The Cinema Of Barbara Stanwyck

Author : Catherine Russell
Publisher : Women's Media History Now!
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0252087178

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The Cinema of Barbara Stanwyck by Catherine Russell Pdf

From The Lady Eve, to The Big Valley, Barbara Stanwyck played parts that showcased her multidimensional talents but also illustrated the limits imposed on women in film and television. Catherine Russell's A to Z consideration of the iconic actress analyzes twenty-six facets of Stanwyck and the America of her times. Russell examines Stanwyck's work onscreen against the backdrop of costuming and other aspects of filmmaking. But she also views the actress's off-screen performance within the Hollywood networks that made her an industry favorite and longtime cornerstone of the entertainment community. Russell's montage approach coalesces into an engrossing portrait of a singular artist whose intelligence and savvy placed her center-stage in the production of her films and in the debates around women, femininity, and motherhood that roiled mid-century America. Original and rich, The Cinema of Barbara Stanwyck is an essential and entertaining reexamination of an enduring Hollywood star.

Author : Catherine Russell
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780252054310

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The Cinema of Barbara Stanwyck by Catherine Russell Pdf

From The Lady Eve, to The Big Valley, Barbara Stanwyck played parts that showcased her multidimensional talents but also illustrated the limits imposed on women in film and television. Catherine Russell’s A to Z consideration of the iconic actress analyzes twenty-six facets of Stanwyck and the America of her times. Russell examines Stanwyck’s work onscreen against the backdrop of costuming and other aspects of filmmaking. But she also views the actress’s off-screen performance within the Hollywood networks that made her an industry favorite and longtime cornerstone of the entertainment community. Russell’s montage approach coalesces into an engrossing portrait of a singular artist whose intelligence and savvy placed her center-stage in the production of her films and in the debates around women, femininity, and motherhood that roiled mid-century America. Original and rich, The Cinema of Barbara Stanwyck is an essential and entertaining reexamination of an enduring Hollywood star.

Author : Andrew Klevan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781838714468

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Barbara Stanwyck by Andrew Klevan Pdf

Barbara Stanwyck's illustrious career began in the 1920s and spanned sixty years. During that period she starred in major films of many genres and worked with some of the most distinguished Hollywood directors. Devoting each chapter to a significant quality of Stanwyck's performances, Andrew Klevan foregrounds crucial scenes from her exemplary films, including Stella Dallas (1937), The Lady Eve (1941), and Double Indemnity (1944). Through the lens of her achievement, Klevan examines the wider concerns of these films while revisiting classic topics from Film Studies – psychoanalysis, medium reflexivity, and the representation of female roles such as the 'sacrificial mother' and the 'femme fatale'. In paying close attention to the various aspects of Barbara Stanwyck's skilfully executed performances, this book enhances familiar understandings and provides fresh illumination.

Author : Abby Books
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1535114320

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25 Best Films of Barbara Stanwyck by Abby Books Pdf

Presenting the 25 Best Films of Barbara Stanwyck: A Movie Poster Mini-Book... A collection of vintage posters and poster art from the top 25 films of Barbara Stanwyck, one of the last of Hollywood's tough ladies, best known for her strong female roles in such films as Double Indemnity (1944). Included in this mini-book are full-sized posters and poster art on 8 x 10 pages presented in descending order, based on their IMDb (Internet Movie Database) Rating. Films included are: All I Desire (1953), Baby Face (1933), Ball of Fire (1941), Christmas in Connecticut (1945), Clash by Night (1952), Double Indemnity (1944), Executive Suite (1954), Forty Guns (1957), Furies (1950), Meet John Doe (1941), My Reputation (1946), Night Nurse (1931), No Man of Her Own (1950), Remember the Night (1940), So Big (1932), Sorry, Wrong Number (1948), Stella Dallas (1937), The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933), The Lady Eve (1941), The Miracle Woman (1931), The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946), The Violent Men (1954), There's Always Tomorrow (1956), Titanic (1953) and Union Pacific (1939). During a nearly 60-year career that spanned 1927 to 1964, Stanwyck played "a rich mix of characterizations in more than 80 films but developed a distinctive image as a gutsy, self-reliant and self-assured woman whose husky voice and cool exterior usually masked a warm heart," according to the New York Times. She was nominated for four Academy Awards for Best Actress for her roles in Stella Dallas (1937), Ball of Fire (1941), Double Indemnity (1944) and Sorry, Wrong Number (1948). In 1982 she was awarded an honorary Oscar for being ''an artist of impeccable grace and beauty, a dedicated actress and one of the great ladies of Hollywood.'' In her films and television work, Stanwyck demonstrated that she was an "extremely versatile actress who could adapt to any role in all genres." 30 pages, full color on white paper.

