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Book Synopsis Legends of the Silver Screen by : Owen Ashworth
Download or read book Legends of the Silver Screen written by Owen Ashworth and published by . This book was released on 2014-03-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An A5 collection of illustrations by Owen Ashworth, charting some of the best characters of cinema, past and present. This book compiles 112 portraits of Hollywood, European, and Independent film directors and their imagined signatures. Think Wes Anderson, Howard Hawks, Ang Lee, Martin Scorsese, David Lynch, Michael Haneke, Alfred Hitchcock and many others... Owen Ashworth is mostly a musician. He has released countless marginally successful indie rock albums with his bands Casiotone For the Painfully Alone and Advance Base. This is his first book of drawings.
Download or read book Alice Faye written by Jane Lenz Elder and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2009-10-20 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alice Faye's sweet demeanor, sultry glances, and velvety voice were her signatures. Her haunting rendition of “You'll Never Know” has never been surpassed by any other singer. Fans adored her in such films as Alexander's Ragtime Band, Rose of Washington Square, Tin Pan Alley, Week-End in Havana, and Hello, Frisco, Hello. In the 1930s and 1940s she reigned as queen of 20th Century Fox musicals. She co-starred with such legends as Shirley Temple, Tyrone Power, Carmen Miranda, and Don Ameche and was voted the number-one box-office attraction of 1940, placing ahead of Bette Davis and Myrna Loy. To a select cult, she remains a beloved star. In 1945 at the pinnacle of her career she chose to walk out on her Fox contract. This remarkable episode is unlike any other in the heyday of the big-studio system. Her daring departure from films left Fox mogul Darryl F. Zanuck and the rest of the movie industry flabbergasted. For years she had skirmished with him over her roles, her health, and her private life. His heavy-handed film editing of her fine work in Otto Preminger's drama Fallen Angel, a role she had fought for, relegated Faye to the shadows so that Zanuck could showcase the younger Linda Darnell. After leaving Fox, Faye (1915–1998) devoted herself to her marriage to radio star Phil Harris, to motherhood, and to a second career on radio in the Phil Harris–Alice Faye Show, broadcast for eight years. She happily gave up films in favor of the independence and self-esteem that she discovered in private life. She willingly freed herself of the “star-treatment” that debilitated so many of her contemporaries. In the 1980s she emerged as a spokeswoman for Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, touring America to encourage senior citizens to make their lives more meaningful and vital. Before Betty Grable, before Marilyn Monroe—Alice Faye was first in the lineup of 20th Century Fox blondes. This book captures her special essence, her work in film, radio, and popular music, and indeed her graceful survival beyond the silver screen.
Book Synopsis Legends of Indian Silver Screen by : M. Ponnein Selvan
Download or read book Legends of Indian Silver Screen written by M. Ponnein Selvan and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed articles.
Book Synopsis The Challenge of the Silver Screen by : Freek L. Bakker
Download or read book The Challenge of the Silver Screen written by Freek L. Bakker and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1897 only two years after the invention of film the first feature film about Jesus appeared. This and other films about Jesus became examples for and an inspiration for films on other important religious figures like Rama, Buddha and Muhammad. Although religious leaders did not always approve of these films, they did find a ready audience among believers. This book explores these films and looks at how these films dealt with the fundamental question of portraying an individual thought to have either divine status or a very special and unique status among human beings. This book will thus benefit not only students of religious film but also those studying the portrayal of central religious figures in the contemporary world.
Book Synopsis Silver Screen Samurai by : Cocoro Books
Download or read book Silver Screen Samurai written by Cocoro Books and published by DH Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2004 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For 50 years, samurai movies have wowed the Japanese and the world with gory sword fights and tear-jerking tales of honor and sacrifice. From Kurosawa's Seven Samurai to anime's Samurai X, this first-ever collection of original samurai movie art pays tribute to a cinematic genre that is truly Japanese. Silver Screen Samurai is a must-have for samurai fans, movie-buffs and lovers of poster art!
Book Synopsis Performance in America by : David Román
Download or read book Performance in America written by David Román and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2005-11-23 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performance in America demonstrates the vital importance of the performing arts to contemporary U.S. culture. Looking at a series of specific performances mounted between 1994 and 2004, well-known performance studies scholar David Román challenges the belief that theatre, dance, and live music are marginal art forms in the United States. He describes the crucial role that the performing arts play in local, regional, and national communities, emphasizing the power of live performance, particularly its immediacy and capacity to create a dialogue between artists and audiences. Román draws attention to the ways that the performing arts provide unique perspectives on many of the most pressing concerns within American studies: questions about history and politics, citizenship and society, and culture and nation. The performances that Román analyzes range from localized community-based arts events to full-scale Broadway productions and from the controversial works of established artists such as Tony Kushner to those of emerging artists. Román considers dances produced by the choreographers Bill T. Jones and Neil Greenberg in the mid-1990s as new aids treatments became available and the aids crisis was reconfigured; a production of the Asian American playwright Chay Yew’s A Beautiful Country in a high-school auditorium in Los Angeles’s Chinatown; and Latino performer John Leguizamo’s one-man Broadway show Freak. He examines the revival of theatrical legacies by female impersonators and the resurgence of cabaret in New York City. Román also looks at how the performing arts have responded to 9/11, the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, and the second war in Iraq. Including more than eighty illustrations, Performance in America highlights the dynamic relationships among performance, history, and contemporary culture through which the past is revisited and the future reimagined.
Book Synopsis Conrad Veidt, Demon of the Silver Screen by : Sabine Schwientek
Download or read book Conrad Veidt, Demon of the Silver Screen written by Sabine Schwientek and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-06-16 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book depicts the life of Conrad Veidt (1893-1943), the defining German actor of Expressionist cinema in the 1920s. His legendary performance in Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (1919/20) earned him the epithet "Demon of the Screen" and made Veidt an international star. To this day, Veidt is considered an icon of early horror film. He showed his acting range in more than a hundred films, among them masterpieces such as The Indian Tomb (1921), Orlac's Hands (1924), The Man Who Laughs (1928), The Thief of Bagdad (1940), and Casablanca (1942). Conrad Veidt used his acting career to become socially and politically involved, starting with the film Anders als die Anderen, the first film to advocate homosexual rights, in 1919. After the Nazis came to power, he left Germany to protest anti-Semitism and Nazi rule. Along with his biography, this book provides insights into the development of filmmaking from its beginnings through the 1940s, an epoch of cinematic art marked by technical innovations like sound and color film and by world-shaking events, including two world wars.
Download or read book Experimental Film written by Gemma Files and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning author of the Hexslinger Series “explores the world of film and horror in a way that will leave you reeling” (Jeff VanderMeer, author of the Southern Reach Trilogy). Former film teacher Lois Cairns is struggling to raise her autistic son while freelancing as a critic when, at a screening, she happens upon a sampled piece of silver nitrate silent footage. She is able to connect it to the early work of Mrs. Iris Dunlopp Whitcomb, the spiritualist and collector of fairy tales who mysteriously disappeared from a train compartment in 1918. Hoping to make her own mark on the film world, Lois embarks on a project to prove that Whitcomb was Canada’s first female filmmaker. But her research takes her down a path not of darkness but of light—the blinding and searing light of a fairy tale made flesh, a noontime demon who demands that duty must be paid. As Lois discovers terrifying parallels between her own life and that of Mrs. Whitcomb, she begins to fear not just for herself, but for those closest to her heart. Winner of the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel “One of the standout horror novels of 2015 . . . From an author who has already established herself as one of the genre’s most original and innovative voices, Experimental Film is a remarkable achievement.” —Los Angeles Review of Books “Experimental Film represents the next, significant contribution to what is emerging as one of the most interesting and exciting bodies of work currently being produced in the horror field. Every film, Lois Cairns writes, is an experiment. The same might be said of every novel. This one succeeds, wildly.” —Locus “Experimental Film is sensational. When we speak of the best in contemporary horror and weird fiction, we must speak of Gemma Files.” —Laird Barron “[Experimental Film is] truly unnerving. This is a too-often overlooked postmodern gem.” —Esquire, “The 50 Best Horror Books of All Time”
Book Synopsis From The Shadow Of An Accordion To Eternity. Talking To Accordionists Worth Listening To by : Times Square Press
Download or read book From The Shadow Of An Accordion To Eternity. Talking To Accordionists Worth Listening To written by Times Square Press and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-07-20 with total page 723 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From The Shadow Of An Accordion To Eternity. Talking To Accordionists Worth Listening To, published by TIMES SQUARE PRESS, NEW YORK, STARS ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE, AND ACCORDION STARS ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE. An authoritative, comprehensive and informative book on the world's most accomplished accordionists. Rich in substance. Well-designed. Pragmatic. Hundreds upon hundreds of interviews with living legends and most interesting accordionists in modern times. A wealth of information on all the disciplines, categories and genres of accordion's music. A world premiere treasure and essential reference tool for all the accordion's lovers, professional artists, critics, historians, conservatories of music, colleges, universities, music teachers, and decision makers of the world of music and showbiz. A must have book. Sponsored by the FEDERATION OF AMERICAN MUSICIANS, SINGERS AND PERFORMING ARTISTS, INCORPORATED (FAMSPA)
Book Synopsis Mexico's Cinema by : Joanne Hershfield
Download or read book Mexico's Cinema written by Joanne Hershfield and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 1999-11-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, Mexican films have received high acclaim and impressive box-office returns. Moreover, Mexico has the most advanced movie industry in the Spanish-speaking world, and its impact on Mexican culture and society cannot be overstated. Mexico's Cinema: A Century of Film and Filmmakers is a collection of fourteen essays that encompass the first 100 years of the cinema of Mexico. Included are original contributions written specifically for this title, plus a few classic pieces in the field of Mexican cinema studies never before available in English. These essays explore a variety of themes including race and ethnicity, gender issues, personalities, and the historical development of a national cinematic style. Each of the book's three sections-The Silent Cinema, The Golden Age, and The Contemporary Era-is preceded by a short introduction to the period and a presentation of the major themes addressed in the section. This insightful anthology is the first published study that includes pieces by Mexican and North American scholars, including a piece by the internationally acclaimed essayist Carlos Monsivais. Contributors include other acclaimed scholars and critics as well as young scholars who are currently making their mark in the area of film studies of Mexico. These authors represent various fields-community studies, film studies, cultural history, ethnic studies, and gender studies-making this volume an interdisciplinary resource, important for courses in Latin America and Third World cinema, Mexican history and culture, and Chicana/o and ethnic studies.
Book Synopsis Buffalo Bill on the Silver Screen by : Sandra K. Sagala
Download or read book Buffalo Bill on the Silver Screen written by Sandra K. Sagala and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2013-08-13 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than thirty years, William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody entertained audiences across the United States and Europe with his Wild West show. Scores of books have been written about Cody’s fabled career as a showman, but his involvement in the film industry—following the dissolution of his traveling show—is less well known. In Buffalo Bill on the Silver Screen, Sandra K. Sagala chronicles the fascinating story of Cody’s venture into filmmaking during the early cinema period. In 1894 Thomas Edison invited Cody to bring some of the Wild West performers to the inventor’s kinetoscope studio. From then on, as Sagala reveals, Cody was frequently in the camera’s eye, eager to participate in the newest and most popular phenomenon of the era: the motion picture. In 1910, promoter Pliny Craft produced The Life of Buffalo Bill, a film in which Cody played his own persona. After his Wild West show disbanded, Cody fully embraced the film business, seeing the technology as a way to recoup his financial losses and as a new vehicle for preserving America’s history and his own legacy for future generations. Because he had participated as a scout in some of the battles and skirmishes between the U.S. Army and Plains Indians, Cody wanted to make a film that captured these historical events. Unfortunately for Cody, The Indian Wars (1913) was not a financial success, and only three minutes of footage have survived. Long after his death, Cody’s legacy lives on through the many movies that have featured his character. Sagala provides a useful appendix listing all of these films, as well as those for which Cody himself took an active role as director, producer, or actor. Published on the eve of the centennial anniversary of The Indian Wars, this engaging book offers readers new insights into the legendary figure’s life and career and explores his lasting image in film.
Book Synopsis SECOND EDITION-ACCORDION AND WORLDÕS BEST CONTEMPORARY ACCORDIONISTS by : Maximillien de Lafayette
Download or read book SECOND EDITION-ACCORDION AND WORLDÕS BEST CONTEMPORARY ACCORDIONISTS written by Maximillien de Lafayette and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-04-13 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SECOND EDITION-ACCORDION AND WORLD'S BEST CONTEMPORARY ACCORDIONISTS, ENCYCLOPEDIE UNIVERSELLE DES ACCORDEONISTES CONTEMPORAINS. ●ВСЕМИРНАЯ ЭНЦИКЛОПЕДИЯ СОВРЕМЕННЫХ АККОРДЕОНИСТОВ. Published by Times Square Press New York and the Federation of American Musicians, Singers and Performing Artists, Inc. (FAMSPA). In collaboration with Stars Illustrated magazine, New York, and Accordion Stars Illustrated magazine.
Download or read book Silent Women written by Kevin Brownlow and published by Aurora Metro Publications Ltd.. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first ever overview of women's contributions to the dawn of cinema looking at a variety of roles from writers and directors to film editors and critics. Why have women such as Alice Guy-Blache, the creator of narrative cinema, been written out of film history? Why have so many women working behind the scenes in film been rendered invisible and silent for so long? Silent Women, pioneers of cinema explores the incredible contribution of women at the dawn of cinema when, surprisingly, more women were employed across the board in the film industry than they are now. It also looks at how women helped to shape the content, style of acting and development of the movie business in their roles as actors, writers, editors, cinematographers, directors and producers. In addition, we describe how women engaged with and influenced the development of cinema in their roles as audience, critics, fans, reviewers, journalists and the arbiters of morality in films. And finally, we ask when the current discrimination and male domination of the industry will give way to allow more women access to the top jobs. In addition to its historical focus on women working in film during the silent film era, the term silent also refers to the silencing and eradication of the enormous contribution that women have made to the development of the motion picture industry. “The surprise of the essays collected here is their sheer volume in every corner of a business apparently better able to accommodate female talent then than now..” Danny Leigh, Financial Times, July 2016 “ It's a fascinating journey into the untold history of a largely lost era of film..” Greg Jameson, Entertainment Focus, March 2016 "This book shows how women's voices were heard and helped create the golden age of silent cinema, how those voices were almost eradicated by the male-dominated film industry, and perhaps points the way to an all-inclusive future for global cinema..” Paul Duncan, Film Historian “Inspirational and informative, Silent Women will challenge many people's ideas about the beginnings of film history. This fascinating book roams widely across the era and the diverse achievements and voices of women in the film industry. These are the stories of pioneers, trailblazers and collaborators - hugely enjoyable to read and vitally important to publish.” Pamela Hutchinson, Silent London “Every page begs the question - how on earth did these amazing women vanish from history in the first place? I defy anyone interested in cinema history not to find this valuable compendium a must-read. It's also a call to arms for more research into women's contribution and an affirmation of just how rewarding the detective work can be.” Laraine Porter, Co-Artistic Director of British Silent Film Festival “An authoritative and illuminating work, it also lends a pervasive voice to the argument that discrimination and not talent is the barrier to so few women occupying the most prominent roles within the industry." Jason Wood, Author and Visiting Professor at MMU “I was amazed to discover just how crucially they were involved from not just in front of the camera but in producing, directing, editing and much, much more. An essential read.” Neil McGlone. The Criterion Collection
Book Synopsis An Empire of Their Own by : Neal Gabler
Download or read book An Empire of Their Own written by Neal Gabler and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2010-11-17 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative, original, and richly entertaining group biography of the Jewish immigrants who were the moving forces behind the creation of America's motion picture industry. The names Harry Cohn, William Fox, Carl Laemmle, Louis B. Mayer, Jack and Harry Warner, and Adolph Zucker are giants in the history of contemporary Hollywood, outsiders who dared to invent their own vision of the American Dream. Even to this day, the American values defined largely by the movies of these émigrés endure in American cinema and culture. Who these men were, how they came to dominate Hollywood, and what they gained and lost in the process is the exhilarating story of An Empire of Their Own.
