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Author : Leonard Maltin
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1522 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (768 download)
Download or read book Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide, 1993 Ed written by Leonard Maltin and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 1522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leonard Maltin
Publisher : Plume Books
ISBN 13 : 9780452268579
Total Pages : 1552 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (685 download)
Download or read book Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide 1993 written by Leonard Maltin and published by Plume Books. This book was released on 1992-11 with total page 1552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely acclaimed as the biggest, best, most authoritative book in its field, this guide has been updated for 1993 and now includes a new feature--a symbol to designate movies available on increasingly popular laser discs. Features 300 new movie summaries, plus expanded coverage of films available on video for home viewing.
Author : Leonard Maltin
Publisher : Signet
ISBN 13 : 9780451173812
Total Pages : 1522 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (738 download)
Download or read book Leonard Maltin's TV Movies and Video Guide, 1993 written by Leonard Maltin and published by Signet. This book was released on 1992 with total page 1522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With more than 3.5 million copies sold, this definitive reference is an annual #1 bestseller. Now the biggest, most authoritative movie guide available includes 500 new entries (19,500 total), updated indexes of stars and directors, and a new symbol to designate films on laser disc. "Easily the most comprehensive reference of its kind".--USA Today. Don't stay home without it.
Author : Joan Gordon
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812216288
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (162 download)
Download or read book Blood Read written by Joan Gordon and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1997-10 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vampire is one of the nineteenth century's most powerful surviving archetypes, owing largely to Bela Lugosi's portrayal of Dracula, the Bram Stoker creation. Yet the figure of the vampire has undergone many transformations in recent years, thanks to Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles and other works, and many young people now identify with vampires in complex ways. Blood Read explores these transformations and shows how they reflect and illuminate ongoing changes in postmodern culture. It focuses on the metaphorical roles played by vampires in contemporary fiction and film, revealing what they can tell us about sexuality and power, power and alienation, attitudes toward illness, and the definition of evil in a secular age. Scholars and writers from the United States, Canada, England, and Japan examine how today's vampire has evolved from that of the last century, consider the vampire as a metaphor for consumption within the context of social concerns, and discuss the vampire figure in terms of contemporary literary theory. In addition, three writers of vampire fiction—Suzy McKee Charnas (author of the now-classic Vampire Tapestry), Brian Stableford (writer of the lively and erudite novels Empire of Fear and Young Blood), and Jewelle Gomez (creator of the dazzling Gilda stories)—discuss their own uses of the vampire, focusing on race and gender politics, eroticism, and the nature of evil. The first book to examine a wide range of vampire narratives from the perspective of both writers and scholars, Blood Read offers a variety of styles that will keep readers thoroughly engaged, inviting them to participate in a dialogue between fiction and analysis that shows the vampire to be a cultural necessity of our age. For, contrary to legends in which Dracula has no reflection, we can see reflections of ourselves in the vampire as it stands before us cloaked not in black but in metaphor.
Author : Mike Bogue
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476691010
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Watching the World Die written by Mike Bogue and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-10-26 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1980s, popular fear of World War III spurred moviemakers to produce dozens of nuclear threat films. Categories ranged from monster movies to post-apocalyptic adventures to realistic depictions of nuclear war and its immediate aftermath. Coverage of atomic angst films isn't new, but this is the first book to solely analyze 1980s nuclear threat movies as a group. Entries range from classics such as The Day After and WarGames to obscurities such as Desert Warrior and Massive Retaliation. Chronological coverage of the 121 films released between 1980 and 1990 includes production details, chapter notes, and critical commentaries.
Author : Hal Erickson
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476607850
Total Pages : 559 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book The Baseball Filmography, 1915 through 2001, 2d ed. written by Hal Erickson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the first baseball movie (Little Sunset) in 1915, Hollywood has had an on-again, off-again affair with the sport, releasing more than 100 films through 2001. This is a filmography of those films. Each entry contains full cast and credits, a synopsis, and a critique of the movie. Behind-the-scenes and background information is included, and two sections cover baseball shorts and depictions of the game in non-baseball films. An extensive bibliography completes the work.
