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Author : Barbara Hazard
Publisher : Signet
ISBN 13 : 9780451160034
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Mad Masquerade written by Barbara Hazard and published by Signet. This book was released on 1985-04 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gaylyn Studlar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780231103213
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (32 download)
Download or read book This Mad Masquerade written by Gaylyn Studlar and published by . This book was released on 1996-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -- American Studies International
Author : Kenyon Gambier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (28 download)
Download or read book The Mad Masquerade written by Kenyon Gambier and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John C. Tibbetts
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1626741476
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Douglas Fairbanks and the American Century written by John C. Tibbetts and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2014-06-02 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Douglas Fairbanks and the American Century brings to life the most popular movie star of his day, the personification of the Golden Age of Hollywood. At his peak, in the teens and 1920s, the swashbuckling adventurer embodied the new American century of speed, opportunity, and aggressive optimism. The essays and interviews in this volume bring fresh perspectives to his life and work, including analyses of films never before examined. Also published here for the first time in English is a first-hand production account of the making of Fairbanks's last silent film, The Iron Mask. Fairbanks (1883–1939) was the most vivid and strenuous exponent of the American Century, whose dominant mode after 1900 was the mass marketing of a burgeoning democratic optimism, at home and abroad. During those first decades of the twentieth century, his satiric comedy adventures shadow-boxed with the illusions of class and custom. His characters managed to combine the American easterner's experience and pretension and the westerner's promise and expansion. As the masculine personification of the Old World aristocrat and the New World self-made man—tied to tradition yet emancipated from history—he constructed a uniquely American aristocrat striding into a new age and sensibility. This is the most complete account yet written of the film career of Douglas Fairbanks, one of the first great stars of the silent American cinema and one of the original United Artists (comprising Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, and D. W. Griffith). John C. Tibbetts and James M. Welsh's text is especially rich in its coverage of the early years of the star's career from 1915 to 1920 and covers in detail several films previously considered lost.
Author : Daisuke Miyao
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822389827
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)
Download or read book Sessue Hayakawa written by Daisuke Miyao and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-28 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the actor Sessue Hayakawa (1886–1973) is perhaps best known today for his Oscar-nominated turn as a Japanese military officer in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), in the early twentieth century he was an internationally renowned silent film star, as recognizable as Charlie Chaplin or Douglas Fairbanks. In this critical study of Hayakawa’s stardom, Daisuke Miyao reconstructs the Japanese actor’s remarkable career, from the films that preceded his meteoric rise to fame as the star of Cecil B. DeMille’s The Cheat (1915) through his reign as a matinee idol and the subsequent decline and resurrection of his Hollywood fortunes. Drawing on early-twentieth-century sources in both English and Japanese, including Japanese-language newspapers in the United States, Miyao illuminates the construction and reception of Hayakawa’s stardom as an ongoing process of cross-cultural negotiation. Hayakawa’s early work included short films about Japan that were popular with American audiences as well as spy films that played upon anxieties about Japanese nationalism. The Jesse L. Lasky production company sought to shape Hayakawa’s image by emphasizing the actor’s Japanese traits while portraying him as safely assimilated into U.S. culture. Hayakawa himself struggled to maintain his sympathetic persona while creating more complex Japanese characters that would appeal to both American and Japanese audiences. The star’s initial success with U.S. audiences created ambivalence in Japan, where some described him as traitorously Americanized and others as a positive icon of modernized Japan. This unique history of transnational silent-film stardom focuses attention on the ways that race, ethnicity, and nationality influenced the early development of the global film industry.
Author : Delia Malia Caparoso Konzett
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813599318
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)
Download or read book Hollywood at the Intersection of Race and Identity written by Delia Malia Caparoso Konzett and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the ways Hollywood represents race, gender, class, and nationality at the intersection of aesthetics and ideology and its productive tensions
Author : Frederic Lombardi
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786490403
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Allan Dwan and the Rise and Decline of the Hollywood Studios written by Frederic Lombardi and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It could be said that the career of Canadian-born film director Allan Dwan (1885-1981) began at the dawn of the American motion picture industry. Originally a scriptwriter, Dwan became a director purely by accident. Even so, his creativity and problem-solving skills propelled him to the top of his profession. He achieved success with numerous silent film performers, most spectacularly with Douglas Fairbanks Sr. and Gloria Swanson, and later with such legendary stars as Shirley Temple and John Wayne. Though his star waned in the sound era, Dwan managed to survive through pluck and ingenuity. Considering himself better off without the fame he enjoyed during the silent era, he went on to do some of his best work for second-echelon studios (notably Republic Pictures' Sands of Iwo Jima) and such independent producers as Edward Small. Along the way, Dwan also found personal happiness in an unconventional manner. Rich in detail with two columns of text in each of its nearly 400 pages, and with more than 150 photographs, this book presents a thorough examination of Allan Dwan and separates myth from truth in his life and films.
