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Author : P. S. Harrison
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ISBN 13 : 9780913616130
Total Pages : 730 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (161 download)
Download or read book Harrison's Reports and Film Reviews 1926-1928 written by P. S. Harrison and published by . This book was released on 1994-02-01 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter S. Harrison
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 846 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Harrison's Reports and Film Reviews: 1935-1937 written by Peter S. Harrison and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter S. Harrison
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 756 pages
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Download or read book Harrison's Reports and Film Reviews written by Peter S. Harrison and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Aubrey Solomon
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786486104
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book The Fox Film Corporation, 1915-1935 written by Aubrey Solomon and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1929, Hollywood mogul William Fox (1879-1952) came close to controlling the entire motion picture industry. His Fox Film Corporation had grown from a $1600 investment into a globe-spanning $300 million empire; he also held patents to the new sound-on-film process. Forced into a series of bitter power struggles, Fox was ultimately toppled from his throne, and the studio bearing his name would merge in 1935 with Darryl F. Zanuck's flourishing 20th Century Pictures. The 25-year lifespan of the Fox Film Corporation, home of such personalities as Theda Bara, Tom Mix, Janet Gaynor and John Ford, is chronicled in this thorough illustrated history. Included are never-before-published financial figures revealing costs and grosses of Fox's biggest successes and failures, and a detailed filmogaphy of the studio's 1100-plus releases, among them What Price Glory?, Seventh Heaven and the Oscar-winning Cavalcade.
Author : Tim Lussier
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476675686
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book "Bare Knees" Flapper written by Tim Lussier and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most popular Hollywood child stars of the late 1910s, Virginia Lee Corbin was well known to fans worldwide. With her mother as her manager, Corbin retained her popularity as she grew older. She performed in vaudeville for a couple of years before continuing her film career. Corbin fit well into the flapper mold of the Jazz Age and appeared in many films throughout the 1920s. As she matured, her mother found it ever more difficult to control her. Corbin led a difficult life. After her mother's suicide attempt, she found that all the money she had earned was gone. Her marriage (at age 18) failed and she was eventually separated from her children. The flapper struggled to remain relevant in the sound era and was trying to make a comeback when she died at 31 in 1942.
Author : Rose Arny
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1802 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Forthcoming Books written by Rose Arny and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 1802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Hammond
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438476973
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book The Great War in Hollywood Memory, 1918-1939 written by Michael Hammond and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assesses how America’s film industry remembered World War I during the interwar period. This is the definitive account of how America’s film industry remembered and reimagined World War I from the Armistice in 1918 to the outbreak of World War II in 1939. Based on detailed archival research, Michael Hammond shows how the war and the sociocultural changes it brought made their way into cinematic stories and images. He traces the development of the war’s memory in films dealing with combat on the ground and in the air, the role of women behind the lines, returning veterans, and through the social problem and horror genres. Hammond first examines movies that dealt directly with the war and the men and women who experienced it. He then turns to the consequences of the war as they played out across a range of films, some only tangentially related to the conflict itself. Hammond finds that the Great War acted as a storehouse of motifs and tropes drawn upon in the service of an industry actively seeking to deliver clearly told, entertaining stories to paying audiences. Films analyzed include The Big Parade, Grand Hotel, Hell’s Angels, The Black Cat, and Wings. Drawing on production records, set designs, personal accounts, and the advertising and reception of key films, the book offers unique insight into a cinematic remembering that was a product of the studio system as it emerged as a global entertainment industry. “Hammond’s intelligent and insightful account of the formation of cinematic treatments of the Great War in America constitutes a major addition to the critical literature on film. It acts as a prism through which to see refracted multiple themes central to the social and cultural history of the interwar years.” — Jay Winter, author of War beyond Words: Languages of Memory from the Great War to the Present
Author : Kevin J. Harty
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476608431
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book The Reel Middle Ages written by Kevin J. Harty and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-08-13 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Those tales of old--King Arthur, Robin Hood, The Crusades, Marco Polo, Joan of Arc--have been told and retold, and the tradition of their telling has been gloriously upheld by filmmaking from its very inception. From the earliest of Georges Melies's films in 1897, to a 1996 animated Hunchback of Notre Dame, film has offered not just fantasy but exploration of these roles so vital to the modern psyche. St. Joan has undergone the transition from peasant girl to self-assured saint, and Camelot has transcended the soundstage to evoke the Kennedys in the White House. Here is the first comprehensive survey of more than 900 cinematic depictions of the European Middle Ages--date of production, country of origin, director, production company, cast, and a synopsis and commentary. A bibliography, index, and over 100 stills complete this remarkable work.
Author : Wes D. Gehring
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476633266
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Buster Keaton in His Own Time written by Wes D. Gehring and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-03-16 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buster Keaton "can impress a weary world with the vitally important fact that life, after all, is a foolishly inconsequential affair," wrote critic Robert Sherwood in 1918. A century later Keaton, with his darkly comic "theater of the absurd," speaks to audiences like no other silent comedian. If you thought you knew Keaton--think again!
