Hollywood Abroad

Author : Melvyn Stokes,Richard Maltby
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781838716189

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Hollywood Abroad by Melvyn Stokes,Richard Maltby Pdf

Hollywood Abroad is the first book to examine the reception of Hollywood movies by non-American audiences. Although numerous books on film history have analyzed the ways in which American films came to dominate world markets, there has so far been very little published work on how audiences outside the United States have responded to Hollywood-produced films. Hollywood Abroad explores the reception of U.S. films in Britain, France, Belgium, Turkey, Australia, India, Japan, and Central Africa. The book covers topics from the first major penetration of American films into France, Britain, and Australia to the impact of such films as The Best Years of Our Lives to the response of Belgian young people in the age of the multiplex. It demonstrates that the story of the reception of American films overseas is less one of domination than of a complex adoption of Hollywood into various cultures.

Author : Paul Kerr
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781501336768

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Hollywood Independent by Paul Kerr Pdf

Hollywood Independent dissects the Mirisch Company, one of the most successful employers of the package-unit system of film production, producing classic films like The Apartment (1960), West Side Story (1961), The Great Escape (1963) and The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) as irresistible talent packages. Whilst they helped make the names of a new generation of stars including Steve McQueen and Shirley MacLaine, as well as banking on the reputations of established auteurs like Billy Wilder, they were also pioneers in dealing with controversial new themes with films about race (In the Heat of the Night), gender (Some Like it Hot) and sexuality (The Children's Hour), devising new ways of working with film franchises (The Magnificent Seven, The Pink Panther and In the Heat of the Night spun off 7 Mirisch sequels between them) and cinematic cycles, investing in adaptations of bestsellers and Broadway hits, exploiting frozen funds abroad and exploring so-called runaway productions. The Mirisch Company bridges the gap between the end of the studio system by about 1960 and the emergence of a new cinema in the mid-1970s, dominated by the Movie Brats.

Author : Barry Langford
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780748643219

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Post-Classical Hollywood by Barry Langford Pdf

At the end of World War II, Hollywood basked in unprecedented prosperity. Since then, numerous challenges and crises have changed the American film industry in ways beyond imagination in 1945. Nonetheless, at the start of a new century Hollywood's worldwide dominance is intact - indeed, in today's global economy the products of the American entertainment industry (of which movies are now only one part) are more ubiquitous than ever. How does today's "e;Hollywood"e; - absorbed into transnational media conglomerates like NewsCorp., Sony, and Viacom - differ from the legendary studios of Hollywood's Golden Age? What are the dominant frameworks and conventions, the historical contexts and the governing attitudes through which films are made, marketed and consumed today? How have these changed across the last seven decades? And how have these evolving contexts helped shape the form, the style and the content of Hollywood movies, from Singin' in the Rain to Pirates of the Caribbean? Barry Langford explains and interrogates the concept of "e;post-classical"e; Hollywood cinema - its coherence, its historical justification and how it can help or hinder our understanding of Hollywood from the forties to the present. Integrating film history, discussion of movies' social and political dimensions, and analysis of Hollywood's distinctive methods of storytelling, Post-Classical Hollywood charts key critical debates alongside the histories they interpret, while offering its own account of the "e;post-classical."e; Wide-ranging yet concise, challenging and insightful, Post-Classical Hollywood offers a new perspective on the most enduringly fascinating artform of our age.

Author : Tony Shaw
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007-09-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780748630738

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Hollywood's Cold War by Tony Shaw Pdf

Hollywood's Cold War

Author : Toby Miller,Nitin Govil,John McMurria,Richard Maxwell,Ting Wang
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781838715946

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Global Hollywood 2 by Toby Miller,Nitin Govil,John McMurria,Richard Maxwell,Ting Wang Pdf

Substantially revised and updated, this book highlights how Hollywood has transformed itself to attain ever global clout and reach and the material factors underlining Hollywood's apparent artistic success. Takes into consideration recent events affecting Hollywood such as 9/11, US foreign policy and developments in consumer technology.

Author : Thomas J. Saunders
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520914162

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Hollywood in Berlin by Thomas J. Saunders Pdf

The setting is 1920s Berlin, cultural heart of Europe and the era's only serious cinematic rival to Hollywood. In his engaging study, Thomas Saunders explores an outstanding example of one of the most important cultural developments of this century: global Americanization through the motion picture. The invasion of Germany by American films, which began in 1921 with overlapping waves of sensationalist serials, slapstick shorts, society pictures, and historical epics, initiated a decade of cultural collision and accommodation. On the one hand it fueled an impassioned debate about the properties of cinema and the specter of wholesale Americanization. On the other hand it spawned unprecedented levels of cooperation and exchange. In Berlin, American motion pictures not only entertained all social classes and film tastes but also served as a vehicle for American values and a source of sharp economic competition. Hollywood in Berlin correlates the changing forms of Hollywood's contributions to Weimar culture and the discourses that framed and interpreted them, restoring historical contours to a leading aspect of cultural interchange in this century. At the same time, the book successfully embeds Weimar cinema in its contemporary international setting.

Author : Stephen Vaughn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1994-01-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521440807

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Ronald Reagan in Hollywood by Stephen Vaughn Pdf

Explores the relationship between the motion picture industry and American politics.

