Barry Langford explains and interrogates the concept of 'post-classical' Hollywood cinema - its coherence, its historical justification and how it can help or hinder our understanding of Hollywood from the forties to the present.
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Barry Langford explains and interrogates the concept of postclassical Hollywood cinema - its coherence, historical justification, and value in helping or hindering our understanding of Hollywood from the forties to today. Merging film history together with movies' social and pol…
At the end of World War II, Hollywood basked in unprecedented prosperity. Since then, numerous challenges and crises have changed the American film industry in ways beyond imagination in 1945. Nonetheless, at the start of a new century Hollywood's worldwide dominance is intact -…
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…
Analyzing major films set in San Francisco, Gleich demonstrates that the city is a physical environment used to stage urban fantasies that reveal far more about Hollywood filmmaking and American culture than they do about San Francisco
Howard Hughes was obsessed with sex, power and publicity, and he used his power to trap, abuse or benefit women who dreamt of screen stardom. Longworth examines women, sex, and male power in Hollywood during its golden age
"Speaking about the kind of filmmaking now known as Classic Hollywood ..., Vincente Minnelli once gave away its secret: 'I feel that a picture that stays with you is made up of a hundred or more hidden things. They're things that the audience is not conscious of, but that accumu…
Speaking about the kind of filmmaking now known as Classic Hollywood, the most popular and influential cinema ever invented, Vincente Minnelli once gave away its secret: ""I feel that a picture that stays with you is made up of a hundred or more hidden things. They're things tha…
This series offers interdisciplinary approaches to the study of the Nordic region of Scandinavia and the Baltic States and their cultural connections in North America. By redefining the boundaries of Scandinavian studies to include the Baltic States and Scandinavian America, the…
The Hollywood sign: fantasy and reality of an American icon
by Braudy, Leo
fromIcons of America
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The Hollywood Sign: fantasy and reality of an American icon
by Braudy, Leo
fromIcons of America
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Hollywood's famous sign, constructed of massive white block letters set into a steep hillside, is an emblem of the movie capital it looms over and an international symbol of glamour and star power. To so many who see its image, the sign represents the earthly home of that otherw…
A collection of biographical essays on gender, sexuality, race, beauty, Hollywood and the realities of modern women also shares the author's wrenching experiences as a survivor of sexual assault
