Reframing Vivien Leigh
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Reframing Vivien Leigh
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Author : Lisa Stead
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2021
Reframing Vivien Leigh written by Lisa Stead 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 2021 with Performing Arts categories.
"Reframing Vivien Leigh takes a fresh new look at one of the twentieth century's most iconic stars. Focussing on Vivien Leigh as a distinctly archival subject, the book draws upon original oral history work with curators, archivists and fan collectives and extensive research within a network of official and unofficial archives around the world to produce alternative stories about her place within film history. The study examines an intriguing variety of historical correspondence, costume, scripts, photography, props and memorabilia in order to reframe the dominant narratives that have surrounded her life and career. Whilst Leigh's glamour, collaborations with Laurence Olivier and mental health form important coordinates for any study of the star, the book foregrounds a range of alternative contexts which foreground her creative agency, examining her off-screen labor in areas such as theatrical training, adaptation, war work, producing, protesting and interactions with her fan base"--
Reframing Vivien Leigh
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Author : Lisa Stead
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2021-02-16
Reframing Vivien Leigh written by Lisa Stead and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-16 with Performing Arts categories.
Reframing Vivien Leigh takes a new look at the laboring life one of the twentieth century's most iconic stars. Author Lisa Stead reframes the dominant narratives that have surrounded Leigh's life and career, offering a new perspective on Vivien Leigh as a distinctly archival subject. The book examines the collections and curatorial practices that have built up around her, exploring material documents collated by her own hand and by those who worked with her. The book also examines the collection practices of those who have developed deep, long-standing fandoms of her life and work. To do so, the book draws upon new oral history work with curators, archivists and fan collectives and examines a variety of archived correspondence, items of dress and costume, script annotations, photography, press clippings, props and memorabilia. It argues that such material has the potential to produce a new interpretation of Leigh as a creative laborer. As such, the book casts new light on the labor of archiving itself and the significance of archival processes and practices to contemporary feminist film historiography.
Vivien Leigh
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Author : Michelangelo Capua
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2015-09-01
Vivien Leigh written by Michelangelo Capua and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-01 with Performing Arts categories.
"Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm" Margaret Mitchell opened Gone with the Wind with this description of Scarlett O'Hara, but her words can hardly be applied to Vivien Leigh, the British actress who gave an unforgettable performance as the Southern belle. Leigh possessed a beauty that men seldom failed to recognize and a charm that caught many, but her life was far from being all beauty and charm. This biography of the beautiful and tortured actress, from her birth and childhood in exotic India to her premature death in 1967, gives special attention to her development and career as a stage and film actress (which culminated in one Tony award and two Oscars). Her ambitious personality and her manic-depressive illness, including the sexual compulsion that haunted her life, her romantic and tragic marriage to Laurence Olivier, and her performances in, for instance, Gone with the Wind and A Streetcar Named Desire, are all detailed.
Vivien Leigh
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Author : Kendra Bean
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2013-10-15
Vivien Leigh written by Kendra Bean and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Vivien Leigh's mystique was a combination of staggering beauty, glamour, romance, and genuine talent displayed in her Oscar-winning performances in Gone With the Wind and A Streetcar Named Desire. For more than thirty years, her name alone sold out theaters and cinemas the world over, and she inspired many of the greatest visionaries of her time: Laurence Olivier loved her; Winston Churchill praised her; Christian Dior dressed her. Through both an in-depth narrative and a stunning array of photos, Vivien Leigh: An Intimate Portrait presents the personal story of one of the most celebrated women of the twentieth century, an engrossing tale of success, struggles, and triumphs. It chronicles Leigh's journey from her birth in India to prominence in British film, winning the most-coveted role in Hollywood history, her celebrated love affair with Laurence Olivier, through to her untimely death at age fifty-three in 1967. Author Kendra Bean is the first Vivien Leigh biographer to delve into the Laurence Olivier Archives, where an invaluable collection of personal letters and documents ranging from interview transcripts to film contracts to medical records shed new insight on Leigh's story. Illustrated by hundreds of rare and never-before-published images, including those by Leigh's "official" photographer, Angus McBean, Vivien Leigh: An Intimate Portrait is the first illustrated biography to closely examine the fascinating, troubled, and often misunderstood life of Vivien Leigh: the woman, the actress, the legend.
Dark Star
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Author : Alan Strachan
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2018-10-25
Dark Star written by Alan Strachan and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-25 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Winner of the Society for Theatre Research Book Prize 2020 Vivien Leigh was perhaps the most iconic actress of the twentieth century. As Scarlett O'Hara and Blanche Du Bois she took on some of the most pivotal roles in cinema history. Yet she was also a talented theatre actress with West End and Broadway plaudits to her name. In this ground-breaking new biography, Alan Strachan provides a completely new full-life portrait of Leigh, covering both her professional and personal life. Using previously unseen sources from her archive, recently acquired by the V&A, he sheds new light on her fractious relationship with Laurence Olivier, based on their letters and diaries, as well as on the bipolar disorder which so affected her later life and work. Revealing new aspects of her early life as well as providing glimpses behind-the-scenes of the filming of Gone with the Wind and A Streetcar Named Desire, this book provides the essential and comprehensive life-story of one of the twentieth century's greatest actresses.
England S Discontents
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Author : Mike Wayne
language : en
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Release Date : 2018
England S Discontents written by Mike Wayne and has been published by Pluto Press (UK) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Great Britain categories.
How England's political cultures are being eroded by neoliberalism
Hollywood Remakes Of Iconic British Films
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Author : Agnieszka Rasmus
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024-05-31
Hollywood Remakes Of Iconic British Films written by Agnieszka Rasmus and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-31 with Performing Arts categories.
Explores how cult and classic '60s British films are remade by Hollywood in the new millennium
Screen Tourism And Affective Landscapes
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Author : Erik Champion
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2022-12-30
Screen Tourism And Affective Landscapes written by Erik Champion and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-30 with Business & Economics categories.
This book explores ways in which screen-based storyworlds transfix, transform, and transport us imaginatively, physically, and virtually to the places they depict or film. Topics include fantasy quests in computer games, celebrity walking tours, dark tourism sites, Hobbiton as theme park, surf movies, and social gangs of Disneyland. How physical, virtual, and imagined locations create a sense of place through their immediate experience or visitation is undergoing a revolution in technology, travel modes, and tourism behaviour. This edited collection explores the rapidly evolving field of screen tourism and the affective impact of landscape, with provocative questions and investigations of social groups, fan culture, new technology, and the wider changing trends in screen tourism. We provide critical examples of affective landscapes across a wide range of mediums (from the big screen to the small screen) and locations. This book will appeal to students and scholars in film and tourism, as well as geography, design, media and communication studies, game studies, and digital humanities.
The Politics Of Hindi Cinema In The New Millennium
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Author : M. K. Raghavendra
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2014
The Politics Of Hindi Cinema In The New Millennium written by M. K. Raghavendra 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 2014 with Performing Arts categories.
Bringing out the transformation of the mainstream Hindi film after it became 'Bollywood', this book charts out a new direction in scholarship on Indian cinema. It is devoted to analyses of important Hindi films in the new millennium and focuses on overt and covert political discourse and the detection of tendencies identifiable with India's transformation in the global age. Popular culture is taken to be transparent, but the mainstream film has political implications which are far from obvious.
Gene Tierney
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Author : Will Scheibel
language : en
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Release Date : 2022-09-12
Gene Tierney written by Will Scheibel and has been published by Wayne State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-12 with Performing Arts categories.
Film studies scholars, film students, and those interested in Hollywood history and the legacy of Gene Tierney will be delighted by this read.