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The Art of American Screen Acting, 1912-1960 by Dan Callahan
epub |eng | 2018-02-25 | Author:Dan Callahan

Joan Crawford in Grand Hotel. Called upon to write a screenplay for Crawford in the 1930s, F. Scott Fitzgerald watched some of her films and came away with these insightful ...
( Category: Acting & Auditioning March 17,2020 )
Now Playing at the Valencia by Stephen Hunter
epub |eng | 2005-07-15 | Author:Stephen Hunter

An enraged world, driven by an enraged media, demands justice for the baby killers. An administration of professional appeasers (no names, please) demands that Childers take the sole blame. Childers ...
( Category: Essays March 16,2020 )
Spectatorship and Film Theory by Carlo Comanducci
epub |eng | | Author:Carlo Comanducci

The Unconscious and the Mastery of Concepts Instead of being a form of technical knowledge, or a method for probing and collecting data from the unconscious , psychoanalysis should be ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 16,2020 )
Star Wars FAQ by Mark Clark
epub |eng | 2015-10-22 | Author:Mark Clark

Star Wars for Grown-ups Despite the many ways that it equaled or surpassed the original, however, many viewers—initially, at least—could only see the ways in which Empire was different from ...
( Category: Reference March 16,2020 )
Art of Selling Movies by McElwee John
epub |eng | 2017-03-15 | Author:McElwee, John

Trader Horn (1931) The mightiest of jungle thrillers, Trader Horn ventured into Africa at dawn of movie sound and came back with miles of bracing footage, which they’d use for ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 16,2020 )
Italian Cinema From the Silent Screen to the Digital Image by Joseph Luzzi;
epub |eng | | Author:Joseph Luzzi;

5 Academic Theory and the Encounter with History It is difficult to establish exactly when the second great era of Italian film theory came to an end. After the exciting ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 15,2020 )
Claude Rains by David J. Skal
epub |eng | | Author:David J. Skal

In view of the fact that Mr. Rains has been co-starred with Vivien Leigh in a five million dollar picture, “CAESAR & CLEOPATRA” and is being co-starred with Paul Muni ...
( Category: Actors & Entertainers March 15,2020 )
Everything I Know About Filmmaking I Learned Watching Seven Samurai by Richard D. Pepperman
epub |eng | 2014-11-01 | Author:Richard D. Pepperman [Pepperman, Richard D.]

“Where did you get it? Did it sprout up in those hills? You hunted down retreating warriors and took their weapons.” He demands to know where the farmers are hiding ...
( Category: Direction & Production March 15,2020 )
Movie Journal by Jonas Mekas
epub |eng | 2016-04-18 | Author:Jonas Mekas

ON JERRY JOFFEN AND THE “PERIOD OF EMERGENCE” Still, there are aspects that remain ungraspable, unfamiliar to the uninitiated. Take, for instance, something that could be called the “period of ...
( Category: Essays March 15,2020 )
Emeralds of Oz by Peter Guzzardi
epub |eng | 2019-03-21 | Author:Peter Guzzardi

34. If you’re laughing away every day, there’s more going on than meets the eye. Even after watching The Wizard of Oz countless times, I’m not quite sure what to ...
( Category: Genre Films March 15,2020 )
The Hollywood Scandal Almanac by Jerry Roberts
epub |eng | 2012-03-14 | Author:Jerry Roberts

JULY 2 1996—ANOTHER HEMINGWAY SUICIDE On the thirty-fifth anniversary of the death of Ernest Hemingway, the master novelist’s granddaughter, model and actress Margaux Hemingway, was found dead inside her Santa ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 15,2020 )
The Shape of Spectatorship by Scott Curtis
epub |eng | 2015-10-19 | Author:Scott Curtis

There is no theatre without a spectator…. But according to the accusers, being a spectator is a bad thing for two reasons. First, viewing is the opposite of knowing: the ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 15,2020 )
The Wrong Kind of Women by Naomi McDougall Jones
epub |eng | 2020-03-14 | Author:Naomi McDougall Jones

CHAPTER 7 ONE WAY OR ANOTHER* It may surprise you to learn that before 1925, during the silent film era, almost half of all films were written by women.1 In ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 15,2020 )
Complicated Women by Mick LaSalle
epub |eng | 2018-11-28 | Author:Mick LaSalle

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( Category: History & Criticism March 14,2020 )
The Encyclopedia of Racism in American Films by Salvador Jimenez Murguía
epub |eng | 2018-03-22 | Author:Salvador Jimenez Murguía [Murguía, Salvador Jimenez]

Denzel Washington and Spike Lee. 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks / Universal Pictures / Photofest © 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks / Universal Pictures Indigo and Clarke symbolize ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism March 14,2020 )

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