Author : Dan Callahan
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781617031847

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Barbara Stanwyck by Dan Callahan Pdf

Barbara Stanwyck (1907-1990) rose from the ranks of chorus girl to become one of Hollywood’s most talented leading women-and America’s highest paid woman in the mid-1940s. Shuttled among foster homes as a child, she took a number of low-wage jobs while she determinedly made the connections that landed her in successful Broadway productions. Stanwyck then acted in a stream of high-quality films from the 1930s through the 1950s. Directors such as Cecil B. DeMille, Fritz Lang, and Frank Capra treasured her particular magic. A four-time Academy Award nominee, winner of three Emmys and a Golden Globe, she was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Academy. Dan Callahan considers both Stanwyck’s life and her art, exploring her seminal collaborations with Capra in such great films as Ladies of Leisure, The Miracle Woman, and The Bitter Tea of General Yen; her Pre-Code movies Night Nurse and Baby Face; and her classic roles in Stella Dallas, Remember the Night, The Lady Eve, and Double Indemnity. After making more than eighty films in Hollywood, she revived her career by turning to television, where her role in the 1960s series The Big Valley renewed her immense popularity. Callahan examines Stanwyck’s career in relation to the directors she worked with and the genres she worked in, leading up to her late-career triumphs in two films directed by Douglas Sirk, All I Desire and There’s Always Tomorrow, and two outrageous westerns, The Furies and Forty Guns. The book positions Stanwyck where she belongs-at the very top of her profession-and offers a close, sympathetic reading of her performances in all their range and complexity.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Motion picture actors and actresses
ISBN : OCLC:62322557

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Fifteenth Annual American Film Institute Life Achievement Award April 9, 1987 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Victoria Wilson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 1056 pages
File Size : 47,8 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 : Axel Madsen
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 743 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781504008617

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Stanwyck by Axel Madsen Pdf

A compelling portrait of one of Hollywood’s most invincible women, the late Barbara Stanwyck. A most unusual movie star, Stanwyck was an actress of considerable and neglected talent who elevated every role she had, a woman whose personal life matched the rocky road of her career. Whispered to be among Hollywood’s scandalous “sewing circle,” a group of internationally famous actresses who hid their potentially career-ending lesbianism and bisexuality, Stanwyck kept her liaisons a secret. Despite her steely resolve and her image as a take-control kind of woman, Stanwyck suffered from turbulent marriages and relationships, including her sensational marriage to, and divorce from, the abusive Robert Taylor. Madsen provides a fresh look at this fascinating, complex screen goddess, offering provocative and shocking details from one of Hollywood’s most interesting lives.

Author : Jane Ellen Wayne
Publisher : Aurum
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Motion picture actors and actresses
ISBN : 1906217947

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The Life and Loves of Barbara Stanwyck by Jane Ellen Wayne Pdf

Barbara Stanwyck swore like a sailor, chain smoked and was an alcoholic. And yet, she was one of Hollywood's biggest stars, indeed, number eleven on the American Film Institute's 100 Years of Greatest Screen Legends, and appeared in classic films such as Double Indemnity and Meet John Doe. In this fascinating biography, we follow the orphan who, by sheer determination, became a dancer in Hollywood and began her rise to the top. She auditioned for Frank Capra who called her a 'porcupine' and had an affair with her but after, made her a star. Barbara's first marriage was to comic Frank Fay, they adopted a son whom she later abandoned in the most extraordinary way. Her second husband was Robert Taylor, to whom she vowed revenge after their break-up for his affairs with Lana Turner and Ava Gardner. Until the day she died, she collected 15 per cent of his substantial earnings. Yet on her own deathbed, she swore he was by her bedside waiting for her. Full of tragedy, ambition, success and jealousy, Hollywood stars and stories that include new revelations of affairs with both leading actors and actresses, as well as details of her films, this is a must for Barbara fans and film fans alike. Jane Ellen Wayne, who was employed by The National Broadcasting Company for fifteen years, is the author of numerous biographies of Hollywood stars that include Robert Taylor, Lana Turner, Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly, Joan Crawford and Marilyn Monroe. Her most recent are The Golden Girls of MGM and The Golden Guys of MGM. She is listed in Who's Who of Women in the World and Contemporary Authors. Ms. Wayne resides in New York City.

