Hollywood Boulevard

Author : Dana Goodyear
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393082466
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oracle of Hollywood Boulevard: Poems written by Dana Goodyear and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems about sex, marriage, and the desire for a child from a “scary-cool and edgy-smart” poet (J. D. McClatchy). The frank, raw lyrics of Dana Goodyear’s second collection draw on the scenery of Los Angeles—the teenagers, vagrants, pornographers—and the beautiful decay that serves as an insistent reminder to them all. The poems are unsparing but tender, candid but sly, and open to the force of nature on an individual human life. from “Wildfire” We want this. The end to sleeping, the bittersweet arousal, the peeling back, the soft bath in resin, the release. It can’t come quick enough, the hot touch that breaks the crust and lets us go. Hear it now: a crackling, as the woods begin to sing alongside the birds.

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ISBN 13 : 9780986204500
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hollywood Boulevard written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For three years, Dennis Feldman (born 1946) repeatedly walked an eight-block stretch from Hollywood and Vine to the Chinese Theater, called the Walk of Fame, where people flocked to gaze at a sidewalk full of terrazzo stars inlaid with the names of famous (and no longer famous) entertainers. He became obsessed with photographing the characters that gathered there, drawn to the world of stardom, parading their self-made identities--macho and gay, masculine and feminine, biker and hippy--modeled after American archetypes molded by the entertainment industry and the social revolution of the 1960s. Hollywood Boulevard compiles the photographer's large-format, black-and-white portraits into a painfully human character study of social identity and performance."--Amazon.com.

Author : Erin McGraw
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780547237855
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Seamstress of Hollywood Boulevard written by Erin McGraw and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving to Los Angeles in 1901 to start her life anew, Nell Plat marries and begins a career as a costumer to the stars, but when a visitor from her past comes calling, everything she has worked so hard to achieve for her future is jeopardized.

Author : James Curtis
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0385354215
Total Pages : 833 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Buster Keaton written by James Curtis and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 833 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **One of Literary Hub’s Five “Most Critically Acclaimed” Biographies of 2022** From acclaimed cultural and film historian James Curtis—a major biography, the first in more than two decades, of the legendary comedian and filmmaker who elevated physical comedy to the highest of arts and whose ingenious films remain as startling, innovative, modern—and irresistible—today as they were when they beguiled audiences almost a century ago. "It is brilliant—I was totally absorbed, couldn't stop reading it and was very sorry when it ended."—Kevin Brownlow It was James Agee who christened Buster Keaton “The Great Stone Face.” Keaton’s face, Agee wrote, "ranked almost with Lincoln’s as an early American archetype; it was haunting, handsome, almost beautiful, yet it was also irreducibly funny. Keaton was the only major comedian who kept sentiment almost entirely out of his work and . . . he brought pure physical comedy to its greatest heights.” Mel Brooks: “A lot of my daring came from Keaton.” Martin Scorsese, influenced by Keaton’s pictures in the making of Raging Bull: “The only person who had the right attitude about boxing in the movies for me,” Scorsese said, “was Buster Keaton.” Keaton’s deadpan stare in a porkpie hat was as recognizable as Charlie Chaplin’s tramp and Harold Lloyd’s straw boater and spectacles, and, with W. C. Fields, the four were each considered a comedy king--but Keaton was, and still is, considered to be the greatest of them all. His iconic look and acrobatic brilliance obscured the fact that behind the camera Keaton was one of our most gifted filmmakers. Through nineteen short comedies and twelve magnificent features, he distinguished himself with such seminal works as Sherlock Jr., The Navigator, Steamboat Bill, Jr., The Cameraman, and his masterpiece, The General. Now James Curtis, admired biographer of Preston Sturges (“definitive”—Variety), W. C. Fields (“by far the fullest, fairest and most touching account we have yet had. Or are likely to have”—Richard Schickel, front page of The New York Times Book Review), and Spencer Tracy (“monumental; definitive”—Kirkus Reviews), gives us the richest, most comprehensive life to date of the legendary actor, stunt artist, screenwriter, director—master.

Author : Michael Kiesen
Publisher : PENDRAGON Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3865327702
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hollywood Boulevard written by Michael Kiesen and published by PENDRAGON Verlag. This book was released on 2020-05-20 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Für David wird der »sunshine state«, das »Wunderland« Kalifornien, Wirklichkeit. Er taucht in eine subtropische Szenerie und lernt im Hollywood YMCA einen jungen Mann kennen, Roy, der aus dem Mittleren Westen abgehauen ist. Mit Roy zusammen begegnet David weiteren jungen Leuten, die sich nicht nach überkommenen Regeln richten, und lässt sich von ihrer tabulosen Lebensweise mitreißen. Die charmant hemmungslose kalifornische Szene ist für ihn ein Gegenpol zu seiner süddeutschen Heimat.

