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Author : James Grant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Hollywood Hall written by James Grant and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harry Medved
Publisher : TarcherPerigee
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Hollywood Hall of Shame written by Harry Medved and published by TarcherPerigee. This book was released on 1984 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA.
Author : Gregory Paul Williams
Publisher : www.storyofhollywood.com
ISBN 13 : 9780977629909
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (299 download)
Download or read book The Story of Hollywood written by Gregory Paul Williams and published by www.storyofhollywood.com. This book was released on 2005 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the film industry arrived, Hollywood was filled with quaint bungalows, millionaires' estates, and churches dedicated to teetotalism. Movies shattered Hollywood's tranquillity, and brought wealth, fame and glamorous movie stars. The giants of the movie industry invented klieg-lighted movie premieres and the Academy Awards in Hollywood. Go beyond the star-studded surface to the district's days of union busting, gangsters, and scandal, foreshadowing Hollywood's seedy decline. The book concludes with Hollywood's redevelopment that continues today. The book features the famous faces and places that made the town legendary, offering a unique perspective on celebrity nightlife and the behind-the-scenes stories of day-to-day life. Lavishly illustrated with over 800 vintage images from the author's private collection, "The Story of Hollywood" brings new insights to readers with a passion for Hollywood and its place in the history of film, radio, and television.
Author : Sheldon Hall
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814336973
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 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 2010-04-15 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. The pantheon of big-budget, commercially successful films encompasses a range of genres, including biblical films, war films, romances, comic-book adaptations, animated features, and historical epics. In Epics, Spectacles, and Blockbusters: A Hollywood History authors Sheldon Hall and Steve Neale discuss the characteristics, history, and modes of distribution and exhibition that unite big-budget pictures, from their beginnings in the late nineteenth century to the present. Moving chronologically, the authors examine the roots of today's blockbuster in the "feature," "special," "superspecial," "roadshow," "epic," and "spectacle" of earlier eras, with special attention to the characteristics of each type of picture. In the first section, Hall and Neale consider the beginnings of features, specials, and superspecials in American cinema, as the terms came to define not the length of a film but its marketable stars or larger budget. The second section investigates roadshowing as a means of distributing specials and the changes to the roadshow that resulted from the introduction of synchronized sound in the 1920s. In the third section, the authors examine the phenomenon of epics and spectacles that arose from films like Gone with the Wind, Samson and Deliliah, and Spartacus and continues to evolve today in films like Spider-Man and Pearl Harbor. In this section, Hall and Neale consider advances in visual and sound technology and the effects and costs they introduced to the industry. Scholars of film and television studies as well as readers interested in the history of American moviemaking will enjoy Epics, Spectacles, and Blockbusters.
Author : Brenda Woods
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 110119572X
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)
Download or read book A Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame written by Brenda Woods and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-02-04 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you could get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for anything at all, what would it be? This writing assignment, given out in Ms. Hart's tenth-grade creative writing class, sparks a group of nine students to tell his/her own story. Readers are introduced to Jake and Shante's interracial romance, Carlos' fear of deportation, and Sunday's determination after being sexually assaulted. These teens persevere through hardship and heartache, laughter and love, and in the end, their voices shine through inspiring journal entries that answer the question in unusual and unexpected ways. Once again, Brenda Woods shows a keen understanding of the teenage psyche, as she did in Emako Blue, winner of the 2005 IRA Children?s Choice Young Adult Fiction Award.
Author : Thomas Gifford
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453266119
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)
Download or read book Hollywood Gothic written by Thomas Gifford and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-08-14 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Convicted of murder, a screenwriter gets a chance to clear his name The police find Toby Challis clutching his bloodstained Oscar statuette, his wife dead at his feet. He claims innocence, but the jury doesn’t buy it, believing that such a cinematic murder could spring only from the mind of one of Hollywood’s finest screenwriters. Nearly driven mad by the time spent waiting for the verdict, Challis has no idea how he will survive more than a decade in the big house. Lucky for him, he won’t have to find out—yet. To transport Challis to prison, the state provides only an old prop plane. A freak blizzard hits it hard, knocking it out of the sky and killing everyone on board but the convict. Challis escapes into the woods, to find the man who killed his wife and plan what every script needs: a Hollywood ending.
Author : Steven Bingen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 149303362X
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Hollywood's Lost Backlot written by Steven Bingen and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-12-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hollywood is a transitory place. Stars and studios rise and fall. Genres and careers wax and wane. Movies and movie moguls and movie makers and movie palaces are acclaimed and patronized and loved and beloved, and then forgotten. And yet… And yet one place in Southern California, built in the 1920s by (allegedly murdered) producer Thomas Ince, acquired by Cecil B. DeMille, now occupied by Amazon.com, has been the home for hundreds of the most iconic and legendary films and television shows in the world for a remarkable and star-studded fifty years. This bizarre, magical place was the location for Tara in Gone with The Wind, the home of King Kong and Superman, of Tarzan and Batman, of the Green Hornet, of Elliot Ness, of Barney Fife, of Tarzan, of Rebecca, of Citizen Kane, of Hogan’s Heroes and Gomer Pyle, of Lasse, of A Star is Born and Star Trek, and at least twice, of Jesus Christ. For decades, every conceivable star in Hollywood, from Clark Gable to Warren Beatty, worked and loved and gave indelible performances on the site. And yet, today, it is completely forgotten. Pretty much anyone alive today, from college professors to longshoremen, have probably heard of Paramount and of MGM, of Warner Bros. and of Universal, and of Disney and Fox and Columbia, but the place where many of these studio’s beloved classics were minted is today as mysterious and unknowable as the sphinx. Hollywood’s Lost Backlot: 40 Acres of Glamour and Mystery will, for the first time ever, unwind the colorful and convoluted threads that make for the tale of one of the most influential and photographed places in the world. A place which most have visited, at least on screen, and which has contributed significantly and unexpectedly to the world’s popular culture, and yet which few people today, paradoxically, have ever heard of.
