Download or read book Corbeau Hollywood written by Joseph Wambaugh and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nate Weiss voudrait être acteur. Une chance, car dans son boulot au Community Relations Office la réalité peut prendre des allures de fiction. Sa mission: assurer la "qualité de vie" à Hollywood, ville où l'on croise aussi bien des drogués costumés en Zorro, Hulk ou Spiderman qu'un Indien travesti, couteau à la main... Bref, pas vraiment un petit job tranquille.
Download or read book Corbeau a Hollywood written by Joseph Wambaugh and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flic émérite du LAPD, Nate Weiss vient d'intégrer l'équipe du Community Relations Office, ou CRO ( " Corbeau " en français ). Considérés par leurs collègues comme des " flics Nounours ", ces corbeaux sont censés améliorer les rapports entre la police et les citoyens du quartier en traitant leurs problèmes de " qualité de la vie ". Et des problèmes de ce genre, Ali Aziz, le propriétaire d'un bar seins nus très en vue, en a : à l'entendre, sa future ex-épouse, la sublime et très manipulatrice Margot, entendrait lui ravir son petit Nick chéri âgé de cinq ans. De fait, aussi paranoïaque et véreux qu'il soit, Ali Aziz ne se trompe guère : Margot a bel et bien dans l'idée de piéger le gros balourd et de lui piquer la véritable fortune qu'il a amassée en exploitant les jeunes beautés de son club. Et quoi de mieux pour cela que de séduire Nate Weiss et de le mettre ainsi de son côté si jamais l'irréparable se produisait?
Download or read book French Cinema written by Rémi Fournier Lanzoni and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To a large extent, the story of French filmmaking is the story of moviemaking. From the earliest flickering images of the late nineteenth century through the silent era, Surrealist influences, the Nazi Occupation, the glories of the New Wave, the rebirth of the industry in the 1990s with the exception culturelle, and the present, Rémi Lanzoni examines a considerable number of the world's most beloved films. Building upon his 2004 best-selling edition, the second edition of French Cinema maintains the chronological analysis, factual reliability, ease of use, and accessible prose, while at once concentrating more on the current generation of female directors, mainstream productions such as The Artist and The Intouchables, and the emergence of minority filmmakers (Beur cinema).
Download or read book American Indian Image Makers of Hollywood written by Frank Javier Garcia Berumen and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-12-04 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Images from movies and film have had a powerful influence in how Native Americans are seen. In many cases, they have been represented as violent, uncivilized, and an impediment to progress and civilization. This book analyzes the representation of Native Americans in cinematic images from the 1890s to the present day, deconstructing key films in each decade. This book also addresses efforts by Native Americans to improve and have a part in their filmic representations, including mini-biographies of important indigenous filmmakers and performers.
Download or read book Cecil B DeMille s Hollywood written by Robert S. Birchard and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2004-06-29 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood, Robert S. Birchard offers a detailed and definitive chronicle of the most successful filmmaker in early Hollywood history, going behind studio gates and beyond DeMille's legendary persona. In his forty-five-year career, DeMille's box-office record was unsurpassed, and his swaggering style established the public image for movie directors. DeMille had a profound impact on the way movies tell stories and brought greater attention to the elements of decor, lighting, and cinematography. Best remembered today for screen spectacles such as The Ten Commandments and Samson and Delilah, DeMille also created Westerns, realistic "chamber dramas," and a series of daring and highly influential social comedies. He set the standard for Hollywood filmmakers and demanded absolute devotion to his creative vision from his writers, artists, actors, and technicians. Drawing extensively on DeMille's personal archives and other primary sources, this biography provides a comprehensive and compelling portrait of how Cecil B. DeMille's work changed the course of film history, and a fascinating look at how movies were actually made in Hollywood's Golden Age.
Download or read book Hollywood s Canada written by Pierre Berton and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 1975 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Selling Hollywood to the World written by John Trumpbour and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-09-21 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates European efforts to overcome the American film industry's international pre-eminence.
Download or read book Hollywood Quarterly written by Eric Loren Smoodin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-05-17 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This selection of essays taken from Hollywood Quarterly reflect the eclecticism of the journal, with sections on animation, the avant-garde, and documentary to go along with a representative sampling of articles about feature-length narrative films.
Download or read book Popular Pictures of the Hollywood 1940s written by John Reid and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2004-11-01 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed review of 120 popular films, mostly from the 1940s. Includes comprehensive cast and technical credits, plus background and release information.
Download or read book Roots of Film Noir written by Kevin Grant and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-11-23 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Individual reviews of 90+ films created and released before 1941 are included here in the first title-by-title reference guide to the forerunners of film noir. Silent Hitchcock thrillers and German expressionist masterpieces, French poetic realist dramas and forgotten Hollywood B-movies, pseudo-Freudian gangster films and costume melodramas are among the works covered. The collection spans subgenres and cultures of filmmaking, aiming to demonstrate that the roots of noir were sown far and wide, long before the lasting and mysterious genre flowered in America during the war years.