Author : Sam Staggs
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312302542
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Close-up on Sunset Boulevard written by Sam Staggs and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-02-04 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relates the story of how Sunset Boulevard became a screen classic, revealing the secrets and scandals involving the big names associated with the movie and documenting the impact of this film on society.

Author : Denise Lowe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317718976
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Women in Early American Films written by Denise Lowe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-27 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examine women’s contributions to film—in front of the camera and behind it! An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Women in Early American Films: 1895-1930 is an A-to-Z reference guide (illustrated with over 150 hard-to-find photographs!) that dispels the myth that men dominated the film industry during its formative years. Denise Lowe, author of Women and American Television: An Encyclopedia, presents a rich collection that profiles many of the women who were crucial to the development of cinema as an industry—and as an art form. Whether working behind the scenes as producers or publicists, behind the cameras as writers, directors, or editors, or in front of the lens as flappers, vamps, or serial queens, hundreds of women made profound and lasting contributions to the evolution of the motion picture production. An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Women in Early American Films: 1895-1930 gives you immediate access to the histories of many of the women who pioneered the early days of cinema—on screen and off. The book chronicles the well-known figures of the era, such as Alice Guy, Mary Pickford, and Francis Marion but gives equal billing to those who worked in anonymity as the industry moved from the silent era into the age of sound. Their individual stories of professional success and failure, artistic struggle and strife, and personal triumph and tragedy fill in the plot points missing from the complete saga of Hollywood’s beginnings. Pioneers of the motion picture business found in An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Women in Early American Films include: Dorothy Arnzer, the first woman to join the Directors Guild of America and the only female director to make a successful transition from silent films to sound Jane Murfin, playwright and screenwriter who became supervisor of motion pictures at RKO Studios Gene Gauntier, the actress and scenarist whose adaptation of Ben Hur for the Kalem Film Company led to a landmark copyright infringement case Theda Bara, whose on-screen popularity virtually built Fox Studios before typecasting and overexposure destroyed her career Madame Sul-Te-Wan, née Nellie Conley, the first African-American actor or actress to sign a film contract and be a featured performer Dorothy Davenport, who parlayed the publicity surrounding her actor-husband’s drug-related death into a career as a producer of social reform melodramas Lois Weber, a street-corner evangelist who became one of the best-known and highest-paid directors in Hollywood Lina Basquette, the “Screen Tragedy Girl” who married and divorced studio mogul Sam Warner, led The Hollywood Aristocrats Orchestra, claimed to have been a spy for the American Office of Strategic Services during World War II, and became a renowned dog expert in her later years and many more! An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Women in Early American Films: 1895-1930 also includes comprehensive appendices of the WAMPAS Baby Stars, the silent stars remembered in the Graumann Chinese Theater Forecourt of the Stars and those immortalized on the Hollywood Walk of Stars. The book is invaluable as a resource for researchers, librarians, academics working in film, popular culture, and women’s history, and to anyone interested either professionally or casually in the early days of Hollywood and the motion picture industry.

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Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hollywood Movie Novels written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Melanie Benjamin
Publisher : Albin Michel
ISBN 13 : 2226430032
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hollywood Boulevard written by Melanie Benjamin and published by Albin Michel. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frances Marion a tout quitté pour suivre sa vocation : écrire des histoires pour un nouvel art, qui consiste à projeter des images en mouvement sur un écran. Mary Pickord est une actrice dont les boucles blondes et la grâce juvénile lui valent déjà le surnom de « La petite fiancée de l'Amérique ». Toutes deux vont nouer une amitié hors norme et participer à cette révolution qu'est la naissance du cinéma. Mais, dans un monde dominé par les hommes, on voit d'un mauvais oeil l'ambition et l'indépendance de ces deux femmes... Plongée au coeur de l'industrie naissante du septième art, Hollywood Boulevard retrace le destin de deux grandes figures oubliées du cinéma. Avec le talent qui a fait le succès des Cygnes de la Cinquième Avenue, Melanie Benjamin restitue l'atmosphère étourdissante des célèbres studios, mais aussi ses drames et ses injustices.

Author : Marc Wanamaker
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 143961833X
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Early Hollywood written by Marc Wanamaker and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2007-10-29 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The image of Hollywood often translates as some otherworldly dreamscape filled with fantastic lives and fantasy fulfillment. The real deal was carved from the Southern California desert as an outpost northwest of Los Angeles. The movie industry arrived when tumbleweeds were not simply props and actual horsepower pulled the loads. Everyday workers, civic management, and Main Street conventionalities nurtured Hollywood’s growth, as did a balmy climate that facilitated outdoor photography and shooting schedules for filmmakers. Splendid vintage photographs from the renowned collections of the Hollywood Heritage Museum and Bison Archives illustrate Hollywood’s businesses, homes, and residents during the silent-film era and immediately after, as the Great Depression led up to World War II. These images celebrate Hollywood before and after its annexation into the city of Los Angeles in 1910 and its subsequent ascension as the world’s greatest filmmaking center.