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Hollywood Cauldron

2010-06-21 Performing Arts
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Release : 2010-06-21
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Book Synopsis Hollywood Cauldron by : Gregory William Mank

Download or read book Hollywood Cauldron written by Gregory William Mank. This book was released on 2010-06-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen of Hollywood's horror classics in detail: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931), The Old Dark House(1932), The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932), Mark of the Vampire (1935), Mad Love (1935), The Black Room (1935), The Walking Dead (1936), Cat People (1942), Bluebeard (1944), The Lodger (1944), The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945), Hangover Square (1945) and Bedlam (1946). From original interviews and research, the styles of the various studios (from giant M-G-M to Poverty Row's PRC), along with the performers, directors, and backstage events, are examined.

The New Hollywood

2010-07-27 Performing Arts
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Release : 2010-07-27
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Book Synopsis The New Hollywood by : James Bernardoni

Download or read book The New Hollywood written by James Bernardoni. This book was released on 2010-07-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "Old Hollywood" of studios, stars, and house directors began to break up in the 1960s. Newly independent directors freed from budgetary and aesthetic limitations imposed by studio moguls were the "New Hollywood." Directors could develop their own styles, hire whom they wanted, and make movies that would dazzle jaded audiences. Hollywood would never be the same ... What happened? The author looks at the productions of the "New Hollywood" to answer that question. Scene by scene analyses of some of the 70s most significant films (i. e., Apocalypse Now, Taxi Driver, M. A. S. H., Annie Hall, and American Graffiti) assess both the successes and failures of the New Hollywood.

Classical Hollywood, American Modernism

2024-01-18 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2024-01-18
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Classical Hollywood, American Modernism by : Jordan Brower

Download or read book Classical Hollywood, American Modernism written by Jordan Brower. This book was released on 2024-01-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classical Hollywood, American Modernism charts the entwined trajectories of the Hollywood studio system and literary modernism in the United States. By examining the various ways Hollywood's industry practices inflected the imaginations of authors, filmmakers, and studios, Jordan Brower offers a new understanding of twentieth-century American and ultimately world media culture. Synthesizing archival research with innovative theoretical approaches, this book tells the story of the studio system's genesis, international dominance, decline, and continued symbolic relevance during the American postwar era through the literature it influenced. It examines the American film industry's business practices and social conditions, demonstrating how concepts like anticipated adaptation, corporate authorship, systemic development, and global distribution inflected the form of some of the greatest works of prose fiction and nonfiction by modernist writers, such as Anita Loos, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Patsy Ruth Miller, Nathanael West, Parker Tyler, Malcolm Lowry, and James Baldwin.

The Turn to Gruesomeness in American Horror Films, 1931-1936

2016-09-27 Performing Arts
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Release : 2016-09-27
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Book Synopsis The Turn to Gruesomeness in American Horror Films, 1931-1936 by : Jon Towlson

Download or read book The Turn to Gruesomeness in American Horror Films, 1931-1936 written by Jon Towlson. This book was released on 2016-09-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critics have traditionally characterized classic horror by its use of shadow and suggestion. Yet the graphic nature of early 1930s films only came to light in the home video/DVD era. Along with gangster movies and "sex pictures," horror films drew audiences during the Great Depression with sensational content. Exploiting a loophole in the Hays Code, which made no provision for on-screen "gruesomeness," studios produced remarkably explicit films that were recut when the Code was more rigidly enforced from 1934. This led to a modern misperception that classic horror was intended to be safe and reassuring to audiences. The author examines the 1931 to 1936 "happy ending" horror in relation to industry practices and censorship. Early works like Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932) and The Raven (1935) may be more akin to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) and Hostel (2005) than many critics believe.

The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia

2011-01-12 Performing Arts
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Release : 2011-01-12
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Book Synopsis The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia by : Peter Dendle

Download or read book The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia written by Peter Dendle. This book was released on 2011-01-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zombies are cautionary forms of humankind's most universally cherished ideal--life after death. Ragged, ill-spoken, rotting zombies (or the post-dead) seem socially awkward beside the more popular and aristocratic undead, like Count Dracula. The humble zombie remains, for the most part, unappreciated and unacknowledged--until now. The first exhaustive historical overview of zombie films, this book's lengthy entries evaluate more than 200 movies from 16 countries over a 65-year period from the early 1930s to the late 1990s. It covers everything from large studio films to backyard videography, and touches on memorable television episodes and miscellaneous shorts. An introduction traces the evolution of the genre and interprets the broader significance of the zombie in contemporary Western mythology.

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