A lighthearted account by the producer and director of such productions as "Laverne & Shirley" and "Pretty Woman," traces his Bronx childhood, role in shaping A-list celebrity careers, and personal philosophies about life and entertainment
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Sam Wasson traces Fosse's numberless reinventions of himself over a career that spawns The Pajama Game, Cabaret, Pippin, Chicago, All That Jazz, and other iconic works of art, earning him Tonys, Emmys, and an Oscar. Wasson traces not only Fosse's prodigious professional life, bu…
Raised in Venezuela under the aegis of the cultish Children of God, 18-year-old River Phoenix took Hollywood by storm when he starred in Stand By Me, and soon won an Oscar nomination for Running on Empty. Praised by his peers as the most talented actor of his generation, River c…
Om den amerikanske filmskuespiller Buster Keaton (1895-1966)
This book is a study of how popular music has participated in the cinematic construction of gender, with a special focus on the action genre and films that share action cinema's interest in spectacularly violent masculinities
A collection of shocking clashes and controversies from Hollywood's golden age, featuring notorious personalities
This is the story of Benedict Cumberbatch, still only in his thirties, and one of Britain's foremost acting talents, excelling in theatre, television, radio and cinema
Mary Pickford: queen of the movies
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Rico 'Little Caesar' Bandello, Michael Corleone, and Tony Soprano are just some of the onscreen mafia figures that have fascinated audiences since cinema's inception. Portrayals of the Italian and Italian-American mafia, though, have differed markedly over time and across multip…
Hollywood at the intersection of race and identity
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Explores the ways Hollywood represents race, gender, class, and nationality at the intersection of aesthetics and ideology and its productive tensions
Mae Murray (1885-1965), popularly known as "the girl with the bee-stung lips," was a fiery presence in silent-era Hollywood. Renowned for her classic beauty and charismatic presence, she rocketed to stardom as a dancer in the Ziegfeld Follies, moving across the country to star i…