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Author : Richard Roeper
Publisher : Career Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Hollywood Urban Legends written by Richard Roeper and published by Career Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The truth behind myths of film, television, and music.
Author : Richard Roeper
Publisher : Career Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Hollywood Urban Legends written by Richard Roeper and published by Career Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The truth behind myths of film, television, and music.
Author : Joe Williams
Publisher : Voyageur Press (MN)
ISBN 13 : 0760342415
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (63 download)
Download or read book Hollywood Myths written by Joe Williams and published by Voyageur Press (MN). This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Hollywood myths, veteran film critic Joe Williams dissects the film industry's biggest myths and rumors, from the dawn of the silver screen to the twenty-first century. Myths discussed pertain to superstars, power couples, groundbreaking films, and the industry itself"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Peter L'Official
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674238079
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)
Download or read book Urban Legends written by Peter L'Official and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cultural history of the South Bronx that reaches beyond familiar narratives of urban ruin and renaissance, beyond the “inner city” symbol, to reveal the place and people obscured by its myths. For decades, the South Bronx was America’s “inner city.” Synonymous with civic neglect, crime, and metropolitan decay, the Bronx became the preeminent symbol used to proclaim the failings of urban places and the communities of color who lived in them. Images of its ruins—none more infamous than the one broadcast live during the 1977 World Series: a building burning near Yankee Stadium—proclaimed the failures of urbanism. Yet this same South Bronx produced hip hop, arguably the most powerful artistic and cultural innovation of the past fifty years. Two narratives—urban crisis and cultural renaissance—have dominated understandings of the Bronx and other urban environments. Today, as gentrification transforms American cities economically and demographically, the twin narratives structure our thinking about urban life. A Bronx native, Peter L’Official draws on literature and the visual arts to recapture the history, people, and place beyond its myths and legends. Both fact and symbol, the Bronx was not a decades-long funeral pyre, nor was hip hop its lone cultural contribution. L’Official juxtaposes the artist Gordon Matta-Clark’s carvings of abandoned buildings with the city’s trompe l’oeil decals program; examines the centrality of the Bronx’s infamous Charlotte Street to two Hollywood films; offers original readings of novels by Don DeLillo and Tom Wolfe; and charts the emergence of a “global Bronx” as graffiti was brought into galleries and exhibited internationally, promoting a symbolic Bronx abroad. Urban Legends presents a new cultural history of what it meant to live, work, and create in the Bronx.
Author : Paul Downs
Publisher : Humanoids, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1643375555
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (433 download)
Download or read book Urban Legendz written by Paul Downs and published by Humanoids, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A group of young vigilantes roam the streets of Brooklyn solving supernatural crimes.
Author : Ryan Uytdewilligen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493063316
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Killing John Wayne written by Ryan Uytdewilligen and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behold the history of a film so scandalous, so outrageous, so explosive it disappeared from print for over a quarter century! A film so dangerous, half its cast and crew met their demise bringing eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes’ final cinematic vision to life! Starring All-American legend John Wayne in full Fu Manchu make-up as Mongol madman Genghis Khan! Featuring sultry seductress Susan Hayward as his lover! This is the true story of The Conqueror (1956), the worst movie ever made. Filmed during the dark underbelly of the 1950s—the Cold War—when nuclear testing in desolate southwestern landscapes was a must for survival, the very same landscapes were where exotic stories set in faraway lands could be made. Just 153 miles from the St. George, Utah, set, nuclear bombs were detonated regularly at Yucca Flat and Frenchman Flat in Nevada, providing a bizarre and possibly deadly background to an already surreal moment in cinema history. This book tells the full story of the making of The Conqueror, its ignominious aftermath, and the radiation induced cancer that may have killed John Wayne and many others.
Author : Keith Zimmerman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 141690929X
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (169 download)
Download or read book MythBusters written by Keith Zimmerman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-10-25 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides evidence either verifying or disproving thirty urban legends, such as exploding silicon implants, cooking a chicken in a tanning bed, and cleaning chrome with cola, as seen on the television show "Mythbusters."
Author : Richard Roeper
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1556529708
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (565 download)
Download or read book Debunked! written by Richard Roeper and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A breezy but fact-filled dissection of more than two dozen of the most popular urban legends and conspiracy theories of the 21st century.
Author : Mikel J. Koven
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810860254
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Film, Folklore, and Urban Legends written by Mikel J. Koven and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Alien to When a Stranger Calls, many films are based on folklore or employ an urban legend element to propel the narrative. Films, Folklore and Urban Legends explores the convergence of folklore with popular cinema studies and focuses on the study of urban legends and how these narratives are used as inspiration for a number of films. Beginning with a general survey of the existing literature on folklore/film, this book addresses discourses of belief, how urban legends provide the organizing principle of some films, and how certain films "act out" or perform a legend.
Author : Richard Kaczynski
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781514139929
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (399 download)
Download or read book The Billionth Monkey written by Richard Kaczynski and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-06-18 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's like a meme come true... Professor Niels Belanger is having the week from hell. The chair of his department has quit. The cute waitress at Cafe du Monde won't speak to him. And now one of his students is trying to kill him. Belanger has stumbled into the deadly fantasy world of Nicholas Young, a partying frat boy whose unhealthy obsession with acting out urban legends has gone just a teensy bit over to the dark side. Everything changes when Belanger encounters the most unusual woman he has ever met: a wildly nonconformist goth who technically shouldn't exist. Yet the fact that she does forces him to accept that something much bigger and stranger is warping the shopworn fabric of reality. But are the two of them enough to stop a Millennial under-achiever from impossibly destroying the world?"
Author : Scott Wood
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752493809
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book London Urban Legends written by Scott Wood and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How long has a corpse been staring out at passengers on the tube? Was London Bridge really shipped abroad by an American thinking he'd bought Tower Bridge? Did the Queen really mix with the crowds as a princess on VE Day? And did Hitler actually want to live in Balham? Where are there razor blades hidden and where did all these parakeets come from? Did they really belong to Jimi Hendrix? Urban legends are the funny, frightening and fierce folklore people share. Just like the early folk tales that came before them, which were attempts to explain the spiritual world, these tales are formed from reactions to spectacular events in the modern world, and reflect our current values. From royal rumours to subterranean legends, Scott Wood has researched and written about them with a sense of wonder, humour and a keen eye. He finds the truth, the myth and the lies amongst these tales.
Author : Jan Harold Brunvand
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393346536
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)
Download or read book The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends and Their Meanings written by Jan Harold Brunvand and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2003-12-17 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The groundbreaking book that launched America's urban legend obsession! Folklore scholar Jan Harold Brunvand assembles the best-known urban legends—including "The Hook," "The Spider in the Hairdo," and "The Baby-Sitter and the Man Upstairs"—and provides an enlightening and entertaining analysis of their variants and evolution. The Vanishing Hitchhiker was Professor Brunvand's first popular book on urban legends, and it remains a classic. The culmination of twenty years of collection and research, this book is a must-have for urban legend lovers.
Author : Kenneth Anger
Publisher : Random House Value Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780517344088
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Hollywood Babylon written by Kenneth Anger and published by Random House Value Pub. This book was released on 1975 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Steven Bingen
Publisher : Santa Monica Press
ISBN 13 : 1595808930
Total Pages : 1157 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (958 download)
Download or read book MGM written by Steven Bingen and published by Santa Monica Press. This book was released on 2011-02-25 with total page 1157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: M-G-M: Hollywood’s Greatest Backlot is the illustrated history of the soundstages and outdoor sets where Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer produced many of the world’s most famous films. During its Golden Age, the studio employed the likes of Garbo, Astaire, and Gable, and produced innumerable iconic pieces of cinema such as The Wizard of Oz, Singin’ in the Rain, and Ben-Hur. It is estimated that a fifth of all films made in the United States prior to the 1970s were shot at MGM studios, meaning that the gigantic property was responsible for hundreds of iconic sets and stages, often utilizing and transforming minimal spaces and previously used props, to create some of the most recognizable and identifiable landscapes of modern movie culture. All of this happened behind closed doors, the backlot shut off from the public in a veil of secrecy and movie magic. M-G-M: Hollywood’s Greatest Backlot highlights this fascinating film treasure by recounting the history, popularity, and success of the MGM company through a tour of its physical property. Featuring the candid, exclusive voices and photographs from the people who worked there, and including hundreds of rare and unpublished photographs (including many from the archives of Warner Bros.), readers are launched aboard a fun and entertaining virtual tour of Hollywood’s most famous and mysterious motion picture studio.
