The first two volumes of the series; organised by decade: 'Hollywood's Golden Age', 'the 1940s and 1950s'; twenty-seven writers and teams, including: W.R. Burnett, James M.Cain, Philip Dunne, Casey Robinson, Garson Kanin, Leigh Brackett, and Curt Siodmak; an oral history of the other auteur theory; illustrated, bibliography, indexes of movies, plays, television programs and books, 800pp; the other auteur theory; Joel Greenberg's copies with his ownership stamp; laid in is an autograph note, signed to Joel Greenberg from Patrick McGilligan belatedly sending vol.2.