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Author : Tino Balio
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317429678

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MGM by Tino Balio Pdf

The winner of the 2019 Peter C. Rollins Book Award This is the first comprehensive history of MGM from its origins in 1905 to the present. Following a straightforward chronology corresponding to specific periods of film industry history, each chapter describes how successive managements adjusted their production strategies and business practices in response to evolving industrial and market conditions. As the production subsidiary of the Loew’s Inc. theatre chain, MGM spent lavishly on its pictures and injected them with plenty of star power. The practice helped sustain MGM’s preeminent position during the heyday of Hollywood. But MGM was a conservative company and watched as other studios innovated with sound and widescreen, adjusted to television, and welcomed independent producers. By the 1960s, the company, sans its theatre chain, was in decline and was ripe for a takeover. A defining moment occurred in 1969, when Kirk Kerkorian, a Las Vegas entrepreneur, made a successful bid for the company. There followed a tumultuous thirty-six-year period when Kerkorian bought and sold MGM three times. Meanwhile, MGM never regained its former status and has functioned as a second-tier company to this day. Focusing on MGM’s top talent – such as Louis B. Mayer, Irving Thalberg, David O. Selznick, and Arthur Freed; directors King Vidor and Vincente Minnelli; and stars of the screen Greta Garbo, Judy Garland, Clark Gable, and Mickey Rooney – and award-winning films, this book highlights the studio’s artistic achievements and status within the industry.

Author : Steven Bingen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781493067961

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The MGM Effect by Steven Bingen Pdf

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s emblem, which has opened thousands of movies since 1924, is the most recognized corporate symbol in the world. Not just in the entertainment industry, it should be noted, but of any industry, anywhere, in the history of human civilization. But MGM has been a competitively insignificant force in the motion picture industry for nearly as long as it once, decades ago, dominated that industry. In fact, the MGM lion now presides not over movies alone, but over thirty world-class resorts, and is, or has been, also a recognized leader in the fields of real estate, theme parks, casinos, golf courses, consumer products, and even airlines, all around the world. But the MGM mystique remains. This book is a look at what made MGM the Mount Rushmore of studios, how it presented itself to the world, and how it influenced everything from set design to merchandising to music and dance, and continues to do so today.

Author : Steven Bingen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781493070893

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The 50 MGM Films that Transformed Hollywood by Steven Bingen Pdf

Movies don’t exist in a vacuum. Each MGM movie is a tiny piece of a large, colorful (although often black-and-white) quilt, with threads tying it into all of the rest of that studio’s product, going forward, yes, but also backward, and horizontally, and three-dimensionally across its entire landscape. Not necessarily a “best of” compilation, this book discusses the films that for one reason or another (and not all of them good ones) changed the trajectory of MGM and the film industry in general, from the revolutionary use of “Cinerama” in 1962’s How the West Was Won to Director Alfred Hitchcock’s near-extortion of the profits from the 1959 hit thriller North by Northwest. And there are the studio’s on-screen self-shoutouts to its own past or stars, in films like Party Girl (1958), the That’s Entertainment series, Garbo Talks (1984), Rain Man (1955), and De-Lovely (2004), or the studio’s acquisition of other successful franchises such as James Bond. But fear not—what we consider MGM’s classic films all get their due here, often with a touch of irony or fascinating anecdote. Singin' in the Rain (1952), for example, was in its day neither a financial blockbuster nor critically acclaimed but rather an excuse for the studio to reuse some old songs it already owned. The Wizard of Oz (1939) cost almost as much to make as Gone With the Wind (also 1939) and took ten years to recoup its costs. But still, the MGM mystique endures. Like the popular Netflix series The Movies that Made Us, this is a fascinating look behind the scenes of the greatest—and at times notorious—films ever made.

