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J.P. McGowan

Author : John J. McGowan
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786419944
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book J.P. McGowan written by John J. McGowan and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J.P. McGowan (1880ndash;1952) was one of Hollywood's most prolific pioneers: actor, director, screenwriter, producer, and industrial advocate for the motion picture industry. Known as the "Railroad Man" for his specialization in action movies involving railroads, he made common the image of the terrified beauty tied to a track-his first wife was Helen Holmes of his iconic silent series The Hazards of Helen. This work, the first biography of the Australian-born adventurer, covers a screen career spanning 30 years and over 600 productions from the dawn of the Silent Era. It chronicles his entire life and places him within the context of the times in which he lived and worked. Previously unknown details are unearthed on his family background and early life as well as his participation in the Boer War and his move to the United States. The work concludes with a comprehensive filmography of McGowan's work.

Hollywood's First Australian

Author : John McGowan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780646950174
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Hollywood's First Australian written by John McGowan and published by . This book was released on 2016-02-20 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biography of Australian-born John Paterson McGowan (1880-1952) pioneer Hollywood actor,director, writer and producer. J.P.McGowan began in the movies at the dawn of the silent era and established his reputation as a director of action-packed dramas involving trains. He and his first wife, actress Helen Holmes first collaborated on the iconic silent series The Hazards of Helen. In later life J.P.McGowan became Executive Secretary of the Screen Directors' Guild and was awarded Honorary Life Membership in recognition of his service. He remains the only Australian to have been honoured in this way.

Australia's Sweetheart

Author : Michael Adams
Publisher : Hachette Australia
ISBN 13 : 0733640303
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (336 download)

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Download or read book Australia's Sweetheart written by Michael Adams and published by Hachette Australia. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the fascinating story of Mary Maguire, a 1930s Australian ingenue who sailed for Hollywood and a fabulous life, only to have her career cut short by scandal and tragedy. Packed with celebrity, history and gossip, AUSTRALIA'S SWEETHEART is perfect for readers of SHEILA and THE RIVIERA SET. Mary Maguire was Australia's first teenage movie star and she captivated Hollywood in the mid 1930s. Mary lived on three continents and was celebrated in Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney, Los Angeles and London. Her life was lived in parallel with seminal incidents of the twentieth century: the Spanish Flu; the Great Depression; the Bodyline series; Australia's early radio, talkies and aviation; Hollywood's Golden Era; the British aristocracy's embrace of European fascism; London's Blitz; and post-war American culture and politics. Mary knew everyone, from Douglas Jardine, Don Bradman, Errol Flynn and Ronald Reagan, to William Randolph Hearst, Maureen O'Sullivan, Judy Garland and Queen Elizabeth II. AUSTRALIA'S SWEETHEART in an irresistible never-before-told story that captures the glamour of Hollywood and the turbulent times of the twentieth century, with a young woman at its centre. If you loved THE AMAZING MRS LIVESEY, Robert Wainwright's SHEILA and MISS MURIEL MATTERS, you will adore AUSTRALIA'S SWEETHEART.

Cast Mates

Author : Sam Twyford-Moore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781038731128
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Cast Mates written by Sam Twyford-Moore and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia has a long cinema history -- starting with the world's first feature film, The Story of the Kelly Gang, made in Melbourne and released in 1906. Today, much of Australia's film talent goes to the United States, looking for bigger and more lucrative opportunities. But what does this mean for the history and future of Australian cinema? The larger-than-life personalities that form the heart of this book -- Errol Flynn, Peter Finch, David Gulpilil and Nicole Kidman -- have dominated cinema screens both locally and internationally and starred in some of the biggest films of their eras -- including The Adventures of Robin Hood, Network, Crocodile Dundee and Eyes Wide Shut among others. From the Golden Age of Hollywood in the 1930s to the streaming wars of today, the lives of these four actors, and their many cast mates, tell a story of how a nation's cinema was founded, then faltered, before finding itself again.

Kay Francis

Author : Scott O'Brien
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781629330136
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Kay Francis written by Scott O'Brien and published by . This book was released on 2007-09-20 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I Can't Wait To Be Forgotten pays tribute to Kay's compassionate nature, her concern for others, her great contributions on behalf of those serving in the armed forces during World War II, and the financial legacy she contributed to The Seeing Eye. Kay f

Rod Taylor

Author : Stephen Vagg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781593935115
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book Rod Taylor written by Stephen Vagg and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full-length biography of this pioneering Australian film star. It's the story of a working-class Sydney boy who went to Hollywood, took on the Americans at their own game on their own turf, in one of the toughest industries there is, and won.