Author : Anna Cooper
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781501314490

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The American Abroad by Anna Cooper Pdf

Drawing on cinema and media studies, art history, American studies, and postcolonial studies, this innovative book offers a fresh way of thinking about Hollywood film aesthetics. It explores how eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Western colonial formations of vision influenced classical Hollywood film style, and thus provides a new and unique perspective on the origins of the cinematic gaze. Classical Hollywood cinema constructs global spaces as an imaginative dreamworld, subsuming geographical and cultural differences into utopian fantasy. Yet, this characteristically Hollywoodian aesthetic has rarely been explored in detail. How are such representations constructed within film texts? Is this utopian aesthetic really as uniform and transparent as it appears? What is its relationship to the United States' status as an imperial power? In The American Abroad, Anna Cooper explores how postwar Hollywood cinema adopted elements of British and French imperial visual culture, transforming them to suit a new United Statesian context. Cooper argues that four visual discourses in particular-the sublime, the ethnographic, the picturesque, and glamour-became building blocks in the development of a new American visual language.

Author : Nitin Govil
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814760635

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Orienting Hollywood by Nitin Govil Pdf

A new understanding of the culturally rich and historic relationship between Hollywood and Bollywood. With American cinema facing intense technological and financial challenges both at home and abroad, and with Indian media looking to globalize, there have been numerous high-profile institutional connections between Hollywood and Bombay cinema in the past few years. Many accounts have proclaimed India’s transformation in a relatively short period from a Hollywood outpost to a frontier of opportunity. Orienting Hollywood moves beyond the conventional popular wisdom that Hollywood and Bombay cinema have only recently become intertwined because of economic priorities, instead uncovering a longer history of exchange. Through archival research, interviews, industry sources, policy documents, and cultural criticism, Nitin Govil not only documents encounters between Hollywood and India but also shows how connections were imagined over a century of screen exchange. Employing a comparative framework, Govil details the history of influence, traces the nature of interoperability, and textures the contact between Hollywood and Bombay cinema by exploring both the reality and imagination of encounter.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1578 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015039505733

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Hearings by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on the Impact of Imports and Exports on American Employment
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1558 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Labor supply
ISBN : MINN:31951D03524061G

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Impact of Imports and Exports on Employment by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on the Impact of Imports and Exports on American Employment Pdf

Author : Geoffrey Nowell-Smith
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 847 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1996-10-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780191518188

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The Oxford History of World Cinema by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith Pdf

The Oxford History of World Cinema is the most authoritative, up-to-date history of the Cinema ever undertaken. It traces the history of the twentieth-century's most enduringly popular entertainment form, covering all aspects of its development, stars, studios, and cultural impact. The book celebrates and chronicles over one hundred years of diverse achievement from westerns to the New Wave, from animation to the Avant-Garde, and from Hollywood to Hong Kong, with an international team of distinguished film historians telling the story of the major inventions and developments in the cinema business, its institutions, genres, and personnel. Other chapters outline the evolution of national cinemas round the world - the varied and distinctive filmic traditions that have developed alongside Hollywood. Also included are over 140 special inset features on the film-makers and personalities - Garbo and Godard, Keaton and Kurosawa, Bugs Bunny and Bergman - who have had an enduring impact in popular memory and cinematic lore. With over 300 illustrations, a full bibliography, and an extensive index, The Oxford History of World Cinema is an invaluable and entertaining guide and resource for the student and general reader.

Author : Steven Rowley
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593540466

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The Guncle Abroad by Steven Rowley Pdf

Patrick O'Hara is called back to his guncle duties . . . This time for a big family wedding in Italy. Patrick O’Hara is back. It’s been five years since his summer as his niece Maisie and nephew Grant’s caretaker after their mother’s passing. The kids are back in Connecticut with their dad, and Patrick has relocated to New York to remain close by and relaunch his dormant acting career. After the run of his second successful sit-com comes to a close, Patrick feels on top of the world . . . professionally. But some things have had to take a back seat. Looking down both barrels at fifty, Patrick is single again after breaking things off with Emory. But at least he has a family to lean on. Until that family needs to again lean on him. When Patrick's brother, Greg, announces he’s getting remarried in Italy, Maisie and Grant are not thrilled. Patrick feels drawn to take the two back under his wing. As they travel through Europe on their way to the wedding, Patrick tries his best to help them understand love, much as he once helped them comprehend grief. But when they arrive in Italy, Patrick is overextended managing a groom with cold feet; his sister, Clara, flirting with guests left and right; a growing rivalry with the kids’ charming soon-to-be-launt (lesbian aunt), and two moody young teens trying to adjust to a new normal, all culminating in a disastrous rehearsal dinner. Can Patrick save the day? Will teaching the kids about love help him repair his own love life? Can the change of scenery help Patrick come to terms with finally growing up? Gracing the page with his signature blend of humor and heart, Steven Rowley charms with a beloved story about the complicated bonds of family, love, and what it takes to rediscover yourself, even at the ripe age of fifty.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1941
Category : Consular reports
ISBN : UIUC:30112077134531

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Foreign Commerce Weekly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Various
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 17176 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136630538

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Communication Yearbooks Vols 6-33 Set by Various Pdf

The Communication Yearbook annuals originally published between 1977 and 2009 publish diverse, state-of-the-discipline literature reviews that advance knowledge and understanding of communication systems, processes, and impacts across the discipline. Topics dealt with include Communication as Process, Research Methodology in Communication, Communication Effects, Taxonomy of Communication and European Communication Theory, Information Systems Division, Mass Communication Research, Mapping the Domain of Intercultural Communication, Public Relations, Feminist Scholarship, Communication Law and Policy, Visual Communication, Communication and Cross-Sex Friendships Across the Life Cycle, Television Programming and Sex Stereotyping, InterCultural Communication Training, Leadership and Relationships, Media Performance Assessment, Cognitive Approaches to Communication.