Download or read book Divas of the Silver Screen written by Mia Luise Mask and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hollywood Most Beautiful Exclusive and Rarest Photos Album Films Superstars Divas Femmes Fatales and Legends of the Silver Screen 2nd Edition written by Maximillien De Lafayette and published by . This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 500 photos. Beautifully designed. Gorgeous photos album. The great and wonderful book on the nostalgia, glamour, extravaganza, and sophistication of the vanished world of early Hollywood, and glittering stars. Hundreds upon hundreds of photos of the divas and mega stars (Females/Males) of the silver screen never seen before. A huge collection of rare, vintage studios & stars portraits, posters, and large pictures directly from stars & Hollywood vaults. Photos album of the stunning, greatest, famous and forgotten mega stars. This is an illustrated book of their lives, styles, fashions, their homes, friends, way of life, entourage, gossip. Everything about Hollywood's extravaganza, glamour and golden era! Stills from the greatest 100 movies after 100 years of cinema. You will treasure it for years to come. Absolutely a must buy book.
Download or read book Hollywood Most Beautiful Exclusive and Rarest Photos Album of the Silver Screen written by Maximillien De Lafayette and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-10-03 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Films, Superstars, Divas, Femmes Fatales, and Legends of the Silver Screen.A huge book of 392 pages, large format (8.5' by 11') containing 500 glorious photos and stills of the golden era of Hollywood and the silver screen. There is no other book on the market that contains so much photos that represent the beauty, glamour and magic of Hollywood. This book contains two volumes in one. It includes:1.Exquisite photos of the divas and mega star of the silver screen.2.Photos album of the femmes fatales.3.Photos of the forgotten divas and glamorous stars of the era.4. Stars of the Photoplay: The very early era.5. The nostalgia years album, containing Hollywood's rarest photos.6.The most beautiful photos of the stars from the very first films of Hollywood.7.The Ziegfeld Girls and the scandalous extravaganza!8.Stills from the greatest 100 movies after 100 years of cinema.9.Photos of the homes of the stars, mega stars and legends of Hollywood.
Download or read book Drama Queens written by Autumn Stephens and published by Conari Press. This book was released on 1998-09-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An irreverent, intriguing, and masterfully researched romp through the lives of the hottest Hollywood vamps, producers, directors, critics, gossip columnists, stunt women, and all-around nonconformists of moviedom. From the sultry sirens of silent films to today's glamour goddesses, Drama Queens takes you on screen and off to capture the feuds, fetishes, and finest moments of Hollywood's most divine divas.
Download or read book Divas on Screen written by Mia Mask and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This insightful study places African American women's stardom in historical and industrial contexts by examining the star personae of five African American women: Dorothy Dandridge, Pam Grier, Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey, and Halle Berry. Interpreting each woman's celebrity as predicated on a brand of charismatic authority, Mia Mask shows how these female stars have ultimately complicated the conventional discursive practices through which blackness and womanhood have been represented in commercial cinema, independent film, and network television. Mask examines the function of these stars in seminal yet underanalyzed films. She considers Dandridge's status as a sexual commodity in films such as Tamango, revealing the contradictory discourses regarding race and sexuality in segregation-era American culture. Grier's feminist-camp performances in sexploitation pictures Women in Cages and The Big Doll House and her subsequent blaxploitation vehicles Coffy and Foxy Brown highlight a similar tension between representing African American women as both objectified stereotypes and powerful, self-defining icons. Mask reads Goldberg's transforming habits in Sister Act and The Associate as representative of her unruly comedic routines, while Winfrey's daily television performance as self-made, self-help guru echoes Horatio Alger narratives of success. Finally, Mask analyzes Berry's meteoric success by acknowledging the ways in which Dandridge's career made Berry's possible.
Download or read book Damsels and Divas written by Agata Frymus and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-17 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2020 Best Early Career Research Monograph, Monash University Malaysia Damsels and Divas investigates the meanings of Europeanness in Hollywood during the 1920s by charting professional trajectories of three movie stars: Pola Negri, Vilma Bánky and Jetta Goudal. It combines the investigation of American fan magazines with the analysis of studio documents, and the examination of the narratives of their films, to develop a thorough understanding of the ways in which Negri, Bánky and Goudal were understood within the realm of their contemporary American culture. This discussion places their star personae in the context of whiteness, femininity and Americanization. Every age has its heroines, and they reveal a lot about prevailing attitudes towards women in their respective eras. In the United States, where the stories of rags-to-riches were especially potent, stars could offer models of successful cultural integration.
