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Brando's Smile: His Life, Thought, and Work

Susan L. Mizruchi

Author : Susan L. Mizruchi
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393244267

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Brando's Smile: His Life, Thought, and Work by Susan L. Mizruchi Pdf

A groundbreaking work that reveals how Marlon Brando shaped his legacy in art and life. When people think about Marlon Brando, they think of the movie star, the hunk, the scandals. In Brando’s Smile, Susan L. Mizruchi reveals the Brando others have missed: the man who collected four thousand books; the man who rewrote scripts, trimming his lines to make them sharper; the man who consciously used his body and employed the objects around him to create believable characters; the man who loved Emily Dickinson’s poetry. To write this biography, Mizruchi gained unprecedented access to a vast number of annotated books from Brando’s library, hand-edited copies of screenplays, private letters, and recorded interviews that have never before been quoted in a biography. Original interviews with some of the still-living players from Brando’s life, including Ellen Adler, his one-time girlfriend and the daughter of his acting teacher Stella Adler, provide even deeper insight into the complex person whose intelligence belied the high-school dropout. Mizruchi shows how Brando’s embrace of foreign cultures and social outsiders led to his brilliant performances in unusual roles—a gay man, an Asian, a German soldier—to test himself and to foster empathy on a global scale. We also meet the political Brando: the civil rights activist, the close friend of James Baldwin, the actor who declined his Oscar to support Indian rights. More than seventy stunning—and many rare—photographs of Marlon Brando illuminate this portrait of the man who has left an astounding cultural legacy.

Cinema, MD

Eelco F.M. Wijdicks MD, PhD

Author : Eelco F.M. Wijdicks MD, PhD
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-28
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780190685805

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Cinema, MD by Eelco F.M. Wijdicks MD, PhD Pdf

Cinema, MD follows the intersection of medicine and film and how filmmakers wrote a history of medicine over time. The narrative follows several main story lines: How did the portrayal of physicians, nurses, and medical institutions change over the years? What interested filmmakers, and which topics had priority? What does film's obsession with experiments and monstrosities reveal about medical ethics and malpractice? How could the public's perception of the medical profession change when watching these films on diseases and treatments, including palliative care and medical ethics? Are screenwriters, actors, and film directors channeling a popular view of medicine? Cinema, MD analyzes not only changing practices, changing morals, and changing expectations but also medical stereotypes, medical activism, and violations of patients' integrity and autonomy. Examining over 400 films with medical themes over a century of cinema, this book establishes the cultural, medical, and historical importance of the art form. Film allows us to see our humanity, our frailty, and our dependence when illness strikes. Cinema, MD provides uniquely new and fascinating insight into both film criticism and the history of medicine and has a resonance to the medical world we live in today.

Lasting Screen Stars

Lucy Bolton,Julie Lobalzo Wright

Author : Lucy Bolton,Julie Lobalzo Wright
Publisher : Springer
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137407337

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Lasting Screen Stars by Lucy Bolton,Julie Lobalzo Wright Pdf

Lasting Stars examines the issue of stardom and longevity and investigates the many reasons for the persistence or disappearance of different star personas. Through a selection of chapters that look at issues such as inappropriate ageing, national identity and physical characteristics, this book will be the first volume to consider in depth and breadth the factors that affect the longevity of film stardom. The range of stars includes popular stars who are approached from fresh angles (Brando, Loren), less popular stars whose lower-profiles than their peers may be surprising (Taylor, Shearer) and stars whose national identity is integral to their perception as they age (Riva, Bachchan, Pavor). There are stars from the beginning of Hollywood (Valentino, Reid) to the present day (Jolie), and those who made uneasy transitions between countries (Mason), ages (Ringwald) and industrial eras (Keaton). The book examines the range of factors that affect how star images endure, including appropriate and inappropriate ageing (Griffith), race (Ice Cube) and digital technologies (Lee).

