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Author : Rupert Hughes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Souls for Sale written by Rupert Hughes and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Terry Lindvall
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725293072
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)
Download or read book Souls for Sale written by Terry Lindvall and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-07-09 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beginning of the twentieth century evolved out of an era of Freethinking atheists and agnostics who challenged the Protestant hegemony of the day. Key among these mavericks was author and filmmaker Rupert Hughes, uncle to Howard Hughes. In 1922, Hughes published Souls for Sale, his wickedly playful satire of the Bible belt and Hollywood, offering a mischievous snapshot of the film industry as it struggled against a conservative Zeitgeist. The novel follows the prodigal adventures of a clergyman's daughter as she stumbles into the movie industry and finds it to be a new and liberating moral universe. Hughes's adaptation of his sly work challenged the religious hierarchy of his day, but ultimately fell by the wayside, even with the support of Hollywood icons like Eric von Stroheim and Charlie Chaplin. Souls for Sale offers a glimpse into the emerging Jazz age of moviemaking against the backdrop of a country moving from its traditional roots into the kinetic ways of Hollywood.
Author : John Frederick Whitehead
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271046317
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Souls for Sale written by John Frederick Whitehead and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1773, John Frederick Whitehead and Johann Carl B]ttner, two young German men, arrived in America on the same ship. Each man sold himself into servitude to a different master, and, years later, each wrote a memoir of his experiences, leaving invaluable historical records of their attitudes, perceptions, and goals. Despite their common voyage to America and similar working conditions as servants, their backgrounds and personalities differed. Their divergent interpretations of their experiences are the substance of rich and varied firsthand accounts of the transatlantic migration process, the servant labor experience of Germans in colonial America, and post-servitude life. Souls for Sale presents these parallel memoirs -- Whitehead's published here for the first time -- to illustrate the condition of German redemptioners as well as their religious, familial, and literary contexts during a crucial period of migration in Europe and America. The editors provide helpful introductions to the works as well as notes to guide the reader.
Author : Rupert Hughes
Publisher : Larb Classics
ISBN 13 : 9781940660578
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Souls for Sale written by Rupert Hughes and published by Larb Classics. This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rupert Hughes's Souls for Sale was a wildly successful Hollywood novel of the 1920s, which Hughes himself adapted for the screen in 1923. In it, Remember "Mem" Steddon is forced to move west after becoming pregnant, and on the way becomes involved in a film production taking place in the desert. She soon aspires to become a star, and of course, discovers that the road to stardom is rockier than expected.
Author : Rupert Hughes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Souls for Sale written by Rupert Hughes and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anthony Asadullah Samad
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 718 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Souls for Sale written by Anthony Asadullah Samad and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural Writing. African American Studies. SOULS FOR SALE: THE DIARY OF AN EX-COLORED MAN is a riveting portrayal of a second generation advocate's experience in the post civil rights era of the 1980s. Anthony Asadullah Samad offers this retrospect through the eyes of a young advocate's effort to give back to his community, when he takes up membership in the local branch of the NAACP. As a lead official of the Los Angeles NAACP (Vice President 1985-88, President 1988-89), Samad (whose name was Anthony Essex at the time) discovered that the progressive civil rights agenda has been supplanted by inner race conflict and leadership succession battles within the organization, and a cultural compromise that came with the Reagan era social and economic reconstruction (1981-1988). Samad is currently the host of the Urban Issues Forum of Greater Los Angeles, a monthly public affairs forum that discusses critical issues impacting American's urban cities.
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Publisher : Eternal Press
ISBN 13 : 1926704045
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (267 download)
Download or read book One Soul For Sale written by and published by Eternal Press. This book was released on with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rupert Hughes
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780428328412
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (284 download)
Download or read book Souls for Sale (Classic Reprint) written by Rupert Hughes and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-04 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Souls for Sale Even when the sun had left this capital of the new art, some of the studios would glow on with a man-made day of their own. But most of the factories were closing now, since the toilers had begun betimes in the morning and were scattering homeward for rest or study or mischief. Los Angeles, the huge Spinner, was finishing another day of its traffic in virtue, vice, laughter, love, and its other wares. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 880 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Exhibitors Daily Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 996 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Canadian Moving Picture Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Asta Idonea
Publisher : Ninestar Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781948608305
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Souls for Sale written by Asta Idonea and published by Ninestar Press, LLC. This book was released on 2018-03-26 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When demon Saul persuades comic book artist Tom to sign over his soul in exchange for a night of passion, little does he know what lies in store. Demons can't fall in love--or so he's been told--but he finds himself smitten and attempts to destroy the contract, desperate to save Tom from an eternity of torture. With Saul and Tom forced to run, a showdown between Heaven and Hell ensues as the angels and demons argue over who owns Tom's soul. But does either party have a stronger claim than Saul?
