Richard Wall Memorial Award - Finalists, 2001-2010
Formerly known as the Theatre Library Association Award, the prize was renamed in 2010 to honor the memory of the late Richard Wall, longtime TLA member and Book Awards Chair.
The Wall jurors found the following titles to be of particular stand-out note. They are listed here alphabetically by author.
2010
Matthew H. Bernstein. Screening a Lynching: The Leo Frank Case on Film and Television. University of Georgia Press, 2009.
*Michel Chion. (WINNER) Film, A Sound Art. Translated by Claudia Gorbman. Columbia University Press, 2009.
Lucas Hilderbrand. Inherent Vice: Bootleg Histories of Videotape and Copyright. Duke University Press, 2009.
Patrick Keating. Hollywood Lighting from the Silent Era to Film Noir. Columbia University Press, 2009.
*Rob King. (SPECIAL JURY PRIZE) The Fun Factory: The Keystone Film Company and the Emergence of Mass Culture. University of California Press, 2009.
David Mayer. Stagestruck Filmmaker: D.W. Griffith and the American Theatre. University of Iowa Press, 2009.
Kristin A. McGee. Some Liked it Hot: Jazz Women in Film and Television, 1928-1959. Wesleyan University Press, 2009.
Derek Nystrom. Hard Hats, Rednecks, and Macho Men: Class in 1970s American Cinema. Oxford University Press, 2009.
Stephen Tropiano. Obscene, Indecent, Immoral, and Offensive: 100+ Years of Censored, Banned and Controversial Films. Limelight Editions, 2009.
Mark A. Vieira. Irving Thalberg: Boy Wonder to Producer Prince. University of California Press, 2009.
2009
Michael Aronson. Nickelodeon City: Pittsburgh at the Movies, 1905-1929. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008.
*Mark Harris. (WINNER) Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood. Penguin Books, 2008.
Richard Koszarski. Hollywood on the Hudson: Film and Television in New York from Griffith to Sarnoff. Rutgers University Press, 2008.
2008
*Jeanine Basinger. (WINNER) The Star Machine. Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.
Zander Brietzke. American Drama in the Age of Film. The University of Alabama Press, 2007.
Gerald R. Butters, Jr. Banned in Kansas: Motion Picture Censorship, 1915-1966. University of Missouri Press, 2007.
Bruce Lenthall. Radio’s America: The Great Depression and the Rise of Modern Mass Culture. University of Chicago Press, 2007.
D. N. Rodowick. The Virtual Life of Film. Harvard University Press, 2007.
Jeffrey Stepakoff. Billion-Dollar Kiss: The Kiss the Saved Dawson’s Creek and Other Adventures in TV Writing. Gotham Books, 2007.
Garrett Stewart. Framed Time: Toward a Postfilmic Cinema. University of Chicago Press, 2007.
2007
Richard Abel. Americanizing the Movies and "Movie-Mad" Audiences, 1910-1914. University of California Press, 2006.
*Amid Amidi. (WINNER) Cartoon Modern: Style and Design in Fifties Animation. Chronicle Books, 2006.
Susan Delson. Dudley Murphy: Hollywood Wild Card. University of Minnesota Press, 2006.
Hervé Dumont. Frank Borzage: The Life and Films of a Hollywood Romantic. McFarland, 2006.
Neal Gabler. Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination. Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.
*Steve Higgins. (SPECIAL JURY PRIZE) Still Moving: The Film and Media Collections of the Museum of Modern Art. Museum of Modern Art, 2006.
Joseph McBride. What Ever Happened to Orson Welles?: A Portrait of an Independent Career. University Press of Kentucky, 2006.
Robert L. McLaughlin and Sally E. Perry. We'll Always Have the Movies: American Cinema During World War II. University Press of Kentucky, 2006.
Peter Richmond. Fever: The Life and Music of Miss Peggy Lee. Henry Holt & Company, 2006.
J. E. Smith. Reconstructing American Historical Cinema: From "Cimarron" to "Citizen Kane". University Press of Kentucky, 2006.
*Birgitta Steene. (SPECIAL JURY PRIZE) Ingmar Bergman: A Reference Guide. University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Jack Sullivan. Hitchcock's Music. Yale University Press, 2006.
2006
*Richard Abel (Editor). (WINNER) Encyclopedia of Early Cinema. Routledge, 2005.
Richard A. Blake. Street Smart: The New York of Lumet, Allen, Scorsese and Lee. University Press of Kentucky, 2005.
Robert J. Christopher. Robert and Frances Flaherty: A Documentary Life, 1883-1922. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2005.
