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Book The Long Journey Home

    Book Details:
  • Author : Don Coldsmith
  • Publisher : Forge Books
  • Release : 2002-05-19
  • ISBN : 0312700849
  • Pages : 558 pages

Download or read book The Long Journey Home written by Don Coldsmith and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2002-05-19 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the early twentieth century, Long Journey Home is the story of one man's life, the American Indian John Buffalo, as told by his biographer, Scott McNaughten. John Buffalo is pushed to train for track and field events, with an eye toward the Olympics. His training introduces him to Jim Thorpe, 1912 winner of two gold medals in track and field who was later stripped of his medals. He meets Bill Picket, the black cowboy who invented steer wrestling and one of the creators of the world's largest Wild West show. Together, these athletes and showmen travel to Mexico, South America and Europe. Along the way to an Olympic gold medal, John Buffalo meets and interacts with a variety of early twentieth-century celebrities including Theordore Roosevelt, Tim McCoy, and even Jesse Owens, the Black-American gold medal winner snubbed by Hitler. Long Journey Home is beautifully woven historical fiction about a star athlete Amercian Indian. Sometimes heart-wrenching, sometimes hilarious, vetran Don Coldsmith delivers another breath-taking story. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Book Motion Picture Photography

Download or read book Motion Picture Photography written by H. Mario Raimondo-Souto and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2006-12-11 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1891, William Dickson, a researcher at Thomas Edison's firm, developed the Kinetograph, a motion picture camera that used Eastman Kodak's new celluloid film. Almost immediately, an industry was born. The new artistic and technical discipline of motion picture photography matured as the film industry grew. From the beginnings of the movie camera, developments in film production and exhibition have been inextricably linked to the evolution of motion picture photography. This work traces the history of motion picture photography from the late 19th century through the year 1960, when color photography became the accepted standard. Generously illustrated, it covers each decade's cameras, lenses, cameramen, film processing methods, formats, studios, lighting techniques and major cinematographic developments. Each chapter concludes with examples of the decade's outstanding cinematography. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Book Long Voyage Home

Download or read book Long Voyage Home written by Associated American Artists and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Print the Legend

Download or read book Print the Legend written by Scott Eyman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follows the legendary John Ford through a career that spanned more than five decades, drawing on dozens of personal interviews, material from Ford's estate, and film criticism.

Book The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States  Feature Films

Download or read book The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States Feature Films written by American Film Institute and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 1198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The entire field of film historians awaits the AFI volumes with eagerness."--Eileen Bowser, Museum of Modern Art Film Department Comments on previous volumes: "The source of last resort for finding socially valuable . . . films that received such scant attention that they seem 'lost' until discovered in the AFI Catalog."--Thomas Cripps "Endlessly absorbing as an excursion into cultural history and national memory."--Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

Book Benton  Pollock  and the Politics of Modernism

Download or read book Benton Pollock and the Politics of Modernism written by Erika Doss and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1995-06 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: expressionism.

Book Catalogue of Title entries of Books and Other Articles Entered in the Office of the Librarian of Congress  at Washington  Under the Copyright Law     Wherein the Copyright Has Been Completed by the Deposit of Two Copies in the Office

Download or read book Catalogue of Title entries of Books and Other Articles Entered in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington Under the Copyright Law Wherein the Copyright Has Been Completed by the Deposit of Two Copies in the Office written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tales from the Easel

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  • Author :
  • Publisher : University of Georgia Press
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9780820325699
  • Pages : 236 pages

Download or read book Tales from the Easel written by and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales from the Easel features seventy full-color reproductions that convey the expressive, allusive powers of narrative painting. Though they range widely in subject and setting, all of the paintings gathered here are rendered in a representational, or realistic, style. Carrying moral, social, or patriotic messages, the paintings are meant to teach, enlighten, or inspire. Then again, the paintings can also tweak the very conventions that define them, with results that range from the delightfully idiosyncratic to the visionary. Thomas Hart Benton, Winslow Homer, Andrew Wyeth, and Jacob Lawrence are just some of the household names whose work appears in Tales from the Easel. Others, like Elihu Vedder and Lilly Martin Spencer, are less well known, but still vital to the development of narrative painting. While some of the artists, including George Caleb Bingham and Paul Cadmus, were classically trained, self-taught painters such as Carlos "Shiney" Moon and Thomas Waterman Wood are also represented. American rivers, cities, and battlefields are among the native surroundings shown in many of the paintings. However, artists also looked elsewhere for settings--to Europe, the Holy Land, or even some imagined realm. Charles C. Eldredge's essay discusses the rich and varied sources of American narrative painting--from literature and history to childhood and domestic life--and an essay by William Underwood Eiland provides a discussion of the southern tale-telling tradition. Artist biographies by Reed Anderson and Stephanie J. Fox appear opposite the paintings, adding further context. Tales from the Easel, a companion volume to the national touring exhibit of the same name is a stunning reminder of a tradition in American painting that has endured across two centuries and numerous art movements.

Book O Neill on Film

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Orlandello
  • Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
  • Release : 1982
  • ISBN : 9780838622919
  • Pages : 196 pages

Download or read book O Neill on Film written by John Orlandello and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orlandello's study of the film adaptations of Euguene O'Neill's plays from the 1920s to the 1970s, analyzes both the original plays and the Hollywood versions. He probes the diversity of these distinct aesthetic modes: the stage and the screen. Orlandello discusses changes within the film industry resulting from the advent of sound, the pressures of censorship, the importance of the star system and the technical advances that have influenced the nature and quality of the screen versions of O'Neill's work, focusing on critical considerations concerning adaptation.

Book Hollywood Vault

    Book Details:
  • Author : Eric Hoyt
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2014-07-03
  • ISBN : 0520958578
  • Pages : 287 pages

Download or read book Hollywood Vault written by Eric Hoyt and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hollywood Vault is the story of how the business of film libraries emerged and evolved, spanning the silent era to the sale of feature libraries to television. Eric Hoyt argues that film libraries became valuable not because of the introduction of new technologies but because of the emergence and growth of new markets, and suggests that studying the history of film libraries leads to insights about their role in the contemporary digital marketplace. The history begins in the mid-1910s, when the star system and other developments enabled a market for old films that featured current stars. After the transition to films with sound, the reissue market declined but the studios used their libraries for the production of remakes and other derivatives. The turning point in the history of studio libraries occurred during the mid to late 1940s, when changes in American culture and an industry-wide recession convinced the studios to employ their libraries as profit centers through the use of theatrical reissues. In the 1950s, intermediary distributors used the growing market of television to harness libraries aggressively as foundations for cross-media expansion, a trend that continues today. By the late 1960s, the television marketplace and the exploitation of film libraries became so lucrative that they prompted conglomerates to acquire the studios. The first book to discuss film libraries as an important and often underestimated part of Hollywood history, Hollywood Vault presents a fascinating trajectory that incorporates cultural, legal, and industrial history.

Book John Ford

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bill Levy
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 1998-11-30
  • ISBN : 0313387826
  • Pages : 380 pages

Download or read book John Ford written by Bill Levy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1998-11-30 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Ford (1894-1973) is universally acknowledged as one of the greatest directors in the history of cinema. He is the only person to win four Academy Awards for Direction, for The Informer (1935), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), How Green Was My Valley (1941), and The Quiet Man (1952). This reference book is a comprehensive guide to his career. The volume begins with a biography that looks at Ford as a person, a director, and a cinematic legend and influence. Ford's life is discussed chronologically, but the biography repeatedly considers how his early experiences shaped his creative vision and attempts to explain why he was so self-destructive and unhappy throughout his career. In addition, the biography carefully scrutinizes his methods, styles, techniques, and secrets of direction. A chronology presents his achievements in capsule form. The rest of the book provides detailed information about his many productions and about the response to his works. The heart of the volume is a filmography, which includes individual entries for 184 films with which Ford was involved, as either an actor, a director, a producer, a writer, an advisor, or an assistant. These entries include cast and credit information, a plot synopsis, critical commentary, and excerpts from reviews. The book also includes the most extensive annotated bibliography on Ford ever published, with more than 1000 entries for books, articles, dissertations, documentaries, and even four works of fiction concerning Ford. Additional sections of the book provide information about his unrealized projects; his radio, television, and theater work; his awards and honors; and special collections and archives.

Book Walter Wanger

    Book Details:
  • Author : Matthew Bernstein
  • Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN : 9781452904689
  • Pages : 540 pages

Download or read book Walter Wanger written by Matthew Bernstein and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portrait of the trailblazing film producer whose career spanned five decades."Bernstein packs an astonishing amount of solid film history into his lucid chronicle of Wangers whirlwind corporate liaisons. ... A fully realized, A-line biopic of a fascinating life in the movies."Tom Doherty, Film Quarterly.

Book Regionalists in Hollywood

Download or read book Regionalists in Hollywood written by Erika Doss and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Propaganda in Moving Pictures

Download or read book Propaganda in Moving Pictures written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The New Historical Dictionary of the American Film Industry

Download or read book The New Historical Dictionary of the American Film Industry written by Anthony Slide and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Historical Dictionary of the American Film Industry is a completely revised and updated edition of Anthony Slide's The American Film Industry, originally published in 1986 and recipient of the American Library Association's Outstanding Reference Book award for that year. More than 200 new entries have been added, and all original entries have been updated; each entry is followed by a short bibliography. As its predecessor, the new dictionary is unique in that it is not a who's who of the industry, but rather a what's what: a dictionary of producing and releasing companies, technical innovations, industry terms, studios, genres, color systems, institutions and organizations, etc. More than 800 entries include everything from Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences to Zoom Lens, from Astoria Studios to Zoetrope. Outstanding Reference Source - American Library Association

Book Screen World 1962

    Book Details:
  • Author : Daniel Blum
  • Publisher : Biblo & Tannen Publishers
  • Release : 1962
  • ISBN : 9780819603036
  • Pages : 246 pages

Download or read book Screen World 1962 written by Daniel Blum and published by Biblo & Tannen Publishers. This book was released on 1962 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: