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Cecil B Demille S Hollywood

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Author : Robert S. Birchard
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2004-06-29

Cecil B Demille S Hollywood written by Robert S. Birchard and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-06-29 with Performing Arts categories.

A look at the wide-ranging work of the Golden Age genius who made The Ten Commandments and other blockbusters—and helped found the American film industry. Cecil B. DeMille’s Hollywood is a detailed and definitive chronicle of the director’s screen work that changed the course of film history—and a fascinating look at how movies were actually made in Hollywood’s Golden Age. Drawing extensively on DeMille’s personal archives and other primary sources, Robert S. Birchard offers a revealing portrait of DeMille the filmmaker that goes behind studio gates and beyond DeMille’s legendary persona. In his forty-five-year career DeMille’s box-office record was unsurpassed, and his swaggering style established the public image for movie directors. He had a profound impact on the way movies tell stories, and brought greater attention to the elements of decor, lighting, and cinematography. Best remembered today for screen spectacles such as The Ten Commandments and Samson and Delilah, DeMille also created Westerns, realistic “chamber dramas,” and a series of daring and highly influential social comedies—while setting the standard for Hollywood filmmakers and demanding absolute devotion to his creative vision from his writers, artists, actors, and technicians. “Far and away the best film book published so far this year.” —National Board of Review

The Autobiography Of Cecil B Demille

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Author : Cecil Blount DeMille
language : en
Publisher: Facsimiles-Garl
Release Date : 1985

The Autobiography Of Cecil B Demille written by Cecil Blount DeMille and has been published by Facsimiles-Garl this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Performing Arts categories.

Cecil B Demille

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Author : Cecilia de Mille Presley
language : en
Publisher: Running Press Adult
Release Date : 2014-12-16

Cecil B Demille written by Cecilia de Mille Presley and has been published by Running Press Adult this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-16 with Performing Arts categories.

Colossal. Stupendous. Epic. These adjectives, used by movie companies to hawk their wares, became clichélong ago. When used to describe the films of one director, they are accurate. More than any filmmaker in the history of the medium, Cecil B. DeMille mastered the art of the spectacle. In the process, he became a filmland founder. One hundred years ago, he made the first feature film ever shot in Hollywood and went on to become the most commercially successful producer-director in history. DeMille told his cinematic tales with painterly, extravagant images. The parting of the Red Sea in The Ten Commandments was only one of these. There were train wrecks (The Greatest Show on Earth); orgies (Manslaughter); battles (The Buccaneer); Ancient Rome (The Sign of the Cross); Ancient Egypt (Cleopatra); and the Holy Land (The Crusades). The best of these images are showcased here, in Cecil B. DeMille: The Art of the Hollywood Epic. This lavish volume opens the King Tut's tomb of cinematic treasures that is the Cecil B. DeMille Archives, presenting storyboard art, concept paintings, and an array of photographic imagery. Historian Mark A. Vieira writes an illuminating text to accompany these scenes. Cecilia de Mille Presley relates her grandfather's thoughts on his various films, and recalls her visits to his sets, including the Egyptian expedition to film The Ten Commandments. Like the director's works, Cecil B. DeMille: The Art of the Hollywood Epic is a panorama of magnificence-celebrating a legendary filmmaker and the remarkable history of Hollywood.

Cecil B Demille Classical Hollywood And Modern American Mass Culture

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Author : David Blanke
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-05-26

Cecil B Demille Classical Hollywood And Modern American Mass Culture written by David Blanke and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-26 with Performing Arts categories.

This book uses the long and profitable career of Cecil B. DeMille to track the evolution of Classical Hollywood and its influence on emerging mass commercial culture in the US. DeMille’s success rested on how well his films presumed a broad consensus in the American public—expressed through consumer hedonism, faith, and an “exceptional” national history—which merged seamlessly with the efficient production methods developed by the largest integrated studios. DeMille’s sudden mid-career shift away from spectator perversity to corporate propagandist permanently tarnished the director’s historical standing among scholars, yet should not overshadow the profound links between his success and the rise and fall of mid-century mass culture.

Empire Of Dreams

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Author : Scott Eyman
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2010-09-07

Empire Of Dreams written by Scott Eyman and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-07 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

BEST KNOWN AS THE DIRECTOR of such spectacular films as The Ten Commandments and King of Kings, Cecil B. DeMille lived a life as epic as any of his cinematic masterpieces. As a child DeMille learned the Bible from his father, a theology student and playwright who introduced Cecil and his older brother, William, to the theater. Tutored by impresario David Belasco, DeMille discovered how audiences responded to showmanship: sets, lights, costumes, etc. He took this knowledge with him to Los Angeles in 1913, where he became one of the movie pioneers, in partnership with Jesse Lasky and Lasky’s brother-in-law Samuel Goldfish (later Goldwyn). Working out of a barn on streets fragrant with orange blossom and pepper trees, the Lasky company turned out a string of successful silents, most of them directed by DeMille, who became one of the biggest names of the silent era. With films such as The Squaw Man, Brewster’s Millions, Joan the Woman, and Don’t Change Your Husband, he was the creative backbone of what would become Paramount Studios. In 1923 he filmed his first version of The Ten Commandments and later a second biblical epic, King of Kings, both enormous box-office successes. Although his reputation rests largely on the biblical epics he made, DeMille’s personal life was no morality tale. He remained married to his wife, Constance, for more than fifty years, but for most of the marriage he had three mistresses simultaneously, all of whom worked for him. He showed great loyalty to a small group of actors who knew his style, but he also discovered some major stars, among them Gloria Swanson, Claudette Colbert, and later, Charlton Heston. DeMille was one of the few silent-era directors who made a completely successful transition to sound. In 1952 he won the Academy Award for Best Picture with The Greatest Show on Earth. When he remade The Ten Commandments in 1956, it was an even bigger hit than the silent version. He could act, too: in Billy Wilder’s classic film Sunset Boulevard, DeMille memorably played himself. In the 1930s and 1940s DeMille became a household name thanks to the Lux Radio Theater, which he hosted. But after falling out with a union, he gave up the program, and his politics shifted to the right as he championed loyalty oaths and Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s anticommunist witch hunts. As Scott Eyman brilliantly demonstrates in this superbly researched biography, which draws on a massive cache of DeMille family papers not available to previous biographers, DeMille was much more than his clichéd image. A gifted director who worked in many genres; a devoted family man and loyal friend with a highly unconventional personal life; a pioneering filmmaker: DeMille comes alive in these pages, a legend whose spectacular career defined an era.

Cecil B Demille And American Culture

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Author : Sumiko Higashi
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1994-12-02

Cecil B Demille And American Culture written by Sumiko Higashi 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 1994-12-02 with Performing Arts categories.

On Cecil B. de Mille - his life and works.

Cecil B Demille

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Author : Charles Higham
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974

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Written In Stone

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Author : Katherine Orrison
language : en
Publisher: Vestal Press
Release Date : 1999-03-30

Written In Stone written by Katherine Orrison and has been published by Vestal Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-03-30 with Performing Arts categories.

From concept stage through production in Egypt to release of the film: Katherine Orrison carefully recreates the behind-the-scenes story of Cecil B. DeMille's beloved epic.

The Films Of Cecil B Demille

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Author : Gene Ringgold
language : en
Publisher: Citadel Press
Release Date : 1969

The Films Of Cecil B Demille written by Gene Ringgold and has been published by Citadel Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Feature films categories.

Cecil B Demille

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Author : Sumiko Higashi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1982

Cecil B Demille written by Sumiko Higashi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with categories.