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James Dean Transfigured

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Author : Claudia Springer
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292752881
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book James Dean Transfigured written by Claudia Springer and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-05-17 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the death of James Dean in 1955, the figure of the teen rebel permeated the globe, and its presence is still felt in the twenty-first century. Rebel iconography—which does not have to resemble James Dean himself, but merely incorporates his disaffected attitude—has become an advertising mainstay used to sell an array of merchandise and messages. Despite being overused in advertisements, it still has the power to surprise when used by authors and filmmakers in innovative and provocative ways. The rebel figure has mass appeal precisely because of its ambiguities; it can mean anything to anyone. The global appropriation of rebel iconography has invested it with fresh meanings. Author Claudia Springer succeeds here in analyzing both ends of the spectrum—the rebel icon as a tool in upholding capitalism's cycle of consumption, and as a challenge to that cycle and its accompanying beliefs. In this groundbreaking study of rebel iconography in international popular culture, Springer studies a variety of texts from the United States and abroad that use this imagery in contrasting and thought-provoking ways. Using a cultural studies approach, she analyzes films, fiction, poems, Web sites, and advertisements to determine the extent to which the icon's adaptations have been effective as a response to the actual social problems affecting contemporary adolescents around the world.

Acting

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Author : Claudia Springer
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813564344
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Acting written by Claudia Springer and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Screen performances entertain and delight us but we rarely stop to consider actors’ reliance on their craft to create memorable characters. Although film acting may appear effortless, a host of techniques, artistic conventions, and social factors shape the construction of each role. The chapters in Acting provide a fascinating, in-depth look at the history of film acting, from its inception in 1895 when spectators thrilled at the sight of vaudeville performers, Wild West stars, and athletes captured in motion, to the present when audiences marvel at the seamless blend of human actors with CGI. Experts in the field take readers behind the silver screen to learn about the craft of film acting in six eras: the silent screen (1895–1928), classical Hollywood (1928–1946), postwar Hollywood (1947–1967), the auteur renaissance (1968–1980), the New Hollywood (1981–1999), and the modern entertainment marketplace (2000–present). The contributors pay special attention to definitive performances by notable film stars, including Lillian Gish, Dick Powell, Ginger Rogers, Beulah Bondi, Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Robert De Niro, Nicholas Cage, Denzel Washington, and Andy Serkis. In six original essays, the contributors to this volume illuminate the dynamic role of acting in the creation and evolving practices of the American film industry. Acting is a volume in the Behind the Silver Screen series—other titles in the series include Animation; Art Direction and Production Design; Cinematography; Costume, Makeup, and Hair; Directing; Editing and Special/Visual Effects; Producing; Screenwriting; and Sound.

Jimmy

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Author : Jason Colavito
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493085662
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Jimmy written by Jason Colavito and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-11-19 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh and long-overdue reassessment of James Dean, examining his life and legacy as a queer man. Although he died at a heartbreakingly young age and appeared in only a handful of movies, James Dean revolutionized American manhood. As a celebrity and icon, he melded vulnerability with determination, sensitivity with strength, in a way that offered a bracing and—for some—threatening new vision of masculinity. His massive influence and the fascination he has always inspired are inseparable from his identity as a queer man whose complex sexuality shattered the norms of midcentury American society. (When asked whether he was a homosexual, he reportedly said, “I’m certainly not going through life with one hand tied behind my back.”) Today, even though it is widely accepted that Dean was gay or bisexual, the story of his life and personal character continue to be colored by the prejudices of an earlier era and the work of often unscrupulous biographers and journalists. Drawing on exhaustive new research (including more than four hundred previously secret pages of Dean’s personal and business records), Jimmy: The Secret Life of James Dean is a revelatory reassessment of the man and his legacy. Free from sensationalism—but unafraid to confront the difficult facts of Dean’s life—it deploys modern insights into sexual diversity to transform our understanding of James Dean’s story, and the stories of boys and men like him.

Giant

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Author : Don Graham
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250061903
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Giant written by Don Graham and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Featuring James Dean, Rock Hudson, and Elizabeth Taylor, Giant is an epic film of fame and materialism, based around the discovery of oil at Spindletop and the establishment of the King Ranch of south Texas. Isolating his star cast in the wilds of West Texas, director George Stevens brought together a volatile mix of egos, insecurities, sexual proclivities, and talent. Stevens knew he was overwhelmed with Hudson's promiscuity, Taylor's high diva-dom, and Dean's egotistical eccentricity. Yet he coaxed performances out of them that made cinematic history, winning Stevens the Academy Award for Best Director and garnering nine other nominations, including a nomination for Best Actor for James Dean, who died before the film was finished. Don Graham chronicles the stories of Stevens, whose trauma in World War II intensified his ambition to make films that would tell the story of America; Edna Ferber, a considerable literary celebrity, who meets her match in the imposing Robert Kleberg, proprietor of the vast King Ranch; and Glenn McCarthy, an American oil tycoon; and Errol Flynn lookalike with a taste for Hollywood. Drawing on archival sources Graham's Giant is a comprehensive depiction of the film's production showing readers how reality became fiction and fiction became cinema. "--Adapted from dust jacket.

