neill, Eugene

O'Neill, Oona

On Golden Pond
(1981)

Only Angels Have Wings
(1939)

On the Beach
(1959)

On The Town
(1949)

On the Waterfront
(1954)

Ophüls, Marcel

Ophüls, Max

Oppenheimer, Jess

Oppenheimer, Max

Orbison, Roy

Orpheum

Osborne, John

Oscars

Ôshima, Nagisa

Ossessione
(1943)

Oswald, Lee Harvey

Othello
(1952)

Other Side of the Wind, The
(unfinished)

Otsep, Fyodor

Our Daily Bread
(1934)

Our Hospitality
(1923)

Our Miss Brooks
(TV series)

Ouspenskaya, Maria

Out of Africa
(1985)

Outlaw, The
(1943)

Outlaw Josey Wales, The
(1976)

Out of the Past
(1947)

Out One
(1974)

“Oval Portrait, The” (Poe)

Overlanders, The
(1946)

Ovitz, Mike

Oz
(TV series)

Ozu, Yasujirô

 

Pabst, G. W.

Pacific, The
(TV series)

Pacific Film Archive

Pacino, Al

Paini, Dominique

Paisà
(1946)

Pakula, Alan

Palance, Jack

Palermi, Amleto

Paley, Isaac

Paley, Samuel

Paley, William

Pallette, Eugene

Palm Beach Story, The
(1942)

Palmer, Tony

panchromatic black-and-white film

Pandora's Box
(1929)

Panic in Needle Park, The
(1971)

Panic in the Streets
(1950)

Panorama du Film Noir Américain, 1941–1953
(Borde and Chaumeton)

Paper Moon
(1973)

Parain, Brice

Parallax View, The
(1974)

Paramount

Paris, Texas
(1984)

Paris Nous Appartient
(1961)

Paris Qui Dort
(1924)

Park, Arthur

Parker, Bonnie

Parker, Charlie

Parlo, Dita

Parr, Jack

Parsifal
(1983)

Parsons, Estelle

Partie de Campagne
(1936)

“Partie de Campagne” (Maupassant)

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

Passenger, The
(1975)

Passer, Ivan

Passionate Friends, The
(1949)

Passion of Joan of Arc, The
(1928)

Passion Play, The
(1900)

Passport to Pimlico
(1949)

Paths of Glory
(1957)

Patterson, John

Patton
(1970)

Paul, Robert

Paulson, Hank

Paxinou, Katina

PBS (Public Broadcasting System)

Pease, Frank

Peck, Gregory

Peckinpah, Sam

Peeping Tom
(1960)

Penn, Arthur

Pennebaker, D. A.

People on Sunday
(1930)

People vs. Larry Flynt, The
(1996)

Percy, Walker

Périnal, Georges

Perkins, Anthony

Perkins, V. F.

Perry Mason
(TV series)

Perske, Betty Joan

Persona
(1966)

Pesci, Joe

Petite Marchande d'Allumettes, La
(1928)

Petit Soldat, Le
(1963)

Pevere, Geoff

Peyton Place
(1957)

Philadelphia Story, The
(1940)

Philby, Kim

Philip Morris

Phillips, Michelle

photographic gun

photography

Piano Teacher, The
(2001)

Picasso, Pablo

Piccoli, Michel

Pickford, Mary

Picnic
(1955)

Pidgeon, Walter

Pierrot le Fou
(1965)

Pierson, Frank

Pignières, René

Pillow Talk
(1959)

Pilota Ritorna, Un
(1942)

Pink String and Sealing Wax
(1945)

Pinky
(1949)

Pinter, Harold

Pirate, The
(1948)

Pirates of the Caribbean
series

Pisier, Marie-France

Pixar

Place in the Sun, A
(1951)

Plainsman, The
(1936)

Plaisir, Le
(1952)

Platt, Polly

Playhouse 90
(TV series)

Play Misty for Me
(1971)

Pleasure Garden, The
(1925)

Plenty
(1985)

Poe, Edgar Allan

Poggioli, Ferdinando Maria

Point Blank
(1967)

Poland

Polanski, Roman

Pollard, Michael J.

Polley, Sarah

Pollock, Jackson

Poltergeist
(1982)

PolyVision

Pommer, Erich

Pong (Atari game)

Ponti, Carlo

population, U.S.

Pordenone

Porgy and Bess
(1959)

pornography

Port of Call
(1948)

Porter, Cole

Porter, Eric

Portrait of a Lady, The
(James, H.)

Positif

Postman Always Rings Twice, The
(Cain)

Potter, Dennis

Powell, Charles

Powell, Dick

Powell, Eleanor

Powell, Harry

Powell, Michael

Powell, Sandy

Powell, William

Power, Tyrone

Prague

Prague Spring

Premier Pictures

Preminger, Otto

Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, The
(Goffman)

Pressburger, Emeric

Pretty Woman
(1990)

Prévert, Jacques

Previn, André

Price, Dennis

Price, Vincent

Pride of the Marines
(1945)

Pride and Prejudice
(1940)

Priestley, J. B.

Primary
(1960)

Prince and the Showgirl, The
(1957)

Prince Who Was a Thief, The
(1951)

Private Life of Don Juan, The
(1934)

Private Life of Henry VIII, The
(1933)

Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, The
(1939)

Production Code (1930) (Hays Code)

Production Code Administration

production design

production management

Professor Unrat
(Mann, H.)

Profumo, John

Prohibition

Prokofiev, Sergei

Proletkult Workers' Theatre

Prometheus
(2012)

propaganda

Protazanov, Yakov

Proust, Marcel

Prowler, The
(1951)

Psycho
(1960)

Public Enemies
(2009)

Public Enemy
(1931)

publicity

Public Speaking
(2010)

Puccini, Giacomo

Pudovkin, Vsevolod

Pugh, Madelyn

Pulp Fiction
(1994)

Punch-Drunk Love
(2002)

Purple Mask, The
(1955)

Purple Rose of Cairo, The
(1985)

Pushkin, Alexander

Puzo, Mario

Pylon
(Faulkner)

 

Quaid, Randy

Quai des Brumes
(1938)

Quatre Cent Coups, Les
(1959)

Queen Christina
(1933)

Queen Kelly
(1929)

Queen of Spades, The
(1916)

Que Viva Mexico!
(1933)

Quiet Man, The
(1952)

Quirke, Antonia

Quo Vadis?
(1913)

Quo Vadis?
(1925)

 

Rachmaninoff, Sergei

RADA (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art)

radio

Radio City Music Hall

Radio Days
(1987)

Rafelson, Bob

Raft, George

Raging Bull
(1980)

Ragtime
(Doctorow)

Raiders of the Lost Ark
(1981)

Rainer, Luise

Raines, Ella

Rain People, The
(1969)

Rains, Claude

“Raising Kane” (Kael)

Rambo
series

Rand, Ayn

Rankin, John

Rank Organisation

Rapf, Harry

Rappe, Virginia

Rashomon

Rasputin and the Empress
(1932)

Ratoff, Gregory

Rat Pack

Rattigan, Terence

Rauschenberg, Robert

Rawhide
(TV series)

Ray, Aldo

Ray, Nicholas

Ray, Satyajit

Ray, Susan

Raybert Productions

Rayns, Tony

RCA

Reach for the Sky
(1956)

Reagan, Michael

Reagan, Ronald

realism

reality shows

Rear Window
(1954)

Rebecca
(1940)

Rebel Without a Cause
(1955)

Reckless Moment, The
(1949)

Red Buttons Show, The
(TV series)