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Hollywood Destinies

Graham Petrie
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Author : Graham Petrie
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0814329586

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Originally published in 1986, Hollywood Destinies was the first full-length, detailed study of the careers of major European filmmakers, including Ernst Lubitsch, F. W. Murnau, Victor Sjostrom, and Mauritz Stiller, all of whom left their native countries to work in Hollywood during the 1920s. This edition contains recent scholarship on the reception of foreign films and directors in America in the 1920s, analyzes films that were not previously available, and includes a revised and updated bibliography.

Hollywood Destiny

Kristina Adams
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Author : Kristina Adams
Publisher : Kristina Adams
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Hollywood Destiny by Kristina Adams Pdf

From Kristina Adams, author of the bestselling What Happens in… series comes the fourth book in the prequel companion series Hollywood Gossip. Jump back in time to when Tate and Jack were in their late teens, trying to transition from child stars to megastars. Follow them on their journey as they become friends, enemies, and lovers alongside familiar faces from the What Happens in Hollywood Universe and new ones you’re going to love. Tate My new action movie is exactly the kind of role I need to finally shake my image as a child star. But when judgmental colleagues and a megalomaniac director bring up past issues I’d long thought buried, will the price be too high for my mental health? I wish I could talk to Jack about what’s going on at work, but with me filming in Australia, and him working in the States, it’s hard for us to connect. Are we drifting apart all over again? Jack I can’t write. Not since leaving Ibiza. Something about hitting rock bottom has exhausted my creative energy. And if I can’t write music, who am I? Could a career break be just what I need? Or will the lack of focus exacerbate my addiction? Usually I’d go to Tate for advice. She’s my best friend. But after how she found me in Ibiza, the last thing I want to do is burden her all over again. At a time when the world seems to be against them, will these two lovebirds find solace in each other, or will they grow further apart than ever? Hollywood Destiny is part four of the Hollywood Gossip series by Kristina Adams. If you’re looking for a serial will they/won’t they romantic drama about love, hate, and the pressures of fame, you won’t find one that’s more of a rollercoaster read than this.

Hollywood's America

Steven Mintz,Randy W. Roberts,David Welky
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Author : Steven Mintz,Randy W. Roberts,David Welky
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781118976524

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Hollywood's America by Steven Mintz,Randy W. Roberts,David Welky Pdf

Fully revised, updated, and extended, the fifth edition of Hollywood’s America provides an important compilation of interpretive essays and primary documents that allows students to read films as cultural artifacts within the contexts of actual past events. A new edition of this classic textbook, which ties movies into the broader narrative of US and film history This fifth edition contains nine new chapters, with a greater overall emphasis on recent film history, and new primary source documents which are unavailable online Entries range from the first experiments with motion pictures all the way to the present day Well-organized within a chronological framework with thematic treatments to provide a valuable resource for students of the history of American film

Destination Hollywood

Larry Langman
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Author : Larry Langman
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 078640681X

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During the first part of the twentieth century, Hollywood experienced an influx of European filmmakers seeking new lives in America. With them came unique perspectives and styles from their home countries that forever affected American film production. Well-known talents like Charlie Chaplin, Billy Wilder, and Alfred Hitchcock all made America their filmmaking base, as did other less known but equally influential filmmakers. This is the complete guide to directors, screenwriters, artistic directors, cinematographers, and composers of European birth who made at least one film in the United States. The book is arranged by country, and each chapter begins with that country's cinema history. Each filmmaker from that country is then given a separate entry, including biographical and professional highlights, and synopses and analyses of their better-known films. Photographs from films that featured European talent are included. An index of names and titles allows for easy reference, and a complete bibliography is also included.

Hollywood in Berlin

Thomas J. Saunders
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Author : Thomas J. Saunders
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 42,7 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.

Passport to Hollywood

James Morrison
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Author : James Morrison
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1998-09-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438413716

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Passport to Hollywood by James Morrison Pdf

CHOICE 1999 Outstanding Academic Books In Passport to Hollywood, James Morrison examines a series of Hollywood films by directors from European art-cinemas. Drawing widely on current research in film theory, film history, and cultural studies, he traces the influence of European filmmakers in Hollywood from the 1920s to the 1980s and illuminates the relation between modernism and mass-culture in American movies. By interpreting important American films, Morrison also shows how these films illustrate key issues of cultural hierarchy and national culture over fifty years of American cinema. In addition, he explores the complex and often contradictory ways that these Hollywood movies conceptualize ideas about "foreignness." Using insightful close viewings, Morrison demonstrates new connections among modernism, postmodernism, and American movies.

Hollywood in Crisis

Colin Schindler
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Author : Colin Schindler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2005-08-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134850464

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Hollywood in Crisis by Colin Schindler Pdf

Hollywood in Crisis is a detailed study of the workings of the American film industry during the 1930s. Colin Schindler, looking at Hollywood as an agent of Roosevelt's New Deal and the attempts made by film moguls and movie makers to withstand the political turmoil that threatened to engulf America. Schindler illustrates how the studios and their products, from the glamour of MGM stars and escapist musicals to gangster movies and Westerns, even to the 'radical' films of the Warner studios, helped foster ideas of social unity and patriotism.

Journeys of Desire

Alastair Phillips,Ginette Vincendeau
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Author : Alastair Phillips,Ginette Vincendeau
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781838716578

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Journeys of Desire by Alastair Phillips,Ginette Vincendeau Pdf

A comprehensive guide to European actors in American film, this book brings together 15 chapters with A-Z entries on over 900 individuals. It includes case studies of prominent individuals and phenomena associated with the emigres, such as the stereotyping of European actresses in 'bad women' roles, and the irony of Jewish actors playing Nazis.

The German Cinema Book

Tim Bergfelder,Erica Carter,Deniz Göktürk,Claudia Sandberg
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Author : Tim Bergfelder,Erica Carter,Deniz Göktürk,Claudia Sandberg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781911239413

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The German Cinema Book by Tim Bergfelder,Erica Carter,Deniz Göktürk,Claudia Sandberg Pdf

This comprehensively revised, updated and significantly extended edition introduces German film history from its beginnings to the present day, covering key periods and movements including early and silent cinema, Weimar cinema, Nazi cinema, the New German Cinema, the Berlin School, the cinema of migration, and moving images in the digital era. Contributions by leading international scholars are grouped into sections that focus on genre; stars; authorship; film production, distribution and exhibition; theory and politics, including women's and queer cinema; and transnational connections. Spotlight articles within each section offer key case studies, including of individual films that illuminate larger histories (Heimat, Downfall, The Lives of Others, The Edge of Heaven and many more); stars from Ossi Oswalda and Hans Albers, to Hanna Schygulla and Nina Hoss; directors including F.W. Murnau, Walter Ruttmann, Wim Wenders and Helke Sander; and film theorists including Siegfried Kracauer and Béla Balázs. The volume provides a methodological template for the study of a national cinema in a transnational horizon.

The Dynamic Frame

Patrick Keating
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Author : Patrick Keating
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231548953

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The camera’s movement in a film may seem straightforward or merely technical. Yet skillfully deployed pans, tilts, dollies, cranes, and zooms can express the emotions of a character, convey attitude and irony, or even challenge an ideological stance. In The Dynamic Frame, Patrick Keating offers an innovative history of the aesthetics of the camera that examines how camera movement shaped the classical Hollywood style. In careful readings of dozens of films, including Sunrise, The Grapes of Wrath, Rear Window, Sunset Boulevard, and Touch of Evil, Keating explores how major figures such as F. W. Murnau, Orson Welles, and Alfred Hitchcock used camera movement to enrich their stories and deepen their themes. Balancing close analysis with a broader poetics of camera movement, Keating uses archival research to chronicle the technological breakthroughs and the changing division of labor that allowed for new possibilities, as well as the shifting political and cultural contexts that inspired filmmakers to use technology in new ways. An original history of film techniques and aesthetics, The Dynamic Frame shows that the classical Hollywood camera moves not to imitate the actions of an omniscient observer but rather to produce the interplay of concealment and revelation that is an essential part of the exchange between film and viewer.

Damsels and Divas

Agata Frymus
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Author : Agata Frymus
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781978806108

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2020 Best Early Career Research Monograph, Monash University Malaysia Damsels and Divas investigates the meanings of Europeanness in Hollywood during the 1920s by charting professional trajectories of three movie stars: Pola Negri, Vilma Bánky and Jetta Goudal. It combines the investigation of American fan magazines with the analysis of studio documents, and the examination of the narratives of their films, to develop a thorough understanding of the ways in which Negri, Bánky and Goudal were understood within the realm of their contemporary American culture. This discussion places their star personae in the context of whiteness, femininity and Americanization. Every age has its heroines, and they reveal a lot about prevailing attitudes towards women in their respective eras. In the United States, where the stories of rags-to-riches were especially potent, stars could offer models of successful cultural integration.

