Hollywood Whispers

Author : Ian Scott
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1579583059

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American Politics in Hollywood Film by Ian Scott Pdf

This is the first book to investigate Hollywood's treatment of American politics, politicians and political institutions. The author explains the influence - through creative, ideological and financial means - that Hollywood has on politics, and vice-versa. Key questions of agenda setting are addressed, as are the value-oriented frames of reference that Hollywood has helped shape in educating and directing the American public about politics and democracy. American Politics in Hollywood Filmis structured thematically, introducing sub-genres of election films, political biographies, action, adventure and thriller films. There is an overarching chronological pattern, beginning in the 1930's and ending in the 1990's, allowing the reader to trace the progression of the genre. 25 black/white film stills are included.

Author : Chris Yogerst
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781496829771

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Hollywood Hates Hitler! by Chris Yogerst Pdf

In September 1941, a handful of isolationist senators set out to tarnish Hollywood for warmongering. The United States was largely divided on the possibility of entering the European War, yet the immigrant moguls in Hollywood were acutely aware of the conditions in Europe. After Kristallnacht (the Night of Broken Glass), the gloves came off. Warner Bros. released the first directly anti-Nazi film in 1939 with Confessions of a Nazi Spy. Other studios followed with such films as The Mortal Storm (MGM), Man Hunt (Fox), The Man I Married (Fox), and The Great Dictator (United Artists). While these films represented a small percentage of Hollywood’s output, senators took aim at the Jews in Hollywood who were supposedly “agitating us for war” and launched an investigation that resulted in Senate Resolution 152. The resolution was aimed at both radio and movies that “have been extensively used for propaganda purposes designed to influence the public mind in the direction of participation in the European War.” When the Senate approved a subcommittee to investigate the intentions of these films, studio bosses were ready and willing to stand up against the government to defend their beloved industry. What followed was a complete embarrassment of the United States Senate and a large victory for Hollywood as well as freedom of speech. Many works of American film history only skim the surface of the 1941 investigation of Hollywood. In Hollywood Hates Hitler! Jew-Baiting, Anti-Nazism, and the Senate Investigation into Warmongering in Motion Pictures, author Chris Yogerst examines the years leading up to and through the Senate Investigation into Motion Picture War Propaganda, detailing the isolationist senators’ relationship with the America First movement. Through his use of primary documents and lengthy congressional records, Yogerst paints a picture of the investigation’s daily events both on Capitol Hill and in the national press.

Author : Aynne Kokas
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN : 9780520294028

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Hollywood Made in China by Aynne Kokas Pdf

"In a race to capture new audiences, Hollywood moguls began courting Chinese investors to create branded entertainment on an international scale--from behemoth theme parks to blockbuster films--after China's 2001 World Trade Organization entry. Hollywood Made in China examines this compelling dynamic, where the distinctions between Hollywood's "Dream Factory" and the "Chinese Dream" of global influence become increasingly blurred. What is revealed illuminates how China's influence is transforming the global media industries from the inside out"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Anne Rose
Publisher : vividcolors digital
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Kiss Me, Fake It: Where Hollywood glitz meets real-life sparks by Anne Rose Pdf

Scarlett St. Claire, a fallen Hollywood starlet, needs a comeback. Enter Blake Golden Glove, the baseball heartthrob with a squeaky-clean image. Their solution? A fake engagement, a staged romance, a publicity play worthy of an Oscar. But in the blinding spotlight, lines blur, feelings ignite, and the game they're playing starts to feel dangerously real. Ethan Chase, Blake's jealous ex, throws daggers with every stolen glance. Paparazzi lurk around every corner, hungry for scandal. Can Scarlett and Blake navigate the treacherous world of Hollywood rumors and their own burgeoning emotions before their charade crumbles? When secrets spill and doubts arise, will their fake love story survive the pressure to become something truly extraordinary? "Faking It Till We Make It" is a whirlwind ride through the glittering world of Hollywood, where hearts beat beneath diamonds, truth shimmers beneath deception, and love dares to blossom in the most unexpected places. This captivating story is a delicious blend of romance, suspense, and humor, perfect for readers who crave a touch of glamour and a whole lot of heart.

