When Frankie Went To Hollywood

Author : Karen McNally
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780252098208

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When Frankie Went to Hollywood by Karen McNally Pdf

This first in-depth study of Frank Sinatra’s film career explores his iconic status in relation to his many performances in postwar Hollywood cinema. When Frankie Went to Hollywood considers how Sinatra’s musical acts, television appearances, and public commentary impacted his screen performances in Pal Joey, The Tender Trap, Some Came Running, The Man with the Golden Arm, and other hits. A lively discussion of sexuality, class, race, ethnicity, and male vulnerability in postwar American culture illuminates Karen McNally’s investigation into Sinatra’s cinematic roles and public persona. This entertainment luminary, she finds, was central in shaping debates surrounding definitions of American male identity in the 1940s and ’50s.

Author : Karen McNally
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008-03-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780252075421

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When Frankie Went to Hollywood by Karen McNally Pdf

Tells of the rise of this entertainment icon through a review of his musical acts, television appearances, movie performances, and public commentary in the 1940s and 1950s and the impact Sinatra had on the changes in the American male identity. Simultaneous.

Author : Iain Blair
Publisher : McGraw-Hill/Contemporary
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Rock groups
ISBN : 0809252759

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Frankie Goes to Hollywood by Iain Blair Pdf

Author : Brian Nash
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Guitarists
ISBN : 190680298X

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Nasher Says Relax by Brian Nash Pdf

Written by Brian 'Nasher' Nash, lead guitarist with record-breaking 80s group Frankie Goes To Hollywood, this is the book that takes the lid off the pop industry, past and present ...

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 61 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0862273110

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Frankie goes to Hollywood special by Anonim Pdf

Author : Dominic Broomfield-McHugh,Reader in Musicology Dominic Broomfield-McHugh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : Film adaptations
ISBN : 9780197663226

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Race, Sexuality, and Gender and the Musical Screen Adaptation by Dominic Broomfield-McHugh,Reader in Musicology Dominic Broomfield-McHugh Pdf

"From Show Boat (1936) to The Sound of Music (1965) and from Grease (1978) to Chicago (2002), many of the most beloved film musicals in Hollywood history originated as Broadway shows. And in the three years since the original publication of the chapters in this volume (as The Oxford Handbook of Musical Theatre Screen Adaptations, 2019) the phenomenon has persisted, with new adaptations such as Cats, In the Heights, Tick, Tick...Boom!, Dear Evan Hansen, and Spielberg's remake of West Side Story. Yet in general, the number of screen adaptations of Broadway musicals and operettas is far greater than the number that have met with success, especially both critical and commercial success (i.e., good reviews and a profit at the box office). This is all the more surprising since Hollywood tended almost (if not quite) exclusively to buy the rights to musicals that had been successful on the stage as a means of guaranteeing a profitable outcome. After all, musicals that had already enjoyed long runs and nationwide productions on the stage ought to have a readymade audience. One might also think that because the authors had puzzled over the individual challenges posed by such properties in their stage incarnations, it ought to be easier to turn them into strong film musicals. But for every West Side Story there were several Finian's Rainbows, Man of La Manchas, and Carousels: movies that simply did not do justice to the 'enchanted evenings' these works provided in their stage incarnations"--

Author : Thomas Lisanti
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476601427

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Hollywood Surf and Beach Movies by Thomas Lisanti Pdf

Surfers loathed them, teenagers flocked to them, critics dismissed them, producers banked on them—surf and beach movies. For a short time in the 1960s they were extremely popular with younger audiences—mainly because of the shirtless surfer boys and bikini-clad beach girls, the musical performers, and the wild surfing footage. This lavishly illustrated filmography details 32 sizzling fun-in-the-sun teenage epics from Gidget to the Beach Party movies with Frankie and Annette to The Sweet Ride plus a few offshoots in the snow!) Entries include credits, plot synopses, memorable lines, reviews and awards, and commentary from such as Aron Kincaid of The Girls on the Beach, Susan Hart of The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini, Peter Brown of Ride the Wild Surf, Chris Noel of Beach Ball, and Ed Garner of Beach Blanket Bingo. Biographies of actors and leading actresses who made their marks in the genre are included.

