Rediscovering Ben Hecht
Subtitle: Selling the Celluloid Serpent
By: Commentary & Book by Florice Whyte Kovan
Contributors: Florice Whyte Kovan (Editor)
Edition: 1st Edition, Artist Book, Spiral in Hardcover Portfolio
Series: Rediscovering Ben Hecht
Publisher: Snickersnee Press
Published: July 1, 1998
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Format: Spiral in Silk-screened Hardcover Portfolio
Number of pages: 95
ISBN-13: 9780966770902
Copyright date: 1998
Subjects: Chaplin, Charlie; Chicago; Silent films; Biography; Motion pictures; Fiction
Other titles: Rediscovering Ben Hecht, Vol 1
Notes: Index to this artist book is in the paperback with same pagination, complimentary when ordered directly from Snickersnee Press.  Shipped in sepentine confetti.
Table of contents: title: Ben Hecht Stories in Rediscovering Ben Hecht:  Selling the Celluloid Serpent; title: The Movie Double" about cliffhanger heroines and stuntwomen; title: Peshka and the Great Urge" about  movie madness in a Jewish neighborhood); title: "The Knockout"  about boxer Kid McCoy/Norman Selby; title: "Moon Quan" (Kwan) about the Chinese cultural consultant to silent films; title: "Another Arabian Night" about Wallace Reid; title: "The New Market", about casting types and their dollar value; title: 'Mack Sennett's Soul" - interview - where can such a famous man hide?; title: "A Plot for a Story" about stream of consiousness in film; title: "The Ancient Reluctant Conscript" about veterans of war movies; title: "Tears, Tears, Tears" about Norma Talmadge and Mabel Normand; title: "Reality versus Sham" about a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest; title: "The Love Interest" about Harrison Ford 1920s rough guy with women movies; title: "Petrovivacity" about Olga Petrova, silent film diva and modernist; title: "A Perfect Exposure" about a woman in a display window; title: "The Picador" roman a clef re Rudolph Valentino