Abandoning The Road To Hollywood

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Abandoning The Road To Hollywood

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Author : René C. McMillen
language : en
Publisher: TriForce Publishing
Release Date : 2021-05

Abandoning The Road To Hollywood written by René C. McMillen and has been published by TriForce Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05 with categories.

Artists are only those famous creators in glamorous metropolises like New York City and Hollywood. Successful artists are only those on the New York Times' Bestseller List or Billboard Charts. And everyone else is merely a hobbyist, right? Wrong. In Abandoning the Road to Hollywood, author René C. McMillen leads artists down the path less explored--that of the small town creative. With grace, humor, and verve, McMillen shows how artists can embrace their true selves and be wildly successful in no-name towns and overlooked suburbs. She shares her own story of landing in the windswept plains of Wyoming and--like a hardy English rose--persevering to find artistic efflorescence of productivity and prosperity. Along the way, she weaves in interviews with numerous artists who share their inspiring stories and offer sound advice to creative souls. If you're ready to embrace your true artistic self no matter where you are in life, then this book is for you. Praise for ABANDONING THE ROAD TO HOLLYWOOD: "They say that art is where you find it, and René McMillen finds a lot of it in small town America. She makes the case that the art world extends far beyond the hubs of New York and Los Angeles, and highlights artists who are experts in their craft in the small communities they love. An inspiration for anyone blessed (cursed?) with artistic ability, René shows there are lots of appreciative audiences for an artist's work." -Dave Lerner, retired TV anchor and newscaster, and writer "Reading René McMillen's Abandoning the Road to Hollywood: How to Thrive as an Artist in Your Community, made me realize that although I haven't written a book that's landed on the bestseller list, I can still be proud of what I have written, and that my creativity is mine to own and not based on monetary success." -Merissa Racine, stenographer by day and author of Silent Gavel "Through the seamless retelling of life events, McMillen creates an immensely personal connection for artists of any medium on their path-to publication, recitation, performance, or gallery space. A self-confessed 'searching artist, ' McMillen's journey isn't built on gathering the most likes, followers, or comments. Rather, the Wyoming artist's vocation began simply with a belief that she was an artist. From that belief, she pioneered a path to bring creativity into her life and her rural West community. There are so many gems in Abandoning the Road to Hollywood: How to Thrive as an Artist in Your Community, you'll find yourself reaching for a highlighter, dog-earing a page of the book, or texting a quote to a fellow artisan." -Mary Biliter, Art Education Specialist at Wyoming Arts Council by day and author of seventeen books

Hollywood S Road To Riches

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Author : David Waterman
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2009-07-01

Hollywood S Road To Riches written by David Waterman and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-01 with Business & Economics categories.

Out-of-control costs. Box office bombs that should have been foreseen. A mania for sequels at the expense of innovation. Blockbusters of ever-diminishing merit. What other industry could continue like this--and succeed as spectacularly as Hollywood has? The American movie industry's extraordinary success at home and abroad--in the face of dire threats from broadcast television and a wealth of other entertainment media that have followed--is David Waterman's focus in this book, the first full-length economic study of the movie industry in over forty years. Combining historical and economic analysis, Hollywood's Road to Riches shows how, beginning in the 1950s, a largely predictable business has been transformed into a volatile and complex multimedia enterprise now commanding over 80 percent of the world's film business. At the same time, the book asks how the economic forces leading to this success--the forces of audience demand, technology, and high risk--have combined to change the kinds of movies Hollywood produces. Waterman argues that the movie studios have multiplied their revenues by effectively using pay television and home video media to extract the maximum amounts that individual consumers are willing to pay to watch the same movies in different venues. Along the way, the Hollywood studios have masterfully handled piracy and other economic challenges to the multimedia system they use to distribute movies. The author also looks ahead to what Internet file sharing and digital production and distribution technologies might mean for Hollywood's prosperity, as well as for the quality and variety of the movies it makes.

The Road Movie Book

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Author : Steven Cohan
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2002-01-04

The Road Movie Book written by Steven Cohan and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-01-04 with Social Science categories.

The Road Movie Book is the first comprehensive study of an enduring but ever-changing Hollywood genre, its place in American culture, and its legacy to world cinema. The road and the cinema both flourished in the twentieth century, as technological advances brought motion pictures to a mass audience and the mass produced automobile opened up the road to the ordinary American. When Jean Baudrillard equated modern American culture with 'space, speed, cinema, technology' he could just as easily have added that the road movie is its supreme emblem. The contributors explore how the road movie has confronted and represented issues of nationhood, sexuality, gender, class and race. They map the generic terrain of the road movie, trace its evolution on American television as well as on the big screen from the 1930s through the 1980s, and, finally, consider road movies that go off the road, departing from the US landscape or travelling on the margins of contemporary American culture. Movies discussed include: * Road classics such as It Happened One Night, The Grapes of Wrath, The Wizard of Oz and the Bob Hope-Bing Crosby Road to films * 1960's reworkings of the road movie in Easy Rider and Bonnie and Clyde * Russ Meyer's road movies: from Motorpsycho! to Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! * Contemporary hits such as Paris Texas, Rain Man, Natural Born Killers and Thelma and Louise * The road movie, Australian style, from Mad Max to the Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.

Road Trip To Nowhere

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Author : Jon Lewis
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2022-07-19

Road Trip To Nowhere written by Jon Lewis and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-19 with History categories.