Author : Ella Smith
Publisher : Random House Value Publishing
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015061161488

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Starring Miss Barbara Stanwyck by Ella Smith Pdf

Author : Jerry Vermilye
Publisher : Jove Books
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1975-01-01
Category : Motion picture actors and actresses
ISBN : 0515036412

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Barbara Stanwyck by Jerry Vermilye Pdf

Author : James A. Clapp
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781351486064

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The American City in the Cinema by James A. Clapp Pdf

The American city and the American movie industry grew up together in the early decades of the twentieth century, making film an ideal medium through which to better understand urban life. Exploiting the increasing popularity of large metropolitan cities and urban lifestyle, movies chronicled the city and the stories it generated. In this volume, urbanist James A. Clapp explores the reciprocal relationship between the city and the cinema within the dimensions of time and space.A variety of themes and actualizations have been repeated throughout the history of the cinema, including the roles of immigrants, women, small towns, family farms, and suburbia; and urban childhoods, family values, violent crime, politics, and dystopic futures. Clapp examines the different ways in which the city has been characterized as well as how it has been portrayed as a character itself.Some of the films discussed include Metropolis, King Kong, West Side Story, It's a Wonderful Life, American Beauty, Rebel without a Cause, American Graffiti, Blade Runner, Gangs of New York, The Untouchables, LA Confidential, Sunrise, Crash, American History X, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Deer Hunter, and many more. This work will be enjoyed by urban specialists, moviegoers, and those interested in American, cultural, and film studies.

Author : James Naremore
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1988-06-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0520910664

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Acting in the Cinema by James Naremore Pdf

In this richly detailed study, James Naremore focuses on the work of film acting, showing what players contribute to movies. Ranging from the earliest short subjects of Charles Chaplin to the contemporary features of Robert DeNiro, he develops a useful means of analyzing performance in the age of mechanical reproduction; at the same time, he reveals the ideological implications behind various approaches to acting, and suggests ways that behavior on the screen can be linked to the presentation of self in society. Naremore's discussion of such figures as Lillian Gish, Marlene Dietrich, James Cagney, and Cary Grant will interest the specialist and the general reader alike, helping to establish standards and methods for future writing about performers and their craft.

Author : Gary A. Yoggy
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1998-09-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 078640566X

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Back in the Saddle by Gary A. Yoggy Pdf

The western is one of the most popular genres in American film history, and some estimate more than 20,000 of them have been produced. Its popular portrayal of the American West, as a place where good and evil are clearly defined, created heroes that are still among the most respected and remembered in film history. Writers Lane Roth and Tom W. Hoffer, William E. Tydeman III, R. Philip Loy, Gary Kramer, Raymond E. White, Michael K. Schoenecke, Sandra Schackel, Jacqueline K. Greb, Jim Collins, Richard Robertson, and Gary Yoggy each contributed an essay, focusing on the performances of some of the most famous of Hollywood's leading cowboys and cowgirls. Analyses of the works of G.M. "Broncho Billy" Anderson, Tom Mix, Buck Jones, Tex Ritter, Roy Rogers, James Stewart, Barbara Stanwyck, Steve McQueen, and James Arness are included. James Drury of The Virginian relates his firsthand experiences of movie making by way of introducing this collection.

Author : Ivy Press
Publisher : Heritage Capital Corporation
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005-10
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 1599670046

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Heritage Vintage Movie Poster Signature Auction 2005 Catalog #624 by Ivy Press Pdf