The 1950s

James S. Olson,Mariah Gumpert

Author : James S. Olson,Mariah Gumpert
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781440861338

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The 1950s by James S. Olson,Mariah Gumpert Pdf

This volume serves as an invaluable guide to key political, social, and cultural concepts of the 1950s. This volume covers the entire decade of the 1950s, from the uneasy peace following World War II to the beginnings of cultural discontent that would explode in the 1960s. It highlights key historical, social, and cultural elements of the period, including the Cold War and perceived communist threat; the birth of the middle class and establishment of consumer culture; the emergence of the civil rights movement; and the normalization of youth rebellion and rock and roll. An introduction presents the historical themes of the period, and an alphabetical encyclopedic entries relating to period-specific themes comprises the core reference material in the book. The book also contains a range of primary documents with introductions and a sample Documents Based Essay Question. Other features are a list of "Top Tips" for answering Documents Based Essay Questions, a thematically tagged chronology, and a list of specific learning objectives readers can use to gauge their working knowledge and understanding of the period.

Bette Davis Black and White

Julia A. Stern

Author : Julia A. Stern
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780226813868

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Introduction: Black and white -- Little Foxes and little brown wrens -- The poetics of color in Jezebel -- Melodramas of blood in In This Our Life -- The whiteness of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? -- Bette Davis black and white.

Modern Acting

Cynthia Baron

Author : Cynthia Baron
Publisher : Springer
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137406552

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Everyone has heard of Method acting . . . but what about Modern acting? This book makes the simple but radical proposal that we acknowledge the Modern acting principles that continue to guide actors’ work in the twenty-first century. Developments in modern drama and new stagecraft led Modern acting strategies to coalesce by the 1930s – and Hollywood’s new role as America’s primary performing arts provider ensured these techniques circulated widely as the migration of Broadway talent and the demands of sound cinema created a rich exchange of ideas among actors. Decades after Strasberg’s death in 1982, he and his Method are still famous, while accounts of American acting tend to overlook the contributions of Modern acting teachers such as Josephine Dillon, Charles Jehlinger, and Sophie Rosenstein. Baron’s examination of acting manuals, workshop notes, and oral histories illustrates the shared vision of Modern acting that connects these little-known teachers to the landmark work of Stanislavsky. It reveals that Stella Adler, long associated with the Method, is best understood as a Modern acting teacher and that Modern acting, not Method, might be seen as central to American performing arts if the Actors’ Lab in Hollywood (1941-1950) had survived the Cold War.

Producer of Controversy

Jennifer Frost

Author : Jennifer Frost
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780700624966

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With films ranging from High Noon to Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, Stanley Kramer (1913–2001) was one of the most successful and prolific director-producers of his day. But even as critics praised his courage in taking on such issues as nuclear war, racism, fascism, and the battle between science and religion, others condemned his work as “emptily pretentious“ and “hollow, falsely sentimental, overproduced.” Whether Kramer was “one of the great filmmakers of all time” (Kevin Spacey at the Golden Globe Awards) or “one of Hollywood’s worst directors” (preeminent film critic Andrew Sarris in The Village Voice), he had a strong and undeniable influence on American culture during the Cold War. Producer of Controversy is the first book to take a close-up look at Kramer’s career, films, and liberal politics in an effort to explain his contributions and historical significance. Kramer learned filmmaking within the old studio system, but over a career spanning forty years he did much to shape the independent moviemaking that emerged after World War II. Jennifer Frost pays particular attention to four of his key “message movies”—The Defiant Ones, On the Beach, Inherit the Wind, and Judgment at Nuremberg—to show how Kramer’s controversial films opened up public debate about the most important issues of his time—among average filmgoers as well as professional critics, political commentators, and public figures. In this context, she for the first time fully documents the Hollywood Right’s attacks on Kramer in the 1950s; details his resistance to the anticommunist Red Scare and the Hollywood blacklist; exposes his role as a cultural diplomat with the Soviet Union; and reveals his important contribution to the liberal and radical politics of the 1960s. Her book is at once an absorbing work of cultural history and a thoroughgoing reassessment of Stanley Kramer’s place in the pantheon of American filmmakers.

Stars and Shadows

Saladin Ambar

Author : Saladin Ambar
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780197622018

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A sweeping look into interracial friendship's significance in American democracy from the founding to the present. The oppression of Blacks is America's original sin -- a sin that took root in 1619 and plagues the country to this day. Yet there have been instances of interracial bonding and friendship even in the worst of times. In Stars and Shadows -- a term taken from Huckleberry Finn -- Saladin Ambar analyzes two centuries of noteworthy interracial friendships that served as windows into the state of race relations in the US and, more often than not, as models for advancing the cause of racial equality. Stars and Shadows is the first work in American political history to offer a comprehensive overview of how friendship has come to shape the possibilities for democratic politics in America. Covering ten cases -- from Benjamin Banneker and Thomas Jefferson's ill-fated effort to navigate the limits imposed on democracy by slavery and white supremacy, to the more hopeful stories of James Baldwin and Marlon Brando as well as Angela Davis and Gloria Steinem -- Ambar's study illuminates how friendship is critical to understanding the potential for multiracial democracy. Political leaders and cultural figures are frequently involved in translating private feelings, relationships, and ideas, into a public ideal. Friendships and their meaning are therefore a significant part of any effort to shape public or elite opinion. The symbolism inherent in interracial friendship has always been readily apparent, down to the powerful example of Barack Obama and Joe Biden, who were not only allied politicians, but most importantly, friends. Ambar weaves a set of interlocking stories that help create a working theory of multiracial democracy that demands more of us as citizens: a commitment to engage one another and to engage our past with even greater courage and trust. Such gestures are a vital part of the story of how race and America have been shaped. Stars and Shadows helps explain America's enduring difficulty in making friends of citizens across the color line -- and why the narrative of racial friendship matters.

Giant

Don Graham

Author : Don Graham
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781466867970

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A larger-than-life narrative of the making of the classic film, marking the rise of America as a superpower, the ascent of Hollywood celebrity, and the flowering of Texas culture as mythology. Featuring James Dean, Rock Hudson, and Elizabeth Taylor, Giant is an epic film of fame and materialism, based around the discovery of oil at Spindletop and the establishment of the King Ranch of south Texas. Isolating his star cast in the wilds of West Texas, director George Stevens brought together a volatile mix of egos, insecurities, sexual proclivities, and talent. Stevens knew he was overwhelmed with Hudson’s promiscuity, Taylor’s high diva-dom, and Dean’s egotistical eccentricity. Yet he coaxed performances out of them that made cinematic history, winning Stevens the Academy Award for Best Director and garnering nine other nominations, including a nomination for Best Actor for James Dean, who died before the film was finished. In this compelling and impeccably researched narrative history of the making of the film, Don Graham chronicles the stories of Stevens, whose trauma in World War II intensified his ambition to make films that would tell the story of America; Edna Ferber, a considerable literary celebrity, who meets her match in the imposing Robert Kleberg, proprietor of the vast King Ranch; and Glenn McCarthy, an American oil tycoon; and Errol Flynn lookalike with a taste for Hollywood. Drawing on archival sources Graham’s Giant is a comprehensive depiction of the film’s production showing readers how reality became fiction and fiction became cinema.

Sidney Lumet

Aubrey Malone

Author : Aubrey Malone
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476675534

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Sidney Lumet by Aubrey Malone Pdf

Punctilious to a fault, Sidney Lumet favored intense rehearsal, which enabled him to bring in most of his films under budget and under schedule. An energized director who captured the heart of New York like no other, he created a vast canon of work that stands as a testament to his passionate concern for justice and his great empathy for the hundreds of people with whom he collaborated during a career that spanned more than five decades. This is the first full-scale biography of a man who is generally regarded as one of the most affable directors of his time. Using the oral testimonies of those who worked with him both behind and in front of the camera, this book explores Lumet's personality and working methods.