Author : SJ McCoy
Publisher : Xenion, Inc
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781946220806

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Spider by SJ McCoy Pdf

He’s no billionaire. Spider grew up in foster care. Moved from one placement to the next. Yeah, they were placements. Not foster families or homes, just placements. He survived. And that’s all he has to say about it. But that’s his past. His present is pretty good. He’s worked hard. He runs his own business. It’s only a coffee shop, but it does well enough. He makes a decent living. More than the money though, the coffee shop is a part of the community. He’s a part of the community. Life is good. He has some amazing friends. Friends who run the gamut from billionaire brothers to homeless vets. He’s been missing one of his friends lately. One very special little boy named Owen. Owen moved away to Montana with his mom and his new dad, Reid Davenport. When Owen begs him to come visit, Spider jumps at the chance. He’s always wanted to see the mountains and experience life outside LA. He knows there’s a whole different world out there. When he gets to Montana, he’s about to find out just how different life there is. Sure, the scenery is amazing, but it’s the people that fascinate him the most. Especially Frankie. Frankie MacFarland isn’t like anyone Spider’s ever met before. Gypsy soul. Crazy cowgirl. Heart of gold. Mouth of a sailor. Hell on wheels. Sweet angel to the kids she works with. A walking contradiction in so many ways. Spider knows all of that within an hour of meeting her and it only leaves him wanting to learn more. But just as he’s never seen anywhere like Paradise Valley before, its residents have never seen anyone like Spider before – and not all of them like the idea of him getting anywhere near Frankie, let alone getting as close to her as he’d like to. Frankie’s not the kind to let anyone tell her what to do. While she might not have gotten the best first impression of the tattooed stranger in town, she’ll be damned if she’ll let her brother, her cousins or anyone else stop her from getting to know him better. Can a tattooed stranger and a gypsy cowgirl find love in Paradise Valley?

Author : Holly Johnson
Publisher : Random House (UK)
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1995-04-01
Category : Popular music
ISBN : 0099393417

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A Bone in My Flute by Holly Johnson Pdf

Author : Don Winslow
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2006-09-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307266071

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The Winter of Frankie Machine by Don Winslow Pdf

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE CARTEL. Frankie Machianno, a hard-working entrepreneur, passionate lover, part-time surf bum, and full-time dad, is a pillar of his waterfront community—and a retired hit man. Once better known as Frankie Machine, he was a brutally efficient killer. Now someone from his past wants him dead, and after a botched attempt on his life, Frankie sets out to find his potential killers. However, the list of suspects is longer than the California coastline. With the mob on his heels and the cops on his tail, Frankie hatches a plan to protect his family, save his life, and escape the mob forever. Then things get really complicated.

Author : Mitch Albom
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062294425

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The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto by Mitch Albom Pdf

From the beloved author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Tuesdays with Morrie and The Five People You Meet in Heaven comes his most critically acclaimed novel yet—a stunningly original tale of love: love between a man and a woman, between an artist and his mentor, and between a musician and his God-given talent. Narrated by the voice of Music itself, the story follows Frankie Presto, a war orphan born in a burning church, through his extraordinary journey around the world. Raised by a blind guitar teacher in Spain and gifted with a talent to change people’s lives—using six mysterious blue strings—Frankie navigates the musical landscape of the twentieth century, from the 1950s jazz scene to the Grand Ole Opry to Elvis mania and Woodstock, all the while searching for his childhood love. As he becomes a famous star, he loses his way, until tragedy steals his ability to play the guitar that had so defined him. Overwhelmed by his loss, Frankie disappears for decades, reemerging late in life for one spectacular yet mystifying farewell. Part love story, part magical mystery, The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto is Mitch Albom at his finest, a Forrest Gump-like epic about one man’s journey to discover what truly matters and the power of talent to change our lives.