Download or read book Yale French Studies Number 135 136 written by Lauren Du Graf and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focused on existentialism, this issue explores current writers, thinkers, and texts affiliated with the movement In 1948, Yale French Studies devoted its inaugural issue to existentialism. This anniversary issue responds seventy years later. In recent years, new critical and theoretical approaches have reconfigured existentialism and refreshed perspectives on the philosophical, literary, and stylistic movement. This special issue restores the writers, thinkers, and texts of the movement to their subversive strength. In so doing, it illustrates existentialism's present relevance, revealing how the concerns of the past urgently bristle into our own times.
Download or read book The False Traitor written by Albert Raimundo Braz and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nineteenth-century Métis politician and mystic Louis Riel has emerged as one of the most popular - and elusive - figures in Canadian culture. Since his hanging for treason in 1885, the self-declared David of the New World has been depicted variously as a traitor to Confederation; a French-Canadian and Catholic martyr; a bloodthirsty rebel; a pan-American liberator; a pawn of shadowy white forces; a Prairie political maverick; a First Nations hero; an alienated intellectual; a victim of Western industrial progress; and even a Father of Confederation. Albert Braz synthesizes the available material by and about Riel, including film, sculpture, and cartoons, as well as literature in French and English, and analyzes how an historical figure could be portrayed in such contradictory ways. In light of the fact that most aesthetic representations of Riel bear little resemblance not only to one another but also to their purported model, Braz suggests that they reveal less about Riel than they do about their authors and the society to which they belong. The most comprehensive treatment of the representations of Louis Riel in Canadian literature, The False Traitor will be a seminal work in the study of this popular Canadian figure.
Download or read book Visions of the East written by Matthew Bernstein and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on orientalism in American and European cinema
Download or read book Yves Montand written by Joseph Harriss and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2024-01-09 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once described by the New York Times as "the quintessential French Romantic, half adventurer, half-intellectual," actor, singer, and political activist Yves Montand won the hearts of audiences around the world with a charisma and talent that transcended physical and linguistic borders. Born in Italy as Ivo Livi, Montand achieved international recognition for his singing and performances in films such as Salaire de la Peur (1952) and Let's Make Love (1960) with Marilyn Monroe, with whom he had a passionate but short-lived affair. An Oscar and BAFTA Award winner who was also twice nominated for a César Award for best actor, Montand's success was not limited to his work in film. Discovered and mentored by Edith Piaf, his interpretations of French songs were intense and intoxicating. His mellow baritone voice led to Broadway stardom and sent him on tour, making him one of the best-known entertainers of his day. Yves Montand: The Passionate Voice profiles Montand's complex, dynamic, and extraordinary life. From his birth in an Italian village near Florence in 1921 to his "accidental" immigration to France, his international success as an actor, singer, and activist to his sudden death from a heart attack in 1991, Joseph Harriss covers every aspect of Montand's life and career. Drawing on foreign-language biographies, Montand's autobiography, specialized studies, interviews, and other archival materials, Yves Montand is a riveting and multidimensional account of Montand's story and legacy.
Download or read book Claude Chabrol written by Guy Austin and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-04 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book-length study in English on Chabrol since 1970. Chabrol has always been a neglected figure in the French New Wave but has recently been declared 'possibly the greatest living film director in France'.. Coincides with the recent renewal of interest in Chabrol, which has seen his back catalogue released in the UK on video.. Celebration of Chabrol's fiftieth film recently, Rien ne va plus prompted many festivals and retrospectives. Publication coincides with Chabrol's new film which is discussed in this study.. Writtten by one of the liveliest critics in French cinema - author of Contemporary French Cinema.
Download or read book Henri Georges Clouzot written by Christopher Lloyd and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2007-07-15 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite his controversial reputation and international notoriety as a filmmaker, no full-length study of Clouzot has ever been published in English. This book offers a significant revaluation of Clouzot's achievement, situating his career in the wider context of French cinema and society, and providing detailed and clear analysis of his major films (Le Corbeau, Quai des Orfèvres, Le Salaire de la peur, Les Diaboliques, Le Mystère Picasso).
Download or read book Dead Ringers written by Jennifer Forrest and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the popular press has criticized movie remakes as signs of Hollywood's collective lack of imagination, the essays in Dead Ringers reveal the centrality and staying power of remakes as a formative genre in filmmaking. The contributors show that the practice of remaking films dates back to the origins of cinema and the evolution of film markets. In fact, remakes were never so prevalent as during the Classic Hollywood period, when filmmaking had achieved its greatest degree of industrialization, and they continue to play a crucial role in the development of film genres generally. Offering a variety of historical, commercial, theoretical, and cultural perspectives on the remake, Dead Ringers is a valuable resource for students of film history and theory, as well as those interested in the cultural politics of the late twentieth century.