Author : Sarah E. Turner
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030174476
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Myth of Colorblindness written by Sarah E. Turner and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-09-28 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores representations of race and ethnicity in contemporary cinema and the ways in which these depictions all too often promulgate an important racial ideology: the myth of colorblindness. Colorblindness is a discursive framework employed by mainstream, neoliberal media to celebrate a multicultural society while simultaneously disregarding its systemic and institutionalized racism. This collection is unique in its examination of such films as Ex Machina, The Lone Ranger, The Blind Side, Zootopia, The Fast and the Furious franchise, and Dope, which celebrate the myth of colorblindness, yet perpetuate and entrench the racism and racial inequities that persist in contemporary society. While the #OscarsSoWhite movement has been essential to bringing about structural changes to media industries and offers the opportunity for a wide diversity of voices to alter and transform the dominant, colorblind narratives continue to proliferate. As this book demonstrates, Hollywood still has a long way to go.
Author : Sam Riley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)
Download or read book Star Struck written by Sam Riley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-12-09 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This balanced examination looks at America's pervasive celebrity culture, concentrating on the period from 1950 to the present day. Star Struck: An Encyclopedia of Celebrity Culture is neither a stern critic nor an apologist for celebrity infatuation, a phenomenon that sometimes supplants more weighty matters yet constitutes one of our nation's biggest exports. This encyclopedia covers American celebrity culture from 1950 to 2008, examining its various aspects—and its impact—through 86 entries by 30 expert contributors. Demonstrating that all celebrities are famous, but not all famous people are celebrities, the book cuts across the various entertainment medias and their legions of individual "stars." It looks at sports celebrities and examines the role of celebrity in more serious pursuits and institutions such as the news media, corporations, politics, the arts, medicine, and the law. Also included are entries devoted to such topics as paranoia and celebrity, one-name celebrities, celebrity nicknames, family unit celebrity, sidekick celebrities, and even criminal celebrities.
Author : Mitch Horowitz
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0553385151
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (533 download)
Download or read book Occult America written by Mitch Horowitz and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its earliest days, America served as an arena for the revolutions in alternative spirituality that eventually swept the globe. Esoteric philosophies and personas—from Freemasonry to Spiritualism, from Madame H. P. Blavatsky to Edgar Cayce—dramatically altered the nation’s culture, politics, and religion. Yet the mystical roots of our identity are often ignored or overlooked. Opening a new window on the past, Occult America presents a dramatic, pioneering study of the esoteric undercurrents of our history and their profound impact across modern life.
Author : David Lee Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Hoosiers in Hollywood written by David Lee Smith and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Greg Critser
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 9781426203244
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)
Download or read book California written by Greg Critser and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation National Geographic Traveler: California brings you the best of the Golden State, from its flashy film industry to its towering redwood trees. This is the essential guide to the most progressive, dynamic, and visited state in the country.
Author : Rolf Boldrewood
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)
Download or read book The Ghost Camp; or, the Avengers written by Rolf Boldrewood and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-18 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Ghost Camp; or, the Avengers" by Rolf Boldrewood. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Author : Allen Chapman
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)
Download or read book Tom Fairfield's Pluck and Luck, Or, Working to Clear His Name written by Allen Chapman and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1913 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of a series of children's adventure stories by Allen Chapman - the house pseudonym used for a number of books for young people published since 1905.
Author : Rolf Boldrewood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Ghost Camp written by Rolf Boldrewood and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rolf Boldrewood
Publisher : Litres
ISBN 13 : 5040658834
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book The Ghost Camp written by Rolf Boldrewood and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Ghost Camp; or, the Avengers" by Rolf Boldrewood. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Author : Winifred Holtby
Publisher : Virago
ISBN 13 : 0748130896
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (481 download)
Download or read book Mandoa, Mandoa! written by Winifred Holtby and published by Virago. This book was released on 2011-06-02 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'One of the exciting books of this period . . . it strikes a wholly new note in the catalogue of books about Africa' KIRKUS REVIEWS Mandoa is a small African state: at its head a Virgin Princess, conceiving (immaculately) further princesses. The old traditions remain undisturbed until Mandoa's Lord High Chamberlain, Safi Tala, visits Addis Ababa. There he discovers baths and cocktail shakers, motor cars and cutlery from Sheffield, telephones and handkerchiefs. In short, he has seen an apocalyptic vision - a new heaven and a new earth. Meanwhile in England it is 1931. Maurice Durrant, youngest director of Prince's Tours Limited, has won North Donnington for the Conservatives. His socialist brother Bill is unemployed and their friend Jean Stanbury loses her job on The Byeword, a radical weekly paper. How all three, and others too, find themselves in Mandoa for the wedding of the Royal Princess to her Arch-archbishop is hilariously told in this wonderful satirical novel, first published in 1933.
