Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 860
Book Description
Exhibitors Daily Review
Author: The Exhibitor
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Motion picture industry
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
Some issues include separately paged sections: Better management, Physical theatre, extra profits; Review; Servisection.
The New York State Exhibitor ...
Author: Becoming Nick and Nora
Author: Rob KozlowskiPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493062867
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
As Nick and Nora Charles in the six Thin Man movies from 1934 to 1947, the team of William Powell and Myrna Loy showed that marriage didn’t have to mean the end of the romantic comedy. From the comedic delight that was the initial The Thin Man through its five sequels as well as eight other films (including the Oscar-winning The Great Ziegfeld and Manhattan Melodrama), Powell and Loy were cemented in the public imagination as Hollywood’s happiest married couple. In Becoming Nick and Nora,comedy writer and Hollywood historian Rob Kozlowski follows the winding path that Powell and Loy’s screen personas took over their careers. Studios originally cultivated the two as villains in the silent era: Powell as a mustachioed, swashbuckling fiend and Loy as an “exotic” adversary. With the rise of talkies, the two managed to broaden their range beyond villainous stereotypes, but it took several false starts before they achieved their lasting legacy as Nick and Nora. Packed with behind-the-scenes details and memorable characters, this is a lively look at two tinseltown icons and a film series that remains beloved nearly a century later.
Ink-Stained Hollywood
Author: Eric HoytPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520383702
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. For the first half of the twentieth century, no American industry boasted a more motley and prolific trade press than the movie business—a cutthroat landscape that set the stage for battle by ink. In 1930, Martin Quigley, publisher of Exhibitors Herald, conspired with Hollywood studios to eliminate all competing trade papers, yet this attempt and each one thereafter collapsed. Exploring the communities of exhibitors and creative workers that constituted key subscribers, Ink-Stained Hollywood tells the story of how a heterogeneous trade press triumphed by appealing to the foundational aspects of industry culture—taste, vanity, partisanship, and exclusivity. In captivating detail, Eric Hoyt chronicles the histories of well-known trade papers (Variety, Motion Picture Herald) alongside important yet forgotten publications (Film Spectator, Film Mercury, and Camera!), and challenges the canon of film periodicals, offering new interpretative frameworks for understanding print journalism’s relationship with the motion picture industry and its continued impact on creative industries today.
Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. HousePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2160
Book Description
Appendixes to hearings
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on PatentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Patent laws and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 1232
Book Description
Pooling of Patents
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on PatentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Patent laws and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 1244
Book Description
A Place of Darkness
Author: Kendall R. PhillipsPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477315519
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Horror is one of the most enduringly popular genres in cinema. The term “horror film” was coined in 1931 between the premiere of Dracula and the release of Frankenstein, but monsters, ghosts, demons, and supernatural and horrific themes have been popular with American audiences since the emergence of novelty kinematographic attractions in the late 1890s. A Place of Darkness illuminates the prehistory of the horror genre by tracing the way horrific elements and stories were portrayed in films prior to the introduction of the term “horror film.” Using a rhetorical approach that examines not only early films but also the promotional materials for them and critical responses to them, Kendall R. Phillips argues that the portrayal of horrific elements was enmeshed in broader social tensions around the emergence of American identity and, in turn, American cinema. He shows how early cinema linked monsters, ghosts, witches, and magicians with Old World superstitions and beliefs, in contrast to an American way of thinking that was pragmatic, reasonable, scientific, and progressive. Throughout the teens and twenties, Phillips finds, supernatural elements were almost always explained away as some hysterical mistake, humorous prank, or nefarious plot. The Great Depression of the 1930s, however, constituted a substantial upheaval in the system of American certainty and opened a space for the reemergence of Old World gothic within American popular discourse in the form of the horror genre, which has terrified and thrilled fans ever since.
Crain's Market Data Book
Author: G.D. Crain (Jr., Pub)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Advertising
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description