Author : Charles L. Hughes
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469622440
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book Country Soul written by Charles L. Hughes and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2015-03-23 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the sound of the 1960s and 1970s, nothing symbolized the rift between black and white America better than the seemingly divided genres of country and soul. Yet the music emerged from the same songwriters, musicians, and producers in the recording studios of Memphis and Nashville, Tennessee, and Muscle Shoals, Alabama--what Charles L. Hughes calls the "country-soul triangle." In legendary studios like Stax and FAME, integrated groups of musicians like Booker T. and the MGs and the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section produced music that both challenged and reconfirmed racial divisions in the United States. Working with artists from Aretha Franklin to Willie Nelson, these musicians became crucial contributors to the era's popular music and internationally recognized symbols of American racial politics in the turbulent years of civil rights protests, Black Power, and white backlash. Hughes offers a provocative reinterpretation of this key moment in American popular music and challenges the conventional wisdom about the racial politics of southern studios and the music that emerged from them. Drawing on interviews and rarely used archives, Hughes brings to life the daily world of session musicians, producers, and songwriters at the heart of the country and soul scenes. In doing so, he shows how the country-soul triangle gave birth to new ways of thinking about music, race, labor, and the South in this pivotal period.
Author : Marisha Pessl
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780670037773
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (377 download)
Download or read book Special Topics in Calamity Physics written by Marisha Pessl and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having moved from one academic outpost to another throughout her childhood at the side of her aphorism-prone father, Blue van Meer attends the elite St. Gallway School in her senior year, where she falls in with a charismatic group of friends before the deaths of a teacher and student awaken her analytical instincts. A first novel. 50,000 first printing.
Author : Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469663619
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book The Souls of Womenfolk written by Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2021-09-13 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning on the shores of West Africa in the sixteenth century and ending in the U.S. Lower South on the eve of the Civil War, Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh traces a bold history of the interior lives of bondwomen as they carved out an existence for themselves and their families amid the horrors of American slavery. With particular attention to maternity, sex, and other gendered aspects of women's lives, she documents how bondwomen crafted female-centered cultures that shaped the religious consciousness and practices of entire enslaved communities. Indeed, gender as well as race co-constituted the Black religious subject, she argues—requiring a shift away from understandings of "slave religion" as a gender-amorphous category. Women responded on many levels—ethically, ritually, and communally—to southern slavery. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Wells-Oghoghomeh shows how they remembered, reconfigured, and innovated beliefs and practices circulating between Africa and the Americas. In this way, she redresses the exclusion of enslaved women from the American religious narrative. Challenging conventional institutional histories, this book opens a rare window onto the spiritual strivings of one of the most remarkable and elusive groups in the American experience.
Author : Justin Gautreau
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190944579
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)
Download or read book The Last Word written by Justin Gautreau and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-02 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Last Word argues that the Hollywood novel opened up space for cultural critique of the film industry at a time when the industry lacked the capacity to critique itself. While the young studio system worked tirelessly to burnish its public image in the wake of celebrity scandal, several industry insiders wrote fiction to fill in what newspapers and fan magazines left out. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, these novels aimed to expose the invisible machinery of classical Hollywood cinema, including not only the evolving artifice of the screen but also the promotional discourse that complemented it. As likeminded filmmakers in the 1940s and 1950s gradually brought the dark side of the industry to the screen, however, the Hollywood novel found itself struggling to live up to its original promise of delivering the unfilmable. By the 1960s, desperate to remain relevant, the genre had devolved into little more than erotic fantasy of movie stars behind closed doors, perhaps the only thing the public couldn't already find elsewhere. Still, given their unique ability to speak beyond the institutional restraints of their time, these earlier works offer a window into the industry's dynamic creation and re-creation of itself in the public imagination.
Author : Robert Emmet Sherwood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)
Download or read book The Best Moving Pictures of 1922-23, Also Who's who in the Movies and the Yearbook of the American Screen written by Robert Emmet Sherwood and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joceline Andersen
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814346928
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)
Download or read book Stars and Silhouettes written by Joceline Andersen and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stars and Silhouettes: The History of the Cameo Role in Hollywood traces the history of the cameo as it emerged in twentieth-century cinema. Although the cameo has existed in film culture for over a century, Joceline Andersen explains that this role cannot be strictly defined because it exists as a constellation of interactions between duration and recognition, dependent on who is watching and when. Even audiences of the twenty-first century who are inundated by the lives of movie stars and habituated to images of their personal friends on screens continue to find cameos surprising and engaging. Cameos reveal the links between our obsession with celebrity and our desire to participate in the powerful cultural industries within contemporary society. Chapter 1 begins with the cameo’s precedents in visual culture and the portrait in particular—from the Vitagraph executives in the 1910s to the emergence of actors as movie stars shortly after. Chapter 2 explores the fan-centric desire for behind-the-scenes visions of Hollywood that accounted for the success of cameo-laden, Hollywood-set films that autocratic studios used to make their glamorous line-up of stars as visible as possible. Chapter 3 traces the development of the cameo in comedy, where cameos began to show not only glimpses of celebrities at their best but also of celebrities at their worst. Chapter 4 examines how the television guest spot became an important way for stars and studios to market both their films and stars from other media in trades that reflected an increasingly integrated mediascape. In Chapter 5, Andersen examines auteur cameos and the cameo as a sign of authorship. Director cameos reaffirm the fan’s interest in the film not just as a stage for actors but as a forum for the visibility of the director. Cameos create a participatory space for viewers, where recognizing those singled out among extras and small roles allows fans to demonstrate their knowledge. Stars and Silhouettes belongs on the shelf of every scholar, student, and reader interested in film history and star studies.
