The Theatrical World Of Angus Mcbean

Author : Fredric Woodbridge Wilson
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 1567923607
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Theatrical World of Angus McBean written by Fredric Woodbridge Wilson and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2009 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title features a wonderfully evocative collection of portraits of some of the greatest stars of 20th century British theatre. The photography of Angus McBean encompasses more than three decades of the history of British theatre. His work includes some of the most memorable theatre productions of the Old Vic Company and what is now the Royal Shakespeare Company; opera productions at Glyndebourne and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; ballet from Sadler's Wells; and West End productions of plays and musicals. He was a favourite photographer of Vivien Leigh, Lourence Olivier, and Edith Evans. He photographed countless plays starring the likes of John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, and Alec Guinness, not to mention young stars such as Audrey Hepburn, Richard Burton, and Elizabeth Taylor. This sumptuously illustrated volume features 120 evocative images - reproduced from McBean's original negatives - of some the greatest stars of Twentieth-century British theatre.

Author : Lance Pettitt
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815655304
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Last Bohemian written by Lance Pettitt and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-12 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Last Bohemian offers the first extended, critical evaluation of all of Brian Desmond Hurst’s films, reappraising the reputation of a director who was born in 1895 in Belfast and died in Belgravia, London, in 1986. Pettitt skillfully weaves together film analyses, biography, and cultural history with the aim of bringing greater attention to Hurst’s qualities as a director and exploring his significance within Irish film and British cinema history between the 1930s and the 1960s. The director of Dangerous Moonlight (1941), Theirs Is the Glory (1946), and his best-known Scrooge (1951) made most of his films for British studios but developed an exile’s attachment to Ireland. How in the early twenty-first century has Hurst’s career been reclaimed and recognized, and by whom? Why in 2012 was Hurst’s name given to one of the new Titanic Studios in Belfast? What were his qualities as a filmmaker? To whose national cinema history, if any, does Hurst belong? Richly illustrated with film stills and other visual material from public archives, The Last Bohemian addresses these questions and in doing so makes a significant contribution to British and Irish cinema studies.

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Theatre World written by and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 722 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Theatre World written by and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : J. L. Styan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521274210
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Restoration Comedy in Performance written by J. L. Styan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1986-08-29 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the ways in which Restoration comedy was performed, using the costume, customs, manners and behaviour of the age as a way of understanding its theatre and drama. It also considers problems encountered in early twentieth century revivals of plays by authors such as Etherege, Dryden, Congreve and Farquhar.

Author : Adrian Woodhouse
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Angus McBean written by Adrian Woodhouse and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Facemaker is the first full-length biography of Angus McBean, one of the most influential photographers of the 20th Century, whose surreal and romantic portraiture of iconic film stars and musicians is still imitated throughout the world in fashion images and pop videos. Drawing from a multitude of direct sources and recorded interviews, Adrian Woodhouse tells the authoritative, unexpurgated story of McBean’s dramatic life, from his humble origins in South Wales to his arrest, trial and imprisonment during World War II for homosexuality; from his rise, fall, and resurgence in the world of photography to his final years in Suffolk. Full of scandal and controversy, and rich with previously untold anecdotes and revelations about his famous subjects like Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, Maria Callas, and the Beatles, Facemaker provides the private and the official portrait of a man who helped define the look of an age.

Author : Allardyce Nicoll
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521523516
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Shakespeare Survey written by Allardyce Nicoll and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-11-28 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first fifty volumes of this yearbook of Shakespeare studies are being reissued in paperback.

Author : Angus McBean
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Angus McBean written by Angus McBean and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cecil Beaton called him the best photographer in Britain; Lord Snowdon declared him a genius. It is no exaggeration to say that Angus McBean revolutionized portraiture in the 1930s, or that he immortalized the likes of Audrey Hepburn, Marlene Dietrich, and Elizabeth Taylor. Blending wit, drama, and fantasy with the consummate skill of a master photographer, McBean was the most prominent theater photographer of his generation and, along with Beaton, the last of the British avant-garde studio photographers. For the first time since his death in 1990, McBean's photographs of stars such as Vivien Leigh, Peggy Ashcroft, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, and Audrey Hepburn and his rarely seen color prints from the 1960s of the Beatles, Maria Callas, and Shirley Bassey are brought together in this fascinating book. Terence Pepper's intriguing account of McBean's life and work includes extracts from the photographer's unpublished autobiography. Terence Pepper is curator of photographs at the National Portrait Gallery in London. He is the author of The Man Who Shot Garbo: The Photographs of Clarence Sinclair Bull, High Society: Photographs 1897-1914, and monographs on Lewis Morley and Dorothy Wilding.

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Theatre World Annual written by and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Adrian Woodhouse
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781526127013
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Shakespeare by McBean written by Adrian Woodhouse and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A play-by-play picture compendium of the world's greatest dramatist as captured by the world's greatest theatre photographer