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Book Movies of the Forties

Download or read book Movies of the Forties written by Ann Lloyd and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Movies of the Forties

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  • Author : Ann Rpbinson Davi Lloyd
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1992-04-01
  • ISBN : 9780517085523
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Movies of the Forties written by Ann Rpbinson Davi Lloyd and published by . This book was released on 1992-04-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Movie star Portraits of the Forties

Download or read book Movie star Portraits of the Forties written by John Kobal and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1977-01-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One hundred six famous actresses and actors are portrayed in full-page pictures by twenty-four leading Hollywood photographers

Book Movies of the Forties

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  • Author : Ann Lloyd
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1984
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 218 pages

Download or read book Movies of the Forties written by Ann Lloyd and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Cinema of the 1940s

Download or read book American Cinema of the 1940s written by Wheeler W. Dixon and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1940s was a watershed decade for American cinema and the nation. Shaking off the grim legacy of the Depression, Hollywood launched an unprecedented wave of production, generating some of its most memorable classics. Featuring essays by a group of respected film scholars and historians, American Cinema of the 1940s brings this dynamic and turbulent decade to life with such films as Citizen Kane, Rebecca, The Lady Eve, Sergeant York, How Green Was My Valley, Casablanca, Mrs. Miniver, The Road to Morocco, Yankee Doodle Dandy, Kiss of Death, Force of Evil, Caught, and Apology for Murder. Illustrated with many rare stills and filled with provocative insights, the volume will appeal to students, teachers, and to all those interested in cultural history and American film of the twentieth century.

Book Movies of the Forties

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ann Lloyd
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1984
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 218 pages

Download or read book Movies of the Forties written by Ann Lloyd and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reinventing Hollywood

Download or read book Reinventing Hollywood written by David Bordwell and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: the way Hollywood told it -- The frenzy of five fat years; Interlude: Spring 1940: lessons from our town

Book The Rhapsodes

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  • Author : David Bordwell
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2016-04-04
  • ISBN : 022635220X
  • Pages : 183 pages

Download or read book The Rhapsodes written by David Bordwell and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-04-04 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pauline Kael, Andrew Sarris, and Roger Ebert were three of America's most revered and widely read film critics, more famous than many of the movies they wrote about. But their remarkable contributions to the burgeoning American film criticism of the 1960s and beyond were deeply influenced by four earlier critics: Otis Ferguson, James Agee, Manny Farber, and Parker Tyler. Film scholar and critic David Bordwell restores to a wider audience the work of Ferguson, Agee, Farber, and Tyler, critics he calls the 'Rhapsodes' for the passionate and deliberately offbeat nature of their vernacular prose.

Book Popular Films of the Forties

Download or read book Popular Films of the Forties written by George Aachen and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 2 of the 'Film Index' series. Aachen is a pseudonym of the publisher, John Reid.

Book Memorable Films of the Forties

Download or read book Memorable Films of the Forties written by John Reid and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2004 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes a movie memorable? Has it won awards? Is it still constantly aired on television? Did it have an enormous influence in its day? Nearly 100 films of the 1940s are examined in detail, with complete cast, credit and background information. Pictures include "Casablanca," "Meet Me in St Louis," "Yankee Doodle Dandy," "All About Eve," "Cobra Woman," "Laura," "The Three Musketeers," "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," "The Picture of Dorian Gray," "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein," "He Walked By Night," "Forever Amber," "The Paleface," etc.

Book Mystery Movie Series of 1940s Hollywood

Download or read book Mystery Movie Series of 1940s Hollywood written by Ron Backer and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the 20th century's most celebrated fictional sleuths appeared in Hollywood movie mystery series of the forties. This volume focuses on 19 series (146 films): The Saint, The Lone Wolf, Sherlock Holmes, The Shadow, Nick Carter, Michael Shayne, Ellery Queen, Boston Blackie, The Falcon, Mr. District Attorney, Wally Benton, Crime Doctor, The Whistler, Inner Sanctum, Dick Tracy, Philip Marlowe, Jack Packard and Doc Long, Steve Wilson and Lorelei Kilbourne and John J. Malone. For each series, there is an overview of the source material, the individual films, and the performers who acted in them. An overall review of each film is included, with a critique of the film's quality and the cohesiveness of its plot. For movies based on written works, a comparison between the film and its literary original is offered.

Book What Dreams Were Made Of

Download or read book What Dreams Were Made Of written by Sean Griffin and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-28 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humphrey Bogart. Abbott and Costello. Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney. John Wayne. Rita Hayworth and Betty Grable. Images of these film icons conjure up a unique moment in cinema and history, one of optimism and concern, patriotism and cynicism. What Dreams Were Made Of examines the performers who helped define American cinema in the 1940s, a decade of rapid and repeated upheaval for Hollywood and the United States. Through insightful discussions of key films as well as studio publicity and fan magazines, the essays in this collection analyze how these actors and actresses helped lift spirits during World War II, whether in service comedies, combat films, or escapist musicals. The contributors, all major writers on the stars and movies of this period, also explore how cultural shifts after the war forced many stars to adjust to new outlooks and attitudes, particularly in film noir. Together, they represented the hopes and fears of a nation during turbulent times, enacting on the silver screen the dreams of millions of moviegoers.