Author : Brian Cronin
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780452295322
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Was Superman a Spy? written by Brian Cronin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-04-28 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fascinating and often bizarre true stories behind more than 130 urban legends about comic book culture. Was Superman a Spy? demystifies all of the interesting stories, unbelievable anecdotes, wacky rumors, and persistent myths that have piled up like priceless back issues in the seventy-plus years of the comic book industry, including: • Elvis Presley's trademark hairstyle was based on a comic book character (True) • Stan Lee featured a gay character in one of Marvel's 1960s war comics (False) • Wolverine of the X-Men was originally meant to be an actual wolverine! (True) • What would have been DC's first black superhero was changed at the last moment to a white hero (True) • A Dutch inventor was blocked from getting a patent on a process because it had been used previously in a Donald Duck comic book (True) With many more legends resolved, Was Superman a Spy? is a must-have for the legions of comic book fans and all seekers of “truth, justice, and the American way.”
Author : Alexandra West
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476670641
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book The 1990s Teen Horror Cycle written by Alexandra West and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-06-08 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many critics and fans refer to the 1990s as the decade that horror forgot, with few notable entries in the genre. Yet horror went mainstream in the '90s by speaking to the anxieties of American youth during one of the country's most prosperous eras. No longer were films made on low budgets and dependent on devotees for success. Horror found its way onto magazine covers, fashion ads and CD soundtrack covers. "Girl power" feminism and a growing distaste for consumerism defined an audience that both embraced and rejected the commercial appeal of these films. This in-depth study examines the youth subculture and politics of the era, focusing on such films as Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992), Scream (1996), I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997), Idle Hands (1999) and Cherry Falls (2000).
Author : Donald Bogle
Publisher : One World
ISBN 13 : 0307514935
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams written by Donald Bogle and published by One World. This book was released on 2009-02-19 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams, Donald Bogle tells–for the first time–the story of a place both mythic and real: Black Hollywood. Spanning sixty years, this deliciously entertaining history uncovers the audacious manner in which many blacks made a place for themselves in an industry that originally had no place for them. Through interviews and the personal recollections of Hollywood luminaries, Bogle pieces together a remarkable history that remains largely obscure to this day. We discover that Black Hollywood was a place distinct from the studio-system-dominated Tinseltown–a world unto itself, with unique rules and social hierarchy. It had its own talent scouts and media, its own watering holes, elegant hotels, and fashionable nightspots, and of course its own glamorous and brilliant personalities. Along with famous actors including Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, Hattie McDaniel (whose home was among Hollywood’s most exquisite), and, later, the stunningly beautiful Lena Horne and the fabulously gifted Sammy Davis, Jr., we meet the likes of heartthrob James Edwards, whose promising career was derailed by whispers of an affair with Lana Turner, and the mysterious Madame Sul-Te-Wan, who shared a close lifelong friendship with pioneering director D. W. Griffith. But Bogle also looks at other members of the black community–from the white stars’ black servants, who had their own money and prestige, to gossip columnists, hairstylists, and architects–and at the world that grew up around them along Central Avenue, the Harlem of the West. In the tradition of Hortense Powdermaker’s classic Hollywood: The Dream Factory and Neal Gabler’s An Empire of Their Own, in Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams, Donald Bogle re-creates a vanished world that left an indelible mark on Hollywood–and on all of America.
