Passport To Hollywood

Author : Steven Mintz,Randy W. Roberts
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781405190039

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

Fully revised, updated, and extended, this compilation of interpretive essays and primary documents teaches 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 Ten new articles which consider recently released films, as well as issues of gender and ethnicity Well-organized within a chronological framework with thematic treatments to provide a valuable resource for students of the history of American film Fourth edition includes completely new images throughout

Author : James Morrison
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0791439372

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Passport to Hollywood by James Morrison Pdf

Examines popular films made in Hollywood by European directors, offering a fresh take on the much-debated issue of the "great divide" between modernism and mass culture.

Author : Gene D. Phillips
Publisher : Lehigh University Press
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Expatriate motion picture producers and directors
ISBN : 0934223491

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Exiles in Hollywood by Gene D. Phillips Pdf

The book deals with five European film directors who were forced to remain in exile in the wake of the rise of Hitler and who subsequently enriched the American motion picture industry with a reservoir of new talent that had been nurtured in Europe. The directors treated are Fritz Lang, William Wyler, Otto Preminger, Fred Zinnemann, and Billy Wilder.

Author : Don Whittemore,Philip Alan Cecchettini
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Film immigrants
ISBN : 0070700524

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Passport to Hollywood by Don Whittemore,Philip Alan Cecchettini Pdf

Author : Aruthuckal Varughese John,Atola Longkumer,Nigel Ajay Kumar
Publisher : SAIACS Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789386549068

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Religious Freedom and Conversion in India by Aruthuckal Varughese John,Atola Longkumer,Nigel Ajay Kumar Pdf

Religious Freedom and Conversion in India is a collection of essays that addresses the political and practical concerns about "religious freedom" and "religious conversion" in the Indian context. These essays were first presented in the SAIACS Academic Consultation in September 2015 at SAIACS, Bengaluru. The 14 papers represented here have all been revised and edited in the view of the discussions during the Consultation. they approach the topic from various angles such as historical, legal, biblical, theological, missiological and cultural. The purpose of the SAIACS Academic Consultation, and the aim of this book, is to stimulate, encourage and provide direction for the academic, evangelical and missional thinking in South Asia.

Author : Alastair Phillips,Ginette Vincendeau
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 55,6 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.

Author : Alastair Phillips
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857716484

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Rififi by Alastair Phillips Pdf

"Du rififi chez les hommes" (1955), directed by the exiled American film director Jules Dassin, recounts the nail-biting tale of a Parisian gangster heist gone wrong. Famed for its extended dialog free robbery sequence, it is both a classic French film noir and one of the greatest, most influential crime films. In this lively companion to the film, Alastair Phillips reveals Dassin's role as a director of socially conscious Hollywood film noir and argues that his seminal contribution to the regeneration of the thriller in post war France therefore uniquely complicated relations between French genre cinema and American mass culture. Phillips also examines the film's innovative narrative construction and use of sound, its performance style and mise-en-scene, and discusses the film's legacy, showing how even today, the term 'Rififi' remains a byword for both criminal glamor and the enduring virtues of French popular classical film making.

Author : Gerd GemŸnden
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231166782

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Continental Strangers by Gerd GemŸnden Pdf

Hundreds of German-speaking film professionals took refuge in Hollywood during the 1930s and 1940s, making a lasting contribution to American cinema. Hailing from Austria, Hungary, Poland, Russia, and the Ukraine, as well as Germany, and including Ernst Lubitsch, Fred Zinnemann, Billy Wilder, and Fritz Lang, these multicultural, multilingual writers and directors betrayed distinct cultural sensibilities in their art. Gerd Gemünden focuses on Edgar G. Ulmer’s The Black Cat (1934), William Dieterle’s The Life of Emile Zola (1937), Ernst Lubitsch’s To Be or Not to Be (1942), Bertold Brecht and Fritz Lang’s Hangmen Also Die (1943), Fred Zinneman’s Act of Violence (1948), and Peter Lorre’s Der Verlorene (1951), engaging with issues of realism, auteurism, and genre while tracing the relationship between film and history, Hollywood politics and censorship, and exile and (re)migration.

Author : Tim Bergfelder,Erica Carter,Deniz Göktürk,Claudia Sandberg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 47,7 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.

Author : Scott A. Lukas,John Marmysz
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780739124895

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Fear, Cultural Anxiety, and Transformation by Scott A. Lukas,John Marmysz Pdf

The contributors to this volume explore the themes of fear, cultural anxiety, and transformation as expressed in remade horror, science fiction, and fantasy films. While opening on a note that emphasizes the compulsion of filmmakers to revisit issues concerning fear and anxiety, this collection ends with a suggestion that repeated confrontation with these issues allows the opportunity for creative and positive transformation.