Peter Decherney. Hollywood and the Cultural Elite: How the Movies Became American. Columbia University Press, 2005.
Darcie Denkert. A Fine Romance. Watson-Guptill Publications, 2005.
Scott Eyman. Lion of Hollywood: The Life and Legend of Louis B. Mayer. Simon & Schuster, 2005.
*Daniel Goldmark. (SPECIAL JURY PRIZE) Tunes for ‘Toons: Music and the Hollywood Cartoon. University of California Press, 2005.
Clinton Heylin. Despite the System: Orson Welles Versus the Hollywood Studios. Chicago Review Press, 2005.
David Leopold. Irving Berlin’s Show Business: Broadway - Hollywood - America. Harry N. Abrams, 2005 (also a Freedley Award Finalist).
Mark Cotta Vaz. Living Dangerously: The Adventures of Merian C. Cooper, Creator of King Kong. Villard Books, 2005.
Mark A. Vieira. Greta Garbo: A Cinematic Legacy. Harry N. Abrams, 2005.
Haidee Wasson. Museum Movies: The Museum of Modern Art and the Birth of Art Cinema. University of California Press, 2005.
John Wranovics. Chaplin and Agee: The Untold Story of the Tramp, the Writer, and the Lost Screenplay. Palgrave, 2005.
Stephen D. Youngkin. The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre. University Press of Kentucky, 2005.
2005
*Rick Altman. (WINNER) Silent Film Sound. Columbia University Press, 2004.
Robert S. Birchard. Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood. University Press of Kentucky, 2004.
Peter Biskind. Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance and the Rise of Independent Film. Simon & Schuster, 2004.
Peter Bogdanovich. Who the Hell's in It: Portraits and Conversations. Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.
Elizabeth Ezra (Editor). European Cinema. Oxford University Press, 2004.
Krin Gabbard. Black Magic: White Hollywood and African American Culture. Rutgers University Press, 2004.
Aram Goudsouzian. Sidney Poitier: Man, Actor, Icon. University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
*Ray Harryhausen and Tony Dalton. (SPECIAL JURY PRIZE) Ray Harryhausen: An Animated Life. Billboard Books/ Watson-Guptill Publications, 2004.
Peter C. Rollins (Editor). The Columbia Companion to American History on Film: How the Movies Have Portrayed the American Past. Columbia University Press, 2004.
David Thomson. The Whole Equation: A History of Hollywood. Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.
Geoffrey C. Ward. Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson. Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.
Max Wilk. Schmucks with Underwoods: Conversations with Hollywood's Classic Screenwriters. Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, 2004.
2004
John Bodnar. Blue-Collar Hollywood: Liberalism, Democracy, and Working People in American Film. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.
James Curtis. (SPECIAL JURY PRIZE) W. C. Fields: A Biography. Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.
Thomas Doherty. Cold War, Cool Medium: Television, McCarthyism, and American Culture. Columbia University Press, 2003.
Alan L. Heil, Jr. Voice of America: A History. Columbia University Press, 2003.
Peter B. High. The Imperial Screen: Japanese Film Culture in the Fifteen Years' War, 1931-1945. University of Wisconsin Press, 2003.
J. Hoberman and Jeffrey Shandler. Entertaining America: Jews, Movies, and Broadcasting. Princeton University Press, 2003.
Stefan Kanfer. Ball of Fire: The Tumultuous Life and Comic Art of Lucille Ball. Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.
Devin McKinney. Magic Circles: The Beatles in Dream and History. Harvard University Press, 2003.
Sven Nykvist and others. Making Pictures: A Century of European Cinematography. Harry N. Abrams, 2003.
*Scott Simmon. (WINNER) The Invention of the Western Film: A Cultural History of the Genre's First Half-Century. Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Rebecca Solnit. River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West. Viking, 2003.
Jeffrey Vance. Chaplin: Genius of the Cinema. Harry N. Abrams, 2003.
2003
Richard Barrios. Screened Out: Playing Gay in Hollywood from Edison to Stonewall. Routledge, 2002.
Gerald R. Butters, Jr. Black Manhood on the Silent Screen. University Press of Kansas, 2002.
Samuel Fuller and others. A Third Face: My Tale of Writing, Fighting, and Filmmaking. Alfred A. Knopf, 2002.
Stuart Galbraith IV. The Emperor and the Wolf: The Lives and Films of Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune. Faber & Faber, 2002.
Arthur Knight. Disintegrating the Musical: Black Performance and American Musical Film. Duke University Press, 2002.
Rémi Fournier Lanzoni. French Cinema from Its Beginnings to the Present. Continuum, 2002.
Simon Louvish. Stan and Ollie, The Roots of Comedy: The Double Life of Laurel and Hardy. St. Martin's Press, 2002.
Barbara Tepa Lupack. Literary Adaptations in Black American Cinema: From Micheaux to Morrison. University of Rochester Press, 2002.
*Louis Pizzitola. (HONORABLE MENTION) Hearst Over Hollywood: Power Passion and Propaganda in the Movies. Columbia University Press, 2002.
Richard M. Sudhalter. Stardust Melody: The Life and Music of Hoagy Carmichael. Oxford University Press, 2002.
John Trumpbour. Selling Hollywood to the World: U.S. and European Struggles for Mastery of the Global Film Industry, 1920-1950. Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Jeffrey Vance and Suzanne Lloyd. Harold Lloyd: Master Comedian. Harry N. Abrams, 2002.
Mark Cotta Vaz and Craig Barron. (WINNER) The Invisible Art: The Legends of Movie Matte Painting. Chronicle Books, 2002.
Hanns Zischler (Susan H. Gillespie, Translator). Kafka Goes to the Movies. University of Chicago Press, 2002.
2002
Charles Affron. Lillian Gish: Her Legend, Her Life. Scribner, 2001.
Joanne Bernardi. Writing in Light: The Silent Scenario and the Japanese Pure Film Movement. Wayne State University Press, 2001.
Donald Bogle. Primetime Blues: African Americans on Network Television. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2001.
Paula Marantz Cohen. Silent Film and the Triumph of the American Myth. Oxford University Press, 2001.
Maria DiBattista. Fast-Talking Dames. Yale University Press, 2001.
Jane M. Gaines. Fire and Desire: Mixed-Race Movies in the Silent Era. University of Chicago Press, 2001.
*Gary Giddins. (WINNER) Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams--The Early Years, 1903-1940. Little, Brown & Company, 2001.
Peter Hanson. Dalton Trumbo, Hollywood Rebel: A Critical Survey and Filmography. McFarland, 2001.
Charles Keil. Early American Cinema in Transition: Story, Style and Filmmaking, 1907-1913. University of Wisconsin Press, 2001.
Bill Nichols (Editor). Maya Deren and the American Avant-Garde. University of California Press, 2001.
*James Sanders. (HONORABLE MENTION) Celluloid Skyline: New York and the Movies. Alfred A. Knopf, 2001.
Ben Singer. Melodrama and Modernity: Early Sensational Cinema and Its Contexts. Columbia University Press, 2001
Linda Williams. Playing the Race Card: Melodramas of Black and White from Uncle Tom to O. J. Simpson. Princeton University Press, 2001.
2001
Sarah Berry. Screen Style: Fashion and Femininity in 1930s Hollywood. University of Minnesota Press, 2000.
David Bordwell. Planet Hong Kong: Popular Cinema and the Art of Entertainment. Harvard University Press, 2000.
*Pearl Bowser and Louise Spence. (WINNER) Writing Himself into History: Oscar Micheaux, His Silent Films, and His Audiences. Rutgers University Press, 2000.
Kate Buford. Burt Lancaster: An American Life. Alfred A. Knopf, 2000.
*Alan Dale. (HONORABLE MENTION) Comedy is a Man in Trouble: Slapstick in American Movies. University of Minnesota Press, 2000.
Robert M. Entman and Andrew Rojecki. The Black Image in the White Mind: Media and Race in America. University of Chicago Press, 2000.
J. Ronald Green. Straight Lick: The Cinema of Oscar Micheaux. Indiana University Press, 2000.
Constance Valis Hill. Brotherhood in Rhythm: The Jazz Tap Dancing of the Nicholas Brothers. Oxford University Press, 2000 (also a Freedley Award Finalist).
Mick LaSalle. Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood. St. Martin's Press, 2000.
Randolph Lewis. Emile de Antonio: Radical Filmmaker in Cold War America. University of Wisconsin Press, 2000.
Lary May. The Big Tomorrow: Hollywood and the Politics of the American Way. University of Chicago Press, 2000.
Steven Reiss and others. Thirty Frames Per Second: The Visionary Art of the Music Video. Harry N. Abrams, 2000.
Luther F. Sies. Encyclopedia of American Radio, 1920-1960. McFarland, 2000.
Shelley Stamp. Movie-Struck Girls: Women and Motion Picture Culture after the Nickelodeon. Princeton University Press, 2000.
*Mark Evan Swartz. (HONORABLE MENTION) Oz Before the Rainbow: L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz on Stage and Screen to 1939. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000 (also a Freedley Award finalist).
Last updated: June 18, 2010