Author : William Curtis Nunn
Publisher : TCU Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0912646691
Marguerite Clark America S Darling Of Broadway And The Silent Screen
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Silent Film Stars on the Stages of Seattle
Author : Eric L. Flom
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786439089
Silent Film Stars on the Stages of Seattle by Eric L. Flom Pdf
Before they became household names, many would-be Hollywood stars began their careers as small-time actors in regional theatres and playhouses. Few of them earned much recognition based on their time in the footlights, but often the stage provided these Hollywood hopefuls with their first break in show business. Drawing on material from the J. Willis Sayre Collection, a nearly unbroken accumulation of theatrical programs from 1865 to 1955, this book chronicles the Seattle stage engagements of more than 30 silent film personalities. Such Hollywood giants as Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin, Cecil B. DeMille, D.W. Griffith, and Buster Keaton, to name just a few, can trace their early careers through the Emerald City.
European Silent Films on Video
Author : William B. Parrill
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476610214
European Silent Films on Video by William B. Parrill Pdf
This book is a critical encyclopedia of silent European films currently available on DVD, laser disc, and VHS. It provides concise and accurate summaries of the films, evaluates the quality of the prints, discusses the changing reputations of both films and filmmakers, and considers how the techniques developed during the silent period continue to influence filmmaking today. The book cites contemporary and recent criticism of the films and includes an extensive bibliography as well as a list of films by director. Numerous photos are also included.
Film and Fairy Tales
Author : Kristian Moen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780857733191
Film and Fairy Tales by Kristian Moen Pdf
Far from a realm of pure fantasy helping people to escape harsh realities, fairy tales and the films that rooted themselves in their tropes and traditions played an integral role in formulating and expressing the anxieties of modernity as well as its potential for radical, magical transformation. In Film and Fairy Tales, Kristian Moen examines the role played by fairy tales in shaping cinema, its culture, and its discourse during its most formative years. Well-established by the feerie of the nineteenth century as popular entertainment and visual spectacle, the wonders of mutability offered by fairy tale fantasies in the early films of Melies situated cinema itself as a realm of enchantment rife with enthralling and disturbing possibilities. Through an analysis of early film theorists and a detailed case study of Tourneur's 1918 film The Blue Bird, Moen shows how the spectacles and tropes of the fairy tale continued to shape ideas of cinema's place in modern life. Stars like Mary Pickford and Marguerite Clark, who not only played fantasy roles but presented their off-screen personae in deliberately fantastic terms, and the transformative claims of modernity expressed through visions such as Orientalist fairylands are analysed to show the extent to which fairy tales were used to negotiate different experiences of modernity - the giddy adventures of social mobility, consumer culture and identity transformation, the threats and anxieties of cultural change, impermanence and mutability. Moen traces the evolution of the fairy tale in film to its self-aestheticising peak in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, alongside ironic allusions in films like Hitchcock's Rebecca and Howard Hawks' Ball of Fire, concluding with an examination of how fairy tale visions of fantastic transformation have seen a resurgence in contemporary cinema, from Tim Burton to Harry Potter. In the process, he shows how cinema made fairy tales modern - and fairy tales helped make cinema what it is today.
Louisiana History
Author : Florence M. Jumonville
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 810 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2002-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313076794
Louisiana History by Florence M. Jumonville Pdf
From the accounts of 18th-century travelers to the interpretations of 21st-century historians, Jumonville lists more than 6,800 books, chapters, articles, theses, dissertations, and government documents that describe the rich history of America's 18th state. Here are references to sources on the Louisiana Purchase, the Battle of New Orleans, Carnival, and Cajuns. Less-explored topics such as the rebellion of 1768, the changing roles of women, and civic development are also covered. It is a sweeping guide to the publications that best illuminate the land, the people, and the multifaceted history of the Pelican State. Arranged according to discipline and time period, chapters cover such topics as the environment, the Civil War and Reconstruction, social and cultural history, the people of Louisiana, local, parish, and sectional histories, and New Orleans. It also lists major historical sites and repositories of primary materials. As the only comprehensive bibliography of the secondary sources about the state, ^ILouisiana History^R is an invaluable resource for scholars and researchers.
