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Florence Lawrence, the Biograph Girl

Author : Kelly R. Brown
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476613176
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Florence Lawrence, the Biograph Girl written by Kelly R. Brown and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-09-18 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Florence Lawrence’s film career began just as the cinema was being born. She recognized the wonder and appeal of the fledgling industry, and her early work with the Vitagraph company gained her a legion of fans and a reputation as a willing and hard working actress. In 1908 she appeared in Romeo and Juliet—America’s very first screen Juliet. By 1909, she was working steadily for the Biograph studio–she was dubbed “the Biograph girl”—and was being praised for her “personal attractions” and “very fine dramatic ability.” But just as Lawrence was the first movie star in the industry, she was also one of the first to be undone by it. Hindered by setbacks, grueling work schedules, self-imposed retirements, three marriages, repeatedly unsuccessful comeback attempts, Lawrence finally committed suicide in 1938. This impressively researched piece of film history represents the first full-length biography of Florence Lawrence, also called “The Girl of a Thousand Faces.” Among the photographs are some never before published. A complete filmography of Lawrence’s entire career is provided. A summary chapter includes comments from various critics and historians, addressing how Lawrence is important to film history.

The Biograph Girl

Author : William J. Mann
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497667216
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book The Biograph Girl written by William J. Mann and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning author William J. Mann blends fact and fiction in this unconventional novel about the nature of celebrity The Biograph Girl is Florence Lawrence, who gets her first big break in vaudeville as a tiny tot who can whistle like a man. By 1910 she’s a legendary movie star, pursued by thousands of rabid fans. Just a few short decades later, she’s all but forgotten, reduced to walk-ons at MGM. In 1938 she kills herself by ingesting a lethal dose of ant paste. Fast-forward fifty-nine years. A 107-year-old woman named Flo Bridgewood is discovered in a Catholic nursing home in Buffalo. Could the feisty chain smoker with the red satin bow in her hair be America’s former sweetheart? Florence Lawrence is dead . . . isn’t she? And if not, then whose body is in her grave? That’s what journalist Richard Sheehan wants to find out as he and his identical twin brother, Ben, a documentary filmmaker, decide to cash in on a decades-old mystery. Sharing the stage is Flo herself, whose story is the stuff of Hollywood fantasy. A provocative melding of fact and fiction, The Biograph Girl is about what it means to be a celebrity—then and now.

Picture Personalities

Author : Richard DeCordova
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252070167
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Picture Personalities written by Richard DeCordova and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving pictures existed for over a decade before anything resembling a star system appeared. Then American cinema went from being devoid of stars to being dependent on them. This is an account of this development in cinema and modern culture.

Stardom in Cinema, Television and the Web

Author : Vanni Codeluppi
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527566846
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Stardom in Cinema, Television and the Web written by Vanni Codeluppi and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last 50 years, the social importance of stars has steadily grown, to the point that stars have now become key role models who strongly influence people’s behaviours. This book considers the connections between the three main media (cinema, television and the web) and each of the three phases into which the history of stardom can be divided. The first phase can largely be credited with the creation and codification of contemporary stardom, while the second is linked to the spread of television, which weakened the Hollywood stardom model and gradually transformed the figure of the star, making it more intimate and familiar. In the last of these phases, we have many ‘outsiders’ (personalities from a variety of professional domains and experiences) who are able to achieve considerable social visibility thanks to their skilful use of the web.

Gods Like Us

Author : Ty Burr
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307390845
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Gods Like Us written by Ty Burr and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With 8 Pages of Black-and-White Photographs In this captivating history of stardom, Boston Globe film critic Ty Burr traces our obsession with fame from the dawn of cinema through the age of the Internet. Why do we obsess over the individuals we come to call stars? How has both the image of stardom and our stars' images changed over the past hundred years? What does celebrity mean if people can now become famous simply for being famous? With brilliant insight and entertaining examples, Burr reveals the blessings and the curses of celebrity for the star and the stargazer alike. From Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin, to Archie Leach (a.k.a. Cary Grant), Tom Cruise, and Julia Roberts, to such no-cal stars of today as the Kardashians and the new online celebrity, Gods Like Us is a journey through the fame game at its flashiest, most indulgent, occasionally most tragic, and ultimately it's most culturally revealing.

