Hollywood Stunt Performers 1910s 1970s

Author : Gene Scott Freese
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786476435

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Hollywood Stunt Performers, 1910s-1970s by Gene Scott Freese Pdf

This biographical dictionary shines the spotlight on several hundred unheralded stunt performers who created some of the cinema's greatest action scenes without credit or recognition. The time period covered encompasses the silent comedy days of Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd, the early westerns of Tom Mix and John Wayne, the swashbucklers of Douglas Fairbanks, Errol Flynn, and Burt Lancaster, the costume epics of Charlton Heston and Kirk Douglas, and the action films of Steve McQueen, Clint Eastwood, and Charles Bronson. Without stuntmen and women working behind the scenes the films of these action superstars would not have been as successful. Now fantastic athletes and leading stunt creators such as Yakima Canutt, Richard Talmadge, Harvey Parry, Allen Pomeroy, Dave Sharpe, Jock Mahoney, Chuck Roberson, Polly Burson, Bob Morgan, Loren Janes, Dean Smith, Hal Needham, Martha Crawford, Ronnie Rondell, Terry Leonard, and Bob Minor are given their proper due. Each entry covers the performer's athletic background, military service, actors doubled, noteworthy stunts, and a rundown of his or her best known screen credits.

Author : James Kendrick
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781119100485

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A Companion to the Action Film by James Kendrick Pdf

An authoritative guide to the action-packed film genre With 24 incisive, cutting-edge contributions from esteemed scholars and critics, A Companion to the Action Filmprovides an authoritative and in-depth guide to this internationally popular and wide-ranging genre. As the first major anthology on the action film in more than a decade, the volume offers insights into the genre’s historical development, explores its production techniques and visual poetics, and provides reflections on the numerous social, cultural, and political issues it has and continues to embody. A Companion to the Action Film offers original research and critical analysis that examines the iconic characteristics of the genre, its visual aesthetics, and its narrative traits; considers the impact of major directors and stars on the genre’s evolution; puts the action film in dialogue with various technologies and other forms of media such as graphic novels and television; and maps out new avenues of critical study for the future. This important resource: Offers a definitive guide to the action film Contains insightful contributions from a wide range of international film experts and scholars Reviews the evolution of the genre from the silent era to today’s age of digital blockbusters Offers nuanced commentary and analysis of socio-cultural issues such as race, nationality, and gender in action films Written for scholars, teachers and students in film studies, film theory, film history, genre studies, and popular culture, A Companion to the Action Film is an essential guide to one of international cinema’s most important, popular, and influential genres.

Author : Lisa Bode
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780813580005

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Making Believe by Lisa Bode Pdf

In the past twenty years, we have seen the rise of digital effects cinema in which the human performer is entangled with animation, collaged with other performers, or inserted into perilous or fantastic situations and scenery. Making Believe sheds new light on these developments by historicizing screen performance within the context of visual and special effects cinema and technological change in Hollywood filmmaking, through the silent, early sound, and current digital eras. Making Believe incorporates North American film reviews and editorials, actor and crew interviews, trade and fan magazine commentary, actor training manuals, and film production publicity materials to discuss the shifts in screen acting practice and philosophy around transfiguring makeup, doubles, motion capture, and acting to absent places or characters. Along the way it considers how performers and visual and special effects crew work together, and struggle with the industry, critics, and each other to define the aesthetic value of their work, in an industrial system of technological reproduction. Bode opens our eyes to the performing illusions we love and the tensions we experience in wanting to believe in spite of our knowledge that it is all make believe in the end.

Author : Scott McGee
Publisher : Running Press Adult
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780762474837

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Danger on the Silver Screen by Scott McGee Pdf

Turner Classic Movies presents a heart-racing look into the world of stunt work featuring films that capture the exhilaration of a car chase, the comedy of a well timed prat fall, or the adrenaline rush from a fight scene complete with reviews, behind-the-scenes stories, and hundreds of photographs. Buckle in and join TCM on a action-packed journey through the history of cinema stunt work in Danger on the Silver Screen. This action-packed guide profiles 50 foundational films with insightful commentary on the history, importance, and evolution of an often overlooked element of film: stunt work. With insightful commentary and additional recommendations to expand your repertoire based on your favorites, Danger on the Silver Screen is a one-of-a-kind guide, perfect for film lovers to learn more about or just brush up on their knowledge of stunt work and includes films such as Ben-Hur (1925 & 1959), The Great K&A Train Robbery (1926), Steamboat Bill Jr. (1928), The Thing from Another World (1951), Bullitt (1968), Live and Let Die (1973), The Blues Brothers (1980), Romancing the Stone (1984), The Matrix (1999), The Bourne Supremacy (2004), John Wick (2014), Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation (2015), Atomic Blonde (2017), and many more.

Author : Gene Scott Freese
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015042049380

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Hollywood Stunt Performers by Gene Scott Freese Pdf

Hollywood's stuntmen and stuntwomen willingly risk life and limb to bring excitement to the screen. They crash cars. They swing from helicopters. They dive off rocky cliffs into water far, far below.Yet as recently as the early 1980s, stunt performers rarely even received screen credit for their incredible feats.Here at last is a personal introduction to these professional daredevils. Biographical information, extensive film and television credits, and action photographs shine the spotlight on these highly skilled athletes who will stop at nothing to stop your heart.