An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Women in Early American Films
Author : Denise Lowe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317718963
An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Women in Early American Films by Denise Lowe Pdf
Examine women’s contributions to film—in front of the camera and behind it! An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Women in Early American Films: 1895-1930 is an A-to-Z reference guide (illustrated with over 150 hard-to-find photographs!) that dispels the myth that men dominated the film industry during its formative years. Denise Lowe, author of Women and American Television: An Encyclopedia, presents a rich collection that profiles many of the women who were crucial to the development of cinema as an industry—and as an art form. Whether working behind the scenes as producers or publicists, behind the cameras as writers, directors, or editors, or in front of the lens as flappers, vamps, or serial queens, hundreds of women made profound and lasting contributions to the evolution of the motion picture production. An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Women in Early American Films: 1895-1930 gives you immediate access to the histories of many of the women who pioneered the early days of cinema—on screen and off. The book chronicles the well-known figures of the era, such as Alice Guy, Mary Pickford, and Francis Marion but gives equal billing to those who worked in anonymity as the industry moved from the silent era into the age of sound. Their individual stories of professional success and failure, artistic struggle and strife, and personal triumph and tragedy fill in the plot points missing from the complete saga of Hollywood’s beginnings. Pioneers of the motion picture business found in An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Women in Early American Films include: Dorothy Arnzer, the first woman to join the Directors Guild of America and the only female director to make a successful transition from silent films to sound Jane Murfin, playwright and screenwriter who became supervisor of motion pictures at RKO Studios Gene Gauntier, the actress and scenarist whose adaptation of Ben Hur for the Kalem Film Company led to a landmark copyright infringement case Theda Bara, whose on-screen popularity virtually built Fox Studios before typecasting and overexposure destroyed her career Madame Sul-Te-Wan, née Nellie Conley, the first African-American actor or actress to sign a film contract and be a featured performer Dorothy Davenport, who parlayed the publicity surrounding her actor-husband’s drug-related death into a career as a producer of social reform melodramas Lois Weber, a street-corner evangelist who became one of the best-known and highest-paid directors in Hollywood Lina Basquette, the “Screen Tragedy Girl” who married and divorced studio mogul Sam Warner, led The Hollywood Aristocrats Orchestra, claimed to have been a spy for the American Office of Strategic Services during World War II, and became a renowned dog expert in her later years and many more! An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Women in Early American Films: 1895-1930 also includes comprehensive appendices of the WAMPAS Baby Stars, the silent stars remembered in the Graumann Chinese Theater Forecourt of the Stars and those immortalized on the Hollywood Walk of Stars. The book is invaluable as a resource for researchers, librarians, academics working in film, popular culture, and women’s history, and to anyone interested either professionally or casually in the early days of Hollywood and the motion picture industry.
Silent Films, 1877Ð1996
Author : Robert K. Klepper
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476604848
Silent Films, 1877Ð1996 by Robert K. Klepper Pdf
This film reference covers 646 silent motion pictures, starting with Eadweard Muybridge’s initial motion photography experiments in 1877 and even including The Taxi Dancer (1996). Among the genres included are classics, dramas, Westerns, light comedies, documentaries and even poorly produced early pornography. Masterpieces such as Joan the Woman (1916), Intolerance (1916) and Faust (1926) can be found, as well as rare titles that have not received critical attention since their original releases. Each entry provides the most complete credits possible, a full description, critical commentary, and an evaluation of the film’s unique place in motion picture history. Birth dates, death dates, and other facts are provided for the directors and players where available, with a selection of photographs of those individuals. The work is thoroughly indexed.
Hollywood Before Glamour
Author : M. Tolini Finamore
Publisher : Springer
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230389496
Hollywood Before Glamour by M. Tolini Finamore Pdf
This exploration of fashion in American silent film offers fresh perspectives on the era preceding the studio system, and the evolution of Hollywood's distinctive brand of glamour. By the 1910s, the moving image was an integral part of everyday life and communicated fascinating, but as yet un-investigated, ideas and ideals about fashionable dress.
American Film and the Feminine Ideal, 1895-1930
Author : Larry C. Wilson
Publisher : Thomson Learning
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : PSU:000032889505
American Film and the Feminine Ideal, 1895-1930 by Larry C. Wilson Pdf
An Evening's Entertainment
Author : Richard Koszarski
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1994-05-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0520085353
An Evening's Entertainment by Richard Koszarski Pdf
On the age of silent movies
A Biographical Handbook of Hispanics and United States Film
Author : Gary D. Keller
Publisher : Bilingual Review Press (AZ)
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019288757
A Biographical Handbook of Hispanics and United States Film by Gary D. Keller Pdf
Keller has collected biographical information on hundreds of Hispanic actors, directors, cinematographers, screenwriters, producers, animators, and other film professionals who have participated in United States film from its beginnings in 1894 through the contemporary period, as well as filmographic information on the thousands of films in which they have been involved.
Allan Dwan and the Rise and Decline of the Hollywood Studios
Author : Frederic Lombardi
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786434855
Allan Dwan and the Rise and Decline of the Hollywood Studios by Frederic Lombardi Pdf
It could be said that the career of Canadian-born film director Allan Dwan (1885-1981) began at the dawn of the American motion picture industry. Originally a scriptwriter, Dwan became a director purely by accident. Even so, his creativity and problem-solving skills propelled him to the top of his profession. He achieved success with numerous silent film performers, most spectacularly with Douglas Fairbanks Sr. and Gloria Swanson, and later with such legendary stars as Shirley Temple and John Wayne. Though his star waned in the sound era, Dwan managed to survive through pluck and ingenuity. Considering himself better off without the fame he enjoyed during the silent era, he went on to do some of his best work for second-echelon studios (notably Republic Pictures' Sands of Iwo Jima) and such independent producers as Edward Small. Along the way, Dwan also found personal happiness in an unconventional manner. Rich in detail with two columns of text in each of its nearly 400 pages, and with more than 150 photographs, this book presents a thorough examination of Allan Dwan and separates myth from truth in his life and films.
Theatre History Studies
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Theater
ISBN : UOM:39015067517329
Theatre History Studies by Anonim Pdf
Subject Catalog
Author : Library of Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1008 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Subject catalogs
ISBN : STANFORD:36105211446641
Subject Catalog by Library of Congress Pdf
Biography Index
Author : Bea Joseph
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 830 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Biography
ISBN : UOM:39015036927609
Biography Index by Bea Joseph Pdf
A cumulative index to biographical material in books and magazines.