Hollywood

Author : Jill Tietjen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493037064
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Hollywood written by Jill Tietjen and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-04-26 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year was 1896, the woman was Alice Guy-Blaché, and the film was The Cabbage Fairy. It was less than a minute long. Guy-Blaché, the first female director, made hundreds of movies during her career. Thousands of women with passion and commitment to storytelling followed in her footsteps. Working in all aspects of the movie industry, they collaborated with others to create memorable images on the screen. This book pays tribute to the spirit, ambition, grit and talent of these filmmakers and artists. With more than 1200 women featured in the book, you will find names that everyone knows and loves—the movie legends. But you will also discover hundreds and hundreds of women whose names are unknown to you: actresses, directors, stuntwomen, screenwriters, composers, animators, editors, producers, cinematographers and on and on. Stunning photographs capture and document the women who worked their magic in the movie business. Perfect for anyone who enjoys the movies, this photo-treasury of women and film is not to be missed.

Silent Stars

Author : Jeanine Basinger
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307829189
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Silent Stars written by Jeanine Basinger and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2012-10-17 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of America's most renowned film scholars: a revelatory, perceptive, and highly readable look at the greatest silent film stars -- not those few who are fully appreciated and understood, like Chaplin, Keaton, Gish, and Garbo, but those who have been misperceived, unfairly dismissed, or forgotten. Here is Valentino, "the Sheik," who was hardly the effeminate lounge lizard he's been branded as; Mary Pickford, who couldn't have been further from the adorable little creature with golden ringlets that was her film persona; Marion Davies, unfairly pilloried in Citizen Kane; the original "Phantom" and "Hunchback," Lon Chaney; the beautiful Talmadge sisters, Norma and Constance. Here are the great divas, Pola Negri and Gloria Swanson; the great flappers, Colleen Moore and Clara Bow; the great cowboys, William S. Hart and Tom Mix; and the great lover, John Gilbert. Here, too, is the quintessential slapstick comedienne, Mabel Normand, with her Keystone Kops; the quintessential all-American hero, Douglas Fairbanks; and, of course, the quintessential all-American dog, Rin-Tin-Tin. This is the first book to anatomize the major silent players, reconstruct their careers, and give us a sense of what those films, those stars, and that Hollywood were all about. An absolutely essential text for anyone seriously interested in movies, and, with more than three hundred photographs, as much a treat to look at as it is to read.

Movies and Mass Culture

Author : John Belton
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813522289
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (222 download)

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Download or read book Movies and Mass Culture written by John Belton and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On how American identity is shaped by motion pictures

A Companion to D. W. Griffith

Author : Charles Keil
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118341252
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to D. W. Griffith written by Charles Keil and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive volume on one of the most controversial directors in American film history A Companion to D.W. Griffith offers an exhaustive look at the first acknowledged auteur of the cinema and provides an authoritative account of the director’s life, work, and lasting filmic legacy. The text explores how Griffith’s style and status advanced along with cinema’s own development during the years when narrative became the dominant mode, when the short gave way to the feature, and when film became the pre-eminent form of mass entertainment. Griffith was at the centre of each of these changes: though a contested figure, he remains vital to any understanding of how cinema moved from nickelodeon fixture to a national pastime, playing a significant role in the cultural ethos of America. With the renewed interest in Griffith’s contributions to the film industry, A Companion to D.W. Griffith offers a scholarly look at a career that spanned more than 25 years. The editor, a leading scholar on D.W. Griffith, and the expert contributors collectively offer a unique account of one of the monumental figures in film studies. Presents the most authoritative, complete account of the director’s life, work, and lasting legacy Builds on the recent resurgence in the director’s scholarly and popular reputation Edited by a leading authority on D.W. Griffith, who has published extensively on this controversial director Offers the most up-to-date, singularly comprehensive volume on one of the monumental figures in film studies

Eloquent Gestures

Author : Roberta Pearson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520073661
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (736 download)

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Download or read book Eloquent Gestures written by Roberta Pearson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1992-11-02 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Pearson writes beautifully, clearly, and entertainingly (with a touch of sardonic sarcasm here and there). This is the single best work centering on performance in film that I have read."—Thomas Gunning, author of D. W. Griffith and the Origins of American Narrative Film

Stardust and Shadows

Author : Charles Foster
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459720784
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)

