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Author: John Belton Publisher: ISBN: 9780231084635 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 274
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Looking at such films as "Frankenstein, Svengali, King Kong" and "The Mark of the Vampire," Berenstein argues that classical horror cinema is marked by malleable gender roles, not by entrenched conventional personas.
Author: John Belton Publisher: ISBN: 9780231084635 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 274
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Looking at such films as "Frankenstein, Svengali, King Kong" and "The Mark of the Vampire," Berenstein argues that classical horror cinema is marked by malleable gender roles, not by entrenched conventional personas.
Author: Harry M. Benshoff Publisher: Manchester University Press ISBN: 9780719044731 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 340
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Monster in the Closet is a history of the horrors film that explores the genre's relationship to the social and cultural history of homosexuality in America. Drawing on a wide variety of films and primary source materials including censorship files, critical reviews, promotional materials, fanzines, men's magazines, and popular news weeklies, the book examines the historical figure of the movie monster in relation to various medical, psychological, religious and social models of homosexuality. While recent work within gay and lesbian studies has explored how the genetic tropes of the horror film intersect with popular culture's understanding of queerness, this is the first book to examine how the concept of the monster queer has evolved from era to era. From the gay and lesbian sensibilities encoded into the form and content of the classical Hollywood horror film, to recent films which play upon AIDS-related fears. Monster in the Closet examines how the horror film started and continues, to demonize (or quite literally "monsterize") queer sexuality, and what the pleasures and "costs" of such representations might be both for individual spectators and culture at large.
Author: Ken Ludwig Publisher: Samuel French, Inc. ISBN: 9780573632884 Category : Actors Languages : en Pages : 124
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Comedy / 5m, 3f / Unit set. In this hilarious comedy by the author of Lend Me A Tenor and Moon Over Buffalo, two English Shakespearean actors, Jack and Leo, find themselves so down on their luck that they are performing "Scenes from Shakespeare" on the Moose Lodge circuit in the Amish country of Pennsylvania. When they hear that an old lady in York, PA is about to die and leave her fortune to her two long lost English nephews, they resolve to pass themselves off as her beloved relatives and
Author: Janice Woods Windle Publisher: Ivy Books ISBN: 0804113084 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 434
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Alive and pulsating with the events of our history, TRUE WOMEN tells the story of two dynastic family lines in Texas, the Kings and the Woodses. Euphemia Texas Ashby King could ride and shoot like any man, and she was there when Sam Houston's rag-tag army routed Santa Anna at San Jacinto . . . . Though she risked her plantation running the Yankee cotton blockade during the Civil War, Georgia Virginia Lawshe Woods still had to defend her family from a corrupt Yankee officer . . . . Bettie Moss King survived wolves, storms, and the Ku Klux Klan to steer her family through the turbulent birth of modern times. Inspired by the author's own Texas roots, here is an unforgettable saga of the grit, determination, and courage of TRUE WOMEN. ""Heartfelt . . . The hardships and adventures faced by [this] family are so movingly described that I was in tears." -- The New York Times Book Review
Author: Andrea Cornell Sarvady Publisher: Chronicle Books ISBN: 9780811852487 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 240
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Contains photographs and profiles that examine the lives and careers of fifty actresses of the studio era who empowered women, each with an annotated list of films, style notes, behind-the-scene facts, trivia, and a list of awards and nominations.
Author: Christine de Pizan Publisher: Penguin UK ISBN: 0141961015 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 262
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Written by Europe’s first professional woman writer, The Treasure of the City of Ladies offers advice and guidance to women of all ages and from all levels of medieval society, from royal courtiers to prostitutes. It paints an intricate picture of daily life in the courts and streets of fifteenth-century France and gives a fascinating glimpse into the practical considerations of running a household, dressing appropriately and maintaining a reputation in all circumstances. Christine de Pizan’s book provides a valuable counterbalance to male accounts of life in the middle ages and demonstrates, often with dry humour, how a woman’s position in society could be made less precarious by following the correct etiquette.
Author: Gary D. Rhodes Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 9780739125687 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 354
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Edgar G. Ulmer: Detour on Poverty Row examines the full scope of the career of this often overlooked film auteur, with essays exploring individual films, groups of films (such as his important work in film noir), repetitive themes appearing across the spectrum of his work, and a case study of three essays analyzing The Black Cat (1934).
Author: Donald Spoto Publisher: Crown ISBN: 0307351319 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 370
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"Fascinating . . . probes an even darker side of Hitchcock." –Newsday It is remarkable how infrequently, over a period of more than fifty years, Alfred Hitchcock spoke about the legendary actresses he directed–including Ingrid Bergman, Kim Novak, and Grace Kelly. But his leading ladies greatly enriched his films, and many of them achieved international stardom precisely because of their work for Hitchcock. Rich with new material, anecdotes, and never-before-told personal observations, this explosive portrait details Hitchcock’s outbursts of cruelty, the shocking humor, and the odd amalgam of adoration and contempt that characterized Hitchcock’s obsessive relationships with women–and that also, paradoxically, fed his genius. Spellbound by Beauty offers important insights into the life of a brilliant and tortured artist, and pays tribute to the memorable actresses who gave so much to his films. "[Spoto] informs Spellbound by Beauty with his profound knowledge of his subject, years of sound reporting, highly polished prose, and sensible analysis." —Richmond Times-Dispatch "Expert insights into Hitchcock’s films." —Oregonian (Portland) "You will never look at a Hitchcock movie the same." —Tampa Tribune
Author: Elizabeth Cody Kimmel Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101552360 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 155
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In the second installment of Elizabeth Cody Kimmel's funny new middle grade series, the magazine is up and running and while the girls may have won the competition to get school funding, now they face new and unexpected challenges. Tally is out for the lead in the school play. Miko has left the magazine to focus on her schoolwork and spend time with her real friends. Ivy is hiding a secret that is distancing her from her new friends. And Paulina is left to juggle the magazine on her own. Will she crack under the pressure?
Author: John Belton
Author: John Belton
Author: Harry M. Benshoff
Author: Ken Ludwig
Author: John David Slocum
Author: Janice Woods Windle
Author: Andrea Cornell Sarvady
Author: Christine de Pizan
Author: Gary D. Rhodes
Author: Donald Spoto
Author: Elizabeth Cody Kimmel