Author : Samuel Onyeche
Publisher : Ukiyoto Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9357870318
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (578 download)
Download or read book Song of my country written by Samuel Onyeche and published by Ukiyoto Publishing. This book was released on 2023-03-16 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About The Book Song of my Country is a detailed poetry anthology that mirrors the political, social cum economic state of the Nigeria nation and the Niger Delta region. It exposes the anomalies in the country— the degree of impoverishment, hunger, exploitation, pollution, joblessness, inflation and untimely death ravishing the poor masses, who can no longer afford the basic needs of life. This anthology is a revolutionary book birthed by pain and patriotism. It begins with a poem titled "Wolves as Shepherds" with regards to the corrupt politicians, cabals and electoral officers who loot the country's treasure, impoverish the people and incessantly deny them their choice of leaders through various forms of electoral malpractices About The Author SAMUEL ONYECHE is an African writer, from the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, who has won quite a number of awards such as: "Most Creative" 2020 NYSC Theatre Troupe Sokoto State Nigeria, Second runner-up Prof. Kontein Trinya Poetry Prize 2016, Poet of the Day Award from Global Poetic Pen, Certificate of Excellence from the department of English and Literary Studies Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, Port Harcourt, Nigeria. amongst others. Onyeche is one of the emerging voices in contemporary Africa poetry, and has featured in several international anthologies. He is the author of Ijikrika; Canticles From Africa, On the Wings of a Butterfly, A Casserole of Kisses (co-authored), Parasites in Paradise, Echoes of Kettledrums ( co-authored), The Letter; an epistolary poetry, The Muse of Love ( co-authored) and many others .He holds a Bachelor of Education Degree (B.ED) in English and Literary Studies and a Masters of Arts Degree (M.A) in literature.
Author : Lesley Coote
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317062051
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Robin Hood in Outlaw/ed Spaces written by Lesley Coote and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following in the tradition of recent work by cultural geographers and historians of maps, this collection examines the apparently familiar figure of Robin Hood as he can be located within spaces that are geographical, cultural, and temporal. The volume is divided into two sections: the first features an interrogation of the literary and other textually transmitted spaces to uncover the critical grounds in which the Robin Hood ’legend’ has traditionally operated. The essays in Part Two take up issues related to performative and experiential space, demonstrating the reciprocal relationship between page, stage, and lived experience. Throughout the volume, the contributors contend with, among other things, modern theories of gender, literary detective work, and the ways in which the settings that once advanced court performances now include digital gaming and the enactment of ’real’ lives.
Author : Tommy Gustafsson
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476617120
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Masculinity in the Golden Age of Swedish Cinema written by Tommy Gustafsson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swedish society underwent great changes during the first decades of the 1900s and the new consumption and entertainment culture came under fire. Children and youth--but also women and the working classes--become symbols of the forces breaking down traditional structures and values. These groups were also identified as the principal audience for the new film medium. Hence, during the silent era, film culture interacted with society at large, filling the screen with contradictory images of diverging masculinities and gender/ethnic relations. In fact, film culture became one of the most important arenas where new gender relations could be articulated. This book covers Swedish film culture throughout the 1920s. It is the first in-depth exploration of Swedish silent film culture that goes beyond the small number of canonized films of the "Swedish Golden Age" that have been discussed as "art" for nearly 100 years. The study is based on extensive research and takes all Swedish feature films produced in the 1920s into consideration, together with a large number of source materials that include fan and trade magazines, manuscripts, censorship records, government reports and some 900 film reviews.
Author : Jia Tan
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479811866
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)
Download or read book Digital Masquerade written by Jia Tan and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2023-02-14 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charts a new wave of feminist and queer media activism in post-millennial China Digital Masquerade offers a trenchant and singular analysis of the convergence of digital media, feminist and queer culture, and rights consciousness in China. Jia Tan examines the formation of what she calls “rights feminism,” or the emergence of rights consciousness in Chinese feminist formations, as well as queer activism and rights advocacy. Expanding on feminist and queer theory of masquerade, she develops the notion of “digital masquerade” to theorize the co-constitutive role of digital technology as assemblage and entanglement in the articulation of feminism, queerness, and rights. Drawing from interviews with various feminist and queer media practitioners, participant observation at community events, and detailed analyses of a variety of media forms such as social media, electronic journals, digital filmmaking, film festivals, and dating app videos, Jia Tan captures the feminist, queer, and rights articulations that are simultaneously disruptive of and conditioned by state censorship, technological affordances, and dominant social norms.