Author : Edward Mapp
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 1461706378
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (617 download)
Download or read book African Americans and the Oscar written by Edward Mapp and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2008-01-28 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the 2007 Academy Awards® ceremony, an unprecedented number of Black performers received acting nominations, and two of the statues awarded that evening went to Forest Whitaker and Jennifer Hudson. Indeed, since 2000, more African Americans have received Oscars than in the previous century. While the last few years have seen more and more Black performers receive acknowledgment by the Academy, it hasn't always been that way. African Americans and the Oscar®: Decades of Struggle and Achievement highlights the advancements Black performers have made on the silver screen and how those performances were honored by the Academy. In the Academy's first 40 years, less than ten African Americans were cited for their work on screen and only two, Hattie McDaniel and Sidney Poitier, received competitive awards before the 1980s. This book profiles all the nominees and recipients of the coveted award in the acting, writing, and directing categories, beginning with the first: McDaniel's Best Supporting Actress win for her role in Gone with the Wind (1939). Each entry, organized chronologically and by name, provides valuable information about how the role or film was viewed during its time and also places it in historical context by drawing connections to other related awards or events in film history. In the introduction, Mapp's overview of the nomination process helps explain the historically low percentage of African Americans who have been nominated or received the honor. Also, appendixes provide lists of non-acting/directing nominees and winners, overlooked performances, and performers of nominated songs. Highlighting the achievements of Sidney Poitier, Whoopi Goldberg, Halle Berry, Morgan Freeman, Spike Lee, Jamie Foxx, Denzel Washington and others, this volume provides an enlightening history of the Black experience in Hollywood and will fascinate fans of all ages.
Author : Charles P. Mitchell
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786445866
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book The Great Composers Portrayed on Film, 1913 through 2002 written by Charles P. Mitchell and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-04-08 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comprehensive filmography of biographical films featuring the lives of 65 great classical composers. Performances analyzed include Richard Burton as Richard Wagner, Cornel Wilde as Frederic Chopin, Gary Oldman as Ludwig van Beethoven, Tom Hulce as Mozart, and Katharine Hepburn as Clara Schumann, among others. Arranged alphabetically by composer's name and illustrated1with stills and posters, the text provides a brief biography of each composer and analyzes the feature films portraying him or her. Emphasis is given to the factual accuracy of the screenplay, the validity of the portrayal, and the film's presentation of the composer's music.
Author : Daniel Herbert
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520279638
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Videoland written by Daniel Herbert and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2014-01-24 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Videoland offers a comprehensive view of the "tangible phase" of consumer video, when Americans largely accessed movies as material commodities at video rental stores. Video stores served as a vital locus of movie culture from the early 1980s until the early 2000s, changing the way Americans socialized around movies and collectively made movies meaningful. When films became tangible as magnetic tapes and plastic discs, movie culture flowed out from the theater and the living room, entered the public retail space, and became conflated with shopping and salesmanship. In this process, video stores served as a crucial embodiment of movie culture’s historical move toward increased flexibility, adaptability, and customization. In addition to charting the historical rise and fall of the rental industry, Herbert explores the architectural design of video stores, the social dynamics of retail encounters, the video distribution industry, the proliferation of video recommendation guides, and the often surprising persistence of the video store as an adaptable social space of consumer culture. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, cultural geography, and archival research, Videoland provides a wide-ranging exploration of the pivotal role video stores played in the history of motion pictures, and is a must-read for students and scholars of media history.
Author : Barbara Tepa Lupack
Publisher : Popular Press
ISBN 13 : 9780879728052
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Nineteenth-century Women at the Movies written by Barbara Tepa Lupack and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven essays analyze the adaptations of novels by eight popular writers such as Jane Austen and Harriet Beecher Stowe, and examine the ways in which those writers' themes are reinterpreted, updated and often misconstrued by the filmmakers who bring them to the screen. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Stephen H. Ryan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442278218
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)
Download or read book The Essential James Garner written by Stephen H. Ryan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-06-07 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since his television debut in the mid-1950s, James Garner entertained millions of fans on screens both big and small. From supporting roles in memorable films like Sayonara and The Notebook to leading roles in box office hits including The Great Escape, Victor / Victoria, and the feature film version of Maverick, the actor appeared in some of the most entertaining movies of all time. In The Essential James Garner, Stephen H. Ryan and Paul J. Ryan consider the prolific output of one of America’s most beloved actors. This book looks at the key feature films, made-for-television movies, and television episodes of Garner’s career. The authors discuss each of the actor’s most well-known films—The Great Escape, The Americanization of Emily, Support Your Local Sheriff! and Murphy’s Romance, among others—as well as critically acclaimed television movies including Barbarians at the Gate, Breathing Lessons, Decoration Day, Heartsounds, My Names Is Bill W., and Promise. Each entry provides details about the film’s production, critical reception, and commercial success. The best episodes of Garner’s two iconic television, Maverick and The Rockford Files—as well as his highly regarded but little seen series Nichols—are also identified. The authors make clear why these choices are indispensable viewings, not only for those already familiar with Garner, but also for those who have yet to enjoy the work of this Oscar nominee and multiple Emmy winner. A tribute to the career of a Hollywood legend, The Essential James Garner will appeal to anyone wanting to know more about the actor’s best films and programs.
