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Book Synopsis The Songs of Hollywood by : Philip Furia
Download or read book The Songs of Hollywood written by Philip Furia and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-07 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From "Over the Rainbow" to "Moon River" and from Al Jolson to Barbra Streisand, The Songs of Hollywood traces the fascinating history of song in film, both in musicals and in dramatic movies such as High Noon. Extremely well-illustrated with 200 film stills, this delightful book sheds much light on some of Hollywood's best known and loved repertoire, explaining how the film industry made certain songs memorable, and highlighting important moments of film history along the way. The book focuses on how the songs were presented in the movies, from early talkies where actors portrayed singers "performing" the songs, to the Golden Age in which characters burst into expressive, integral song--not as a "performance" but as a spontaneous outpouring of feeling. The book looks at song presentation in 1930s classics with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers and in 1940s gems with Judy Garland and Gene Kelly. The authors also look at the decline of the genre since 1960, when most original musicals were replaced by film versions of Broadway hits such as My Fair Lady.
Book Synopsis The Encyclopedia of Hollywood Film Actors by : Barry Monush
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Hollywood Film Actors written by Barry Monush and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2003-04-01 with total page 833 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades, Screen World has been the film professional's, as well as the film buff's, favorite and indispensable annual screen resource, full of all the necessary statistics and facts. Now Screen World editor Barry Monush has compiled another comprehensive work for every film lover's library. In the first of two volumes, this book chronicles the careers of every significant film actor, from the earliest silent screen stars – Chaplin, Pickford, Fairbanks – to the mid-1960s, when the old studio and star systems came crashing down. Each listing includes: a brief biography, photos from the famed Screen World archives, with many rare shots; vital statistics; a comprehensive filmography; and an informed, entertaining assessment of each actor's contributions – good or bad! In addition to every major player, Monush includes the legions of unjustly neglected troupers of yesteryear. The result is a rarity: an invaluable reference tool that's as much fun to read as a scandal sheet. It pulsates with all the scandal, glamour, oddity and glory that was the lifeblood of its subjects. Contains over 1 000 photos!
Download or read book The Soundies written by Mark Cantor and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-04-19 with total page 2077 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1940s saw a brief audacious experiment in mass entertainment: a jukebox with a screen. Patrons could insert a dime, then listen to and watch such popular entertainers as Nat "King" Cole, Gene Krupa, Cab Calloway or Les Paul. A number of companies offered these tuneful delights, but the most successful was the Mills Novelty Company and its three-minute musical shorts called Soundies. This book is a complete filmography of 1,880 Soundies: the musicians heard and seen on screen, recording and filming dates, arrangers, soloists, dancers, entertainment trade reviews and more. Additional filmographies cover more than 80 subjects produced by other companies. There are 125 photos taken on film sets, along with advertising images and production documents. More than 75 interviews narrate the firsthand experiences and recollections of Soundies directors and participants. Forty years before MTV, the Soundies were there for those who loved the popular music of the 1940s. This was truly "music for the eyes."