Author : M.B.B. Biskupski
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813173528

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Hollywood's War with Poland, 1939-1945 by M.B.B. Biskupski Pdf

During World War II, Hollywood studios supported the war effort by making patriotic movies designed to raise the nation's morale. They often portrayed the combatants in very simple terms: Americans and their allies were heroes, and everyone else was a villain. Norway, France, Czechoslovakia, and England were all good because they had been invaded or victimized by Nazi Germany. Poland, however, was represented in a negative light in numerous movies. In Hollywood's War with Poland, 1939-1945, M. B. B. Biskupski draws on a close study of prewar and wartime films such as To Be or Not to Be (1942), In Our Time (1944), and None Shall Escape (1944). He researched memoirs, letters, diaries, and memoranda written by screenwriters, directors, studio heads, and actors to explore the negative portrayal of Poland during World War II. Biskupski also examines the political climate that influenced Hollywood films.

Author : Hilary Hallett
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520274099

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Go West, Young Women! by Hilary Hallett Pdf

In the early part of the twentieth century, migrants made their way from rural homes to cities in record numbers and many traveled west. Los Angeles became a destination. Women flocked to the growing town to join the film industry as workers and spectators, creating a “New Woman.” Their efforts transformed filmmaking from a marginal business to a cosmopolitan, glamorous, and bohemian one. By 1920, Los Angeles had become the only western city where women outnumbered men. In Go West, Young Women, Hilary A. Hallett explores these relatively unknown new western women and their role in the development of Los Angeles and the nascent film industry. From Mary Pickford’s rise to become perhaps the most powerful woman of her age, to the racist moral panics of the post–World War I years that culminated in Hollywood’s first sex scandal, Hallett describes how the path through early Hollywood presaged the struggles over modern gender roles that animated the century to come.

Author : B. G. Stroh
Publisher : BG Stroh
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008-06
Category : Tibet Autonomous Region (China)
ISBN : 9780595482344

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The Dharma King by B. G. Stroh Pdf

An American. A baby. The Chinese Government. And the Race to Save Tibet. The eldest son of a wealthy San Francisco family, Samuel Falk Simms, Jr. has just graduated from college with a life of privilege and power ahead of him. On a whim, he books a flight to Kathmandu that will leave him changed forever. Barely off the airplane, he is fighting for his life while following an obscure map slipped to him by a Buddhist monk. Samuel must find his way in foreign lands and escape from the Chinese Colonel intent on stopping him, as he struggles to forge an authentic path for himself in order to help Tibetans reclaim theirs. "You know 'Dharma'? Dharma means 'The Way.' Each man will have his own way. Each man is ruler of his own way. Each man is his own Dharma King."

Author : George Harwood Phillips
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806165714

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Taking a Chance on Love by George Harwood Phillips Pdf

When his friend George Gershwin persuaded Vladimir Dukelsky to change his name to Vernon Duke, what the music world already knew became apparent to the public at large—the man had two musical personas—one as a composer, the other as a tunesmith. One wrote highbrow music, the other lowbrow. Yet the two sides complemented each other. Neither could function without the other. Born and classically trained in imperial Russia, Vladimir Dukelsky (1903–1969) fled the Bolshevik Revolution with his family, discovered American popular music in cosmopolitan Constantinople, and pursued his budding interest to New York before his passion for classical music drew him to Paris, where the impresario Serge Diaghilev hired him to compose a ballet for the Ballets Russes. Taking a Chance on Love immerses us in Duke’s dizzying globe-hopping and genre-swapping, as financial concerns and musical passions drive him from composing symphonies to writing songs, from brilliant successes to Broadway flops, and from performing with classical performers to writing books and articles. Throughout, as he crisscrosses the landscape of American music, collaborating with lyricists such as Howard Dietz, Ira Gershwin, and Sammy Cohn, the incomparable Vernon Duke emerges clearly from these pages: sometimes charming, sometimes infuriating, always entertaining. Although Vernon Duke has entered the canon of American standards with such songs as “Taking a Chance on Love,” “I Can’t Get Started,” and “April in Paris,” little is known about the composer with two personas. Taking a Chance on Love brings the intriguing double life of Dukelsky/Duke back into the spotlight, restoring a chapter to the history of the Great American Songbook and to the story of twentieth-century music.

Author : Michael S. Shull,David Edward Wilt
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006-07-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786428540

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Hollywood War Films, 1937-1945 by Michael S. Shull,David Edward Wilt Pdf

From 1937 through 1945, Hollywood produced over 1,000 films relating to the war. This enormous and exhaustive reference work first analyzes the war films as sociopolitical documents. Part one, entitled "The Crisis Abroad, 1937-1941," focuses on movies that reflected America's increasing uneasiness. Part two, "Waging War, 1942-1945," reveals that many movies made from 1942 through 1945 included at least some allusion to World War II.