Author : Victoria Wilson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 1056 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781439194065

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A Life of Barbara Stanwyck by Victoria Wilson Pdf

Fifteen years in the making, “860 glittering pages” (The New York Times), the first volume of the astonishing life of Barbara Sanwyck—one of our greatest screen actresses—explores her extraordinary range of eighty-eight motion pictures, her work, her world, and her Hollywood through an American century. Frank Capra called her “the greatest emotional actress the screen has yet known.” Yet Barbara Stanwyck (1907-1990) was also one of its most underrated stars. Now, Victoria Wilson gives us the most complete portrait of this magnificent actress, seen as the quintessential Brooklyn girl whose family was in fact of old New England stock…her years in New York as dancer and Broadway star…her fraught marriage to Broadway genius, Frank Fay…the adoption of a son; her partnership with Zeppo Marx, with whom she created a horse breeding farm; her fairytale romance and marriage to Robert Taylor, America's most sought-after male star… Here is the shaping of her career working with Hollywood's most important directors, all set against the times—the Depression, the rise of the unions, the coming of World War II, and a fast-evolving motion picture industry. At the heart of the book is Stanwyck herself—how she transformed herself from shunned outsider into one of America's most revered screen actresses. Volume One is the result of more than 100 exhaustive interviews with those who knew Stanwyck, many who never before had agreed to be interviewed: her family, friends, and co-workers from Lauren Bacall, Jane Fonda, and Jackie Cooper to Patricia Neal, Milton Berle, and Kirk Douglas; from Billy Wilder, Bruce Dern, and Anthony Quinn to Jane Powell, Charlton Heston, Arthur Laurents, and Sydney Lumet. “An epic Hollywood narrative,” A Life of Barbara Stanwyck includes never-before-seen letters, journals, and photographs.

Author : Lisa Yee
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780545229807

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Absolutely Maybe by Lisa Yee Pdf

Lisa Yee makes her YA debut with this hilarious novel about a charm-school dropout who becomes a drop-dead charmer on a quest for her father in California. Meet Maybelline Mary Katherine Mary Ann Chestnut, named for two Miss Americas and her mother Chessy's favorite brand of mascara. Chessy teaches the students in her charm school her Seven Select Rules for Young Ladies, but she won't tell Maybe who her real father is -- or protect her from her latest scuzzball boyfriend. So Maybe hitches a ride to California with her friends Hollywood and Thammasat Tantipinichwong Schneider (aka Ted) -- and what she finds there is funny, sad, true, and inspiring . . . vintage Lisa Yee.

Author : John Parker
Publisher : Headline
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780755362868

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Michael Douglas: Acting on Instinct by John Parker Pdf

In the shadow of his father Kirk's overpowering fame, Michael Douglas forged a career for himself and became recognised in his own right as an award-winning actor and producer. But fame has taken its toll on Michael's personal life. His struggles with sexual addiction, his treatment for alcoholism and drug dependency and the break-up of his first marriage show another side to Michael's success. In 2010, his troubled past came back to haunt him when Cameron, his eldest son, was sentenced to five years in prison for drug dealing. Yet, despite a rocky road, Michael has found happiness later in life. His marriage to Catherine Zeta Jones meant a second shot at fatherhood and gave him strength following a devastating diagnosis of advanced throat cancer at the age of 65. This is the compelling and remarkable story of a Hollywood son who waged a battle against the odds to achieve his fame and fortune, and has kept on fighting with every challenge he faces.

Author : United States. Congress Senate
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2472 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1941
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:35112104250693

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Hearings by United States. Congress Senate Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1500 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Demurrage (Car service).
ISBN : UCAL:B5179444

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Expediting Loading and Unloading of Railroad Freight Cars by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : UOM:39015020646066

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Propaganda in Moving Pictures by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1941
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : MINN:31951T003764757

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Propaganda in Motion Pictures by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce Pdf

Author : Helena C. Farrell
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781665504454

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No Trick or Treats by Helena C. Farrell Pdf