Book Synopsis The Works of Arthur Laurents: Politics, Love, and Betrayal by : John M. Clum
Download or read book The Works of Arthur Laurents: Politics, Love, and Betrayal written by John M. Clum and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on 2014-11-28 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthur Laurents's career as a playwright, screenwriter, book writer for musicals and director spanned over half a century. His first Broadway play, Home of the Brave, was produced in 1945; his last play, Come Back, Come Back, Wherever You Are, was produced in 2009 when he was ninety-one. Although he is best known for his work on the classic musicals Gypsy and West Side Story and for his screenplays for Rope, The Way We Were, and The Turning Point, Laurents is the author of seventeen full-length plays, numerous screenplays and three volumes of memoirs. Despite the length and distinction of Laurents's career, until now no one has written a full-length critical study of his work. Laurentss' name was associated with a few hit musicals and films, but his best work, the plays he wrote since 1975, are not as well known. One reason is that the economics of the American theatre have changed during the writer's lifetime and Laurents's serious plays were performed Off-Broadway or at regional theatres. Few were published, except in acting editions, until a volume of Selected Plays was assembled in 2005. Moreover, Laurents's highly controversial volumes of memoirs, filled with attacks on people who he felt betrayed him over the years, overshadowed his later work. Ignoring most his own plays in the memoirs did not help to maintain his reputation as a serious playwright This book rectifies the absence of a serious examination of all of Laurents's major work. This first comprehensive study of Laurents's work focuses on the subjects and themes that recur in his work, particularly the interrelated topics of gender politics, homosexuality and the dynamics of marriage. The position of women and gay men changed greatly over the sixty-plus years of Laurents's career and we see those changes reflected in his work, particularly in the shifting power dynamics within a marriage. Laurents was fascinated by the dynamics of marriage. In his plays there is always a tension between love and the difficulty, if not impossibility, of monogamy. In works like The Enclave, we also see a variety of ways in which gay men try to live proud lives in a heteronormative society. In that play and in Two Lives, Laurents examines how gay men negotiate something like a marriage before gay marriages were legally sanctioned. The book also covers the ways in which Laurents's plays reflect his interest in leftist politics from the 1940s through the various liberations of the late 1960s and 1970s. Above all, the study argues that if there is any common theme running through the plays, films and memoirs, it is betrayal-betrayal of marriage partner, friend, artistic collaborator and, most important, betrayal of one's own ideals. The Works of Arthur Laurents will be of particular interest to students and scholarsof American drama, musical theatre, American film, gender studies, gay studies, and Jewish studies.
Book Synopsis Hollywood's African American Films by : Ryan Jay Friedman
Download or read book Hollywood's African American Films written by Ryan Jay Friedman and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-27 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1929 and 1930, during the Hollywood studios' conversion to synchronized-sound film production, white-controlled trade magazines and African American newspapers celebrated a "vogue" for "Negro films." "Hollywood's African American Films" argues that the movie business turned to black musical performance to both resolve technological and aesthetic problems introduced by the medium of "talking pictures" and, at the same time, to appeal to the white "Broadway" audience that patronized their most lucrative first-run theaters. Capitalizing on highbrow associations with white "slumming" in African American cabarets and on the cultural linkage between popular black musical styles and "natural" acoustics, studios produced a series of African American-cast and white-cast films featuring African American sequences. Ryan Jay Friedman asserts that these transitional films reflect contradictions within prevailing racial ideologies--arising most clearly in the movies' treatment of African American characters' decisions to migrate. Regardless of how the films represent these choices, they all prompt elaborate visual and narrative structures of containment that tend to highlight rather than suppress historical tensions surrounding African American social mobility, Jim Crow codes, and white exploitation of black labor.
Author :Jack Raymond Publisher :Washington, D.C. [i.e. Falls Church, VA] (3713 George Mason Dr. #1714, Falls Church 22041) : J. Raymond ISBN 13 : Total Pages :606 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis Show Music on Record by : Jack Raymond
Download or read book Show Music on Record written by Jack Raymond and published by Washington, D.C. [i.e. Falls Church, VA] (3713 George Mason Dr. #1714, Falls Church 22041) : J. Raymond. This book was released on 1998 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive list of original cast and studio cast performances issued on commercial phonograph records, covering music of the American stage, screen, and television, with composer performances and other selected collateral recordings.
Book Synopsis Hollywood Aesthetic by : Todd Berliner
Download or read book Hollywood Aesthetic written by Todd Berliner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hollywood makes the most widely successful pleasure-giving artworks the world has ever known. The industry operates under the assumption that pleasurable aesthetic experiences, among huge populations, translate into box office success. With that goal in mind, Hollywood has systematized the delivery of aesthetic pleasure, packaging and selling it on a massive scale. In Hollywood Aesthetic, Todd Berliner accounts for the chief attraction of Hollywood cinema worldwide: its entertainment value. Analyzing Hollywood in the areas of narrative, style, ideology, and genre, Hollywood Aesthetic offers a comprehensive appraisal of the aesthetic design of American commercial cinema. "--Publisher's description.
Book Synopsis Hollywood on Record by : Michael R. Pitts
Download or read book Hollywood on Record written by Michael R. Pitts and published by Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Hollywood's Image of the South by : David Ebner
Download or read book Hollywood's Image of the South written by David Ebner and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2001-09-30 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 1920s and 1930s, when American cinema depicted the South as a demi-paradise populated by wealthy landowners, glamorous belles, and happy slaves, through later, more realistic depictions of the region in films based on works by Erskine Caldwell, Tennessee Williams, William Faulkner, and Robert Penn Warren, Hollywood's view of the South has been as ever-changing as the place itself. This comprehensive reference guide to Southern films offers credits, plot descriptions, and analyses of how the stereotypes and characterizations in each film contribute to our understanding of a most contentious American time and place. Organized by subjects including Economic Conditions, Plantation Life, The Ku Klux Klan, and The New Politics, Hollywood's Image of the South seeks to coin a new genre by describing its conventions and attitudes. Even so, the Southern film crosses all known generic boundaries, including the comedy, the women's film, the noir, and many others. This invaluable guide to an under-recognized category of American cinema illustrates how much there is to learn about a time and place from watching the movies that aim to capture it.
Book Synopsis The Jan & Dean Record by : Mark A. Moore
Download or read book The Jan & Dean Record written by Mark A. Moore and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-02-18 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jan & Dean were among the most successful artists of the late 1950s through the mid-1960s, with hits including "Baby Talk," "Surf City," "Dead Man's Curve" and "The Little Old Lady (From Pasadena)." Slapstick humor and offbeat personas were a big part of their shtick, but Jan Berry was serious when it came to the studio. This book chronicles Jan's career as a songwriter and arranger--and his tenure as producer for Jan & Dean and other acts--with day-by-day entries detailing recording sessions, single and album releases, concerts and appearances, film and television projects, behind-the-scenes business and legal matters, chart positions and more. Extensive commentary from Berry's family, friends and colleagues is included. Studio invoices, contract details, tape box notes, copyright information and other particulars shed light on how music was made in the Hollywood studio system of the 1960s.
Book Synopsis Recruiting Journal of the United States by : United States. Adjutant-General's Office
Download or read book Recruiting Journal of the United States written by United States. Adjutant-General's Office and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Hindi Film Songs and the Cinema by : Anna Morcom
Download or read book Hindi Film Songs and the Cinema written by Anna Morcom and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since their beginnings in the 1930s, Hindi films and film songs have dominated Indian public culture in India, and have also made their presence felt strongly in many global contexts. Hindi film songs have been described on the one hand as highly standardized and on the other as highly eclectic. Anna Morcom addresses many of the paradoxes eccentricities and myths of not just Hindi film songs but also of Hindi cinema by analysing film songs in cinematic context. While the presence of songs in Hindi films is commonly dismissed aspurely commercial this book demonstrates that in terms of the production process, musical style, and commercial life, it is most powerfully the parent film that shapes and defines the film songs and their success rather than the other way round. While they constitute India‘s still foremost genre of popular music, film songs are also situational, dramatic sequences, inherently multi-media in style and conception. This book is uniquely grounded in detailed musical and visual analysis of Hindi film songs, song sequences and films as well as a wealth of ethnographic material from the Hindi film and music industries. Its findings lead to highly novel ways of viewing Hindi film songs, their key role in Hindi cinema, and how this affects their wider life in India and across the globe. It will be indispensable to scholars seeking to understand both Hindi film songs and Hindi cinema. It also forms a major contribution to popular music, popular culture, film music studies and ethnomusicology, tackling pertinent issues of cultural production, (multi-)media, and the cross-cultural use of music in Hindi cinema. The book caters for both music specialists as well as a wider audience.
Book Synopsis Hollywood's Representations of the Sino-Tibetan Conflict by : J. Daccache
Download or read book Hollywood's Representations of the Sino-Tibetan Conflict written by J. Daccache and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-12-05 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using film as a lens though which we can witness the global transformations in politics, economy, culture, and communication, this book analyzes Hollywood's shift in its depictions of China and Tibet.