Author : Steven Bingen,Stephen X Sylvester,Michael Troyan
Publisher : Santa Monica Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781595808936

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MGM by Steven Bingen,Stephen X Sylvester,Michael Troyan Pdf

M-G-M: Hollywood’s Greatest Backlot is the illustrated history of the soundstages and outdoor sets where Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer produced many of the world’s most famous films. During its Golden Age, the studio employed the likes of Garbo, Astaire, and Gable, and produced innumerable iconic pieces of cinema such as The Wizard of Oz, Singin’ in the Rain, and Ben-Hur. It is estimated that a fifth of all films made in the United States prior to the 1970s were shot at MGM studios, meaning that the gigantic property was responsible for hundreds of iconic sets and stages, often utilizing and transforming minimal spaces and previously used props, to create some of the most recognizable and identifiable landscapes of modern movie culture. All of this happened behind closed doors, the backlot shut off from the public in a veil of secrecy and movie magic. M-G-M: Hollywood’s Greatest Backlot highlights this fascinating film treasure by recounting the history, popularity, and success of the MGM company through a tour of its physical property. Featuring the candid, exclusive voices and photographs from the people who worked there, and including hundreds of rare and unpublished photographs (including many from the archives of Warner Bros.), readers are launched aboard a fun and entertaining virtual tour of Hollywood’s most famous and mysterious motion picture studio.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11582047

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American Chemical Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ira Remsen,Charles August Rouillu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Chemistry
ISBN : MSU:31293024221396

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American Chemical Journal by Ira Remsen,Charles August Rouillu Pdf

Author : A Parthasarathy
Publisher : JP Medical Ltd
Page : 810 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789350903612

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Partha's Fundamentals of Pediatrics by A Parthasarathy Pdf

Fully revised, second edition bringing trainees and physicians fully up to date with the latest developments and rapidly changing concepts in the field of paediatrics.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Pharmacy
ISBN : UOM:39015070283182

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Pharmaceutische Rundschau ... by Anonim Pdf

Author : Tino Balio
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0299230139

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United Artists, Volume 2, 1951–1978 by Tino Balio Pdf

In this second volume of Tino Balio’s history of United Artists, he examines the turnaround of the company in the hands of Arthur Krim and Robert Benjamin in the 1950s, when United Artists devised a successful strategy based on the financing and distribution of independent production that transformed the company into an industry leader. Drawing on corporate records and interviews, Balio follows United Artists through its merger with Transamerica in the 1960s and its sale to MGM after the financial debacle of the film Heaven’s Gate. With its attention to the role of film as both an art form and an economic institution, United Artists: The Company That Changed the Film Industry is an indispensable study of one company’s fortunes from the 1950s to the 1980s and a clear-eyed analysis of the film industry as a whole. This edition includes an expanded introduction that examines the history of United Artists from 1978 to 2008, as well as an account of Arthur Krim’s attempt to mirror UA’s success at Orion Pictures from 1978 to 1991.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 900 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Music
ISBN : UVA:X002164474

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Schwann Long Playing Record Catalog by Anonim Pdf

Author : Brian Hannan
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476623894

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Coming Back to a Theater Near You by Brian Hannan Pdf

In the Silent Era, film reissues were a battle between rival studios—every Mary Pickford new release in 1914 was met with a Pickford re-release. For 50 years after the Silent Era, reissues were a battle between the studios, who considered old movies “found money,” and cinema owners, who often saw audiences reject former box office hits. In the mid–1960s, the return of The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)—the second biggest reissue of all time—altered industry perceptions, and James Bond double features pushed the revival market to new heights. In the digital age, reissues have continued to confound the critics. This is the untold hundred-year story of how old movies saved new Hollywood. Covering the booms and busts of a recycling business that became its own industry, the author describes how the likes of Charlie Chaplin, Humphrey Bogart and Alfred Hitchcock won over new generations of audiences, and explores the lasting appeal of films like Napoléon (1927), Gone with the Wind (1939), The Rocky Horror Show (1975) and Blade Runner (1982).

Author : National Institutes of Health (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : Medicine, Experimental
ISBN : CORNELL:31924061348730

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Bulletin by National Institutes of Health (U.S.) Pdf

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1118 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119498520

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Catalog of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Drugs
ISBN : PURD:32754079946400

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The Pharmaceutical Era by Anonim Pdf

Author : U.S. Surgeon-general's Office,United States. Surgeon-General's Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1002 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Ear
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030037549906

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The Medical Department of the U.S. Army in the World War by U.S. Surgeon-general's Office,United States. Surgeon-General's Office Pdf