Scoring the Hollywood Actor in the 1950s

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Author : Gregory Camp
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000293602
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Scoring the Hollywood Actor in the 1950s written by Gregory Camp and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-30 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scoring the Hollywood Actor in the 1950s theorises the connections between film acting and film music using the films of the 1950s as case studies. Closely examining performances of such actors as James Dean, Montgomery Clift, and Marilyn Monroe, and films of directors like Elia Kazan, Douglas Sirk, and Alfred Hitchcock, this volume provides a comprehensive view of how screen performance has been musicalised, including examination of the role of music in relation to the creation of cinematic performances and the perception of an actor’s performance. The book also explores the idea of music as a temporal vector which mirrors the temporal vector of actors’ voices and movements, ultimately demonstrating how acting and music go together to create a forward axis of time in the films of the 1950s. This is a valuable resource for scholars and researchers of musicology, film music and film studies more generally.

Larger Than Life

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Author : R. Barton Palmer
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813549949
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Larger Than Life written by R. Barton Palmer and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-30 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The constellation of Hollywood stars burned brightly in the 1950s, even as the industry fell on hard economic times. Major artists of the 1940s--James Stewart, Jerry Lewis, and Gregory Peck--continued to exert a magical appeal but the younger generation of moviegoers was soon enthralled by an emerging cast, led by James Dean and Marlon Brando. They, among others, ushered in a provocative acting style, "the Method," bringing hard-edged, realistic performances to the screen. Adult-oriented small-budget dramas were ideal showcases for Method actors, startlingly realized when Brando seized the screen in On the Waterfront. But, with competition from television looming, Hollywood also featured film-making of epic proportion--Ben-Hur and other cinema wonders rode onto the screen with amazing spectacle, making stars of physically impressive performers such as Charlton Heston. Larger Than Life offers a comprehensive view of the star system in 1950s Hollywood and also in-depth discussions of the decade's major stars, including Montgomery Clift, Judy Holliday, Jerry Lewis, James Mason, Marilyn Monroe, Kim Novak, Bing Crosby, Gene Kelly, Jayne Mansfield, and Audrey Hepburn.

Imagining the Method

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Author : Justin Owen Rawlins
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477328505
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book Imagining the Method written by Justin Owen Rawlins and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2024-01-16 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From James Dean to Jared Leto, only one acting style has entered the lexicon of the casual moviegoer: "Method acting." In this manuscript, Justin Rawlins offers the first reception-based analysis of acting, investigating how the concept of "the Method" entered popular film discourse and became part of the establishment of a "serious actor" brand--one reserved for white, male actors and yet associated with rebellion and marginalization. Drawing on extensive archival research, Rawlins traces the construction of mainstream understandings of Method acting, using well-known actors and Hollywood figures (e.g., Marlon Brando, Hedda Hopper, and James Dean) while also bringing forgotten names to the fore"--

Screening the Hollywood rebels in 1950s Britain

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Author : Anna Ariadne Knight
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526154498
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Screening the Hollywood rebels in 1950s Britain written by Anna Ariadne Knight and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines issues of censorship, publicity and teenage fandom in 1950s Britain surrounding a series of controversial Hollywood films: The Wild One, Blackboard Jungle, Rebel Without a Cause, Rock Around the Clock and Jailhouse Rock. It also explores British cinema’s commentary on juvenile delinquency through a re-examination of such British films as The Blue Lamp, Spare the Rod and Serious Charge. Taking a multi-dimensional approach, the book intersects with star studies and social history while reappraising the stardom of Marlon Brando, James Dean and Elvis Presley. By looking at the specific meanings, pleasures and uses British fans derived from these films, it provides a logical and sustained narrative for how Hollywood star images fed into and disrupted British cultural life during a period of unprecedented teenage consumerism.

The Horse who Drank the Sky

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Author : Murray Pomerance
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Horse who Drank the Sky written by Murray Pomerance and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author argues in this book that what is most important for cinema is that we are alive with it and that for all its dramatic, literary, political, sociological, and philosophical weight, film is ultimately an art that provokes, touches, and riddles the viewer through an image that transcends narrative and theory.

The Americanist

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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The British National Bibliography

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Author : Arthur James Wells
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 870 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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International Bibliography of Historical Sciences

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book International Bibliography of Historical Sciences written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Verzeichnis der exzerpierton zeitschriften: 1926, p. [XXXI]-LXVII.

Wish You Were Here, Jimmy Dean

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Author : Martin Dawber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780862873882
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (738 download)

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Download or read book Wish You Were Here, Jimmy Dean written by Martin Dawber and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Evergreen Review

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 898 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evergreen Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Stars

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Author : Edgar Morin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Stars written by Edgar Morin and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

American Book Publishing Record

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 838 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book American Book Publishing Record written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Writers Directory

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book The Writers Directory written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: