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Category : Motion picture actors and actresses
Languages : en
Pages : 83
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Barbara Stanwyck
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Category : Motion picture actors and actresses
Languages : en
Pages : 83
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Number One in the U.S.A.
Author: Thomas P. SlavensPublisher: Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 214
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Astaire by Numbers
Author: Todd DeckerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197643582
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Languages : en
Pages : 457
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Astaire by Numbers looks at every second of dancing Fred Astaire committed to film in the studio era--all six hours, thirty-four minutes, and fifty seconds. Using a quantitative digital humanities approach, as well as previously untapped production records, author Todd Decker takes the reader onto the set and into the rehearsal halls and editing rooms where Astaire created his seemingly perfect film dances. Watching closely in this way reveals how Astaire used the technically sophisticated resources of the Hollywood film making machine to craft a singular career in mass entertainment as a straight white man who danced. Decker dissects Astaire's work at the level of the shot, the cut, and the dance step to reveal the aesthetic and practical choices that yielded Astaire's dancing figure on screen. He offers new insights into how Astaire secured his masculinity and his heterosexuality, along with a new understanding of Astaire's whiteness, which emerges in both the sheer extent of his work and the larger implications of his famous "full figure" framing of his dancing body. Astaire by Numbers rethinks this towering straight white male figure from the ground up by digging deeply into questions of race, gender, and sexuality, ultimately offering a complete re-assessment of a twentieth-century icon of American popular culture.
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Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1050
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Why to Kill a Mockingbird Matters
Author: Tom SantopietroPublisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1250163765
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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Tom Santopietro, an author well-known for his writing about American popular culture, delves into the heart of the beloved classic and shows readers why To Kill a Mockingbird matters more today than ever before. With 40 million copies sold, To Kill a Mockingbird’s poignant but clear eyed examination of human nature has cemented its status as a global classic. Tom Santopietro's new book, Why To Kill a Mockingbird Matters, takes a 360 degree look at the Mockingbird phenomenon both on page and screen. Santopietro traces the writing of To Kill a Mockingbird, the impact of the Pulitzer Prize, and investigates the claims that Lee’s book is actually racist. Here for the first time is the full behind the scenes story regarding the creation of the 1962 film, one which entered the American consciousness in a way that few other films ever have. From the earliest casting sessions to the Oscars and the 50th Anniversary screening at the White House, Santopietro examines exactly what makes the movie and Gregory Peck’s unforgettable performance as Atticus Finch so captivating. As Americans yearn for an end to divisiveness, there is no better time to look at the significance of Harper Lee's book, the film, and all that came after.
American Vision
Author: Raymond CarneyPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521326193
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Professor Carney analyses Frank Capra's life as well as the broad cultural context of his films.
June Allyson
Author: Peter ShelleyPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476687684
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
June Allyson (1917-2006) was an American film, television and stage actress, singer, dancer and author. After appearing in movie shorts and on Broadway as a chorus girl and featured player, she became an A-list box office attraction in the 1940s and 1950s in films like The Three Musketeers (1948), Little Women (1949), The Glen Miller Story (1954) and Strategic Air Command (1955). She went on to host and star in her own television anthology series from 1959 to 1961, and made many appearances in films in television shows. This first biography of Allyson covers her life and career, and features an appendix of her work.
Variety's Who's who in Show Business
Author: Mike KaplanPublisher: R. R. Bowker
ISBN: 9780835226653
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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The Hollywood Reporter
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Category : Motion picture industry
Languages : en
Pages : 966
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Awards, Honors, and Prizes
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Category : Awards
Languages : en
Pages : 1376
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Listing and description of 2228 awards, honors, and prizes given for outstanding achievement in the United States and Canada. Science, technology, and medicine are among the 28 broad fields covered. Main listing by organization, with address and annotation. Alphabetical index of awards, subject index of awards.