No Trick or Treats is a coming-of-age, multigenerational narrative about family traditions, loyalty, secrets, mystery, revelations and love. Through the lens of a young impressionable girl Elena Rose the book evolves. Elena is on a life-long journey of discovery and resolution. This complex girl experiences intense flashbacks. Elena Rose enhances family traditions through loyalty and love. The varied and interesting characters in this unique story will elicit fascinating and intriguing emotions. In this unique novel, Elena journeys from her teens through adulthood. She harbors a dark secret for years. Adding suspense and intrigue, a parallel storyline emerges about a New England family commencing from the Civil War to the end of the nineteenth century. These two families intersect in a profound way. The narrative is viewed through Elena's vivid imagination. As she searches for truth and love, she learns to accept losses on this extensive journey of discovery and justice. The story begins in Elena's teenage years in Jersey City, New Jersey and follows her through the hustling town of Chicago, to glamorous Hollywood, California and sedate Walpole, NH. In Chicago she meets people who inform her life. In Hollywood, Elena transforms from a naive girl to an impressionable young woman. Later, in rural Walpole, New Hampshire she addresses previous taxing life's challenges. Throughout the novel, historical references from years past enrich the narrative. Elena's extraordinary life is colored by fears, tears, laughter, and life's lessons. You will be drawn in as you observe her grow from an innocent and insecure young girl to an enlightened and fully developed woman of substance. Elena's extraordinary journey will scare you with Tricks and delight you with Treats.

Author : Robert Dance
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781496847478

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Ferocious Ambition by Robert Dance Pdf

Robert Dance’s new evaluation of Joan Crawford looks at her entire career and—while not ignoring her early years and tempestuous personal life—focuses squarely on her achievements as an actress, and as a woman who mastered the studio system with a rare combination of grit, determination, beauty, and talent. Crawford’s remarkable forty-five-year motion picture career is one of the industry’s longest. Signing her first contract in 1925, she was crowned an MGM star four years later and by the mid-1930s was the most popular actress in America. In the early 1940s, Crawford’s risky decision to move to Warner Bros. was rewarded with an Oscar for Mildred Pierce. This triumph launched a series of film noir classics. In her fourth decade she teamed with rival Bette Davis in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, proving that Crawford, whose career had begun by defining big-screen glamour, had matured into a superb dramatic actress. Her last film was released in 1970, and two years later she made a final television appearance, forty-seven years after walking through the MGM gate for the first time. Crawford made a successful transition into business during her later years, notably in her long association with Pepsi-Cola as a board member and the brand’s leading ambassador. Overlooked in previous biographies has been Crawford’s fierce resolve in creating and then maintaining her star persona. She let neither her age nor the passing of time block her unrivaled ambition, and she continually reimagined herself, noting once that, for the right part, she would play Wally Beery’s grandmother. But she was always the consummate star, and at the time of her death in 1977, she was a motion picture legend and a twentieth-century icon.

Author : Shelley Blanton-Stroud
Publisher : She Writes Press
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781647425944

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Poster Girl by Shelley Blanton-Stroud Pdf

Cynical young gossip columnist Jane Benjamin joins FDR’s Office of War Information, a propaganda unit, to find a Wendy-the-Welder poster girl to urge more women to the shipyard work essential to America’s winning World War II—and, incidentally, to make herself into the new Hedda Hopper. But somebody doesn’t want those women at work. During a five-day contest to beat the world speed record for building a liberty ship, Jane investigates the lives of the first women welders and learns more about her flyboy former lover’s secret post–Pearl Harbor mission—and her cynicism begins to melt. But when inspectors find and publicize a series of flaws in the contest-week welding, the women welders are blamed. Worse, two poster girl candidates are killed. Are they being sabotaged by a belligerent male shipyard supervisor? The industrialist shipyard owner with a history of controlling women? Or someone else trying to diminish the success of the US liberty ship program? To find out, Jane must choose between her professional ambition and service to the women welders—before the murderer harms another girl and America’s best chance of winning the war.

Author : Richard Schickel
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307788139

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Clint Eastwood by Richard Schickel Pdf

Through extensive, exclusive interviews with Eastwood (and the friends and colleagues of a lifetime), Time magazine film critic Richard Schickel has penetrated a complex character who has always been understood too quickly, too superficially. Schickel pierces Eastwood's monumental reserve to reveal the anger and the shyness, the shrewdness and frankness, the humor and powerful will that have helped make him what he is today. of photos.