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Book Variety  November 1939   136

    Book Details:
  • Author : Variety
  • Publisher : Hassell Street Press
  • Release : 2021-09-09
  • ISBN : 9781014875471
  • Pages : 18 pages

Download or read book Variety November 1939 136 written by Variety and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Variety  October 1939   136

    Book Details:
  • Author : Variety
  • Publisher : Hassell Street Press
  • Release : 2021-09-10
  • ISBN : 9781015297999
  • Pages : 226 pages

Download or read book Variety October 1939 136 written by Variety and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-10 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Variety  December 1939   136

    Book Details:
  • Author : Variety
  • Publisher : Hassell Street Press
  • Release : 2021-09-09
  • ISBN : 9781013655548
  • Pages : 210 pages

Download or read book Variety December 1939 136 written by Variety and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book The Birth of Bebop

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  • Author : Scott DeVeaux
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2023-09-01
  • ISBN : 0520922107
  • Pages : 610 pages

Download or read book The Birth of Bebop written by Scott DeVeaux and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The richest place in America's musical landscape is that fertile ground occupied by jazz. Scott DeVeaux takes a central chapter in the history of jazz—the birth of bebop—and shows how our contemporary ideas of this uniquely American art form flow from that pivotal moment. At the same time, he provides an extraordinary view of the United States in the decades just prior to the civil rights movement. DeVeaux begins with an examination of the Swing Era, focusing particularly on the position of African American musicians. He highlights the role played by tenor saxophonist Coleman Hawkins, a "progressive" committed to a vision in which black jazz musicians would find a place in the world commensurate with their skills. He then looks at the young musicians of the early 1940s, including Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Thelonious Monk, and links issues within the jazz world to other developments on the American scene, including the turmoil during World War II and the pervasive racism of the period. Throughout, DeVeaux places musicians within the context of their professional world, paying close attention to the challenges of making a living as well as of making good music. He shows that bebop was simultaneously an artistic movement, an ideological statement, and a commercial phenomenon. In drawing from the rich oral histories that a living tradition provides, DeVeaux's book resonates with the narratives of individual lives. While The Birth of Bebop is a study in American cultural history and a critical musical inquiry, it is also a fitting homage to bebop and to those who made it possible.

Book Catalog of Copyright Entries

Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 1218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Animation

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  • Author : Thomas W. Hoffer
  • Publisher : Greenwood
  • Release : 1981-12-23
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 406 pages

Download or read book Animation written by Thomas W. Hoffer and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1981-12-23 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Product information not available.

Book The John Ford Encyclopedia

Download or read book The John Ford Encyclopedia written by Sue Matheson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-12-02 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The winner of four Academy Awards for directing, John Ford is considered by many to be America’s greatest native-born director. Ford helmed some of the most memorable films in American cinema, including The Grapes of Wrath, How Green Was My Valley, and The Quiet Man, as well as such iconic westerns as Stagecoach, My Darling Clementine, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, The Searchers, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. In The John Ford Encyclopedia, Sue Matheson provides readers with detailed information about the acclaimed director’s films from the silent era to the 1960s. In more than 400 entries, this volume covers not only the films Ford directed and produced but also the studios for which he worked; his preferred shooting sites; his World War II documentaries; and the men and women with whom he collaborated, including actors, screenwriters, technicians, and stuntmen. Eleven newly discovered members of the John Ford Stock Company are also included. Encompassing the entire range of the director’s career—from his start in early cinema to his frequent work with national treasure John Wayne—this is a comprehensive overview of one of the most highly regarded filmmakers in history. The John Ford Encyclopedia will be of interest to professors, students, and the many fans of the director’s work.

Book Grand Design

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  • Author : Tino Balio
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN : 9780520203341
  • Pages : 500 pages

Download or read book Grand Design written by Tino Balio and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The advent of color, big musicals, the studio system, and the beginning of institutionalized censorship made the thirties the defining decade for Hollywood. The year 1939, celebrated as "Hollywood's greatest year," saw the release of such memorable films as Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, and Stagecoach. It was a time when the studios exercised nearly absolute control over their product as well as over such stars as Bette Davis, Clark Gable, and Humphrey Bogart. In this fifth volume of the award-winning series History of the American Cinema, Tino Balio examines every aspect of the filmmaking and film exhibition system as it matured during the Depression era.