Contemporary US Cinema

Michael Allen
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Author : Michael Allen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317874195

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Contemporary US Cinema by Michael Allen Pdf

Contemporary U.S. Cinema is a forceful exploration of the tumultuous changes that have dominated the shifting landscape of American film-making over the past three decades. From the explosive release of Easy Rider to the excesses of Heaven's Gate and the comic book figures of Spider-Man, its aim is to examine the economic, social and cultural contexts of mainstream and independent American films. The book divides into nine provocative chapters with material on: the most significant individual film-makers, such as Scorsese, Coppola and Lucas, as well as independent film-makers like Jarmusch and Anders the careers of leading actors of the last thirty years, such as Jack Nicholson, Robert Redford and Julia Roberts, whilst exploring the powerful position of the film star in the modern American film-making process the economics of Contemporary U.S. Cinema with particular reference to the tortuous journey from production, distribution and exhibition of Waterworld and Titanic the artistic influence of foreign film-makers, such as François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard, and explores Hollywood's increasing dominance and reliance on the global market genres, sequels and the recent developments in computer-based technologies, using examples from The Godfather I - III, The Matrix, the Star Wars saga and remakes from Shaft to Ocean's Eleven The book is illustrated with stills throughout and includes a bibliography and annotated further reading list.

Destiny's Journey

Alfred Döblin
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Author : Alfred Döblin
Publisher : Plunkett Lake Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Destiny's Journey by Alfred Döblin Pdf

Destiny's Journey is a memoir reconstructed partly from notebooks that Döblin kept from the time he worked in the French Ministry of Information in the spring of 1940 and partly written without notes in Los Angeles where he took refuge during the Second World War. It tells the personal and generational story of the flight of Jewish and anti-Nazi intellectuals from Europe to America, their fear and frustration, isolation, and inability to work. Döblin’s story differs from that of other Jewish intellectuals and artists in that his family converts to Catholicism in Los Angeles. Unlike most of them, he returns to Europe as an officer with the French forces and works on denazifying German literature. The conversion narrative bridges the departure from and return to Europe. To critic John Simon, “the latter part of the book often reads like a shrill piece of Christian homiletics. But even this is not without interest, as it traces the transformation of an anarchic outsider into a dogmatic insider.” “The first part of ‘Destiny's Journey’ [about] Döblin's departure from Paris [in] 1940... is magisterial: acidly observed, saturated in telling detail, grimly comic and harrowing... with an exemplary introduction by Peter Demetz... an important, nourishing book” — John Simon, The New York Times

Die deutsche Präsenz in den USA

Josef Raab,Jan Wirrer
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Author : Josef Raab,Jan Wirrer
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Acculturation
ISBN : 9783825800390

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Die deutsche Präsenz in den USA by Josef Raab,Jan Wirrer Pdf

Whereas the cultural and political influence of the U.S. on Europe and Germany has been researched extensively, the impact of more than 6 million German immigrants on U.S.-American history and culture has received far less scholarly attention. Therefore this volume addresses a wide range of areas in which a German presence has been manifesting itself in the U.S. for more than three centuries. Among the disciplines involved in this broad analysis are linguistics, literary studies, history, economics, musicology as well as media studies and cultural studies.

Historical Dictionary of Crime Films

Geoff Mayer
Historical Dictionary of Crime Films Book PDF

Author : Geoff Mayer
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780810867697

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Historical Dictionary of Crime Films by Geoff Mayer Pdf

The crime film genre consists of detective films, gangster films, suspense thrillers, film noir, and caper films and is produced throughout the world. Crime film was there at the birth of cinema, and it has accompanied cinema over more than a century of history, passing from silent films to talkies, from black-and-white to color. The genre includes such classics as The Maltese Falcon, The Godfather, Gaslight, The French Connection, and Serpico, as well as more recent successes like Seven, Drive, and L.A. Confidential. The Historical Dictionary of Crime Films covers the history of this genre through a chronology, an introductory essay, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced entries on key films, directors, performers, and studios. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about crime cinema. -- from Amazon.com.