Australian Genre Film

Author : Kelly McWilliam
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 042988981X
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book Australian Genre Film written by Kelly McWilliam and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-04-26 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australian Genre Film interrogates key genres at the core of Australia’s so-called new golden age of genre cinema, establishing the foundation on which more sustained research on film genre in Australian cinema can develop. The book examines what characterises Australian cinema and its output in this new golden age, as contributors ask to what extent Australian genre film draws on widely understood (and largely Hollywood-based) conventions, as compared to culturally specific conventions of genre storytelling. As such, this book offers a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of Australian genre film, undertaken through original analyses of 13 significant Australian genres: action, biopics, comedy, crime, horror, musical, road movie, romance, science fiction, teen, thriller, war, and the Western. This book will be a cornerstone work for the burgeoning field of Australian film genre studies and a must-read for academics; researchers; undergraduate students; postgraduate students; and general readers interested in film studies, media studies, cultural studies, Australian studies, and sociology.

Local Hollywood

Author : Ben Goldsmith
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN 13 : 0702238015
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Local Hollywood written by Ben Goldsmith and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pioneering story of AustraliaOCOs own Hollywood. Hollywood films and television programs are watched by a global audience. While many of these productions are still made in southern California, the last twenty years have seen new production centers emerge in the US, Canada and other locations worldwide. Global Hollywood has been made possible by this growing number of Local Hollywoods: locations equipped with the requisite facilities, resources and labor, as well as the political will and tax incentives, to attract and retain high-budget, Hollywood-standard projects. This new book gives an unprecedented insight into how the Gold Coast became the first outpost of Hollywood in Australia. When a combination of forces drove Hollywood studios and producers to work outside California, the Gold CoastOCOs unique blend of government tax support, innovative entrepreneurs and diverse natural settings made it a perfect choice to host Hollywood productions. "Local Hollywood" makes an essential contribution to the field of film and media studies, as well as giving film buffs a behind-the-scenes tour of the film industry.

History in Movies Hollywood Style

Author : John Howard Reid
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1304056023
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book History in Movies Hollywood Style written by John Howard Reid and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of Contents: Abraham Lincoln, Adventures of Marco Polo, Affaire Nina B., All Quiet on the Western Front, Anastasia, Anna Boleyn, Assassination of Jesse James, Belle Starr, The Big Knife, Bonnie Prince Charlie, Boys Town, Brigham Young, Butch and Sundance: The Early Days, Captain Fly-By-Night, Carry On Dick, Charge of the Light Brigade, Children of Eve, Cleopatra, The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell, The Cruel Sea, Day of the Locust, Destination Unknown, Disraeli, Divine Lady, The Devil's Brigade, The Devil's Needle, Don't Lose Your Head, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, End of the Trail, The Enforcer, Excalibur, Fangs of Destiny, Great Gatsby, Great Dictator, Great Moment, Hawk of the Hills, Helen of Troy, Humanity and Paper Balloons, If I Were King, The Informer, In Old Arizona, In Old Chicago Is Paris Burning?, James Dean Story, The Jayhawkers, Joyeux Noel, King of Kings, The Lady of the Lake, The Law and Outlaw, Lives of a Bengal Lancer, The Lawless Breed, Man with the Green Carnation, Marco Polo, etc. etc.

Australia's Lost Films

Author : Ray Edmondson
Publisher : National Library Australia
ISBN 13 : 0642992517
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (429 download)

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Download or read book Australia's Lost Films written by Ray Edmondson and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 1982 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia's Lost Films was published by the National Library of Australia to coincide with THE LAST FILM SEARCH, a project to find as many of these important films as possible and commit them to the care of the National Film and Sound Archive. But with its many photographs and a complete checklist of silent feature films 1896-1930, the book stands as an important record of a necessarily little known part of Australia's cinematic past.

My Wicked, Wicked Ways

Author : Errol Flynn
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0815412509
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book My Wicked, Wicked Ways written by Errol Flynn and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2002-11-04 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scandalous film star Errol Flynn tells all in this autobiography, detailing his pre-Hollywood career as a mercenary, and his trial for rape in 1943.

A Companion to Australian Cinema

Author : Felicity Collins
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 111894254X
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (189 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Australian Cinema written by Felicity Collins and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-04-22 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive volume of original essays on Australian screen culture in the twenty-first century. A Companion to Australian Cinema is an anthology of original essays by new and established authors on the contemporary state and future directions of a well-established national cinema. A timely intervention that challenges and expands the idea of cinema, this book brings into sharp focus those facets of Australian cinema that have endured, evolved and emerged in the twenty-first century. The essays address six thematically-organized propositions – that Australian cinema is an Indigenous screen culture, an international cinema, a minor transnational imaginary, an enduring auteur-genre-landscape tradition, a televisual industry and a multiplatform ecology. Offering fresh critical perspectives and extending previous scholarship, case studies range from The Lego Movie, Mad Max, and Australian stars in Hollywood, to transnational co-productions, YouTube channels, transmedia and nature-cam documentaries. New research on trends – such as the convergence of television and film, digital transformations of screen production and the shifting roles of women on and off-screen – highlight how established precedents have been influenced by new realities beyond both cinema and the national. Written in an accessible style that does not require knowledge of cinema studies or Australian studies Presents original research on Australian actors, such as Cate Blanchett and Chris Hemsworth, their training, branding, and path from Australia to Hollywood Explores the films and filmmakers of the Blak Wave and their challenge to Australian settler-colonial history and white identity Expands the critical definition of cinema to include YouTube channels, transmedia documentaries, multiplatform changescapes and cinematic remix Introduces readers to founding texts in Australian screen studies A Companion to Australian Cinema is an ideal introductory text for teachers and students in areas including film and media studies, cultural and gender studies, and Australian history and politics, as well as a valuable resource for educators and other professionals in the humanities and creative arts.

American–Australian Cinema

Author : Adrian Danks
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319666762
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book American–Australian Cinema written by Adrian Danks and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection assesses the complex historical and contemporary relationships between US and Australian cinema by tapping directly into discussions of national cinema, transnationalism and global Hollywood. While most equivalent studies aim to define national cinema as independent from or in competition with Hollywood, this collection explores a more porous set of relationships through the varied production, distribution and exhibition associations between Australia and the US. To explore this idea, the book investigates the influence that Australia has had on US cinema through the exportation of its stars, directors and other production personnel to Hollywood, while also charting the sustained influence of US cinema on Australia over the last hundred years. It takes two key points in time—the 1920s and 1930s and the last twenty years—to explore how particular patterns of localism, nationalism, colonialism, transnationalism and globalisation have shaped its course over the last century. The contributors re-examine the concept and definition of Australian cinema in regard to a range of local, international and global practices and trends that blur neat categorisations of national cinema. Although this concentration on US production, or influence, is particularly acute in relation to developments such as the opening of international film studios in Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide and the Gold Coast over the last thirty years, the book also examines a range of Hollywood financed and/or conceived films shot in Australia since the 1920s.

Lou's on First

Author : Chris Costello
Publisher : Crossroad Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lou's on First written by Chris Costello and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2016-05-16 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This intimate portrait of Lou Costello (1906-1959) offers a rare look at one of the most talented comedians of all time. Starting in the 1930s, Costello attained enormous fame touring the burlesque circuits with straight man Bud Abbott (1895-1974). Their live skits (including "Who's on First?"), radio programs, and films such as One Night in the Tropics, Buck Privates, Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, and In the Navy made comic history. Behind the scenes, however, Costello faced numerous crises: a bout with rheumatic fever that left him bedridden for months, the drowning death of his young son, and constant haggles with Universal Studios over its reluctance to adequately finance productions of Abbott and Costello films. Lou's on First goes beyond Costello's clownish persona to explore his Pagliacci nature: the private demons behind the happy public face, the heartbreaking moments in an otherwise storybook marriage, the business ventures soured by unscrupulous managers, and the true nature of the breakup of his twenty-one-year partnership with Bud Abbott.

Australian National Cinema

Author : Tom O'Regan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134933487
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book Australian National Cinema written by Tom O'Regan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-10 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom O'Regan's book is the first of its kind on Australian post-war cinema. It takes as its starting point Bazin's question 'What is cinema?'and asks what the construct of a 'national' cinema means. It looks at the broader concept from a different angle, taking film beyond the confines of 'art' into the broader cultural world. O'Regan's analysis situates Australian cinema in its historical and cultural perspective producing a valuable insight into the issues that have been raised by film policy, the cinema market place and public discourse on film production strategies. Since 1970 Australian film has enjoyed a revival. This book contains detailed critiques of the key films of this period and uses them to illustrate the recent theories on the international and Australian cinema industries. Its conclusions on the nature of the nation's cinema and the discourses within it are relevant within a far wider context; film as a global phenomenon.

Australia: A Very Short Introduction

Author : Kenneth Morgan
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191633453
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Australia: A Very Short Introduction written by Kenneth Morgan and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this Very Short Introduction Kenneth Morgan provides a wide-ranging and thematic introduction to modern Australia. He examines the main features of its history, geography, and culture since the beginning of the white settlement in New South Wales in 1788. Drawing attention to the distinctive features of Australian life he places contemporary developments in a historical perspective, highlighting the importance of Australia's indigenous culture and making connections between Australia and the wider word. Balancing the successful growth of Australian institutions and democratic traditions, he considers the struggles that occurred in the making of modern Australia. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Firepower

Author : Gerard Ryle
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 145871649X
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)

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Download or read book Firepower written by Gerard Ryle and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-10-08 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magic pill that cuts fuel consumption and reduces emissions ...... that was the miracle promised by Tim Johnsto' s company, Firepower. Everyone believed him; prime ministers and presidents, doctors and diplomats, business leaders and sporting heroe - even ASIC the corporate watch do - went along with the myth. Millions of shares were sold to i...