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Total Pages : 2476 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Subject Guide to Books in Print written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 2476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Linda B. Hall
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804786216
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Dolores del Río written by Linda B. Hall and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-09 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dolores del Río's enormously successful career in Hollywood, in Mexico, and internationally illuminates issues of race, ethnicity, and gender through the lenses of beauty and celebrity. She and her husband left Mexico in 1925, as both their well-to-do families suffered from the economic downturn that followed the Mexican Revolution. Far from being stigmatized as a woman of color, she was acknowledged as the epitome of beauty in the Hollywood of the 1920s and early 1930s. While she insisted upon her ethnicity, she was nevertheless coded white by the film industry and its fans, and she appeared for more than a decade as a romantic lead opposite white actors. Returning to Mexico in the early 1940s, she brought enthusiasm and prestige to the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, becoming one of the great divas of Mexican film. With struggle and perseverance, she overcame the influence of men in both countries who hoped to dominate her, ultimately controlling her own life professionally and personally.
Author : Wes D. Gehring
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786483512
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Joe E. Brown written by Wes D. Gehring and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-12-24 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a young boy in the depths of the 1890s depression, Joe E. Brown had a job: making faces at the firemen on passing coal-burning trains so they would throw coal at him. As a child he also worked as a circus acrobat and newsboy. His inventiveness and spunk helped his family get through hard times but also fueled his fascination with entertainment, and he built up a repertoire of rubber-faced expressions and funny antics that would make his stage and screen work memorable. Baseball was a favorite pursuit in his life and thus a recurring theme in his films and skits. In this biography--the first on one of the top film comedians of the 1930s--the reader learns of Joe's challenging childhood and how it prepared him for later screen roles, and how his love of baseball translated into screen successes. His early career in vaudeville is discussed, his work as a Broadway comedian in the Roaring Twenties, his road to movie stardom, and how he parlayed his love of sports into big hits like 1930's Elmer the Great. The year 1935 gets its own chapter; its films are considered the pinnacle of Brown's career, including Alibi Ike, Bright Lights and A Midsummer Night's Dream. The final chapters reveal what happened after he left Warner Bros., including the bittersweet 1940s, when he entertained troops around the globe while mourning a son lost to the war. The book concludes with a comprehensive filmography of his features from 1928 to 1963.
Author : Robert Spadoni
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520251229
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Uncanny Bodies written by Robert Spadoni and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-09-04 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Through meticulous historical research, Spadoni in Uncanny Bodies provides a fine understanding of the aesthetic and cultural context in which the original Universal film version of Dracula appeared. Through analyses of films that came before and after, he successfully restores Dracula's strangeness for a contemporary audience, a strangeness that reflects the rapidly evolving conventions of the early sound film. A significant contribution to reception studies, Uncanny Bodies makes us see why Dracula, while holding little terror for subsequent audiences, is nevertheless both a foundational work for the horror film, and also, paradoxically, an anomaly, one effectively overshadowed by Frankenstein.”—William Paul, author of Laughing Screaming: Modern Hollywood Horror and Comedy "Uncanny Bodies is a pleasure to read. I know of no other work that has looked as closely at early sound and horror films to make a persuasive argument about horror's relation to the beginnings of sound film. Given the voluminous literature on Universal horror films, Spadoni presents some very original ideas and frames his inquiry in an interesting way."—Jan-Christopher Horak, editor of Lovers of Cinema: The First American Film Avant-Garde, 1919-1945
Author : New York Public Library. Research Libraries
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Bibliographic Guide to Theatre Arts written by New York Public Library. Research Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edwin M. Bradley
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476673586
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Hollywood Musicals You Missed written by Edwin M. Bradley and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-06-22 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pre-World War II Hollywood musicals weren't only about Astaire and Rogers, Mickey and Judy, Busby Berkeley, Bing Crosby, or Shirley Temple. The early musical developed through tangents that reflected larger trends in film and American culture at large. Here is a survey of select titles with a variety of influences: outsized songwriter personalities, hubbub over "hillbilly" and cowboy stereotypes, the emergence of swing, and the brief parade of opera stars to celluloid. Featured movies range from the smash hit Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938), to obscurities such as Are You There? (1930) and Swing, Sister, Swing (1938), to the high-grossing but now forgotten Mountain Music (1937), and It's Great to Be Alive (1933), a zesty pre-Code musical/science-fiction/comedy mishmash. Also included are some of the not-so-memorable pictures made by some of the decade's greatest musical stars.
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Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kendall R. Phillips
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477315519
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)
Download or read book A Place of Darkness written by Kendall R. Phillips and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horror is one of the most enduringly popular genres in cinema. The term “horror film” was coined in 1931 between the premiere of Dracula and the release of Frankenstein, but monsters, ghosts, demons, and supernatural and horrific themes have been popular with American audiences since the emergence of novelty kinematographic attractions in the late 1890s. A Place of Darkness illuminates the prehistory of the horror genre by tracing the way horrific elements and stories were portrayed in films prior to the introduction of the term “horror film.” Using a rhetorical approach that examines not only early films but also the promotional materials for them and critical responses to them, Kendall R. Phillips argues that the portrayal of horrific elements was enmeshed in broader social tensions around the emergence of American identity and, in turn, American cinema. He shows how early cinema linked monsters, ghosts, witches, and magicians with Old World superstitions and beliefs, in contrast to an American way of thinking that was pragmatic, reasonable, scientific, and progressive. Throughout the teens and twenties, Phillips finds, supernatural elements were almost always explained away as some hysterical mistake, humorous prank, or nefarious plot. The Great Depression of the 1930s, however, constituted a substantial upheaval in the system of American certainty and opened a space for the reemergence of Old World gothic within American popular discourse in the form of the horror genre, which has terrified and thrilled fans ever since.