How a new generation of counterculture talent changed the landscape of Hollywood, the film industry, and celebrity culture. By 1967, the commercial and political impact on Hollywood of the sixties counterculture had become impossible to ignore. The studios were in bad shape, still contending with a generation-long box office slump and struggling to get young people into the habit of going to the movies. Road Trip to Nowhere examines a ten-year span (from 1967 to 1976) rife with uneasy encounters between artists caught up in the counterculture and a corporate establishment still clinging to a studio system on the brink of collapse. Out of this tumultuous period many among the young and talented walked away from celebrity, turning down the best job Hollywood—and America—had on offer: movie star. Road Trip to Nowhere elaborates a primary-sourced history of movie production culture, examining the lives of a number of talented actors who got wrapped up in the politics and lifestyles of the counterculture. Thoroughly put off by celebrity culture, actors like Dennis Hopper, Christopher Jones, Jean Seberg, and others rejected the aspirational backstory and inevitable material trappings of success, much to the chagrin of the studios and directors who backed them. In Road Trip to Nowhere, film historian Jon Lewis details dramatic encounters on movie sets and in corporate boardrooms, on the job and on the streets, and in doing so offers an entertaining and rigorous historical account of an out-of-touch Hollywood establishment and the counterculture workforce they would never come to understand.

Pathways To Abandon

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Author : Nathan Schnakenberg
language : en
Publisher: Relevant Media Group
Release Date : 2005-08

Pathways To Abandon written by Nathan Schnakenberg and has been published by Relevant Media Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-08 with Religion categories.

Schnackenberg's story poses a challenge to each person who is on a spiritual path: "Will you abandon yourself to Christ or from Him?"

Abandoned Property

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Author : Robert Meyjes
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2006-02-07

Abandoned Property written by Robert Meyjes and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-02-07 with Fiction categories.

Untitled Document In the late 1930's, convinced that the Nazis would annihilate all Europeans who challenged their belief in Aryan supremacy, Eduard Seventer uses his influential investment bank in Amsterdam to transfer Jewish refugee funds to safety in England and America. The lightning-fast German invasion of the Netherlands in May of 1940 catches Seventer on a business trip in London, unable to return to his young wife in Amsterdam. Within days, the Germans complete their occupation of the country. The newly-arrived head of the Gestapo in Amsterdam, Heinrich Wanstumm, begins his search for enemies of the Reich. By 1942, he streamlines the deportation of Jews, and in their abandoned homes, he finds foreign bank statements for accounts which he knows the deportees will never return to claim. At the end of the war, Seventer makes a terrible discovery, and vows to bring Wanstumm to justice. The Dutch authorities also begin their search for war criminals, with Wanstumm high on their list, but Wanstumm has vanished. Over time, the leads grow cold until Wanstumm's greed causes him to make a fatal mistake. The FBI, Scotland Yard, Interpol and French and Swiss police follow different and confusing tracks which converge - just when Seventer also picks up the scent of his quarry

Abandoned Images

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Author : Stephen Barber
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2010-04-01

Abandoned Images written by Stephen Barber and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-01 with Performing Arts categories.

Broadway Avenue in downtown Los Angeles contains an extraordinary collection of twelve abandoned film palaces, all built between 1910 and 1931. In most cities worldwide such a concentration of original cinema houses would have been demolished long ago—but in a city whose identity is inseparable from the film industry, the buildings have survived mainly intact, some of their interiors dilapidated and gutted and others transformed and re-imagined as churches and nightclubs. Stephen Barber’s Abandoned Images takes us inside these remarkable structures in order to understand the birth and death of film as both a medium and a social event. Due to the rise of digital filmmaking and straight-to-DVD and on-demand distribution, the film industry is presently undergoing a process of profound transformation in both how movies are made and how they are watched. Barber explores what this means for the cinematic experience: Are movies losing some essential element of their identity and purpose, and can the distinctive aura of film survive when the specialized venues required to display movies have been comprehensively overhauled or erased? Barber also forecasts the future of film, revealing how its distinctive and flexible nature will be vital to its survival. Featuring many evocative images alongside insightful reflections on the role of film and its viewing in the global culture, Abandoned Images will be of interest to all those engaged in contemporary developments in film, visual media, and digital arts.

Post Classical Hollywood

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Author : Barry Langford
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2010-08-31

Post Classical Hollywood written by Barry Langford and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-31 with Business & Economics categories.

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.

Route 66

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Author : William Kaszynski
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2015-05-07

Route 66 written by William Kaszynski and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-07 with Transportation categories.

Route 66 is a fixture of American culture. For the truckers, salesmen and vacationers who have traveled it and for the people who live along it, the road is a reminder of the bygone days of American motoring. Despite time, neglect and progress, Route 66 endures. Almost all of its 2,448 miles are still intact and drivable. Travel from Chicago to Los Angeles and experience Route 66 through this richly illustrated book, with pictures of many of the historic landmarks and longtime businesses that have become roadside institutions to several generations of Route 66 travelers, plus some that are relatively unknown. Nearly all of the places shown can be visited today. The book is also a salute to those who supported the highway over the years, including Cyrus Avery, Jack Cuthbert ("Mr. 66"), Lucille Hamon and Campbell's 66 Express.

Around Quitting Time

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Author : Robert Seguin
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2001-06-20

Around Quitting Time written by Robert Seguin and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-06-20 with Literary Criticism categories.

DIVPosits social class as the American political unconscious, showing (in an analysis of 19th and 20th century novels) how class exerts pressure on the American cultural imagination, and claiming that what is desired is ultimately the liberation from work./div