Hollywood And Venal

Author : Nat Segaloff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781629335568
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hollywood and Venal written by Nat Segaloff and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes fiction is the best way to tell the truth. In this, his first collection of short stories, Nat Segaloff (Final Cuts, Guarding Gable, Mr. Huston/Mr. North) reveals the truth behind some of Hollywood's biggest scandals, agendas, and confidences.

Author : Nat Segaloff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781629335575
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hollywood and Venal written by Nat Segaloff and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes fiction is the best way to tell the truth. In this, his first collection of short stories, Nat Segaloff (Final Cuts, Guarding Gable, Mr. Huston/Mr. North) reveals the truth behind some of Hollywood's biggest scandals, agendas, and confidences.

Author : William Fadiman
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780871405562
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hollywood Now written by William Fadiman and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1972 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Laurence Goldstein
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472083183
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Poet at the Movies written by Laurence Goldstein and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely and engaging exploration of cinema's influence on verse--a treat for poetry lovers and film buffs alike

Author : Barry Langford
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748643214
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Post-Classical Hollywood written by Barry Langford and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of World War II, Hollywood basked in unprecedented prosperity. Since then, numerous challenges and crises have changed the American film industry in ways beyond imagination in 1945. Nonetheless, at the start of a new century Hollywood's worldwide dominance is intact - indeed, in today's global economy the products of the American entertainment industry (of which movies are now only one part) are more ubiquitous than ever. How does today's "e;Hollywood"e; - absorbed into transnational media conglomerates like NewsCorp., Sony, and Viacom - differ from the legendary studios of Hollywood's Golden Age? What are the dominant frameworks and conventions, the historical contexts and the governing attitudes through which films are made, marketed and consumed today? How have these changed across the last seven decades? And how have these evolving contexts helped shape the form, the style and the content of Hollywood movies, from Singin' in the Rain to Pirates of the Caribbean? Barry Langford explains and interrogates the concept of "e;post-classical"e; Hollywood cinema - its coherence, its historical justification and how it can help or hinder our understanding of Hollywood from the forties to the present. Integrating film history, discussion of movies' social and political dimensions, and analysis of Hollywood's distinctive methods of storytelling, Post-Classical Hollywood charts key critical debates alongside the histories they interpret, while offering its own account of the "e;post-classical."e; Wide-ranging yet concise, challenging and insightful, Post-Classical Hollywood offers a new perspective on the most enduringly fascinating artform of our age.

Author : Kimball King
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113652567X
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hollywood on Stage written by Kimball King and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Playwrights have been depicting Hollywood as a cultural desert and an industry of profit-driven philistines ever since the early days of the movies. This collection of original essays covers the period from the 1920s to the present but concentrates on such contempory playwrights as David Mamet, Sam Shepard, David Rabe, Arthur Kopit, and Adrienne Kennedy. A substantial proportion of the volume is devoted to a discussion of the way in which these authors deconstruct Hollywood myths to reveal painful social and psychological issues in American life, providing a deeper and darker picture than the simple satires of movie-making in the 1920s and 1930s or Odets's comparison of the commercially debased Hollywood with the higher, purer art of the theatre. To complete and further complicate the picture, the volume concludes with essays on the African American experience, gay writers, and feminist writing as seen through the lens of Marlane Myer's ETTA JENKS. It is obvious that the legitimate stage remains a watchdog and constant critic of what is possibly the world's most powerful cultural phenomenon This book will be eargerly read by all students of film, theatre, and 20th century literature.

Author : J. David Slocum
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000938565
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hollywood and War, The Film Reader written by J. David Slocum and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discussing such classic films as Sergeant York, Air Force, and All Quiet on the Western Front, as well as more modern blockbusters like Apocalypse Now and Saving Private Ryan, this outstanding volume focuses on Hollywood and its production of war films. Topics covered include: the early formation of war cinema the apotheosis of the Hollywood war film the ascendancy of ambivalence Hollywood and the war since Vietnam war as a way of seeing. For any student of film studies or American cultural studies, this is a valuable companion.

Author : Daniele Fioretti
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031064658
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Italian Americans in Film written by Daniele Fioretti and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how Italian Americans have been represented in cinema, from the depiction of Italian migration in New Orleans in the 1890s (Vendetta) to the transition from first- to second-generation immigrants (Ask the Dust), and from the establishment of the stereotype of the Italian American gangster (Little Caesar, Scarface) to its re-definition (Mean Streets), along with a peculiar depiction of Italian American masculinity (Marty, Raging Bull). For many years, Italian migration studies in the United States have commented on the way cinema contributed to the creation of an identifiable Italian American identity. More recently, scholars have recognized the existence of a more nuanced plurality of Italian American identities that reflects social and historical elements, class backgrounds, and the relationship with other ethnic minorities. The second part of the book challenges the most common stereotypes of Italian Americanness: food (Big Night) and Mafia, deconstructing the criminal tropes that have contributed to shaping the perception of Italian-American mafiosi in The Funeral, Goodfellas, Donnie Brasco, and the first two chapters of the Godfather trilogy. At the crossroads of the fields of Italian Culture, Italian American Culture, Film Studies, and Migration Studies, Italian Americans in Film is written not only for undergraduate and graduate students but also for scholars who teach courses on Italian American Cinema and Visual Culture.

Author : Steven Mintz
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118976525
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hollywood's America written by Steven Mintz and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-01-04 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fully revised, updated, and extended, the fifth edition of Hollywood’s America provides an important compilation of interpretive essays and primary documents that allows students to read films as cultural artifacts within the contexts of actual past events. A new edition of this classic textbook, which ties movies into the broader narrative of US and film history This fifth edition contains nine new chapters, with a greater overall emphasis on recent film history, and new primary source documents which are unavailable online Entries range from the first experiments with motion pictures all the way to the present day Well-organized within a chronological framework with thematic treatments to provide a valuable resource for students of the history of American film

Author : Emilio Audissino
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1009009095
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Film Music in Concert written by Emilio Audissino and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-16 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores film music's role in the concert repertoire, highlighting how the Boston Pops under John Williams pioneered its inclusion.