Book The Films of the Forties

Download or read book The Films of the Forties written by Tony Thomas and published by Secaucus, N.J. : Citadel Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses Of mice and men, Broadway melody of 1940, Rebecca, Waterloo Bridge, Pride and prejudice, Strike up the band, Spring parade, The Philadelphia story, The mark of Zorro, Kitty Foyle, Meet John Doe, The sea wolf, The lady Eve, Love crazy, Moon over Miami, Texas, Smilin' through, They died with their boots on, Suspicion, How green was my valley, Two faced woman, Woman of the year, Kings Row, This gun for hire, My favorite blonde, My gal Sal, Now, voyager, The road to Morocco, The Palm Beach story, Shadow of a doubt, The hard way, The Ox-Bow incident, The constant nymph, Holy matrimony, The phantom of the opera, Heaven can wait, Corvette K-225, The gang's all here, Lassie come home, The lodger, Jane Eyre, Going my way, Double indemnity, Gaslight, The adventures of Mark Twain, Two girls and a sailor, Summer storm, Meet me in St. Louis, Laura, National Velvet, The suspect, The woman in the window, A song to remember, Murder, my sweet, The picture of Dorian Gray, Anchors aweigh, Mildred Pierce, Roughly speaking, State fair, The lost weekend, Kitty, The spiral staircase, The postman always rings twice, To each his own, Anna and the King of Siam, The big sleep, The killers, The Jolson story, My darling clementine, The razor's edge, Boomerang, The farmer's daughter, Duel in the sun, The ghost and Mrs. Muir, The miracle on 34th Street, Life with father, The secret life of Walter Mitty, Crossfire, The hucksters, Kiss of death, Call Northside 777, A double life, I remember Mama, Summer holiday, Four faces west, A foreign affair, Red River, Sorry wrong number, Johnny Belinda, Adventures of Don Juan, A letter to three wives, Portrait of Jennie, The great Gatsby, White heat, Intruder in the dust, She wore a yellow ribbon, Samson and Delilah, All the king's men, The heiress, and Twelve o'clock high.

Book Hollywood Gold  Films of the Forties and Fifties

Download or read book Hollywood Gold Films of the Forties and Fifties written by John Howard Reid and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2005 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hollywood's Golden Era? I'd pick the period from 1939 through 1960. Here are 144 classic movies from this Golden Age of the Cinema, ranging (alphabetically) from "The Admiral Was a Lady" to "You Were Never Lovelier". Other films discussed in comprehensive detail (and with full background and release information) in this book include "The Adventures of Mark Twain", "The Chase", "Daisy Kenyon", "The Ghost of Frankenstein", "Humoresque", "In Old California", "Joan of Paris", "Letter from an Unknown Woman", "Magic Town", "Nightmare Alley", The Paradine Case", "Roughly Speaking", "The Scarlet Claw", "Where the Sidewalk Ends" and "You'll Never Get Rich".

Book Movies of the 40s

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jürgen Müller
  • Publisher : Taschen America Llc
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9783822839867
  • Pages : 575 pages

Download or read book Movies of the 40s written by Jürgen Müller and published by Taschen America Llc. This book was released on 2005 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A trendsetting decade in world cinema The 40s were the decade of the movies. With the world at war, directors served up propaganda and escapist entertainment to the massed moviegoers of the pre-television age. Yet in many countries, there was also a parallel tendency towards greater realism. In Italy, for example, the spirit of the resistance culminated in the neorealist movement, which inspired the world's moviemakers with masterpieces such as De Sica's Bicycle Thieves (1948). In Hollywood, the 40s were probably the most creative phase in the studios? history. Never before had the Dream Factory brought such compellingly edgy and experimental films to the silver screen. The most seminal work of the decade was Citizen Kane (1941); Orson Welles's extravagantly original debut anticipated the expressive visual style that would come to typify film noir?the genre of ?dark movies, ? populated by romantic antiheroes and femmes fatales, that still represents the essence of cinema for many passionate movie buffs. In the atmospheric black-and-white universe of noir, Rita Hayworth, Ava Gardner, and Lauren Bacall became timeless erotic icons, while Bogart?following The Big Sleep (1945)?was the very quintessence of cool. While these movies bore witness to the cracks in America's fa?ade, another genre was busily reconstituting the nation's identity. In the films of John Ford, the Western came back with a vengeance, Monument Valley embodied America's incomparable grandeur, and John Wayne (The Duke) was a natural aristocrat of the wild frontier.

Book Mystery Movie Series of 1940s Hollywood

Download or read book Mystery Movie Series of 1940s Hollywood written by Ron Backer and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-05-17 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the 20th century’s most celebrated fictional sleuths appeared in Hollywood movie mystery series of the forties. This volume focuses on 19 series (146 films): The Saint, The Lone Wolf, Sherlock Holmes, The Shadow, Nick Carter, Michael Shayne, Ellery Queen, Boston Blackie, The Falcon, Mr. District Attorney, Wally Benton, Crime Doctor, The Whistler, Inner Sanctum, Dick Tracy, Philip Marlowe, Jack Packard and Doc Long, Steve Wilson and Lorelei Kilbourne and John J. Malone. For each series, there is an overview of the source material, the individual films, and the performers who acted in them. An overall review of each film is included, with a critique of the film’s quality and the cohesiveness of its plot. For movies based on written works, a comparison between the film and its literary original is offered.

Book American Movies

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  • Author : Michael G. Fitzgerald
  • Publisher : Crown
  • Release : 1979-03
  • ISBN : 9780870004247
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book American Movies written by Michael G. Fitzgerald and published by Crown. This book was released on 1979-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: