Author: Howard LongfellowPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465532749
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
Polly Moran's House
Author: Howard LongfellowPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465532749
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
The Aesthetics of Dedalus and Bloom
Author: Marguerite HarknessPublisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838750506
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
This study explores James Joyce's struggle to come to terms with the aesthetic outlooks current at the beginning of the century by examining his portrayal of their dangers and attractions in his two most fully realized characters, Stephen Dedalus in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Leopold Bloom in Ulysses.
Eighty Odd Years in Hollywood
Author: John Meredyth LucasPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786481161
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
John Meredyth Lucas, son of silent screen star and screenwriter Bess Meredyth (Ben-Hur, The Sea Beast, When a Man Loves, Don Juan) and stepson of renowned Hungarian-born director Michael Curtiz (Casablanca, Mildred Pierce, Yankee Doodle Dandy, Life with Father), came of age in Hollywood during the 1930s. Lucas went on to an impressive career of his own as a writer-producer-director. He made films with Hal Wallis, Ross Hunter, Walt Disney, and others, and he wrote, produced, and directed such classic television series as Mannix, The Fugitive and Star Trek. Completed shortly before his death in 2002, Lucas' memoir is filled with never-before-told recollections of many Hollywood greats and features previously unpublished photographs. With Lucas, we go behind the scenes, onto the studio lots and into the parties with family friends John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Errol Flynn and Jack Warner, to name just a few. It's a boy's-eye-view of Hollywood in a time of glamour, decadence, and the golden years of filmmaking.
Southern California Off the Beaten Path®
Author: Kathy StrongPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0762774789
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Southern California Off the Beaten Path features the things travelers and locals want to see and experience––if only they knew about them. From the best in local dining to quirky cultural tidbits to hidden attractions, unique finds, and unusual locales, Southern California Off the Beaten Path takes the reader down the road less traveled and reveals a side of Southern California that other guidebooks just don't offer.
Vaudeville old & new
Author: Frank CullenPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0415938538
Category : Entertainers
Languages : en
Pages : 1362
Book Description
Early Motion Pictures
Author: Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Silent films
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
A Great Big Girl Like Me
Author: Victoria SturtevantPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252092627
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
In this study of Marie Dressler, MGM's most profitable movie star in the early 1930s, Victoria Sturtevant analyzes Dressler's use of her body to challenge Hollywood's standards for leading ladies. At five feet seven inches tall and two hundred pounds, Dressler was never considered the popular "delicate beauty," often playing ugly ducklings, old maids, doting mothers, and imperious dowagers. However, Dressler's body, her fearless physicality, and her athletic slapstick routines commanded the screen. Although an unlikely movie star, Dressler represented for Depression-era audiences a sign of abundance and generosity in a time of scarcity. This premier analysis of her body of work explores how Dressler refocused the generic frame of her films beyond the shallow problems of the rich and beautiful, instead dignifying the marginalized, the elderly, women, and the poor. Sturtevant inteprets the meanings of Dressler's body through different genres, venues, and historical periods by looking at her vaudeville career, her transgressive representation of an "unruly" yet sexual body in Emma and Christopher Bean, ideas of the body politic in the films Politics and Prosperity, and Dressler as a mythic body in Min and Bill and Tugboat Annie.
The Moving Picture World
Author: Celebrities in Los Angeles Cemeteries
Author: Allan R. EllenbergerPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786409835
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
In accord with the fascination that surrounds Hollywood celebrities and the increasing popularity of celebrity grave-hunting, this book serves as a guide to the final resting places of the many celebrities who are buried in Los Angeles County, California. It is arranged by cemetery, and provides the following information for each person: age at time of death; date and place of birth; date and place of death; cause of death; obituary headline of the deceased; inscription on grave marker; location of grave; and a film that the celebrity appeared in. Includes appendices, web site information, bibliography, and index.
Mack Sennett's Fun Factory
Author: Brent E. WalkerPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786457074
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 673
Book Description
This is a comprehensive career study and filmography of Mack Sennett, cofounder of Keystone Studios, home of the Keystone Kops and other vehicles that showcased his innovative slapstick comedy. The filmography covers the more than 1,000 films Sennett produced, directed, wrote or appeared in between 1908 and 1955, including casts, credits, synopses, production and release dates, locations, cross-references of remade stories and gags, footage excerpted in compilations, identification of prints existing in archives, and other information. The book, featuring 280 photographs, also contains biographies of several hundred performers and technical personnel connected with Sennett.