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Film Stars
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Author : Andrew Willis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Film Stars written by Andrew Willis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This book focuses on film stars from the past and present, from Hollywood, its margins and beyond, and analyzes them through a close consideration of their films and the variety of contexts in which they worked. Essays spread the net wide, looking at past stars from Rosalind Russell and Charlton Heston to present-day stars including Sandra Bullock, Jackie Chan and Jim Carrey, as well as those figures who have earned a certain film star cachet such as Prince, and the martial artist Cynthia Rothrock.
Hollywood By Hollywood
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Author : Steven Cohan
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2018
Hollywood By Hollywood written by Steven Cohan and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) categories.
The backstudio picture, or the movie about movie-making, is a staple of Hollywood film production harking back to the silent era and extending to the present day. What gives backstudios their coherence as a distinctive genre, Steven Cohan argues in Hollywood by Hollywood, is their fascination with the mystique of Hollywood as a geographic place, a self-contained industry, and a fantasy of fame, leisure, sexual freedom, and modernity. Yet by the same token, if backstudio pictures have rarely achieved blockbuster box-office success, what accounts for the film industry's interest in continuing to produce them? The backstudio picture has been an enduring genre because, aside from offering a director or writer a chance to settle old scores, in branding filmmaking with the Hollywood mystique, the genre solicits consumers' strong investment in the movies. Whether inspiring the "movie crazy" fan girls of the early teens and twenties or the wannabe filmmakers of this century heading to the West Coast after their college graduations, backstudios have given emotional weight and cultural heft to filmmaking as the quintessential American success story. But more than that, a backstudio picture is concerned with shaping perceptions of how the film industry works, with masking how its product depends upon an industrial labor force, including stardom, and with determining how that work's value accrues from the Hollywood brand stamped onto the product. Cohan supports his well theorized and well researched claims with nuanced discussions of over fifty backstudios, some canonical and well-known, and others obscure and rarely seen. Covering the hundred-year timespan of feature length film production, Hollywood by Hollywood offers an illuminating perspective for considering anew the history of American movies.
Aristotle In Hollywood
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Author : Ari Hiltunen
language : en
Publisher: Intellect (UK)
Release Date : 2002
Aristotle In Hollywood written by Ari Hiltunen and has been published by Intellect (UK) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Drama categories.
Throughout the centuries Aristotle's Poetics remained something of a mystery. What was the great philosopher trying to say about the nature of drama and storytelling? What did he mean by pity, fear and catharsis? In this book, Ari Hiltunen explains the mystery of the 'proper pleasure', which, according to Aristotle, is the goal of drama and can be brought about by using certain storytelling strategies. Hiltunen develops Aristotle's thesis to demonstrate how the world's best-loved fairy tales, Shakespeare's success, and empirical studies on the enjoyment of drama and brain physiology, all give support to the idea of a universal 'proper pleasure' through storytelling. Examining the key concepts and logic of Poetics, Hiltunen offers a unique insight to anyone who wants to know the secret of successful storytelling, both in the past and in today's multi-billion dollar entertainment industry. Ari Hiltunen concludes that Aristotle's ideas and insights are as valid today as they were over 2000 years ago. This book will be of interest to all those working and studying in the fields of communication, media and writing.
Hollywood
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Author : Charles Bukowski
language : en
Publisher: Canongate Books
Release Date : 2009-09-25
Hollywood written by Charles Bukowski and has been published by Canongate Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-25 with Fiction categories.
‘What will you do?’ ‘Oh, hell, I'll write a novel about writing the screenplay and making the movie.’ ‘What are you going to call it?’ ‘Hollywood.’ Henry Chinaski has a penchant for booze, women and horse-racing. On his precarious journey from poet to screenwriter he encounters a host of well-known stars and lays bare the absurdity and egotism of the film industry. Poetic, sharp and dangerous, Hollywood – Bukowski’s fictionalisation of his experiences making the film Barfly – explores the many dark shadows to be found in the neon-soaked glare of Hollywood’s limelight.
Hollywood On Hollywood
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Author : Michael R. Pitts
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-02-02
Hollywood On Hollywood written by Michael R. Pitts and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-02 with categories.
Part of the Encore Film Book Classics series, this is a reprint of the original text to Hollywood on Hollywood by James Robert Parish and Michael R. Pitts with Gregory W. Mank. Film lovers have long had an insatiable drive to know what "really" goes on behind-the-scenes at Tinseltown film studios. This volume delves into some 300 feature films, movie shorts, and TV movies in which Hollywood filmmakers turn the cameras on themselves as storylines play out in front of and behind the cameras. Among the many titles covered are Sunset Boulevard (1950), The Phantom of Hollywood (1974), Hollywood Hotel (1937), The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), A Star Is Born (1937, 1954), That's Entertainment! (1974), Star-Spangled Rhythm (1942), James Dean (1976), The Studio Murder Mystery (1929), Harlow (1965), On an Island with You (1948), What Price Hollywood? (1932), The Day of the Locust (1975), What Ever Happened to Baby Jane (1962), Bombshell (1933), The Star (1952), The Oscar (1965), The Jolson Story (1946), The Sex Symbol (1975), and Inside Daisy Clover (1965). Each entry contains detailed cast/characters and technical credits, a discussion of the film, and review quotes. This is a valuable reference work and a fun film guide for both movie fans and cinema historians, as well as an excellent sourcebook to many of the genre entries now available for viewing on television, the Internet, and DVDs.
The Limits Of Metoo In Hollywood
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Author : Margaret Tally
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2021-07-06
The Limits Of Metoo In Hollywood written by Margaret Tally and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-06 with Performing Arts categories.
In October 2017, actress Alyssa Milano sparked the #MeToo movement. The ensuing protests quickly encompassed far more than Harvey Weinstein and the entertainment industry. They expressed women's outrage at male workplace behavior in every sector and social class and even helped elect a new generation of women leaders in 2018. But what has been the effect of #MeToo in the entertainment industry itself? This book traces the movement's influence on the stories being told, on changing representations of women's lives and bodies, and on the slow changes among the producers who shape the stories. Analyzing a wide set of TV and film genres--including crime, legal and medical dramas, comedies, horror and reality programming--this book covers the complex ways that media respond to social movements: They sometimes give voice to brand-new or previously silenced stories, but just as often make facile references that can blunt the potential for change, or even fuel cultural backlash.
Hollywood
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Author : Gore Vidal
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
Hollywood written by Gore Vidal and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) categories.
In 1917 an actress's rise to stardom is paralleled by the birth of Hollywood.
Hollywood S Melodramatic Imagination
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Author : Geoff Mayer
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2021-12-22
Hollywood S Melodramatic Imagination written by Geoff Mayer and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-22 with Performing Arts categories.
Melodrama is the foundation of American cinema. It is, however, a poorly understood term. While it is a pervasive and persuasive dramatic mode, it is not tied to any specific moral or ideological system. It is not a singular genre; rather, it operates as a "genre generating machine" capable of determining the aesthetics and structure of the drama within many genres. Melodrama centers the conflict around the clash between good and evil and provides a sense of poetic justice--but the specific values embedded in notions of good and evil are determined by the culture, and they shift from nation to nation, region to region, and period to period. This book explores the "populist" westerns of the 1930s, the propaganda films that followed the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and the popularity of Sax Rohmer's master villain Fu Manchu. "Melodramas of passion" and film noir also offer a challenge to melodrama with its seemingly alienated protagonists and downbeat endings. Yet, with few exceptions, Hollywood was able to assimilate these genres within its melodramatic imagination.
Hollywood S Indies
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Author : Yannis Tzioumakis
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2013-08-12
Hollywood S Indies written by Yannis Tzioumakis 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 2013-08-12 with Performing Arts categories.
Hollywood's Indies offers an in depth examination of the phenomenon of the classics divisions by tracing its history since the establishment of the first specialty label in 1980.
Hollywood S Film Wars With France
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Author : Jens Ulff-Møller
language : en
Publisher: University Rochester Press
Release Date : 2001
Hollywood S Film Wars With France written by Jens Ulff-Møller and has been published by University Rochester Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Art categories.
It is based on hitherto unstudied documents from these institutions. While European film production was at a standstill after World War I, Hollywood companies flooded the European market with hundreds of films at very low prices."--BOOK JACKET.