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Hollywood TV

Author : Christopher Anderson
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292704577
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Hollywood TV written by Christopher Anderson and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1950s was one of the most turbulent periods in the history of motion pictures and television. During the decade, as Hollywood's most powerful studios and independent producers shifted into TV production, TV replaced film as America's principal postwar culture industry. This pioneering study offers the first thorough exploration of the movie industry's shaping role in the development of television and its narrative forms. Drawing on the archives of Warner Bros. and David O. Selznick Productions and on interviews with participants in both industries, Christopher Anderson demonstrates how the episodic telefilm series, a clear descendant of the feature film, became and has remained the dominant narrative form in prime-time TV. This research suggests that the postwar motion picture industry was less an empire on the verge of ruin—as common wisdom has it—than one struggling under unsettling conditions to redefine its frontiers. Beyond the obvious contribution to film and television studies, these findings add an important chapter to the study of American popular culture of the postwar period.

The Bad & the Beautiful

Author : Sam Kashner
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393324365
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book The Bad & the Beautiful written by Sam Kashner and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2002 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the scandals, morals and sleaze of 1950's Hollywood.

Movie Love in the Fifties

Author : James Harvey
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Movie Love in the Fifties written by James Harvey and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2001 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of "Romantic Comedy ("brilliant, meticulous, a monumental work of scholarship" --Margo Jefferson, "New York Times), a fresh, illuminating look at the films of the 1950s. Harvey begins by mapping the progression from 1940s film noir to the living-room melodramas of the 1950s. He shows us the femme fatale of the 1940s (Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Bennett) becoming blander and blonder (Doris Day, Debbie Reynolds) and younger and more traditionally sexy (Marilyn Monroe, Grace Kelly) in the 1950s. And he shows us how women were finally replaced as objects of desire by the new boy-men--Clift, Brando, Dean, and other rebels without causes. Harvey discusses the films of Hitchcock ("Vertigo), Ophuls ("The Reckless Moment), Siodmak ("Christmas Holiday), and Welles ("Touch of Evil, perhaps the single greatest influence on the "post-classical" movies). He writes about the quintessential 1950s directors: Nicholas Ray, who made movies in the old Hollywood tradition "(In a Lonely Place, "Johnny Guitar), and Douglas Sirk, who portrayed suburbia as an emotional deathtrap ("Imitation of Life, "Magnificent Obsession). And he discusses the "serious" directors, such as Stanley Kramer and Elia Kazan, whose films exhibited powerful new realism. Comprehensive, insightful, written with intelligence, humor, and affection, Movie Love in the Fifties is a masterful work of American film, and cultural, history.

Lost in the Fifties

Author :
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809388448
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (884 download)

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Download or read book Lost in the Fifties written by and published by SIU Press. This book was released on with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wheeler Dixon examines the lost films and directors of the 1950s. Contrasting traditional themes of love, marriage, and family, the author's 1950s film world unveils once-taboo issues and television shows such as 'Captain Midnight' are juxtaposed with the cheerful world of 'I Love Lucy'.

Masked Men

Author : Steve Cohan
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253115874
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (158 download)

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Download or read book Masked Men written by Steve Cohan and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1997-12-22 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifties marks the moment when a heterosexual/homosexual dualism came to dominate U.S. culture's thinking about masculinity. The films of this era record how gender and sexuality did not easily come together in a normative manhood common to American men. Instead these films demonstrate the widely held perception of a crises of masculinity. Masked Men documents how movies of the fifties represented masculinity as a multiple masquerade. Hollywood's star system positioned the male actor as a professional performer and as a body intended to solicit the erotic interest of male and female viewers alike. Drawing on publicity, poster art, fan magazines, and the popular press as a means of following the links between fifties stars, their films, and the social tensions of the period, Cohan juxtaposes Hollywood's narratives of masculinity against the personae of leading men like Cary Grant, Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne, Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, William Holden, Montgomery Clift, Marlon Brando, and Rock Hudson. Masked Men focuses on the gender and sexual masquerades that organized their performances of masculinity on and off screen.

Hollywood Heat

Author : Steve Rowland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578164885
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (648 download)

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Download or read book Hollywood Heat written by Steve Rowland and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-12 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HOT INSIDER STORIES FROM HOLLYWOOD'S GOLDEN 1950s, TOLD IN TRUE PULP FICTION STYLE. "Elvis Presley and George Klein, one of Elvis's inner circle, pulled up in long black Cadillac limousine style. Elvis was at the wheel. I jumped in the backseat and we took off-three for the road." "The flag was dropped and James Dean, starting from 18th on the grid, shot through the pack balls out, like a man possessed. After a few laps he made it up to fourth place before a blown piston ended his day. Jimmy was turbulent with the situation." "The groove rocked in once more with a churning precision. Like sensual thunder, it shook the room with sexual vibrations. There on the bandstand, like a benevolent Buddha, dressed in Levis and an open neck shirt, was Marlon Brando. He was as cool as a night breeze over Alaska. With his hands in motion he caressed the congas, playing as if willing his adoring flock to follow him into the loving arms of immortality."

