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Eddie Muller's Books

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Sep.30.2010
In our age of Netflix and streaming videos, movie attendance continues its long decline, and cinema-going is becoming ever less of the collective experience Walter Benjamin so memorably described. Throughout the city of San Francisco, however, many theaters built between 1910 and 1950 are still standing, and some even remain in operation, serving as poignant reminders of Hollywood'...
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Oct.14.2005
The life story of a closeted gay movie star who was the idol of millions during the fifties and sixties.
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Feb.08.2003
The continuing adventures of gadfly 1940s sports reporter Billy Nichols, introduced in The Distance.
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Oct.14.2002
In-depth analysis of the "posters and graphics of the classic film noir era."
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Jan.24.2002
It's 1948, an era when newspapermen were stars -- and San Francisco sportswriter Billy Nichols is no exception. Known as Mr. Boxing throughout the city, he is the West Coast's answer to Damon Runyon -- an insider's insider who plucks and polishes his pearllike stories from the nonstop hustle of the city's nightclubs, gambling dens, and ringside seats. Billy Nichols is right...
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Apr.25.2001
Profiles of six actresses synonymous with "film noir," captured in both their youth and their twilight years.
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Jun.12.1998
A novelistic look at the movies, artists, politics and economics of Hollywood's classic Film Noir era.
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Dec.14.1996
A rambunctious ride through the history of publicly-viewed sex films, from the beginning of the cinema through the creation of the VCR.