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Download or read book Stardust and Shadows written by Charles Foster and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2000-09-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You’ll like Louis Mayer," Mary Pickford told Charles Foster in 1943. "He is from Canada, too." As Foster was soon to discover, Mayer was not alone: a great many of those who helped shape Hollywood into the movie capital of the world were Canadian. Stardust and Shadows brings together the stories of 18 Canadians who were celebrities during Hollywood’s formative years. Most of those profiled were known to Foster, and stories they told him about Hollywood’s early days, enhanced by many years of research and interviews with other living performers and directors from the silent movie era, reveal a never-before-seen look at what the movie industry was really like in those early days. This is Canadian history that has never been told, and many of the startling stories and secrets of Hollywood’s past are revealed here for the first time. Celebrities profiled: May Irwin, Al and Charles Christie, Joe and Sam De Grasse, Marie Dressler, Allan Dwan, Florence La Badie, Florence Lawrence, Del Lord, Louis B. Mayer, Sidney Olcott, Jack Pickford, Mary Pickford, Marie Prevost, Mack Sennett, Douglas Shearer, Norma Shearer.

The Transformation of Cinema, 1907-1915

Author : Eileen Bowser
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520085343
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book The Transformation of Cinema, 1907-1915 written by Eileen Bowser and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1994-05-04 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Transformation of Cinema chronicles the history of the American film business from the days of storefront nickelodeons to the premiere of D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation, complete with full symphony orchestra. Eileen Bowser here redresses the imbalance of the "Griffith did it all" cliché by discussing the efforts of countless lesser-known figures who also helped to create Hollywood and shape the growing film industry. The effect of the surroundings -- the size of the hall; whether the film was shown alone or along with vaudeville entertainment; and the size, quality, and relevance of the musical background -- are all examined for their impact on the filmgoing experience. Bowser documents the emergence of the star system, which set the stage for the classic silent-film era. By 1915 the silent film is seen as a full-fledged art form with its own style and place in the world of business."--Back cover.

This Was Hollywood

Author : Carla Valderrama
Publisher : Running Press Adult
ISBN 13 : 0762495855
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book This Was Hollywood written by Carla Valderrama and published by Running Press Adult. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this one-of-a-kind Hollywood history, the creator of Instagram's celebrated @ThisWasHollywood reveals the forgotten past of the film world in a dazzling visual package modeled on the classic fan magazines of yesteryear. From former screen legends who have faded into obscurity to new revelations about the biggest movie stars, Valderrama unearths the most fascinating little-known tales from the birth of Hollywood through its Golden Age. The shocking fate of the world's first movie star. Clark Gable's secret love child. The film that nearly ended Paul Newman's career. A former child star who, at ninety-three, reveals her #metoo story for the first time. Valderrama unfolds these stories, and many more, in a volume that is by turns riveting, maddening, hilarious, and shocking. Drawing on new interviews, archival research, and an exhaustive library of photographs, This Was Hollywood is a compelling and visually stunning catalogue of the lost history of the movies.

Stardom, Italian Style

Author : Marcia Landy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stardom, Italian Style written by Marcia Landy and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive book on stardom in Italian cinema

More Than Gold

Author : Shirley Hailstock
Publisher : Kensington Books
ISBN 13 : 9781583141205
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book More Than Gold written by Shirley Hailstock and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2000-10-01 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In hiding since she helped a Korean political prisoner escape with government secrets, Morgan Kirkwood, an Olympic gold medalist, finds herself on the run with handsome CIA agent Jack Temple. Original.

The Origins of the Film Star System

Author : Andrew Shail
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350111422
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Origins of the Film Star System written by Andrew Shail and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05-30 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a wide range of archival sources, Andrew Shail traces the emergence of film stardom in Europe and North America in the early 20th century. Modifying and supplementing Richard deCordova's account of the birth of the US star system, Shail describes the complex set of economic circumstances that led film studios and actors to consent to the adoption of a star system. He then explores the film industry's turn, from 1908, to making character-based series films. He details how these characters both prefigured and precipitated the star system, demonstrating that series characters and the 'firmament' of film stars are functionally equivalent, and shows how openly fictional characters still provide the model for 'real' film stars.

The Ancient World in Silent Cinema

Author : Pantelis Michelakis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110701610X
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Ancient World in Silent Cinema written by Pantelis Michelakis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first systematic attempt to focus on the instrumental role of silent cinema in early twentieth-century conceptualizations of the ancient Mediterranean and Middle East. It is located at the intersection of film studies, classics, Bible studies and cultural studies.