Larger Than Life

Author : R. Barton Palmer
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813547660
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Larger Than Life written by R. Barton Palmer and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Volume in the Star Decades: American Culture/American Cinema series, edited by Adrienne L. McLean and Murray Pomerance --Book Jacket.

Runaway Hollywood

Author : Daniel Steinhart
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520970691
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Runaway Hollywood written by Daniel Steinhart and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After World War II, as cultural and industry changes were reshaping Hollywood, movie studios shifted some production activities overseas, capitalizing on frozen foreign earnings, cheap labor, and appealing locations. Hollywood unions called the phenomenon “runaway” production to underscore the outsourcing of employment opportunities. Examining this period of transition from the late 1940s to the early 1960s, Runaway Hollywood shows how film companies exported production around the world and the effect this conversion had on industry practices and visual style. In this fascinating account, Daniel Steinhart uses an array of historical materials to trace the industry’s creation of a more international production operation that merged filmmaking practices from Hollywood and abroad to produce movies with a greater global scope.

The American Film Industry

Author : Tino Balio
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299098737
Total Pages : 677 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book The American Film Industry written by Tino Balio and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1985-03-04 with total page 677 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upon its original publication in 1976, The American Film Industry was welcomed by film students, scholars, and fans as the first systematic and unified history of the American movie industry. Now this indispensible anthology has been expanded and revised to include a fresh introductory overview by editor Tino Balio and ten new chapters that explore such topics as the growth of exhibition as big business, the mode of production for feature films, the star as market strategy, and the changing economics and structure of contemporary entertainment companies. The result is a unique collection of essays, more comprehensive and current than ever, that reveals how the American movie industry really worked in a century of constant change-from kinetoscopes and the coming of sound to the star system, 1950s blacklisting, and today's corporate empires.

It's the Pictures That Got Small

Author : Christine Becker
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780819568946
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (689 download)

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Download or read book It's the Pictures That Got Small written by Christine Becker and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original study of Hollywood film stars and 1950s television

Seeing is Believing

Author : Peter Biskind
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408882175
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Seeing is Believing written by Peter Biskind and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeing is Believing is a provocative, shrewd and witty look at the Hollywood fifties movies we all love - or love to hate - and the thousand subtle ways they reflect the political tensions of the decade. Peter Biskind concentrates on the films everybody saw but nobody really looked at, classics such as Giant, Rebel Without a Cause, and Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and shows us how movies that appear politically innocent in fact bear an ideological burden. As we see organization men and rugged individualists, housewives, and career women, cops and docs, teen angels and teenage werewolves fight it out across the screen, from suburbia to the farthest reaches of the cosmos, we understand that we have been watching one long dispute about how to be a man, a woman, an American - the conflicts of the time in action.

Teenagers And Teenpics

Author : Thomas Doherty
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 1592137873
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (921 download)

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Download or read book Teenagers And Teenpics written by Thomas Doherty and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-04 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic book on teenagers and their films, thoroughly revised and expanded.

Movies of the 50s

Author : Jürgen Müller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783836561105
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (611 download)

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Download or read book Movies of the 50s written by Jürgen Müller and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From film noir to grandiose musicals, blonde bombshells to UFOs: the movies of the 1950s heralded a new era in filmmaking. This compendium presents the most influential and successful films of a time when conical bras, sideburns, and 3D movies were all the rage. Whether you're a rebel without a cause or a gentleman who might prefer blondes, ...

Movie Love

Author : Pauline Kael
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780714529530
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book Movie Love written by Pauline Kael and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Fifties

Author : David Halberstam
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453286071
Total Pages : 1216 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book The Fifties written by David Halberstam and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-12-18 with total page 1216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This vivid New York Times bestseller about 1950s America from a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist is “an engrossing sail across a pivotal decade” (Time). Joe McCarthy. Marilyn Monroe. The H-bomb. Ozzie and Harriet. Elvis. Civil rights. It’s undeniable: The fifties were a defining decade for America, complete with sweeping cultural change and political upheaval. This decade is also the focus of David Halberstam’s triumphant The Fifties, which stands as an enduring classic and was an instant New York Times bestseller upon its publication. More than a survey of the decade, it is a masterfully woven examination of far-reaching change, from the unexpected popularity of Holiday Inn to the marketing savvy behind McDonald’s expansion. A meditation on the staggering influence of image and rhetoric, The Fifties is vintage Halberstam, who was hailed by the Denver Post as “a lively, graceful writer who makes you . . . understand how much of our time was born in those years.” This ebook features an extended biography of David Halberstam.

Film-star Portraits of the Fifties

Author : John Kobal
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486240084
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Film-star Portraits of the Fifties written by John Kobal and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The brightest stars of the 1950s live on in this wonderful, black-and-white gallery of publicity shots. Includes 114 major stars: Marlon Brando, James Dean, Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Kirk Douglas, and dozens more.

Movie Towns and Sitcom Suburbs

Author : Stephen Rowley
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137493283
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Movie Towns and Sitcom Suburbs written by Stephen Rowley and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-10-21 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Media depictions of community are enormously influential on wider popular opinion about how people would like to live. In this study, Rowley examines depictions of ideal communities in Hollywood films and television and explores the implications of attempts to build real-world counterparts to such imagined places.