Book Synopsis How an Anunnaki Ulema created 4 Gooliim entities so they could build an entire town overnight by : Maximillien De Lafayette
Download or read book How an Anunnaki Ulema created 4 Gooliim entities so they could build an entire town overnight written by Maximillien De Lafayette and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-12-12 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: he Gafarim (Gooliim) are not very well-known to the general public and readers of esoteric works. Yet, they occupied a major place in the ancient mythology and social beliefs of Mesopotamia. In fact, the Gafarim were feared by the Babylonians, and their extraordinary deeds dominated the early Ubaid dynasty mythology and religion. However, we have learned from the Illuminated Masters (Mouwariin) that two species of the Gafarim were created by the Anunnaki Ulema to fulfill and complete very precise and astonishing tasks, such as building a whole village for the needy and poor people in less than 24 hours, or relocating an entire city to another location in a blink of an eye; this seems to be a fictional account, and a pure fantasy, but thousands of people who lived in some parts of the previous Soviet bloc have witnessed these extraordinary events. This is their story.
Book Synopsis ROSTER OF SPIRITS, DEMONS, DJINN, AFARIT, AND GHOSTS YOU CAN COMMUNICATE WITH by : Maximillien de Lafayette
Download or read book ROSTER OF SPIRITS, DEMONS, DJINN, AFARIT, AND GHOSTS YOU CAN COMMUNICATE WITH written by Maximillien de Lafayette and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-02-26 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ROSTER OF SPIRITS, DEMONS, DJINN, AFARIT, AND GHOSTS YOU CAN COMMUNICATE WITH. Séances and Discussions with the Greatest Middle Eastern Spirit-mediums of all Time. 4th Edition. 320 PAGES. Published by Times Square Press New York. Any person can contact Djinn, Afarit, Spirits, and Arwaah. You don't need to be a psychic, a medium or a channeler to summon and/or to communicate with these entities and multidimensional creatures, for no mediumistic abilities or psychic "powers" are required. Simply, ●1-Learn who are these entities. They are listed in the roster provided in this book. ●2-Learn the perfect timing to reach them. (Refer to my previous books on the subject). ●3-Learn the words, phrases and sentences you must use to call upon them. It is so easy to do so by consulting this book.
Book Synopsis The world's most powerful magic spells and writings:Esoteric techniques to create success and wealth and neutralize your enemies by : Maximillien de lafayette
Download or read book The world's most powerful magic spells and writings:Esoteric techniques to create success and wealth and neutralize your enemies written by Maximillien de lafayette and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-09-29 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 10th Edition. THE WORLD'S MOST POWERFUL MAGIC SPELLS AND WRITINGS: Esoteric techniques to create success and wealth and neutralize your enemies. A publication of TIMES SQUARE PRESS(R). New York. ●Magical writing for preserving good health. ● Magical writing to triumph. ● Magical writing to defeat your enemies. ● Magical writing to stop black magic against you. ●Magical writing to remove barriers/blocks which halt your success. ● Magical writing to free a prisoner. ● Magical writing to heal a person hit by black magic and curses. ●Magical square for protection against the "Evil Eye", bad spirits, and envious/vicious people. ●Talisman against fear and a bullying boss. ●Magical writing against hate. ●Magical writing against powerful people who could be a threat to you. ●Magical writing to influence others' decisions. ●Magical writing to bring wealth.