Download or read book Hollywood Sings! written by Susan Sackett and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The musical history of Hollywood and the Academy Awards goes back to 1934, when "The Continental" from The Gay Divorcee won the first Oscar for Best Original Song. Since then, Oscar-nominated songs have come from every genre, including dance numbers, serious compositions, and rock and roll. Author Sackett lists the songs nominated each year through 1993, listing lyricists and composers, the film each appeared in, and historical information and inside anecdotes. Appendixes list title songs, films that songs have been nominated from, most Oscar nominations by lyricist (first is Sammy Cahn with 26) and by composer (James Van Heusen, 14), and other Oscar factoids. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Synopsis Hollywood's Hard-Luck Ladies by : Laura Wagner
Download or read book Hollywood's Hard-Luck Ladies written by Laura Wagner and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-01-27 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the era of Hollywood now considered its Golden Age, there was no shortage of hard-luck stories--movie stars succumbed to mental illness, addiction, accidents, suicide, early death and more. This book profiles 23 actresses who achieved a measure of success before fate dealt them losing hands--in full public view. Overviews of their lives and careers provide a wealth of previously unpublished information and set the record straight on long-standing inaccuracies. Actresses covered include Lynne Baggett, Suzan Ball, Helen Burgess, Susan Cabot, Mary Castle, Mae Clarke, Dorothy Comingore, Patricia Dane, Dorothy Dell, Sidney Fox, Charlotte Henry, Rita Johnson, Mayo Methot, Marjie Millar, Mary Nolan, Susan Peters, Lyda Roberti, Peggy Shannon, Rosa Stradner, Judy Tyler, Karen Verne, Helen Walker and Constance Worth.
Book Synopsis Hollywood's Man Who Worried for the Stars by : Carolyn Roos Olsen
Download or read book Hollywood's Man Who Worried for the Stars written by Carolyn Roos Olsen and published by Author House. This book was released on 2008-03-13 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt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or years people said someone should write a book about B Roos, but nobody will believe it. Now his daughter Carolyn has written the book, and it is believeable as it captures Hollywoods Golden Age and B Rooss unique part in it as one of Hollywoods most powerful and successful business managers. Its an amazing piece of Hollywood history that hasnt been covered before. Ben Newman, Attorney If you enjoy the classic "Golden Age" of movies and the great "stars" of that era, THIS IS YOUR BOOK...filled with more than 100 pictures, including John Wayne, FredMacMurray, Peter Lawford,Red Skelton and many more. Because of his flamboyant, high powered and hectic way of life, B (pronounced Boo) Roos could have been the model for the movie sterotype of the Hollywood business manager. The New York Times B Roos life story is a saga that would top the Horatio Alger novels of yesteryear. The Foreign Friends of Acapulco newsletter B Roos was a man of outsize personality and zest. Ballerina Margot Fonteyn B Roos not only keeps (his clients) on an allowance he eats, drinks, and even weeps with them. Saturday Evening Post B invested and took risks right alongside his clients claiming more conservative managers were guys going through life with nothing on their chests. Working with him was always full of excitement and the unexpected. Carolyns captured his story well. Al Marsella, CPA
Book Synopsis Hollywood's American Tragedies by : Mandy Merck
Download or read book Hollywood's American Tragedies written by Mandy Merck and published by Berg. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theodore Dreiser's dissection of the American dream, An American Tragedy, was hailed as the greatest novel of its generation. Now a classic of American literature, the story is one to which Hollywood has repeatedly returned. Hollywood's obsession with this tale of American greed, justice, religion and sexual hypocrisy stretches across the history of cinema. Some of cinema's greatest directors - Sergei Eisenstein, Josef von Sternberg and George Stevens - have attempted to bring this classic story to the screen. Subsequently, both Jean-Luc Godard and Woody Allen have returned to the story and to these earlier adaptations. Hollywood's American Tragedies is the first detailed study of this extraordinary sequence of adaptations. What it reveals is a history of Hollywood - from its politics to its cinematography - and, much deeper, of American culture and the difficulty of telling an American tragedy in the land of the American dream.