Author : Jochen Hung
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 047222090X
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (722 download)
Download or read book Moderate Modernity written by Jochen Hung and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2023-02-06 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the fate of a Berlin-based newspaper during the 1920s and 1930s, Moderate Modernity: The Newspaper Tempo and the Transformation of Weimar Democracy chronicles the transformation of a vibrant and liberal society into an oppressive and authoritarian dictatorship. Tempo proclaimed itself as “Germany’s most modern newspaper” and attempted to capture the spirit of Weimar Berlin, giving a voice to a forward-looking generation that had grown up under the Weimar Republic’s new democratic order. The newspaper celebrated modern technology, spectator sports, and American consumer products, constructing an optimistic vision of Germany’s future as a liberal consumer society anchored in Western values. The newspaper’s idea of a modern, democratic Germany was undermined by the political and economic crises that hit Germany at the beginning of the 1930s. The way the newspaper described German democracy changed under these pressures. Flappers, American fridges, and modern music—the things that Tempo had once marshalled as representatives of a German future—were now rejected by the newspaper as emblems of a bygone age. The changes in Tempo’s vision of Germany’s future show that descriptions of Weimar politics as a standoff between upright democrats and rabid extremists do not do justice to the historical complexity of the period. Rather, we need to accept the Nazis as a lethal product of a German democracy itself. The history of Tempo teaches us how liberal democracies can create and nurture their own worst enemies.
Author : Martin Shingler
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137406585
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)
Download or read book When Warners Brought Broadway to Hollywood, 1923-1939 written by Martin Shingler and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a different take on the early history of Warner Bros., the studio renowned for introducing talking pictures and developing the gangster film and backstage musical comedy. The focus here is on the studio’s sustained commitment to produce films based on stage plays. This led to the creation of a stock company of talented actors, to the introduction of sound cinema, to the recruitment of leading Broadway stars such as John Barrymore and George Arliss and to films as diverse as The Gold Diggers (1923), The Marriage Circle (1924), Beau Brummel (1924), Disraeli (1929), Lilly Turner (1933), The Petrified Forest (1936) and The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939). Even the most crippling effects of the Depression in 1933 did not prevent Warners’ production of films based on stage plays, many being transformed into star vehicles for the likes of Ruth Chatterton, Leslie Howard and Bette Davis.
Author : Sheldon Hall
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814330081
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Epics, Spectacles, and Blockbusters written by Sheldon Hall and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers the history of the American blockbuster-the large-scale, high-cost film-as it evolved from the 1890s to today.
Author : Ryan Jay Friedman
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813593611
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)
Download or read book The Movies as a World Force written by Ryan Jay Friedman and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-04 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the silent-feature era, American artists and intellectuals routinely described cinema as a force of global communion, a universal language promoting mutual understanding and harmonious coexistence amongst disparate groups of people. In the early 1920s, film-industry leaders began to espouse this utopian view, in order to claim for motion pictures an essentially uplifting social function. The Movies as a World Force examines the body of writing in which this understanding of cinema emerged and explores how it shaped particular silent films and their marketing campaigns. The utopian and universalist view of cinema, the book shows, represents a synthesis of New Age spirituality and the new liberalism. It provided a framework for the first official, written histories of American cinema and persisted as an advertising trope, even after the transition to sound made movies reliant on specific national languages.
Author : Hilary Hallett
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520274083
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Go West, Young Women! written by Hilary Hallett and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early part of the twentieth century, migrants made their way from rural homes to cities in record numbers and many traveled west. Los Angeles became a destination. Women flocked to the growing town to join the film industry as workers and spectators, creating a “New Woman.” Their efforts transformed filmmaking from a marginal business to a cosmopolitan, glamorous, and bohemian one. By 1920, Los Angeles had become the only western city where women outnumbered men. In Go West, Young Women, Hilary A. Hallett explores these relatively unknown new western women and their role in the development of Los Angeles and the nascent film industry. From Mary Pickford’s rise to become perhaps the most powerful woman of her age, to the racist moral panics of the post–World War I years that culminated in Hollywood’s first sex scandal, Hallett describes how the path through early Hollywood presaged the struggles over modern gender roles that animated the century to come.
Author : Marlis Schweitzer
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812206169
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book When Broadway Was the Runway written by Marlis Schweitzer and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-08-19 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2009 When Broadway Was the Runway explores the central and largely unacknowledged role of commercial Broadway theater in the birth of modern American fashion and consumer culture. Long before Hollywood's red carpet spectacles, Broadway theater introduced American women to the latest styles. At the beginning of the twentieth century, theater impresarios captured the imagination of their largely female patrons by transforming the stage into a glorious site of consumer spectacle. Theater historian Marlis Schweitzer examines how these impresarios presented the dresses actresses wore onstage, as well as the jewelry and hairstyles they chose, as commodities that were available for purchase in nearby department stores and salons. The Merry Widow Hat, designed for the hit operetta of the same name, sparked an international craze, and the dancer Irene Castle became a fashion celebrity when she anticipated the flapper look of the 1920s by nearly a decade. Not only were the latest styles onstage, but advertisements appeared throughout theaters, in programs, and on the curtains, while magazines such as Vogue vied for the rights to publish theatrical costume sketches and Harper's Bazar enticed readers with photo spreads of actresses in couture. This combination of spectatorship and consumption was a crucial step in the formation of a mass market for consumer goods and the rise of the cult of celebrity. Through historical analysis and dozens of early photographs and illustrations, Schweitzer aims a spotlight at the cultural and economic convergence of the theater and fashion industries in the United States.