Author : Rock Video Superstar Editors
Publisher : Crescent
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0517469626

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Frankie Goes to Hollywood by Rock Video Superstar Editors Pdf

Author : Steven Watts
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781466851153

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JFK and the Masculine Mystique by Steven Watts Pdf

From very early on in his career, John F. Kennedy’s allure was more akin to a movie star than a presidential candidate. Why were Americans so attracted to Kennedy in the late 1950s and early 1960s—his glamorous image, good looks, cool style, tough-minded rhetoric, and sex appeal? As Steve Watts argues, JFK was tailor made for the cultural atmosphere of his time. He benefited from a crisis of manhood that had welled up in postwar America when men had become ensnared by bureaucracy, softened by suburban comfort, and emasculated by a generation of newly-aggressive women. Kennedy appeared to revive the modern American man as youthful and vigorous, masculine and athletic, and a sexual conquistador. His cultural crusade involved other prominent figures, including Frank Sinatra, Norman Mailer, Ian Fleming, Hugh Hefner, Ben Bradlee, Kirk Douglas, and Tony Curtis, who collectively symbolized masculine regeneration. JFK and the Masculine Mystique is not just another standard biography of the youthful president. By examining Kennedy in the context of certain books, movies, social critiques, music, and cultural discussions that framed his ascendancy, Watts shows us the excitement and sense of possibility, the optimism and aspirations, that accompanied the dawn of a new age in America.

Author : Dominic McHugh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190051549

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The Oxford Handbook of Musical Theatre Screen Adaptations by Dominic McHugh Pdf

Hollywood's conversion to sound in the 1920s created an early peak in the film musical, following the immense success of The Jazz Singer. The opportunity to synchronize moving pictures with a soundtrack suited the musical in particular, since the heightened experience of song and dance drew attention to the novelty of the technological development. Until the near-collapse of the genre in the 1960s, the film musical enjoyed around thirty years of development, as landmarks such as The Wizard of Oz, Meet Me in St Louis, Singin' in the Rain, and Gigi showed the exciting possibilities of putting musicals on the silver screen. The Oxford Handbook of Musical Theatre Screen Adaptations traces how the genre of the stage-to-screen musical has evolved, starting with screen adaptations of operettas such as The Desert Song and Rio Rita, and looks at how the Hollywood studios in the 1930s exploited the publication of sheet music as part of their income. Numerous chapters examine specific screen adaptations in depth, including not only favorites such as Annie and Kiss Me, Kate but also some of the lesser-known titles like Li'l Abner and Roberta and problematic adaptations such as Carousel and Paint Your Wagon. Together, the chapters incite lively debates about the process of adapting Broadway for the big screen and provide models for future studies.

Author : Dominic Broomfield-McHugh,Professor of Musicology Dominic Broomfield-McHugh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : Film adaptations
ISBN : 9780197649398

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The Politics of the Musical Theatre Screen Adaptation by Dominic Broomfield-McHugh,Professor of Musicology Dominic Broomfield-McHugh Pdf

"From Show Boat (1936) to The Sound of Music (1965) and from Grease (1978) to Chicago (2002), many of the most beloved film musicals in Hollywood history originated as Broadway shows. And in the three years since the original publication of the chapters in this volume (as The Oxford Handbook of Musical Theatre Screen Adaptations, 2019) the phenomenon has persisted, with new adaptations such as Cats, In the Heights, Tick, Tick...Boom!, Dear Evan Hansen, and Spielberg's remake of West Side Story. Yet in general, the number of screen adaptations of Broadway musicals and operettas is far greater than the number that have met with success, especially both critical and commercial success (i.e., good reviews and a profit at the box office). This is all the more surprising since Hollywood tended almost (if not quite) exclusively to buy the rights to musicals that had been successful on the stage as a means of guaranteeing a profitable outcome. After all, musicals that had already enjoyed long runs and nationwide productions on the stage ought to have a readymade audience. One might also think that because the authors had puzzled over the individual challenges posed by such properties in their stage incarnations, it ought to be easier to turn them into strong film musicals. But for every West Side Story there were several Finian's Rainbows, Man of La Manchas, and Carousels: movies that simply did not do justice to the 'enchanted evenings' these works provided in their stage incarnations"--