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Author : Daniel Cohen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780861242337
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (423 download)
Download or read book Hollywood Hunks and Heroes written by Daniel Cohen and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel Cohen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780671075286
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (752 download)
Download or read book Hollywood Hunks and Heroes written by Daniel Cohen and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mick LaSalle
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1466876042
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Dangerous Men written by Mick LaSalle and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the same mix of accessibility and insider knowledge he used so successfully in Complicated Women, author and film critic Mick LaSalle now turns his attention to the men of the pre-Code Hollywood era. The five years between 1929 and mid-1934 was a period of loosened censorship that finally ended with the imposition of a harsh Production Code that would, for the next thirty-four years, censor much of the life and honesty out of American movies. Dangerous Men takes a close look at the images of manhood during this pre-Code era, which coincided with an interesting time for men--the culmination of a generation-long transformation in the masculine ideal. By the late twenties, the tumult of a new century had made the nineteenth century's notion of the ideal man seem like a repressed stuffed shirt, a deluded optimist. The smiling, confident hero of just a few years before fell out of favor, and the new heroes who emerged were gangsters, opportunists, sleazy businessmen, shifty lawyers, shell-shocked soldiers--men whose existence threatened the status quo. In this book, LaSalle highlights such household names as James Cagney, Clark Gable, Edward G. Robinson, Maurice Chevalier, Spencer Tracy, and Gary Cooper, along with lesser-known ones such as Richard Barthelmess, Lee Tracy, Robert Montgomery, and the magnificent Warren William. Together they represent a vision of manhood more exuberant and contentious--and more humane--than anything that has followed on the American screen.
Author : Stephen Schochet
Publisher : Hollywood Stories
ISBN 13 : 0963897276
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (638 download)
Download or read book Hollywood Stories written by Stephen Schochet and published by Hollywood Stories. This book was released on 2010 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just when you thought you've heard everything about Hollywood comes a totally original new book - a special blend of biography, history and lore. Hollywood Stories is packed with wild, wonderful short tales about famous stars, movies, directors and many others who have been part of the world's most fascinating, unpredictable industry! Full of funny moments and twist endings, Hollywood Stories features an amazing, icons and will keep you totally entertained!
Author : Nick Yapp
Publisher : Endeavour
ISBN 13 : 9781908271105
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (711 download)
Download or read book Hollywood Heroes written by Nick Yapp and published by Endeavour. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Hollywood was truly glamorous and the world of celluloid was nearly real, these are the leading ladies and men that America and the world fell in love with, followed and cherished. 'Hollywood heroes' starts with the likes of Clark Gable and Gary Cooper in the early years, travels through the 1940s with John Wayne, Vivien Leigh and Ava Gardner, the 1950s and Marlon Brando, James Dean and Paul Newman, the 60s with Jack Lemmon and Faye Dunaway, the 70s with Al Pacino and Jack Nicholson, the 80s with Meryl Streep and Carrie Fisher, to the 90s with Bruce Willis and Meg Ryan, and finally ends with the 2000s with Will Smith, Halle Berry and Leonardo DiCaprio.
Download or read book The Heroes of Hollywood written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Drew Friedman
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
ISBN 13 : 1606997319
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (69 download)
Download or read book Heroes of the Comics written by Drew Friedman and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2014-09-10 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring over 80 full-color portraits of the pioneering legends of American comic books, including publishers, editors and artists from the industry’s birth in the ’30s, through the brilliant artists and writers of behind EC Comics in the ’50s. All lovingly rendered and chosen by Drew Friedman, a cartooning legend in his own right. Featuring subjects popular and obscure, men and women, as well as several pioneering African-American artists. Each subject features a short essay by Friedman, who grew up knowing many of the subjects included (as the son of writer Bruce Jay Friedman), including Stan Lee, Harvey Kurtzman, Will Eisner, Mort Drucker, Al Jaffee, Jack Davis, Will Elder, and Bill Gaines. More names you might recognize: Barks, Crumb, Wood, Wolverton, Frazetta, Siegel & Shuster, Kirby, Cole, Ditko, Werthem… it’s a Hall of Fame of comic book history from the man BoingBoing.com call “America’s greatest living portrait artist!”
Author : Cari Beauchamp
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781940412146
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (121 download)
Download or read book My First Time in Hollywood written by Cari Beauchamp and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over forty legends of the film business recount their first trip to Hollywood. Actors, directors, screenwriters, cinematographers, and editors-half of them women-recall the long joinery, their initial impressions, their struggle to find work, and the love for making movies that kept them going. Drawn from letters, speeches, oral histories, memoirs, and autobiographies-and illustrated with over sixty vintage photographs and illustrations-each story is intimate and unique, but all speak to our universal need to follow our passions and be part of a community that feeds the soul. This anthology is edited and annotated by award-winning author and film historian Cari Beauchamp, the only person to twice be named as an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Scholar. Of MY FIRST TIME IN HOLLYWOOD, Academy-Award-winning film preservationist, historian, and author Kevin Brownlow writes: "What every film fan years for-first-hand, eyewitness accounts of a Hollywood none of us can remember and all of us wish we'd known. Completely fascinating." And film critic and historian Leonard Maltin writes: "What a priceless parade of evocative and highly entertaining memories. Once you start reading you won't want to stop."
Author : David Hofstede
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781568330297
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Hollywood Heroes written by David Hofstede and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete guide to film and television adaptations of 30 heroic figures.
Author : Matthew C. Ehrlich
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252096991
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Heroes and Scoundrels written by Matthew C. Ehrlich and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2015-03-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether it's the rule-defying lifer, the sharp-witted female newshound, or the irascible editor in chief, journalists in popular culture have shaped our views of the press and its role in a free society since mass culture arose over a century ago. Drawing on portrayals of journalists in television, film, radio, novels, comics, plays, and other media, Matthew C. Ehrlich and Joe Saltzman survey how popular media has depicted the profession across time. Their creative use of media artifacts provides thought-provoking forays into such fundamental issues as how pop culture mythologizes and demythologizes key events in journalism history and how it confronts issues of race, gender, and sexual orientation on the job. From Network to The Wire, from Lois Lane to Mikael Blomkvist, Heroes and Scoundrels reveals how portrayals of journalism's relationship to history, professionalism, power, image, and war influence our thinking and the very practice of democracy.
Author : Amy M. Davis
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0861969073
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (619 download)
Download or read book Handsome Heroes & Vile Villains written by Amy M. Davis and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-31 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From dwarves to princes, heroes to heartbreakers, the Disney treatment of male characters in the studio’s animated features. One of PopSugar’s Best Books for Women (2013) From the iconic Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) to Tangled, the 2010 retelling of Rapunzel, Handsome Heroes and Vile Villains looks at the portrayal of male characters in Disney films from the perspective of masculinity studies and feminist film theory. This companion volume to Good Girls and Wicked Witches places these depictions within the context of Hollywood and American popular culture at the time of each film’s release. “Within her idealism and love for the House of the Mouse, it seems Davis is on to something. Whether idealistic or delusional, the Disney she talks about seems to be a thing that’s waiting just around the corner.” —PopMatters
Author : Barry Monush
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781557835512
Total Pages : 844 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (355 download)
Download or read book Screen World Presents the Encyclopedia of Hollywood Film Actors: From the silent era to 1965 written by Barry Monush and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2003 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Books). For decades, Screen World has been the film professional's, as well as the film buff's, favorite and indispensable annual screen resource, full of all the necessary statistics and facts. Now Screen World editor Barry Monush has compiled another comprehensive work for every film lover's library. In the first of two volumes, this book chronicles the careers of every significant film actor, from the earliest silent screen stars Chaplin, Pickford, Fairbanks to the mid-1960s, when the old studio and star systems came crashing down. Each listing includes: a brief biography, photos from the famed Screen World archives, with many rare shots; vital statistics; a comprehensive filmography; and an informed, entertaining assessment of each actor's contributions good or bad! In addition to every major player, Monush includes the legions of unjustly neglected troupers of yesteryear. The result is a rarity: an invaluable reference tool that's as much fun to read as a scandal sheet. It pulsates with all the scandal, glamour, oddity and glory that was the lifeblood of its subjects. Contains over 1,000 photos!
Author : Frank Zarnowski
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810854239
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (542 download)
Download or read book All-around Men written by Frank Zarnowski and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This detailed book includes twenty-five photos and a wealth of statistical data. It will hold great appeal for sports historians as well as the fans, athletes, and coaches of modern-day track and field events."--Jacket.
Author : Nancy Wang Yuen
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813586313
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)
Download or read book Reel Inequality written by Nancy Wang Yuen and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2016-12-12 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the 2016 Oscar acting nominations all went to whites for the second consecutive year, #OscarsSoWhite became a trending topic. Yet these enduring racial biases afflict not only the Academy Awards, but also Hollywood as a whole. Why do actors of color, despite exhibiting talent and bankability, continue to lag behind white actors in presence and prominence? Reel Inequality examines the structural barriers minority actors face in Hollywood, while shedding light on how they survive in a racist industry. The book charts how white male gatekeepers dominate Hollywood, breeding a culture of ethnocentric storytelling and casting. Nancy Wang Yuen interviewed nearly a hundred working actors and drew on published interviews with celebrities, such as Viola Davis, Chris Rock, Gina Rodriguez, Oscar Isaac, Lucy Liu, and Ken Jeong, to explore how racial stereotypes categorize and constrain actors. Their stories reveal the day-to-day racism actors of color experience in talent agents’ offices, at auditions, and on sets. Yuen also exposes sexist hiring and programming practices, highlighting the structural inequalities that actors of color, particularly women, continue to face in Hollywood. This book not only conveys the harsh realities of racial inequality in Hollywood, but also provides vital insights from actors who have succeeded on their own terms, whether by sidestepping the system or subverting it from within. Considering how their struggles impact real-world attitudes about race and diversity, Reel Inequality follows actors of color as they suffer, strive, and thrive in Hollywood.
Author : Tea Krulos
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1613747780
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (137 download)
Download or read book Heroes in the Night written by Tea Krulos and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Watchman didn't arrive in a Batmobile but drove a tan, four-door Pontiac. He was in costume, of course—a trench coat, motorcycle gloves, army boots, a domino mask, and a red hooded sweatshirt emblazoned with a W logo. Journalist Tea Krulos had spoken to him over the phone but never face-to-mask. By the end of the interview, he wasn't sure if the Watchman was delightfully eccentric or completely crazy. But he was going to find out. Heroes in the Night traces Krulos's journey into the strange subculture of Real Life Superheroes, random citizens who have adopted comic book&–style personas and hit the streets to fight injustice. Some concentrate on humanitarian or activist missions—helping the homeless, gathering donations for food banks, or delivering toys to children—while others actively patrol their neighborhoods looking for crime to fight. By day, these modern Clark Kents work as dishwashers, pencil pushers, and executives in Fortune 500 companies. But by night, only the Shadow knows. Well, the Shadow and Tea Krulos. Through historical research, extensive interviews, and many long hours walking patrol in Brooklyn, Seattle, San Diego, Minneapolis, and Vancouver, British Columbia, Krulos discovered what being a RLSH is all about. He shares not only their shining, triumphant moments but some of their ill-advised, terrifying disasters as well. It's all part of the life of a superhero. As the Watchman explains, &“If everyone made little changes in what they did, gave a little more to charity, watched out for their neighbors, we wouldn't have the problems that we have.&”
Author : Lily Magnus
Publisher : BuzzPop
ISBN 13 : 9781499806397
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (63 download)
Download or read book Dot to Hot at the Movies written by Lily Magnus and published by BuzzPop. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fun and quirky connect-the-dots book perfect for those who love their coloring served with a Hollywood hunk-sized dash of swoonsome actors. This Dot to Hot book is brimming with over 40 connect-the-dots pictures of the handsome hunks of Hollywood alongside humorous and memorable descriptions of the actors. From heroes and romantics to rebels and bad boys, these rom-com hotties are waiting to be lovingly drawn, colored, and completed by you! Connect the dots to create Hugh Jackman, Idris Elba, Chris Hemsworth, George Clooney, Ryan Gosling, Patrick Swayze, Will Smith, Bradley Cooper, and many more! After you connect the dots, you can color in all these Hollywood hunks!
Author : Harry Carey, Jr.
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1589799119
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (897 download)
Download or read book Company of Heroes written by Harry Carey, Jr. and published by Taylor Trade Publishing. This book was released on 2013-12-07 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Harry Carey, Sr., died in 1947, director John Ford cast Carey's twenty-six-year-old son, Harry, Jr., in the role of The Abilene Kid in 3 Godfathers. Ford and the elder Carey had filmed an earlier version of the story, and Ford dedicated the Technicolor remake to his memory. Company of Heroes is the story of the making of that film, as well as the eight subsequent Ford classics. In it, Harry Carey, Jr., casts a remarkably observant eye on the process of filming Westerns by one of the true masters of the form. From She Wore a Yellow Ribbon and Wagonmaster to The Searchers and Cheyenne Autumn, he shows the care, tedium, challenge, and exhilaration of movie-making at its highest level. Carey's portrayal of John Ford at work is the most intimate ever written. He also gives us insightful and original portraits of the men and women who were part of Ford's vision of America: John Wayne, Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Maureen O'Hara, Ward Bond, Victor McLaglen, and Ben Johnson. Funny, insightful, and brutally honest, Company of Heroes is a rip-roaring good read that presents the remarkable life story of Harry Carey, Jr., and his many fine performances.