Memoirs of A Professional Cad

George Sanders

Author : George Sanders
Publisher : Dean Street Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781910570050

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What might we dare to expect from an actor's autobiography, even one from a star as personable as George Sanders? In the case of Memoirs of a Professional Cad, we possibly get more than we deserve. George Sanders undoubtedly led a colourful, glamorous and even action-packed life, spanning the peak years of Hollywood's golden age. But the greatest joy of his memoirs is how funny they are, and how penetrating their author's wit. Endlessly quotable, every chapter shows that the sardonic charm and intelligence he lent to the silver screen were not merely implied. George's early childhood was spent in Tsarist Russia, before he was obliged to flee with his family to England on the eve of the Russian Revolution. He survived two English boarding schools before seeking adventure in Chile and Argentina where he sold cigarettes and kept a pet ostrich in his apartment. We can only be grateful that George was eventually asked to leave South America following a duel of honour (very nearly to the death), and was forced to take up acting for a living instead. Memoirs of A Professional Cad has much to say about Hollywood and the stars George Sanders worked with and befriended, not to mention the irrespressible Tsa Tsa Gabor who became his wife. But at heart it is less a conventional autobiography, and more a Machiavellian guide to life, and the art of living, from a man who knew a thing or two on the subject. So we are invited to share George's thought-provoking views on women, friendship, the pros and cons of therapy, ageing, possessions, and the necessity of contrasts ( Sanders' maxim: 'the more extreme the contrast, the fuller the life'). Previously out of print for many decades, Memoirs of A Professional Cad stands today as one of the classic Hollywood memoirs, from one of its most original, enduring and inimitable stars. This edition also features a new afterword by George Sanders' niece, Ulla Watson. 'Even when asking a hatcheck girl for his coat, he conveyed the impression of a malevolent cat fastidiously licking its chops over the prospect of a particularly toothsome mouse.' Salon

Marlon Brando

Patricia Bosworth

Author : Patricia Bosworth
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781453245026

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Marlon Brando by Patricia Bosworth Pdf

This biography of the legendary actor “offers a fascinating look into his charismatic genius” (Library Journal). In 1948 Marlon Brando stunned audiences and critics alike with his revolutionary, raw, and improvisational approach to acting. He became a symbol of a new, rebellious generation that was sick of conventions and committed to genuine emotion and unvarnished truth. From his breakout role as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire to his mesmerizing portrayal of Don Corleone in The Godfather, he created some of the most memorable characters in American cinematic history. Brando was a paradox—intensely private but using his fame to promote worthy causes, a womanizer who clung to his childhood friends and animals. He was one of the most fiercely independent stars ever. In this book, acclaimed biographer Patricia Bosworth peels away Brando’s many layers, revealing the struggles, triumphs, and relentless ambition that transformed the irrepressible farm boy from Nebraska into a legend of American cinema.

Dictionary of World Biography

Barry Jones

Author : Barry Jones
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 941 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781760461263

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Dictionary of World Biography by Barry Jones Pdf

Jones, Barry Owen (1932– ). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. Educated at Melbourne University, he was a public servant, high school teacher, television and radio performer, university lecturer and lawyer before serving as a Labor MP in the Victorian Parliament 1972–77 and the Australian House of Representatives 1977–98. He took a leading role in reviving the Australian film industry, abolishing the death penalty in Australia, and was the first politician to raise public awareness of global warming, the ‘post-industrial’ society, the IT revolution, biotechnology, the rise of ‘the Third Age’ and the need to preserve Antarctica as a wilderness. In the Hawke Government, he was Minister for Science 1983–90, Prices and Consumer Affairs 1987, Small Business 1987–90 and Customs 1988–90. He became a member of the Executive Board of UNESCO, Paris 1991–95 and National President of the Australian Labor Party 1992–2000, 2005–06. He was Deputy Chairman of the Constitutional Convention 1998. His books include Decades of Decision 1860– (1965), Joseph II (1968), Age of Apocalypse (1975), and he edited The Penalty is Death (1968). Sleepers, Wake!: Technology and the Future of Work was published by Oxford University Press in 1982, became a bestseller and has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Swedish and braille. The fourth edition was published in 1995. Knowledge Courage Leadership, a collection of speeches and essays, appeared in 2016.

