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Author : Will Irwin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UVA:X000651595
Author : William Henry Irwin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : OCLC:483865431
Author : American Film Institute
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 1198 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : 0520079086
"The entire field of film historians awaits the AFI volumes with eagerness."--Eileen Bowser, Museum of Modern Art Film Department Comments on previous volumes: "The source of last resort for finding socially valuable . . . films that received such scant attention that they seem 'lost' until discovered in the AFI Catalog."--Thomas Cripps "Endlessly absorbing as an excursion into cultural history and national memory."--Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
Author : Tracey Goessel
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781613734070
The complete, definitive biography of Hollywood's first superstar Douglas Fairbanks was the greatest leading man of his generation—the first and the best of the swashbucklers. He made some of the greatest films of the silent era, including The Thief of Bagdad, Robin Hood, and The Mark of Zorro. With Charlie Chaplin, D. W. Griffith, and his wife, film star Mary Pickford, he founded United Artists. Pickford and Fairbanks ruled Hollywood as its first king and queen for a decade. Now a cache of newly discovered love letters from Fairbanks to Pickford form the centerpiece of the first truly definitive biography of Hollywood's first king, the original Robin Hood, the true Zorro, the man who did his own stunts, built his own studio, and formed a company that allowed artists to distribute their own wealth outside the studio system. Fairbanks was fun, witty, engaging, creative, athletic, and a force to be reckoned with. He shaped our idea of the Hollywood hero, and it has never been the same since. His story, like his movies, is full of passion, bravado, and romance.
Author : Neal Gabler
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1989-08-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780385265577
A provocative, original, and richly entertaining group biography of the Jewish immigrants who were the moving forces behind the creation of America's motion picture industry. The names Harry Cohn, William Fox, Carl Laemmle, Louis B. Mayer, Jack and Harry Warner, and Adolph Zucker are giants in the history of contemporary Hollywood, outsiders who dared to invent their own vision of the American Dream. Even to this day, the American values defined largely by the movies of these émigrés endure in American cinema and culture. Who these men were, how they came to dominate Hollywood, and what they gained and lost in the process is the exhilarating story of An Empire of Their Own.
Author : Ronny Regev
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469637068
A history of the Hollywood film industry as a modern system of labor, this book reveals an important untold story of an influential twentieth-century workplace. Ronny Regev argues that the Hollywood studio system institutionalized creative labor by systemizing and standardizing the work of actors, directors, writers, and cinematographers, meshing artistic sensibilities with the efficiency-minded rationale of industrial capitalism. The employees of the studios emerged as a new class: they were wage laborers with enormous salaries, artists subjected to budgets and supervision, stars bound by contracts. As such, these workers--people like Clark Gable, Katharine Hepburn, and Anita Loos--were the outliers in the American workforce, an extraordinary working class. Through extensive use of oral histories, personal correspondence, studio archives, and the papers of leading Hollywood luminaries as well as their less-known contemporaries, Regev demonstrates that, as part of their contribution to popular culture, Hollywood studios such as Paramount, Warner Bros., and MGM cultivated a new form of labor, one that made work seem like fantasy.
Author : Robert Birchard
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2004-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0813123240
"Drawing extensively on DeMille's personal archives and other primary sources, Robert S. Birchard offers a revealing portrait of the film-maker that goes behind studio gates and beyond DeMille's legendary persona. Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood is a detailed and definitive chronicle of cinematic work that changed the course of film history and a look at how movies were made during Hollywood's golden age."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Charles Musser
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1994-05-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520085337
Looks at the early years of the motion picture industry through 1907.
Author : Charlie Keil,Rob King
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 825 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780190496692
The Oxford Handbook of Silent Cinema is a collection of new scholarship that investigates the first decades of motion-picture history from diverse perspectives and methodologies. Featuring over thirty essays by leading scholars in the field, the Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of cinema's earliest years while also illuminating how cinema derived strength from competing cultural forms, becoming in the process the most influential mass medium of the early twentieth century.
