The Magnificent 7 The Sequel

Author : Mary Kay Beall,John Carter
Publisher : Alfred Music Publishing
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1999-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 0739000802

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The Magnificent 7 - the Sequel by Mary Kay Beall,John Carter Pdf

Introduce your young students to the music and lives of seven great composers with The Magnificent 7: The Sequel. This unison collection by well-known composers John Carter and Mary Kay Beall can be used in many ways It's effective as a songbook, or a series of musical history lessons, or add the informative narrative verse to create an enjoyable 20-minute program. The Teacher's Handbook also includes 11 reproducible activity sheets for classroom use. Both the teacher and student books contain biographical information and portraits of the seven featured composers. The CD features full performances (using children's voices) and accompaniment orchestrations arraged by Alan Billingsley. The clever lyrics describing the composers' lives are set to their most famous melodies. Turn kids on to the classics while studying the music and lives of Handel, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Liszt, Verdi, Prokofiev and Joplin. Grades 3 and up. Approximately 20 minutes.

Author : Brian Hannan
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786496952

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The Making of The Magnificent Seven by Brian Hannan Pdf

The story behind The Magnificent Seven could have been a movie in itself. It had everything--actors' strike, writers' strike, Mexican government interference and a row between the screenwriters that left one removing his name from the credits, all under the lingering gloom of post-McCarthy era Hollywood. A flop on release, it later became a box office hit. This book tells the behind-the-scenes story: how Yul Brynner became the biggest independent producer in Hollywood; why John Sturges was not the first choice after Brynner surrendered the director's chair; why Sturges quit; the truth about the Mirisch Company (producers); the details of the film's botched release and unlikely redemption; the creation of Elmer Bernstein's classic score; and how internecine fighting prevented the making of the television series in 1963. Myths about Steve McQueen, his feud with Brynner and the scene-stealing antics of the cast are debunked. A close examination of the various screenplay drafts and the writers' source material--Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai--shows who wrote what. Extensive analysis of Sturges' directorial work is provided.

Author : Paul Kerr
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781501336775

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Hollywood Independent by Paul Kerr Pdf

Hollywood Independent dissects the Mirisch Company, one of the most successful employers of the package-unit system of film production, producing classic films like The Apartment (1960), West Side Story (1961), The Great Escape (1963) and The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) as irresistible talent packages. Whilst they helped make the names of a new generation of stars including Steve McQueen and Shirley MacLaine, as well as banking on the reputations of established auteurs like Billy Wilder, they were also pioneers in dealing with controversial new themes with films about race (In the Heat of the Night), gender (Some Like it Hot) and sexuality (The Children's Hour), devising new ways of working with film franchises (The Magnificent Seven, The Pink Panther and In the Heat of the Night spun off 7 Mirisch sequels between them) and cinematic cycles, investing in adaptations of bestsellers and Broadway hits, exploiting frozen funds abroad and exploring so-called runaway productions. The Mirisch Company bridges the gap between the end of the studio system by about 1960 and the emergence of a new cinema in the mid-1970s, dominated by the Movie Brats.

Author : Stuart Henderson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781844578436

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The Hollywood Sequel by Stuart Henderson Pdf

This illuminating study charts the changing role of the Hollywood film sequel over the past century. Considering a range of sequels in their industrial, historical and aesthetic contexts, from The Son of a Sheik (1926) to Toy Story 3 (2010), this book provides a comprehensive history of this critically-neglected yet commercially-dominant art form.

Author : Ariane Hudelet,Anne Crémieux
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000201352

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Exploring Seriality on Screen by Ariane Hudelet,Anne Crémieux Pdf

This collective book analyzes seriality as a major phenomenon increasingly connecting audiovisual narratives (cinematic films and television series) in the 20th and 21st centuries. The book historicizes and contextualizes the notion of seriality, combining narratological, aesthetic, industrial, philosophical, and political perspectives, showing how seriality as a paradigm informs media convergence and resides at the core of cinema and television history. By associating theoretical considerations and close readings of specific works, as well as diachronic and synchronic approaches, this volume offers a complex panorama of issues related to seriality including audience engagement, intertextuality and transmediality, cultural legitimacy, authorship, and medium specificity in remakes, adaptations, sequels, and reboots. Written by a team of international scholars, this book highlights a diversity of methodologies that will be of interest to scholars and doctoral students across disciplinary areas such as media studies, film studies, literature, aesthetics, and cultural studies. It will also interest students attending classes on serial audiovisual narratives and will appeal to fans of the series it addresses, such as Fargo, Twin Peaks, The Hunger Games, Bates Motel, and Sherlock.

Author : John G. Cawelti
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : West (U.S.)
ISBN : 0879727853

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The Six-gun Mystique Sequel by John G. Cawelti Pdf

The Six-Gun Mystique Sequel is a revised and considerably expanded edition of The Six-Gun Mystique, a pioneering study of the Western as a popular genre that has been widely influential since its original publication in 1970.

Author : Brian Hannan
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476637273

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The Gunslingers of '69 by Brian Hannan Pdf

In 1969--the counter-cultural moment when Easy Rider triggered a "youthquake" in audience interests--Westerns proved more dominant than ever at the box office and at the Oscars. It was a year of masterpieces--The Wild Bunch, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Once Upon a Time in the West and True Grit. Robert Redford achieved star status. Old-timers like John Wayne, Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum appeared in two Westerns apiece. Raquel Welch took on the mantle of Queen of the West. Clint Eastwood and Lee Marvin tried their hand at a musical (Paint Your Wagon). New directors like George Roy Hill reinvigorated the genre while veteran Sam Peckinpah at last found popular approval. Themes included women's rights, social anxieties about violence and changing attitudes of and towards African-Americans and Native Americans. All of the 40-plus Westerns released in the U.S. in 1969 are covered in depth, offering a new perspective on the genre.

Author : Andrew McKay
Publisher : Balboa Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781982248291

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Freedom by Andrew McKay Pdf

In 1967 Andrew had just moved to Newport Beach to begin his junior year at California State College in Long Beach. By a chance meeting he met a high school English Teacher who intrigued him of tales of travel to the places of Earnest Hemingway. It was that influence that created the passion to not only go but to return against incredible odds.

Author : Henry MacAdam,Duncan Cooper
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781527562271

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The Gladiators vs. Spartacus, Volume 1 by Henry MacAdam,Duncan Cooper Pdf

Using previously unpublished correspondence and personal journal entries from screenwriter Abraham Polonsky, neglected notices in Variety and other Hollywood trade publications, and a wide range of published sources, this narrative backstory of rival movie productions of The Gladiators vs Spartacus documents that intense competition with greater precision and clarity than any other existing account. The key role that this little-known chapter of Hollywood's blacklist history played, in connection with Dalton Trumbo's successful effort to win screen credit for Spartacus, is now for the first time available to film historians and lay readers. A companion study, Volume 2, is devoted to Abraham Polonsky’s rediscovered screenplay.

Author : Walter Mirisch
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780299226435

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I Thought We Were Making Movies, Not History by Walter Mirisch Pdf

This is a moving, star-filled account of one of Hollywood’s true golden ages as told by a man in the middle of it all. Walter Mirisch’s company has produced some of the most entertaining and enduring classics in film history, including West Side Story, Some Like It Hot, In the Heat of the Night, and The Magnificent Seven. His work has led to 87 Academy Award nominations and 28 Oscars. Richly illustrated with rare photographs from his personal collection, I Thought We Were Making Movies, Not History reveals Mirisch’s own experience of Hollywood and tells the stories of the stars—emerging and established—who appeared in his films, including Natalie Wood, John Wayne, Peter Sellers, Sidney Poitier, Steve McQueen, Marilyn Monroe, and many others. With hard-won insight and gentle humor, Mirisch recounts how he witnessed the end of the studio system, the development of independent production, and the rise and fall of some of Hollywood’s most gifted (and notorious) cultural icons. A producer with a passion for creative excellence, he offers insights into his innovative filmmaking process, revealing a rare ingenuity for placating the demands of auteur directors, weak-kneed studio executives, and troubled screen sirens. From his early start as a movie theater usher to the presentation of such masterpieces as The Apartment, Fiddler on the Roof, and The Great Escape, Mirisch tells the inspiring life story of his climb to the highest echelon of the American film industry. This book assures Mirisch’s legacy—as Elmore Leonard puts it—as “one of the good guys.” Best Books for Special Interests, selected by the American Association of School Librarians, and Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the Public Library Association

