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Sessue Hayakawa

2007-03-28 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2007-03-28
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 694/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Sessue Hayakawa by : Daisuke Miyao

Download or read book Sessue Hayakawa written by Daisuke Miyao. This book was released on 2007-03-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVCritical biography of Sessue Hayakawa, a Japanese actor who became a popular silent film star in the U.S., that looks at how Hollywood treated issues of race and nationality in the early twentieth century./div

Zen Showed Me the Way ...

1960 Zen Buddhism
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Release : 1960
Genre : Zen Buddhism
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Book Synopsis Zen Showed Me the Way ... by : Sesshū Hayakawa

Download or read book Zen Showed Me the Way ... written by Sesshū Hayakawa. This book was released on 1960. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Flickers of Desire

2011-07-12 Performing Arts
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Release : 2011-07-12
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 726/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Flickers of Desire by : Jennifer M. Bean

Download or read book Flickers of Desire written by Jennifer M. Bean. This book was released on 2011-07-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, we are so accustomed to consuming the amplified lives of film stars that the origins of the phenomenon may seem inevitable in retrospect. But the conjunction of the terms "movie" and "star" was inconceivable prior to the 1910s. Flickers of Desire explores the emergence of this mass cultural phenomenon, asking how and why a cinema that did not even run screen credits developed so quickly into a venue in which performers became the American film industry's most lucrative mode of product individuation. Contributors chart the rise of American cinema's first galaxy of stars through a variety of archival sources--newspaper columns, popular journals, fan magazines, cartoons, dolls, postcards, scrapbooks, personal letters, limericks, and dances. The iconic status of Charlie Chaplin's little tramp, Mary Pickford's golden curls, Pearl White's daring stunts, or Sessue Hayakawa's expressionless mask reflect the wild diversity of a public's desired ideals, while Theda Bara's seductive turn as the embodiment of feminine evil, George Beban's performance as a sympathetic Italian immigrant, or G. M. Anderson's creation of the heroic cowboy/outlaw character transformed the fantasies that shaped American filmmaking and its vital role in society.

This Was Hollywood

2020-11-17 Performing Arts
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Release : 2020-11-17
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 855/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis This Was Hollywood by : Carla Valderrama

Download or read book This Was Hollywood written by Carla Valderrama. This book was released on 2020-11-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this one-of-a-kind Hollywood history, the creator of Instagram's celebrated @ThisWasHollywood reveals the forgotten past of the film world in a dazzling visual package modeled on the classic fan magazines of yesteryear. From former screen legends who have faded into obscurity to new revelations about the biggest movie stars, Valderrama unearths the most fascinating little-known tales from the birth of Hollywood through its Golden Age. The shocking fate of the world's first movie star. Clark Gable's secret love child. The film that nearly ended Paul Newman's career. A former child star who, at ninety-three, reveals her #metoo story for the first time. Valderrama unfolds these stories, and many more, in a volume that is by turns riveting, maddening, hilarious, and shocking. Drawing on new interviews, archival research, and an exhaustive library of photographs, This Was Hollywood is a compelling and visually stunning catalogue of the lost history of the movies.

Missing Reels

2014-11-12 Fiction
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Release : 2014-11-12
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 78X/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Missing Reels by : Farran Smith Nehme

Download or read book Missing Reels written by Farran Smith Nehme. This book was released on 2014-11-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York in the late 1980s. Ceinwen Reilly has just moved from Yazoo City, Mississippi, and she’s never going back, minimum wage job (vintage store salesgirl) and shabby apartment (Avenue C walkup) be damned. Who cares about earthly matters when Ceinwen can spend her days and her nights at fading movie houses—and most of the time that’s left trying to look like Jean Harlow? One day, Ceinwen discovers that her downstairs neighbor may have—just possibly—starred in a forgotten silent film that hasn’t been seen for ages. So naturally, it’s time for a quest. She will track down the film, she will impress her neighbor, and she will become a part of movie history: the archivist as ingénue. As she embarks on her grand mission, Ceinwen meets a somewhat bumbling, very charming, 100% English math professor named Matthew, who is as rational as she is dreamy. Together, they will or will not discover the missing reels, will or will not fall in love, and will or will not encounter the obsessives that make up the New York silent film nut underworld. A novel as winning and energetic as the grand Hollywood films that inspired it, Missing Reels is an irresistible, alchemical mix of Nora Ephron and David Nicholls that will charm and delight.

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