American Classic Screen Features

Author : John C. Tibbetts,James M. Welsh
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780810876798

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American Classic Screen Features by John C. Tibbetts,James M. Welsh Pdf

In American Classic Screen Features, editors John C. Tibbetts and James M. Welsh have assembled some of the most significant and memorable essays and critical pieces written for the magazine over its ten-year history. This collection contains fascinating accounts of Hollywood history including articles on Marilyn Monroe's first screen test, John Ford's favorite film, Olivia De Havilland's lawsuit against Warner Bros., Walt Disney's unfinished projects, and Stanley Kubrick's early noir classics. This volume also contains in-depth examinations of classic films, including Birth of a Nation, The Big Parade,The Jazz Singer, King Kong, and Citizen Kane. This compendium of essays recaptures the spirit and scholarship of that time and will appeal to both scholars and fans who have an abiding interest in the American motion picture industry.

Author : John C. Tibbetts,James M. Welsh
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780810876750

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American Classic Screen Interviews by John C. Tibbetts,James M. Welsh Pdf

In American Classic Screen Interviews, editors John C. Tibbetts and James M. Welsh have assembled some of the most significant and memorable interviews conducted for the magazine over its ten-year history. This collection contains rare conversations with some of the brightest stars of yesteryear, as well as gifted filmmakers, celebrated animators, and highly revered historians. This compendium of interviews recaptures the spirit and scholarship of that time and will appeal to both scholars and fans who have an abiding interest in the American motion picture industry.

Author : John C. Tibbetts,James M. Welsh
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780810876774

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American Classic Screen Profiles by John C. Tibbetts,James M. Welsh Pdf

In American Classic Screen Profiles, editors John C. Tibbetts and James M. Welsh have assembled some of the most significant and memorable profiles written for the magazine over its ten-year history. This collection contains rare insights into some of the brightest stars of yesteryear, as well as gifted filmmakers, directors and craftsmen alike. This compendium of profiles recaptures the spirit and scholarship of that time and will appeal to both scholars and fans who have an abiding interest in the American motion picture industry.

Author : John C. Tibbetts,James M. Welsh
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781626741478

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Douglas Fairbanks and the American Century by John C. Tibbetts,James M. Welsh Pdf

Douglas Fairbanks and the American Century brings to life the most popular movie star of his day, the personification of the Golden Age of Hollywood. At his peak, in the teens and twenties, the swashbuckling adventurer embodied the new American Century of speed, opportunity, and aggressive optimism. The essays and interviews in this volume bring fresh perspectives to his life and work, including analyses of films never before examined. Also published here for the first time in English is a first-hand production account of the making of Fairbanks’s last silent film, The Iron Mask,/i>. Fairbanks (1883–1939) was the most vivid and strenuous exponent of the American Century, whose dominant mode after 1900 was the mass marketing of a burgeoning democratic optimism, at home and abroad. During those first decades of the twentieth century, his satiric comedy adventures shadow-boxed with the illusions of class and custom. His characters managed to combine the American Easterner’s experience and pretension and the Westerner’s promise and expansion. As the masculine personification of the Old World aristocrat and the New World self-made man—tied to tradition yet emancipated from history—he constructed a uniquely American aristocrat striding into a new age and sensibility. This is the most complete account yet written of the film career of Douglas Fairbanks, one of the first great stars of the silent American cinema and one of the original United Artists (comprising Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Charles Chaplin, and D. W. Griffith). John C. Tibbetts and James M. Welsh’s text is especially rich in its coverage of the early years of the star’s career from 1915 to 1920 and covers in detail several films previously considered lost.

Author : Gene D. Phillips
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781442230767

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Gangsters and G-Men on Screen by Gene D. Phillips Pdf

While the gangster film may have enjoyed its heyday in the 1930s and ’40s, it has remained a movie staple for almost as long as cinema has existed. From the early films of Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, and Edward G. Robinson to modern versions like Bugsy, Public Enemies, and Gangster Squad, such films capture the brutality of mobs and their leaders. In Gangsters and G-Men on Screen: Crime Cinema Then and Now, Gene D. Phillips revisits some of the most popular and iconic representations of the genre. While this volume offers new perspectives on some established classics—usual suspects like Little Caesar, Bonnie and Clyde, and The Godfather Part II—Phillips also calls attention to some of the unheralded but no less worthy films and filmmakers that represent the genre. Expanding the viewer’s notion of what constitutes a gangster film, Phillips offers such unusual choices as You Only Live Once, Key Largo, The Lady from Shanghai, and even the 1949 version of The Great Gatsby. Also included in this examination are more recent ventures, such as modern classics The Grifters and Martin Scorsese’s The Departed. In his analyses, Phillips draws on a number of sources, including personal interviews with directors and other artists and technicians associated with the films he discusses. Of interest to film historians and scholars, Gangsters and G-Men on Screen will also appeal to anyone who wants to better understand the films that represent an important contribution to crime cinema.