Author : Robert Sobel
Publisher : Beard Books
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1587980274
A well-researched, informative book in which Robert Sobel, the noted financial historian, explores the lives and careers of nine representative innovators in business during the last 200 years, men frequently overlooked by contemporary social and political historians: Francis Cabot Lowell, John Wanamaker, Cyrus McCormick, James Hill, James Duke, Theodore Vail, Marcus Loew, Donald Douglas, and Royal Little. Each one was selected to illustrate a different aspect of American business tradition. All share the ability to grasp opportunity and to oppose conventional wisdom when necessary, both of which contributed to the fabric of modern corporate life. In the aggregate they created new organizational traditions that were imitated throughout the Western world. Book jacket.
Author : David Puttnam
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780307488442
From David Puttnam—producer of such modern film classics as Chariots of Fire, The Killing Fields, Midnight Express, and The Mission, and the only European to have run a major Hollywood studio—an insightful and provocative history that explains the personalities and events which shaped film's transformation from a technological curiosity into one of the world's most powerful cultural and economic forces. From the early rivalry between its inventors to the power-brokering and political influence of today's mega-stars; from Zukor and Laemmle to Ovitz and Eisner; from the serendipitous discovery of Los Angeles ("flagstaff no good," wired Cecil B. De Mille. "want authority to rent barn for $75 a month in place called hollywood") to the exploitation and depredation of Europe's film culture in the name of the marketplace, Puttnam captures the urgency and wonder that swept through a young industry and set it spinning on an axis of money and power. Movies and Money chronicles the unprecedented collision between art and commerce, and incisively analyzes its implications in today's global arena. Puttnam's engaging history is also an impassioned polemic: From the moment Thomas Edison stole the first crude attempt at a movie camera from the French scientist Étienne Jules Marey, Hollywood and Europe have existed, the author claims, in a state of undeclared hostility—hostility that has occasionally erupted into open battle for control of the century's most powerful artistic medium. And this battle, he contends, will ultimately determine the nature of Europe's cultural identity. He also argues forcefully for the intelligent application of the language and techniques of cinema to education, urging filmmakers to make films that challenge and inspire as well as entertain. Ten years after his abrupt departure from Columbia, Puttnam re-enters the debate about cinema with characteristic audacity, with the irreverence of an iconoclast and the canniness of a seasoned player. Movies and Money is a book that will change our understanding of the history—and future—of film.
Author : Wes D. Gehring
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1617034037
Author : Anne Stuart
Publisher : Anne Stuart
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781951309343
Jilly Meyer has a lot of responsibilities–her troubled sister, her weak brother, her beloved house on Sunset that comes complete with two lively ghosts. She can handle it all–what she can’t handle is the gorgeous snake in the grass her wretched father has sent to destroy everything she cares about. Coltrane’s job as Jackson Meyer’s right-hand man puts him in close contact with his boss’s rebellious daughter, and he has no problem fulfilling his orders as long as it brings him closer to his ultimate agenda. He can’t afford any vulnerabilities, and Jilly Meyer is just that. He shouldn’t want her. But he does. Two enemies in a haunted mansion on Sunset Boulevard, where secrets and shadows abound. What could possibly go wrong?
Author : Jacob Rader Marcus
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 1002 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Jews
ISBN : 0814321860
Author : Robert S. Birchard
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 0738570230
Known as much today for its theme park, Universal City is also the largest and the longest continuously operating movie studio in "Hollywood." The Universal Film Manufacturing Company was formed by a dozen independent producers in 1912, and Universal City was designed to provide a single facility in which to make their films. Since its official opening on March 15, 1915, Universal City has served as a training ground for great directors such as John Ford, William Wyler, and James Whale and as home to stars like Hoot Gibson, Deanna Durbin, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney Sr. and Jr., and Tom Mix. This evocative volume explores the studio that brought The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923), The Phantom of the Opera (1925), All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), Dracula (1930), Frankenstein (1931), and 100 Men and a Girl (1936) to the screen.