Author: Kim R. Holston Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 0786480882 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 257
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This biography of Susan Hayward, one of Hollywood's leading ladies of the 1940s and 1950s, covers her childhood, school years, early modeling career, and development as an actress. It also documents her personal life, including her marriages and attempted suicide, and her illness and death at the age of 56. It provides an analysis of each of her feature films with comments from contemporary reviewers, and places Hayward and her films in the context of Hollywood and motion picture history. The filmography gives cast and production credits for both motion pictures and television movies.
Author: Susan Hayward Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134587902 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 550
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This is the essential guide for anyone interested in film. Now in its second edition, the text has been completely revised and expanded to meet the needs of today's students and film enthusiasts. Some 150 key genres, movements, theories and production terms are explained and analyzed with depth and clarity. Entries include:* auteur theory* Blaxploitation* British New Wave* feminist film theory* intertextuality* method acting* pornography* Third World Cinema* Vampire movies.
Author: Susan Hayward Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 113493355X Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 634
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This examination of France's national cinema takes its primary artefact, the feature film and discusses both popular cinema and the `avant garde' cinema that contests it. Susan Hayward argues that writing on French national cinema has tended to focus on either `great' film-makers or on specific movements, addressing moments of exception rather than the global picture. Her work offers a thorough and much-needed historical textualisation of those moments and relocates them them in their wider political and cultural context. Beginning with an `ecohistory' of the French film industry, she then traces the various movements in French cinema and the directors associated with them, including the avant-garde, Poetic-Realist, New Wave and today's postmodern cinema. Her analysis includes, amongst other considerations, the social and political concerns these cinemas reflect.
Author: Susan Hayward Publisher: A&C Black ISBN: 9780826413949 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 308
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In what may be the most in-depth study yet published of a film star's body of work, Susan Hayward charts the career of Simone Signoret, one of the great Frech actresses of the 20th Century.Signoret- who won an Oscar in 1960 for her performance in Room at the Top- was a key figure in French cinema for 40 years. But it is not so much her longevity that impresses, as it is the quality of work she produced as her career progressed. She started out as a stunningly beautiful woman, winning major international awards five times for her roles, and yet was only moderately in demand during those years. From the 1960s onwards, when her looks began to decline significantly, Signoret was in greater demand, and produced most of her output. She insisted on playing roles consonant with her real age, and often chose to play roles that portrayed wher as even more ugly than she had become.Simore Signoret: The Star as Cultural Sign is a remarkable achievement, a labor of love from one of the world's leading scholars of French cinema.
Author: Susan Hayward Publisher: Manchester University Press ISBN: 9780719070297 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 208
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This fascinating collection looks at the career and films of Luc Besson, one of the most acclaimed figures in international cinema. Contributions have been assembled from all over the world, and their different approaches reflect this geographical diversity. Films covered range from Besson’s first feature, La Dernier Combat, to the international blockbusters The Fifth Element and Joan of Arc. The essays range from looking at costume design to musical scores, and the final chapter offers a transcript of a previously unpublished interview with the man himself. He is the only French director to have crossed over successfully during the 1990s into the blockbuster spectacular we associate with Hollywood cinema and yet this is only the second book in English on this major international director. The Films of Luc Besson will make fascinating reading for anyone interested in the career and films of the "master of spectacle."
Author: Sarah Clark Publisher: Emerge Publishing Group Llc ISBN: 9781488565571 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 236
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An excellent Biography of Susan Hayward. This book is your ultimate resource for Susan Hayward. Here you will find the most up-to-date 194 Success Facts, Information, and much more. In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Susan Hayward's Early life, Career and Personal life right away. A quick look inside: Garden of Evil - Plot, And Now Tomorrow, 1952 in film - Awards, The Forest Rangers (film) - Cast, Judy Garland - Final years, Alcoholics Anonymous - Films where primary plot line includes AA, I Married a Witch, Susan Hayward - Early life, The Marriage-Go-Round - Cast, Scarlett O'Hara - Other actresses considered for Scarlett, All About Eve - Casting and characters, Star Spangled Rhythm - Cast, They Won't Believe Me, Erasmus Hall High School - 20th century, Thunder in the Sun, House of Strangers - Cast, Soldier of Fortune (1955 film), John Michael Hayes - Films, Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman - Cast, Beau Geste (1939 film), I Married a Witch - Plot, The Revengers (film) - Cast, Valley of the Dolls - Background, The Snows of Kilimanjaro (short story) - Reception and adaptation, Woman Obsessed - Cast, The Lost Moment - Reception, With a Song in My Heart (film) - Awards, Genghis Khan - Films, The Graduate - Casting, Jean Louis - Actresses designed for, With a Song in My Heart (film) - Soundtrack songs from the film, Walter Wanger - Later career, Jayne Meadows - Career, 1953 in film - Notable films released in 1953, The Lusty Men - Plot, Valley of the Dolls (film) - Soundtrack, BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role - Multiple nominations, Top Secret Affair, Bill Williams (actor) - Career, and much more...
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