Estéban's Dance

Jay S. Sherman

Author : Jay S. Sherman
Publisher : Gatekeeper Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781642379792

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Estéban's Dance by Jay S. Sherman Pdf

What if the skipper of the Pinta discovers an island in the Antilles and doesn’t tell Columbus about it? What if a Marine captain and a Navy rabbi take up residence there in 1898, if Che Guevara plays some baseball there in 1963 and a widowed director of cut-rate horror films, the son of a one-eyed Bronx cabbie, arrives in 1990 to film the revolution he believes is brewing there but discovers, instead, the Cornell roommates he hasn’t seen in 30 years, and one of them carries a gun? ESTÉBAN’S DANCE follows Sammy Bronx and his unconventional friends from college in the late 1950’s, to Seattle and Hollywood, to Florida during the Cuban missile crisis, and finally to the curious island of San Estéban, where an unfinished Soviet hotel crumbles on the beach and most of the islanders are named Gruenfeld and Flanagan. The tales are inhabited by a tax attorney who encounters a Vietnam veteran who’s biking home from New York after 9/11, a little boy who is banished to a chicken farm during World War II, a physicist who discovers a dollar bill in a rain puddle and it triggers a torrent of memories, a documentary filmmaker who witnesses the death of two children in the back seat of an SUV, and an old black man who reflects on his working life in a factory loft in 1950s Manhattan. These stories are all about fathers, sons and daughters, first love and final loss, choices made amidst the chaos of our lives. And they are about reaching out from loneliness for family of one kind or another.

Why Smile?: The Science Behind Facial Expressions

Marianne LaFrance

Author : Marianne LaFrance
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780393082593

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“A charming, thoughtful book, one that makes a powerful case for smiles as ‘social acts with consequences.’ ”—Boston Sunday Globe When someone smiles, the effects are often positive: a glum mood lifts; an apology is accepted; a deal is struck; a flirtation begins. But change the circumstances or the cast of a smile, and the terms shift: a rival grins to get under your skin; a bully’s smirk unsettles his mark. Marianne LaFrance, called the world’s expert on smiles, investigates the familiar grin and finds that it is not quite as simple as it first appears. LaFrance shows how the smile says much more than we realize—or care to admit: not just cheerful expressions, smiles are social acts with serious consequences. Drawing on her research conducted at Yale University and Boston College as well as the latest studies in psychology, medicine, anthropology, biology, and computer science, LaFrance explores the compelling science behind the smile. Who shows more fake smiles, popular kids or unpopular kids? Is it good or bad when a bereaved person smiles? These are some of the questions answered in this groundbreaking and insightful work. To read it is to learn just how much the smile influences our lives and our relationships.

Brando S Smile His Life Thought And Work

Brando's Smile: His Life, Thought, and Work by Susan L. Mizruchi Pdf

Cinema, MD by Eelco F.M. Wijdicks MD, PhD Pdf

Lasting Screen Stars by Lucy Bolton,Julie Lobalzo Wright Pdf

The 1950s by James S. Olson,Mariah Gumpert Pdf

Bette Davis Black and White by Julia A. Stern Pdf

Modern Acting by Cynthia Baron Pdf

Producer of Controversy by Jennifer Frost Pdf

Stars and Shadows by Saladin Ambar Pdf

Giant by Don Graham Pdf

Sidney Lumet by Aubrey Malone Pdf

Memoirs of A Professional Cad by George Sanders Pdf

Marlon Brando by Patricia Bosworth Pdf

Dictionary of World Biography by Barry Jones Pdf

Estéban's Dance by Jay S. Sherman Pdf

Why Smile?: The Science Behind Facial Expressions by Marianne LaFrance Pdf

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