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Author : Patrick McGilligan
Publisher : A. S. Barnes
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037431041
Author : Scott Allen Nollen
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476610047
As three of the most prominent actors of the early studio system, James Cagney, Edward G. Robinson, and Humphrey Bogart played an unparalleled role in the rise of the Warner Brothers Studio. These “Warners Wiseguys” are now virtually synonymous with the studio’s era of gritty gangster films. This study of their interwoven studio-contract careers highlights the similarities of their personalities and their struggles with harsh typecasting. It details and comments critically on each of their combined 112 Warners films. Complete with commentary from the author and other film buffs. An appendix provides a filmographic guide to the films discussed, including lists of primary actors, release dates, directorial credits, and running times for each film.
Author : Jack Stillinger
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1991-08-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780195361681
This is a study of the collaborative creation behind literary works that are usually considered to be written by a single author. Although most theories of interpretation and editing depend on a concept of single authorship, many works are actually developed by more than one author. Stillinger examines case histories from Keats, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Mill, and T.S. Eliot, as well as from American fiction, plays, and films, demonstrating that multiple authorship is a widespread phenomenon. He shows that the reality of how an author produces a work is often more complex than is expressed in the romantic notion of the author as solitary genius. The cumulative evidence revealed in this engaging study indicates that collaboration deserves to be included in any account of authorial achievement.
Author : Richard Dyer,Paul McDonald
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781838718374
Through the intensive examination of films, magazines, advertising and critical texts, Dyer analyses the historical, ideological and aesthetic significance of stars, changing the way we understand screen icons. Paying particular attention to icons including Marlon Brando, Bette Davis, Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe and John Wayne.
Author : James Cagney
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2005-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780385520263
This book is for the true fan of James Cagney. Mr. Cagney tells his story as no one can.
Author : Elisa Leonelli
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007-05-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781462818143
ROBERT REDFORD has played many Westerners on the big screen: a romantic outlaw in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) with Paul Newman, a sheriff in Tell Them Willie Boy is Here (1968), a mountain man in Jeremiah Johnson (1972), a rodeo cowboy in The Electric Horseman (1979) with Jane Fonda, a Montana rancher in The Horse Whisperer (1998), which he also directed. He is the founder of Sundance, an admirer of Native American art and culture and a committed environmentalist. He embodies the best values of the American West.
Author : Patrick McGilligan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Motion picture actors and actresses
ISBN : 000255528X
From the moment he achieved stardom over 30 years ago in the spaghetti westerns of Sergio Leone, Clint Eastwood has remained private. His is a unique career informed by personal and professional values rare in modern Hollywood.
Author : James Naremore
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520071940
By analysing the work of seven classic film stars including Cary Grant and Marlene Dietrich, the author explores the techniques and theory of acting for the big screen.
Author : Emanuel Levy
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0810838915
This collection of essays pays tribute to Andrew Sarris, the most influential film critic in American film history. A noted film personality, Sarris occupies a unique position, walking the line between popular journalism and more academic scholarship. He began his career in the 1950s with a passion for film and an eloquent style of prose that led him to become a prominent voice in the film world. As a writer and editor for the Village Voice at its prime, Sarris reached and educated a whole generation of readers, and became respected by academics and critics all over the world. The thirty-eight essays assembled here and arranged according to major themes demonstrate the amazing impact Sarris has had on every aspect of the film world: fellow critics, filmmakers, readers, and American popular culture. Contributors include noted critics Leonard Maltin and Molly Haskell, film scholars David Bordwell and James Naremore, and directors Martin Scorsese, Robert Benton, and John Sayles.
Author : Mae G. Henderson,Charlene B. Regester
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476629483
Star of stage and screen, cultural ambassador, civil rights and political activist—Josephine Baker was defined by the various public roles that made her 50-year career an exemplar of postmodern identity. Her legacy continues to influence modern culture more than 40 years after her death. This new collection of essays interprets Baker’s life in the context of modernism, feminism, race, gender and sexuality. The contributors focus on various aspects of her life and career, including her performances and public reception, civil rights efforts, the architecture of her unbuilt house, and her modern-day “afterlife.”
