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Streaming: Movies, Media, and Instant Access
Streaming: Movies, Media and Instant Access is distinctive and commercially viable because it examines the most crucial area in moving image studies today; the way that the image is captured, disseminated, and consumed by contemporary audiences, and the manner in which this process, or series of processes, is constantly being revised. Readers will gain from the book a better understanding of the enormous shift that this switch to digital will make in the habits of viewers, who can now see films on everything from cell phones to conventional theatre screens. Streaming: Movies, Media and Instant Access will chart the ways ...Read More
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John Gilbert: The Last of the Silent Film Stars
A biography of the man the 2011 Oscar-winning The Artist was based on, the dazzling comet of the silent screen, John Gilbert (1897-1936). MGM's hottest male sex symbol of the 1920s, her starred in such hits as The Big Parade, The Merry Widow and Flesh and the Devil, also engaging in a front-page romance with costar Greta Garbo (his other wives and sweethearts included Marlene Dietrich, Leatrice Joy Virginia Bruce and Lupe Velez). Gilbert's sudden drop from stardom with the arrival of talkies is still the stuff of Hollywood legend: did his voice doom him, or a feud with MGM's ...Read More
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Hawks on Hawks
Howard Hawks (1896–1977) is the most versatile of all the great American directors, having worked with equal ease and brilliance in screwball comedies, Westerns, gangster movies, musicals, and adventure films. Hawks on Hawks draws on interviews Joseph McBride conducted with the director over the course of the last seven years of his life, giving rare insight into Hawks’s artistic philosophy, his relationships with some of the major figures in Hollywood, and his position in an industry that was rapidly changing. Both an account of Hawks’s life and work and a guide to his insights on how to make movies, the ...Read More
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William Wyler: The Life and Films of Hollywood's Most Celebrated Director
This book provides the first comprehensive study of William Wyler's major films. Despite his status as the most decorated American film director in history (including 3 Oscars and a record 12 Oscar nominations), Wyler is the only major director from American film's “classic period” whose work has never been subjected to rigorous study. The book focuses both on Wyler's evolving views of America — as articulated through his films in terms of such themes as capitalism, World War II, and HUAC — and on his directorial style, which emphasizes depth-of-field photography, minimal cutting, and thematically suggestive mise-en-scène. Indeed, Wyler was ...Read More
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Ann Dvorak: Hollywood's Forgotten Rebel
Ann Dvorak may not have been the best-known actress of Hollywood’s golden age, but she certainly made her mark. She blazed onto screens in 1932 as Paul Muni’s doomed sister in Scarface, and seemed poised for stardom as a darling of the daring pre-Code era. However, poor business decisions, studio battles with Warner Bros., extended absences, and overbearing husbands torpedoed Ann’s chances of rising to the heights within the structure of the Hollywood studio system like contemporaries Bette Davis and Jean Harlow. Dvorak sued Warner Bros. to get out of her long-term contract, inspiring Davis and James Cagney to follow ...Read More
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The Historic Kentucky Kitchen: Traditional Recipes for Today's Cook
Kitchens serve as more than a place to prepare food; they are cornerstones of the home and family. Just as memories are passed down through stories shared around the stove, recipes preserve traditions and customs for future generations. The rich, diverse heritage of Kentucky’s culinary traditions offers a unique way to better understand and appreciate the history of the commonwealth.
The Historic Kentucky Kitchen assembles more than one hundred dishes from nineteenth and twentieth-century Kentucky cooks. Deirdre A. Scaggs and Andrew W. McGraw collected recipes from handwritten books, diaries, scrapbook clippings, and out-of-print cookbooks from the University of Kentucky ...Read More
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Mae Murray: The Girl with the Bee-Stung Lips
Mae Murray: The Girl with the Bee-Stung Lips provides a thorough examination of silent film star Mae Murray’s life and career and sheds light on her four failed marriages and the family she never wanted to acknowledge. For the first time, her son goes on record to discuss the mother who denied him the truth about his mysterious birth. Murray’s descendents and friends reveal personal details that bring the spotlight back to one of the most enigmatic icons of the silent screen. In her heyday, Hollywood in the Roaring Twenties, they called Mae Murray the Girl with the Bee-Stung Lips ...Read More
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The Invisible Hand in Popular Culture: Liberty vs. Authority in American Film and TV
Popular culture often champions freedom as the fundamentally American way of life and celebrates the virtues of independence and self-reliance. But film and television have also explored the tension between freedom and other core values, such as order and political stability. What looks like healthy, productive, and creative freedom from one point of view may look like chaos, anarchy, and a source of destructive conflict from another. Film and television continually pose the question: Can Americans deal with their problems on their own, or must they rely on political elites to manage their lives? This book explores the ways television ...Read More
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