Author : Wikipedia contributors
Publisher : e-artnow sro
Page : 1724 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Focus On: 100 Most Popular American Stage Actresses by Wikipedia contributors Pdf

Author : Wikipedia contributors
Publisher : e-artnow sro
Page : 1976 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Focus On: 100 Most Popular Vaudeville Performers by Wikipedia contributors Pdf

Author : Victoria Amador
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780813177298

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Olivia de Havilland by Victoria Amador Pdf

“There is much more to de Havilland’s story than her role as Melanie Wilkes, and it’s all here . . . a treat for film fans” (Booklist). Two-time Academy Award winner Olivia de Havilland is best known for her role as Melanie Wilkes in Gone with the Wind. She often inhabited characters who were delicate, elegant, and refined; yet at the same time, she was a survivor with a fierce desire to direct her own destiny on and off the screen. She fought and won a lawsuit against Warner Bros. over a contract dispute that changed the studio contract system forever. She is also noted for her long feud with her sister, fellow actress Joan Fontaine—a feud that lasted from 1975 until Fontaine’s death in 2013. Victoria Amador draws on extensive interviews and forty years of personal correspondence with de Havilland to present an in-depth look at her life and career.Amador begins with de Havilland’s childhood—she was born in Japan in 1916 to affluent British parents who had aspirations of success and fortune in faraway countries—and her theatrical ambitions at a young age. The book then follows her career as she skyrocketed to star status, becoming one of the most well-known starlets in Tinseltown. Readers are given an inside look at her love affairs with iconic cinema figures such as James Stewart and John Huston, and her onscreen partnership with Errol Flynn, with whom she starred in The Adventures of Robin Hood and Dodge City. After she moved to Europe, de Havilland became the first woman to serve as the president of the Cannes Film Festival in 1965, and remained active in film and television for another two decades. Olivia de Havilland: Lady Triumphant is a tribute to one of Hollywood’s greatest legends, tracing her evolution from a gentle heroine to a strong-willed, respected, and admired artist.

Author : G. Ashton,D. Kline
Publisher : Springer
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137105172

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Medieval Afterlives in Popular Culture by G. Ashton,D. Kline Pdf

This book is concerned with our ideological, technical and emotional investments in reclaiming medieval for contemporary popular culture. The authors illuminate both medieval and contemporary popular culture in surprising and productive ways while interrogating the many ways in which metamedievalism reinterprets and reconceptualises the medieval.

Author : Adrian Wright
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Musical films
ISBN : 9781783274994

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Cheer Up! by Adrian Wright Pdf

Who will remember 'Our Gracie' waving goodbye; Jack Buchanan constantly bumping into Elsie Randolph; Bobby Howes celebrating the invention of the Belisha Beacon, doing a cat duet with Wylie Watson and giving ideas to Rene Ray about ham sandwiches; John Wood and Claire Luce climbing the steps of the lighthouse and breathing on windows in Over She Goes, these accompanied by some of the most deft British and American composers of their time, their work lighter and freer than air. We catch those airs still, breathing on windows and wondering what became of it all. Book jacket.

Author : Flavia Brizio-Skov
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476641911

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Ride the Frontier by Flavia Brizio-Skov Pdf

With fresh appraisals of popular Westerns, this book examines the history of the genre with a focus on definitional aspects of canon, adaptation and hybridity. The author covers a range of largely unexplored topics, including the role of "heroines" in a (supposedly) male-oriented system of film production, the function of the celluloid Indians, the transcultural and transnational history of the first spaghetti Western, the construction of femininity and masculinity in the hybrid Westerns of the 1950s, and the new paths of the Western in the 21st century.

Author : Robert Matzen
Publisher : Paladin Communications
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780998376363

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Errol & Olivia by Robert Matzen Pdf

IPPY Award Bronze Medalist for Performing Arts Digging deep into the vaults of Warner Brothers and the collections of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as well as other private archives, this book explores the complex personal and professional relationship of Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland. Flynn, even 50 years after his death, continues to conjure up images to the prototypical handsome, charismatic ladies' man; while de Havilland, a two-time Best Actress Academy Award winner, is the last surviving star of Gone with the Wind. Richly illustrated with both color and black-and-white photos, most previously unpublished, this detailed history tells the sexy story of these two massive stars, both together and apart.

Author : Anthony Slide
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1985-07-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015038085208

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International Film, Radio, and Television Journals by Anthony Slide Pdf

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Author : John T. Soister,Henry Nicolella,Steve Joyce
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 831 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786487905

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American Silent Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Feature Films, 1913-1929 by John T. Soister,Henry Nicolella,Steve Joyce Pdf

During the Silent Era, when most films dealt with dramatic or comedic takes on the "boy meets girl, boy loses girl" theme, other motion pictures dared to tackle such topics as rejuvenation, revivication, mesmerism, the supernatural and the grotesque. A Daughter of the Gods (1916), The Phantom of the Opera (1925), The Magician (1926) and Seven Footprints to Satan (1929) were among the unusual and startling films containing story elements that went far beyond the realm of "highly unlikely." Using surviving documentation and their combined expertise, the authors catalog and discuss these departures from the norm in this encyclopedic guide to American horror, science fiction and fantasy in the years from 1913 through 1929.

Author : Paul Loukides,Linda K. Fuller
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 087972479X

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Beyond the Stars: Stock characters in American popular film by Paul Loukides,Linda K. Fuller Pdf

Beyond the Stars contains 20 essays on stock characters, and character conventions which neatly divide into four categories: ethnic and racial stereotyping; social classis; professions; and the idiosyncratic type. Stock figures in American movies are part of our cultural heritage; they deserve an honored place in theliterature of film and popular culture.