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Book Synopsis Faster and Furiouser by : Mark Thomas McGee
Download or read book Faster and Furiouser written by Mark Thomas McGee and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1984 Mr. McGee wrote ("very well"--Choice) the acclaimed Fast and Furious, a history of American International Pictures. But, as McGee wrote us in his out of the blue offer to do a bigger and better, "Because of my unnatural interest, I've never stopped." The result of his ceaseless efforts can be found in this updated and expanded look at AIP. From the time Sam Arkoff and Jim Nicholson founded the company, they dominated the low-budget film market with such teen-oriented movies as Beach Party, The Wild Angels and I Was a Teenage Werewolf. Their movies were frowned on by critics not because they were terrible (which they mostly were) but because they were so shameless in their intent--to make money. This new work includes the most comprehensive AIP filmography ever assembled, as well as many new photographs not included in the earlier work.
Book Synopsis The Fast and the Furious by : Kris Palmer
Download or read book The Fast and the Furious written by Kris Palmer and published by Motorbooks. This book was released on 2006 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a close-up, detailed look at the cars in "The Fast and the Furious" series and includes descriptions of the stunts, insights into how each car was built and modified for filming, and interviews with directors and stunt coordinators.
Book Synopsis The Cars of The Fast and the Furious by : Eddie Paul
Download or read book The Cars of The Fast and the Furious written by Eddie Paul and published by Motorbooks. This book was released on 2003 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behind-the-scenes photographs profile the cars featured in the movie "The Fast and the Furious" and describe how the stunts were performed.
Book Synopsis The Persistence of Whiteness by : Daniel Bernardi
Download or read book The Persistence of Whiteness written by Daniel Bernardi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-09-12 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Persistence of Whiteness investigates the representation and narration of race in contemporary Hollywood cinema. Ideologies of class, ethnicity, gender, nation and sexuality are central concerns as are the growth of the business of filmmaking. Focusing on representations of Black, Asian, Jewish, Latina/o and Native Americans identities, this collection also shows how whiteness is a fact everywhere in contemporary Hollywood cinema, crossing audiences, authors, genres, studios and styles. Bringing together essays from respected film scholars, the collection covers a wide range of important films, including Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, The Color Purple, Star Wars and The Lord of the Rings. Essays also consider genres from the western to blaxploitation and new black cinema; provocative filmmakers such as Melvin Van Peebles and Steven Spielberg and stars including Whoopi Goldberg and Jennifer Lopez. Daniel Bernardi provides an in-depth introduction, comprehensive bibliography and a helpful glossary of terms, thus providing students with an accessible and topical collection on race and ethnicity in contemporary cinema.
Book Synopsis Ghouls, Gimmicks, and Gold by : Kevin Heffernan
Download or read book Ghouls, Gimmicks, and Gold written by Kevin Heffernan and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2004-03-25 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Creature from the Black Lagoon, the Tingler, the Mole People—they stalked and oozed into audiences’ minds during the era that followed Boris Karloff’s Frankenstein and preceded terrors like Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare on Elm Street) and Chucky (Child’s Play). Ghouls, Gimmicks, and Gold pulls off the masks and wipes away the slime to reveal how the monsters that frightened audiences in the 1950s and 1960s—and the movies they crawled and staggered through—reflected fundamental changes in the film industry. Providing the first economic history of the horror film, Kevin Heffernan shows how the production, distribution, and exhibition of horror movies changed as the studio era gave way to the conglomeration of New Hollywood. Heffernan argues that major cultural and economic shifts in the production and reception of horror films began at the time of the 3-d film cycle of 1953–54 and ended with the 1968 adoption of the Motion Picture Association of America’s ratings system and the subsequent development of the adult horror movie—epitomized by Rosemary’s Baby. He describes how this period presented a number of daunting challenges for movie exhibitors: the high costs of technological upgrade, competition with television, declining movie attendance, and a diminishing number of annual releases from the major movie studios. He explains that the production and distribution branches of the movie industry responded to these trends by cultivating a youth audience, co-producing features with the film industries of Europe and Asia, selling films to television, and intensifying representations of sex and violence. Shining through Ghouls, Gimmicks, and Gold is the delight of the true horror movie buff, the fan thrilled to find The Brain that Wouldn’t Die on television at 3 am.