Author : Harvey G. Cohen
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474429429
Introduction -- The Warners and Franklin Roosevelt -- The Great Depression musicals -- Footlight parade -- On the job -- The NRA code -- Post-1933 : a conclusion
Author : John McCabe
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 701 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307830999
John McCabe's participation in the writing of James Cagney's autobiography, the many years of friendship that followed, and an intense period of interview and discussion in preparation for a musical comedy based on Cagney's life--a show that never saw the light of day--make him Cagney's ideal biographer. And, indeed, he has written a searching chronicle of this major actor's life and career, packed with history and anecdote, and profusely illustrated. Cagney came from a poor Irish-American New York family but once he found his métier as an actor, it was not long before he was recognized as a brilliantly energetic and powerful phenomenon. After the tremendous impact of Public Enemy--in which he notoriously pushed half a grapefruit into Mae Clarke's face--he was typecast as a gangster because of the terrifying violence that seemed to be pent up within him. Years of pitched battle with Warner Brothers finally liberated him from those roles, and he went on to star in such triumphs as the musicals Yankee Doodle Dandy (winning the 1942 Oscar for best actor) and Love Me or Leave Me. Even so, one of his greatest later roles involved a return to crime--as the psychopathic killer in the terrifying White Heat. He retired from films in 1961 after making Billy Wilder's One, Two, Three, only to return twenty years later for Ragtime. But however much Cagney personified violence and explosive energy on the screen, in life he was a quiet, introspective, and deeply private man, a poet, painter, and environmentalist, whose marriage to his early vaudeville partner was famously loyal and happy. His story is one of the few Hollywood biographies that reflect a fulfilled life as well as a spectacular career.
Author : James L. Neibaur
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781442242203
One of the biggest stars of the golden age of Hollywood, James Cagney appeared in more than sixty films throughout his career. In addition to starring in the classics White Heat, Mister Roberts, and One, Two, Three, Cagney received the Academy Award for his performance as George M. Cohan in Yankee Doodle Dandy. From his debut in Sinner’s Holiday to one of his many gangster portrayals in The Roaring Twenties, the actor appeared in more than thirty films of the 1930s. Though he started out in supporting roles, Cagney quickly became a leading man and by the end of the decade, he was a box-office star. In James Cagney Films of the 1930s, James L. Neibaur reviews the first decade of the great actor’s work. A film-by-film look at Cagney’s movies during this pivotal period, this book traces the actor’s transition from a song-and-dance man on stage to a tough guy on screen. Although Cagney occasionally was able to deviate from studio typecasting—in such films as Footlight Parade and A Midsummer Night’s Dream—his most notable roles were in gangster dramas like The Public Enemy and Angels with Dirty Faces. Throughout this book, Neibaur provides readers with plot summaries, production details, and critical and commercial reception of each film. For fans of the actor’s work, James Cagney Films of the 1930s is an invaluable resource that will also appeal to anyone interested in movie-making during one of Hollywood’s greatest eras.
Author : Peter Kramer,Alan Lovell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317972501
While not everyone would agree with Alfred Hitchcock's notorious remark that 'actors are cattle', there is little understanding of the work film actors do. Yet audience enthusiasm for, or dislike of, actors and their style of performance is a crucial part of the film-going experience. Screen Acting discusses the development of film acting, from the stylisation of the silent era, through the naturalism of Lee Strasberg's 'Method', to Mike Leigh's use of improvisation. The contributors to this innovative volume explore the philosophies which have influenced acting in the movies and analyse the styles and techniques of individual filmmakers and performers, including Bette Davis, James Mason, Susan Sarandon and Morgan Freeman. There are also interviews with working actors: Ian Richardson discusses the relationship between theatre, film and television acting; Claire Rushbrook and Ron Cook discuss theri work with Mike Leigh, and Helen Shaver discusses her work with the critic Susan Knobloch.
Author : Angela Aleiss
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781440871573
This book highlights the contributions and careers of Native Americans who have carved impressive careers in Hollywood, from the silent film era of the early 1900s to the present, becoming advocates for their heritage. This book explores how the heritage and behind-the-scenes activities of Native American actors and filmmakers helped shape their own movie images. Native artists have impacted movies for more than a century, but until recently their presence had passed largely unrecognized. From the silent era to contemporary movies, this book features leading Native American actors whose voices have reached a broad audience and are part of the larger conversation about the exploitation of underrepresented people in Hollywood. Each chapter highlights Native actors in lead or supporting roles as well as filmmakers whose movies were financed and distributed by Hollywood studios. The text further explores how a "pan-Indian heritage" that applies to all tribes in terms of spirituality, historical trauma, and a version of ceremony and storytelling have shaped these performers' movie identities. It will appeal to a wide range of readers, including fans of Westerns, history buffs of American popular cinema, and students and scholars of Native American studies. A note from the author: Since the publication of this book, the CBC news magazine "The Fifth Estate" released an investigative documentary on October 27, 2023, alleging that Buffy Sainte-Marie had been fraudulently posing as a Native Canadian throughout her career.
