Books by John Reid

A broad introduction to CinemaScope and other widescreen movies, including full credits for 85 sample films, a description of various anamorphic processes, plus background information for movie fans.

A book industry insider, who is also a contest judge and an acclaimed author, details sure-fire stratagems to achieve success in creative writing contests and literary competitions.

An anthology of original verse (plus a few translations from the Spanish and Ancient Egyptian) by the prize-winning poet and photographer, John Howard Reid. His work covers a wide variety of themes and genres, ranging from metrical ballads to prose poems, from the comic to the dramatic, from wide-ranging to highly personal, from the quietly descriptive to the impassioned didactic. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white photographs.

What makes a movie memorable? Has it won awards? Is it still constantly aired on television? Did it have an enormous influence in its day? Nearly 100 films of the 1940s are examined in detail, with complete cast, credit and background information. Pictures include "Casablanca", "Meet Me in St Louis", "Yankee Doodle Dandy", "All About Eve", "Cobra Woman", "Laura", "The Three Musketeers", "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn", "The Picture of Dorian Gray", "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein", "He Walked By Night", "Forever Amber", "The Paleface", etc.

A detailed review of 120 popular films, mostly from the 1940s. Includes comprehensive cast and technical credits, plus background and release information.

If it were not for the vision and enterprise of Darryl F. Zanuck and 20th Century-Fox, chances are none of us would be enjoying widescreen films today. Instead, we'd still be watching movies and TV on the same postage-stamp screen that became standard when movies began to talk in 1927. This survey of Fox's contributions to the CinemaScope Revolution which that studio started back in 1953, examines no less than 140 key films (with extensive cast and technical credits, plus release details and other background information, including prizes and awards).

An Anthology of Award-Winning Verse from the 2nd International Tom Howard Poetry Contest. Major prize-winners include such outstanding poets as Elaine Winer, Guy Kettelhack, Mary Ann Wehler, Catherine De Laney, Paul Barlin, Tina Richardson, Ross Gillett, Michelle Bitting, Peggy Smith Duke, Julie Lynn Golladay, Adam Wallace, Dennis Maulsby, Sook Moy Yew, John B. Lee, Tom Berman, Annamaria Hemingway, and Fiona Sievers.

The essays in this volume deal with topics such as colonial habitation, imperial exchange, and aboriginal engagement, all of which were pervasive phenomena of the time.

In this probing biography, John G. Reid examines Barnes's life as a female historian, providing a revealing glimpse into the gendered experience of professional academia in that era.

13-year-old Russian Alexi Gertoff had a chance meeting with Lev, Leon Trotsky's son. In the spring of 1917, Lev has come to Amherst to help his father escape from the wartime prison camp and Alexi becomes involved in this dangerous attempt to reunite Trotsky with his family.