Author : Eila Mell
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476609768

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Casting Might-Have-Beens by Eila Mell Pdf

Some acting careers are made by one great role and some fall into obscurity when one is declined. Would Al Pacino be the star he is today if Robert Redford had accepted the role of Michael Corleone in The Godfather? Imagine Tom Hanks rejecting Uma Thurman, saying that she acted like someone in a high school play when she auditioned to play opposite him in The Bonfire of the Vanities. Picture Danny Thomas as The Godfather, or Marilyn Monroe as Cleopatra. This reference work lists hundreds of such stories: actors who didn’t get cast or who turned down certain parts. Each entry, organized alphabetically by film title, gives the character and actor cast, a list of other actors considered for that role, and the details of the casting decision. Information is drawn from extensive research and interviews. From About Last Night (which John Belushi turned down at his brother’s urging) to Zulu (in which Michael Caine was not cast because he didn’t look “Cockney” enough), this book lets you imagine how different your favorite films could have been.

Author : Wikipedia contributors
Publisher : e-artnow sro
Page : 1664 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Focus On: 100 Most Popular Tony Award Winners by Wikipedia contributors Pdf

Author : Harvey Estes
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 1402724985

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Crosswords for a Rainy Day by Harvey Estes Pdf

Let it rain! These puzzles will have solvers peering out their windows, hoping for gray skies and thunderstorms. After all, when crosswords are this good, what could be more fun than staying inside and curling up in a chair with a pen or pencil in hand? There’s great variety in this spiral-bound collection: not only themed crosswords, but also a few anagrams, a couple of rebuses, and games with word pronunciation to spice up the deciphering. There are plenty to keep you busy for hours, so make yourself comfy, grab that cup of coffee, and never mind the weather.

Author : Richard Slotkin
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 868 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0806130318

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Gunfighter Nation by Richard Slotkin Pdf

Examines the ways in which the frontier myth influences American culture and politics, drawing on fiction, western films, and political writing

Author : Ken Jennings
Publisher : Villard
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-15
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780345499974

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Ken Jennings's Trivia Almanac by Ken Jennings Pdf

Ken Jennings’s Trivia Almanac is the ingeniously organized book where, for a change, the all-time Jeopardy! champ gets to ask the questions–and where every day of the year will give you the chance to test your trivia mettle. For example–February 21: In 1912, on this day, Teddy Roosevelt coined the political phrase “hat in the ring,” so Ken Jennings fires off a series of “ring” questions. What two NFL quarterbacks have four Super Bowl rings each?* What rings are divided by the Cassini Division?** Also on this date, in 1981, the “goth” music scene was born in London, so here’s a quiz on black-clad icons like Darth Vader, Johnny Cash, and Zorro. Do you know the secret identities of Ivanhoe’s Black Knight*** or Men in Black’s Agent M****? In this ultimate book for trivia buffs and other assorted know-it-alls, the 365 entries feature “This Day in History” factoids, trivia quizzes, and questions categorized by Jennings as “Easy,” “Hard,” and “Yeah, Good Luck.” Topics cover every subject under the sun, from paleontology to mixology, sports feats to Bach suites, medieval popes to daytime soaps. This addictive gathering of facts, oddities, devilishly clever quizzes, and other flights of fancy will make each day a fun and intriguing new challenge.