Book Studies in Latin American Popular Culture

Download or read book Studies in Latin American Popular Culture written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Colonial India and the Making of Empire Cinema

Download or read book Colonial India and the Making of Empire Cinema written by Prem Chowdhry and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is an empirico-historical enquiry into the empire cinema made in Hollywood and Britain during the turbulent 1930s and 1940s. It shows how empire cinema constructed the colonial world, its rationale for doing so, and the manner in which such constructions were received by the colonised people".--Back cover.

Book Convenient Fictions

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  • Author : Jennifer Hyland Wang
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 782 pages

Download or read book Convenient Fictions written by Jennifer Hyland Wang and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Silent Film Necrology

Download or read book Silent Film Necrology written by Eugene Michael Vazzana and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This greatly expanded (over 18,500 entries versus 9,000 in the earlier edition) and updated edition includes everyone from John Aasen, an 8-foot, 9-inch circus star who appeared in silent film comedies, to Vladimir Kosma Zworykin, who invented the iconoscope and kinescope that together constituted the first all-electronic television system. This is the most complete necrology available on people from the silent era. The entries are arranged alphabetically by professional name, and include birth and death dates, the place of birth and death, real name when it differs from the professional name, married name for women, birth certificate date when available, age at death, and bibliographic data of any autobiography or biography. When available the cause of death is also provided. Following these data, there is a reference to any obituary printed in The New York Times, Variety or, occasionally, another publication, including the obituary's headline.

Book United Artists  Volume 1  1919   1950

Download or read book United Artists Volume 1 1919 1950 written by Tino Balio and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2009-04-08 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: United Artists was a unique motion picture company in the history of Hollywood. Founded by Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and director D.W. Griffith—four of the greatest names of the silent era—United Artists functioned as a distribution company for independent producers. In this lively and detailed history of United Artists from 1919 through 1951, film scholar Tino Balio chronicles the company’s struggle for survival, its rise to prominence as the Tiffany of the industry, and its near extinction in the 1940s. This edition is updated with a new introduction by Balio that places in relief UA’s operations for those readers who may be unfamiliar with film industry practices and adds new perspective to the company’s place within Hollywood.

Book The Moguls and the Dictators

Download or read book The Moguls and the Dictators written by Associate Professor David Welky, PH.D. and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This author's analytical approach will be appreciated by historians as well as film buffs. He examines Hollywood's response to the rise of fascism and the beginning of the Second World War. Welky traces the shifting motivations and arguments of the film industry, politicians, and the public as they negotiated how or whether the silver screen would portray certain wartime attributes.

Book Resisting History

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  • Author : Rhodri Hayward
  • Publisher : Manchester University Press
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9780719074141
  • Pages : 172 pages

Download or read book Resisting History written by Rhodri Hayward and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Rhodri Hayward examines the cumulative attempts of theologians, historians and psychologists to create a consistent and rational narrative capable of containing the inexplicable. He account argues that the psychological theories we routinely use to make sense of supernatural experience were born out of struggles between popular mystics and conservative authorities.

Book WCFL  Chicago s Voice of Labor  1926 78

Download or read book WCFL Chicago s Voice of Labor 1926 78 written by Nathan Godfried and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chicago radio station WCFL was the first and longest surviving labor radio station in the nation, beginning in 1926 as a listener-supported station owned and operated by the Chicago Federation of Labor and lasting more than fifty years.

Book Manipulating the Ether

Download or read book Manipulating the Ether written by Robert J. Brown and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2004-10-26 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Franklin D. Roosevelt was the first politician to recognize the power of radio. He appealed directly to the American people for support of his New Deal and for his foreign policy. Roosevelt's speeches and fireside chats were broadcast over networks only recently equipped with newsrooms. Listeners immediately learned of events they earlier would not have heard about for days. In those newsrooms, commentators began to interpret the news for average listeners, sometimes slanting it to reflect their own view. But it fell to a young star to demonstrate the full power of the medium. On October 30, 1938, Orson Welles' War of the Worlds broadcast brought widespread panic with its fictional newscast of an alien invasion. How Roosevelt used radio, how the news was reported, and the changes Welles caused are all detailed.