Author : Tim Brooks
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252090632
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Lost Sounds written by Tim Brooks and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking history of African Americans in the early recording industry, Lost Sounds examines the first three decades of sound recording in the United States, charting the surprising roles black artists played in the period leading up to the Jazz Age and the remarkably wide range of black music and culture they preserved. Drawing on more than thirty years of scholarship, Tim Brooks identifies key black recording artists and profiles forty audio pioneers. Brooks assesses the careers and recordings of George W. Johnson, Bert Williams, George Walker, Noble Sissle, Eubie Blake, the Fisk Jubilee Singers, W. C. Handy, James Reese Europe, Wilbur Sweatman, Harry T. Burleigh, Roland Hayes, Booker T. Washington, and boxing champion Jack Johnson, plus a host of lesser-known voices. Many of these pioneers struggled to be heard in an era of rampant discrimination. Their stories detail the forces––black and white––that gradually allowed African Americans to enter the mainstream entertainment industry. Lost Sounds includes Brooks's selected discography of CD reissues and an appendix by Dick Spottswood describing early recordings by black artists in the Caribbean and South America.
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Total Pages : 3054 pages
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Download or read book Subject Guide to Books in Print written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 3054 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Laurence E. MacDonald
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 1461673046
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)
Download or read book The Invisible Art of Film Music written by Laurence E. MacDonald and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive introduction to film music for the general student, the film historian, and the aspiring cinematographer. It is a historically structured account of the evolution of music in films. The book is arranged as a chronological survey and includes biographical sketches on many important film composers in addition to the development of the films themselves.
Author : Miriam Van Scott
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312244422
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (444 download)
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Hell written by Miriam Van Scott and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999-11-30 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of Hell covers the underworld from Dante's Inferno to Gary Larson's "Far Side" cartoons, and includes everything in between. This book offers depictions of Hell from film, television, music, classic literature, religion, visions, contemporary fiction, myth, theater, scholarly works, and art. The first of its kind, this book is an information catalog which provides diverse interpretations of the world to come, as well as lively and entertaining depictions of what possibly awaits us. All in all, it is one hell of a book. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author : Leonard Maltin
Publisher : Signet Book
ISBN 13 : 9780451132123
Total Pages : 1044 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Leonard Maltin's TV Movies written by Leonard Maltin and published by Signet Book. This book was released on 1984 with total page 1044 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Amy M. Davis
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0861969014
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (619 download)
Download or read book Good Girls & Wicked Witches written by Amy M. Davis and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2007-02-20 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth view of the way popular female stereotypes were reflected in—and were shaped by—the portrayal of women in Disney’s animated features. In Good Girls and Wicked Witches, Amy M. Davis re-examines the notion that Disney heroines are rewarded for passivity. Davis proceeds from the assumption that, in their representations of femininity, Disney films both reflected and helped shape the attitudes of the wider society, both at the time of their first release and subsequently. Analyzing the construction of (mainly human) female characters in the animated films of the Walt Disney Studio between 1937 and 2001, she attempts to establish the extent to which these characterizations were shaped by wider popular stereotypes. Davis argues that it is within the most constructed of all moving images of the female form—the heroine of the animated film—that the most telling aspects of Woman as the subject of Hollywood iconography and cultural ideas of American womanhood are to be found. “A fascinating compilation of essays in which [Davis] examined the way Disney has treated female characters throughout its history.” —PopMatters