Book Synopsis Escape Velocity by : Bradley Schauer
Download or read book Escape Velocity written by Bradley Schauer and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, movie theaters are packed with audiences of all ages marveling to exciting science fiction blockbusters, many of which are also critically acclaimed. However, when the science fiction film genre first emerged in the 1950s, it was represented largely by exploitation horror films—lurid, culturally disreputable, and appealing to a niche audience of children and sci-fi buffs. How did the genre evolve from B-movie to blockbuster? Escape Velocity charts the historical trajectory of American science fiction cinema, explaining how the genre transitioned from eerie low-budget horror like It Came from Outer Space to art films like Slaughterhouse-Five, and finally to the extraordinary popularity of hits like E.T. Bradley Schauer draws on primary sources such as internal studio documents, promotional materials, and film reviews to explain the process of cultural, aesthetic, and economic legitimation that occurred between the 1950s and 1980s, as pulp science fiction tropes were adapted to suit the tastes of mainstream audiences. Considering the inescapable dominance of today's effects-driven blockbusters, Escape Velocity not only charts the history of science fiction film, but also gives an account of the origins of contemporary Hollywood.
Book Synopsis Fast & Furious: Spy Racers: From Gears to Gadgets: A Companion Guide by : Jordan Gershowitz
Download or read book Fast & Furious: Spy Racers: From Gears to Gadgets: A Companion Guide written by Jordan Gershowitz and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join the cast of Netflix's Fast & Furious: Spy Racers, for hours of high-speed fun! With profiles, statistics, new facts, and bits of information about your favorite racers, this is the perfect introduction to the new Netflix animated series. Get a crash course in all things gears, gadgets, characters, and cars in this introductory handbook, featuring favorite characters from Netflix's original animated series Fast & Furious: Spy Racers, set in the Fast and the Furious world.
Book Synopsis New American Teenagers by : Barbara Jane Brickman
Download or read book New American Teenagers written by Barbara Jane Brickman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author challenges the neglect of the 1970s in studies on teen film and youth culture by locating a number of subversive and critical narratives.
Book Synopsis The Hollywood Renaissance by : Yannis Tzioumakis
Download or read book The Hollywood Renaissance written by Yannis Tzioumakis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-06-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In December 1967, Time magazine put Bonnie and Clyde on its cover and proudly declared that Hollywood cinema was undergoing a 'renaissance'. For the next few years, a wide range of formally and thematically challenging films were produced at the very centre of the American film industry, often (but by no means always) combining success at the box office with huge critical acclaim, both then and later. This collection brings together acknowledged experts on American cinema to examine thirteen key films from the years 1966 to 1974, starting with Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, a major studio release which was in effect exempted from Hollywood's Production Code and thus helped to liberate American filmmaking from (self-)censorship. Long-standing taboos to do with sex, violence, race relations, drugs, politics, religion and much else could now be broken, often in conjunction with extensive stylistic experimentation. Whereas most previous scholarship has examined these developments through the prism of auteurism, with its tight focus on film directors and their oeuvres, the contributors to this collection also carefully examine production histories and processes. In doing so they pay particular attention to the economic underpinnings and collaborative nature of filmmaking, the influence of European art cinema as well as of exploitation, experimental and underground films, and the connections between cinema and other media (notably publishing, music and theatre). Several chapters show how the innovations of the Hollywood Renaissance relate to further changes in American cinema from the mid-1970s onwards.
Book Synopsis Michael Reeves by : Benjamin Halligan
Download or read book Michael Reeves written by Benjamin Halligan and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2003-11-08 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Reeves died at age 25 in 1969, between the end of Swinging London and the collapse of the British film industry--an apt candidate to represent all that could have been. This critical biography claims Reeves as the great, lost auteur of British cinema and traces his conception of film back to his childhood and formative experiences. Benjamin Halligan examines Reeves' films in the context of the times, citing The Sorcerers and Witchfinder General as foreshadowing and critiquing the psychedelic and revolutionary zeitgeist. Reeves's earlier work on the fringes of the freewheeling European exploitation cinema is also covered, with particularly emphasis on his Revenge of the Blood Beast.
Book Synopsis Golden State, Golden Youth by : Kirse Granat May
Download or read book Golden State, Golden Youth written by Kirse Granat May and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seen as a land of sunshine and opportunity, the Golden State was a mecca for the post-World War II generation, and dreams of the California good life came to dominate the imagination of many Americans in the 1950s and 1960s. Nowhere was this more evident than in the explosion of California youth images in popular culture. Disneyland, television shows such as The Mickey Mouse Club, Gidget and other beach movies, the music of the Beach Boys--all these broadcast nationwide a lifestyle of carefree, wholesome fun supposedly enjoyed by white, middle-class, suburban young people in California. Tracing the rise of the California teen as a national icon, Kirse May shows how idealized images of a suburban youth culture soothed the nation's postwar nerves while denying racial and urban realities. Unsettling challenges to this mass-mediated picture began to arise in the mid-1960s, however, with the Free Speech Movement's campus revolt in Berkeley and race riots in Watts. In his 1966 campaign for the governorship of California, Ronald Reagan transformed the backlash against the "dangerous" youths who fueled these actions into political triumph. As May notes, Reagan's victory presaged a rising conservatism across the nation.