Author : Mickey Gilbert,Rebecca Rockwell
Publisher : Outskirts Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781478740339

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Me and My Saddle-Pal by Mickey Gilbert,Rebecca Rockwell Pdf

Crashing cars, roping wild animals in Africa, jumping off cliffs and getting shot off of horses as bombs explode is all in a day’s work for a stuntman in Hollywood, and taking the Lord along has made it all possible for Mickey Gilbert. He’s been in the movie business since the 1960s, working as a stuntman, stunt coordinator and a second-unit director on some of the most memorable films Hollywood has ever produced. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Wild Bunch, The Last of the Mohicans, The Electric Horseman, City Slickers and The Blues Brothers are just a few of the titles in his impressive filmography. With over a hundred movies under his belt, Gilbert has doubled such iconic actors as Robert Redford, Paul Newman, Gene Wilder and Harrison Ford, and he has designed and coordinated some of the most exciting stunts the silver screen has ever delivered. Filled with humor, warmth, adventure and all the action you can handle, Me and My Saddle-Pal chronicles Gilbert’s journey into Hollywood and takes readers along for ride after wild ride as he recollects his part in the making of some of the industry’s greatest films.

Author : Gene Freese
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476612874

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Jock Mahoney by Gene Freese Pdf

Iowa-born Jock Mahoney was an elite athlete and U.S. Marines fighter pilot prior to falling into a film career. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest stuntmen in movie history, having taken leaps and bounds for Errol Flynn, John Wayne, Randolph Scott, and Gregory Peck. One of the first stuntmen to successfully move into acting, he was the popular star of the 1950s television westerns Range Rider and Yancy Derringer and twice played Tarzan on the big screen, presenting a memorable portrayal of an educated, articulate and mature jungle lord true to author Edgar Rice Burroughs’ original vision. Filming in real jungles around the world took a physical toll on Mahoney that transformed him from leading man to burly character actor. He had to overcome the effects of a stroke but true to his tough guy nature rose above it to resume his life’s many adventures. Mahoney was beloved by fans at conventions and appearances until his untimely demise in 1989 from a stroke-caused motor vehicle accident.

Author : Peter Cowie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015001412702

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Hollywood 1920-1970 by Peter Cowie Pdf

Author : Jill Tietjen,Barbara Bridges
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781493037063

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Hollywood by Jill Tietjen,Barbara Bridges Pdf

The year was 1896, the woman was Alice Guy-Blaché, and the film was The Cabbage Fairy. It was less than a minute long. Guy-Blaché, the first female director, made hundreds of movies during her career. Thousands of women with passion and commitment to storytelling followed in her footsteps. Working in all aspects of the movie industry, they collaborated with others to create memorable images on the screen. This book pays tribute to the spirit, ambition, grit and talent of these filmmakers and artists. With more than 1200 women featured in the book, you will find names that everyone knows and loves—the movie legends. But you will also discover hundreds and hundreds of women whose names are unknown to you: actresses, directors, stuntwomen, screenwriters, composers, animators, editors, producers, cinematographers and on and on. Stunning photographs capture and document the women who worked their magic in the movie business. Perfect for anyone who enjoys the movies, this photo-treasury of women and film is not to be missed.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Communication
ISBN : WISC:89108840141

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Discourse by Anonim Pdf

Author : Roy Liebman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105018412572

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Silent Film Performers by Roy Liebman Pdf

Provides biographical and career data for each listed performer, an overview of published books and articles about or written by the performer and a list of archival materials, including photographs and stills, letters and scrapbooks

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Canada
ISBN : UOM:39015065432943

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America, History and Life by Anonim Pdf

Article abstracts and citations of reviews and dissertations covering the United States and Canada.

Author : Annette Förster
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789048524518

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Women in the Silent Cinema by Annette Förster Pdf

This magisterial book offers comprehensive accounts of the professional itineraries of three women in the silent film in the Netherlands, France and North America. Annette Förster presents a careful assessment of the long career of Dutch stage and film actress Adriënne Solser; an exploration of the stage and screen careers of French actress and filmmaker Musidora and Canadian-born actress and filmmaker Nell Shipman; an analysis of the interaction between the popular stage and the silent cinema from the perspective of women at work in both realms; fresh insights into Dutch stage and screen comedy, the French revue and the American Northwest drama of the 1910s; and much more, all grounded in a wealth of archival research.

Author : Jim Ryan
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Rodeo performers
ISBN : UOM:39015064898318

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The Rodeo and Hollywood by Jim Ryan Pdf

"This reference book provides career profiles of both types of performers who crossed over between acting and cowboying . Chapters trace the careers of notable rodeo stars who appeared on film or TV, detail the rodeo appearances that made their names in electronic entertainment first, and list the cowboy, western adventure and related films from the era"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Anne Commire
Publisher : Gale Cengage
Page : 920 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105130583680

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Dictionary of Women Worldwide: M-Z by Anne Commire Pdf

Contains more than 20,000 brief biographical entries on women, including thousands of entries on non-U.S. figures.