Book Synopsis Fast and Furious by : Mark Thomas McGee
Download or read book Fast and Furious written by Mark Thomas McGee and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History the independent film production and distribution company dedicated to releasing low-budget films packaged as double features, primarily of interest to the teenagers of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s.
Book Synopsis Fast and Furious Foods by : Sharon Powell
Download or read book Fast and Furious Foods written by Sharon Powell and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-20 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you like the franchise Fast and Furious? If yes, then you have come to the right place. For almost two decades, the series has been unwinding before us. With an underlying emphasis on the meaning of family, it is quite engaging. Characters like Dom and Brian speak to everyone on a personal level. Taking inspiration from the movies, this book has the perfect selection of all the experiences and tastes. From soothing beverages to decadent dessert choices, you can explore the variety. It is like a street race but better. You will be able to taste the adrenaline during a high-speed chase, as well as the flavor of winning. It also offers the taste of the east, and the west clubbed together. You will experience the perfect symphony of flavors and condiments. In actual character, cooking and road-rage fired action are not that different. The experience is as important as a result. This book covers a spectrum of recipes, from easy-to-make to effort-demanding, but all of them pack unique flavors. Much like the movies themselves, these recipes are for family consumption. Hopefully, you will be able to bond with these dishes and keep coming back for more.
Book Synopsis The Lost One by : Stephen D. Youngkin
Download or read book The Lost One written by Stephen D. Youngkin and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2005-09-30 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often typecast as a menacing figure, Peter Lorre achieved Hollywood fame first as a featured player and later as a character actor, trademarking his screen performances with a delicately strung balance between good and evil. His portrayal of the child murderer in Fritz Lang's masterpiece M (1931) catapulted him to international fame. Lang said of Lorre: "He gave one of the best performances in film history and certainly the best in his life." Today, the Hungarian-born actor is also recognized for his riveting performances in The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), The Maltese Falcon (1941), and Casablanca (1942). Lorre arrived in America in 1934 expecting to shed his screen image as a villain. He even tried to lose his signature accent, but Hollywood repeatedly cast him as an outsider who hinted at things better left unknown. Seeking greater control over his career, Lorre established his own production company. His unofficial "graylisting" by the House Committee on Un-American Activities, however, left him with little work. He returned to Germany, where he co-authored, directed, and starred in the film Der Verlorene (The Lost One) in 1951. German audiences rejected Lorre's dark vision of their recent past, and the actor returned to America, wearily accepting roles that parodied his sinister movie personality.The first biography of this major actor, The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre draws upon more than three hundred interviews, including conversations with directors Fritz Lang, Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, John Huston, Frank Capra, and Rouben Mamoulian, who speak candidly about Lorre, both the man and the actor. Author Stephen D. Youngkin examines for the first time Lorre's pivotal relationship with German dramatist Bertolt Brecht, his experience as an émigré from Hitler's Germany, his battle with drug addiction, and his struggle with the choice between celebrity and intellectual respectability.Separating the enigmatic person from the persona long associated with one of classic Hollywood's most recognizable faces, The Lost One is the definitive account of a life triumphant and yet tragically riddled with many failed possibilities.
Book Synopsis To The Blue King's Castle: Adventures In by : Gupta
Download or read book To The Blue King's Castle: Adventures In written by Gupta and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Science Fiction Film Directors, 1895Ð1998 by : Dennis Fischer
Download or read book Science Fiction Film Directors, 1895Ð1998 written by Dennis Fischer and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-06-17 with total page 767 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This enormous and exhaustive reference book has entries on every major and minor director of science fiction films from the inception of cinema (circa 1895) through 1998. For each director there is a complete filmography including television work, a career summary, a critical assessment, and behind-the-scenes production information. Seventy-nine directors are covered in especially lengthy entries and a short history of the science fiction film genre is also included.
Book Synopsis A Corner of the World by : Mylene Fern‡ndez Pintado
Download or read book A Corner of the World written by Mylene Fern‡ndez Pintado and published by City Lights Publishers. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In contemporary Havana, "Do I stay or do I go?" is always the question, and love doesn't necessarily conquer all