Download or read book Hollywood Divas written by James Robert Parish and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 2003 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the birth of the silver screen, "It Girls" laid down a sequined trail of self-indulgence and scandalous bad behavior. "Hollywood Divas" traces that glittering path from legendary icons to today's most high-maintenance celebrities of film and TV. 70 photos.
Download or read book Kushi caf written by Meera Vigraham and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the glamorous world of Bollywood, Kushi Café's cuisine is a heady mix of ambition, office politics, intrigues, and intricate relationships. Akansha persuades her mother to allow her to leave their small town and go work as a shop assistant in Mumbai while she secretly has plans of becoming an actress and perhaps meeting her heartthrob, Mega Star Aslam Khan. All Deep wants to do is to be just like his father and join the police force. But fate has other plans for him, and he finds himself thrust into the center of the entertainment industry. Clever and ambitious Parvez, the head of UFCL, a successful film production house, is a powerful presence in the industry and is always one step ahead of his crafty competitor Dheeraj, who was his former employee. Namit and Jivan try to maintain the flimsy foothold that they have managed to gain in the Hindi film industry. Rolls appears far too laid-back to survive the cutthroat competition while Jenny wants to move on and is determined to leave her past behind. It's the book to curl up with on a lazy Sunday afternoon with a hot cappuccino or cold frappé. The Kushi Café beckons with its eclectic clientele and cozy ambiance.
Download or read book Damsels and Divas written by Agata Frymus and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-17 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Damsels and Divas examines the careers of three European stars of silent Hollywood: Pola Negri, Vilma Bánky and Jetta Goudal. Through the interrogation of their star personae - as depicted by their on-screen presence, film magazines, fan letters, popular press and promotional material - it analyses the meanings of Europeanness and whiteness in the United States.
Download or read book Transnational Arab Stardom written by Kaya Davies Hayon and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2024-01-25 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on the work of star studies scholars, this collection provides contextual analyses of off-screen representation, as well as close textual analyses of films and star personas, thereby offering an in-depth study of the Arab star as text and context of Arab cinema. Using the tools of audience reception studies, the collection will also look at how stars (of film, stage, screen and new media) are viewed and received in different cultural contexts, both within and outside of the Arabic-speaking world. Arab cinema is often discussed in terms of political representation and independent art film, but rarely in terms of stardom, glamour, performance or masquerade. Aside from a few individual studies on female stardom or aspects of Arab masculinity, no major English-language study on Arab stardom exists, and collections on transnational stars or world cinema also often neglect to include Arab performers. This new book seeks to address this gap by providing the first study dedicated entirely to stardom on the Arab screen. Structured chronologically and thematically, this collection highlights and explores Arab film, screen and music stars through a transnational and interdisciplinary set of contributions that draw on feminist, performance and film theories, media studies, sound studies, material culture, queer star and celebrity studies, and social media studies.
Download or read book Movie Idols written by John Wrathall and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The easy riders, the raging bulls, the divas of the silver screen; the premieres, the hot affairs, and the Hollywood Dream.
Download or read book Screening Genders written by Krin Gabbard and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender roles have been tested, challenged, and redefined everywhere during the past thirty years, but perhaps nowhere more dramatically than in film. Screening Genders is a lively and engaging introduction to the evolving representations of masculinity, femininity, and places once thought to be "in between." The book begins with a general introduction that traces the movement of gender theory from the margins of film studies to its center. The ten essays that follow address a range of topics, including screen stars; depictions of gay, straight, queer, and transgender subjects; and the relationship between gender and genre. Widely respected scholars, including Robert T. Eberwein, Lucy Fischer, Chris Holmlund, E. Ann Kaplan, Kathleen Rowe Karlyn, David Lugowski, Patricia Mellencamp, Jerry Mosher, Jacqueline Reich, and Chris Straayer, focus on the radical ideological advances of contemporary cinema, as well as on those groundbreaking films that have shaped our ideas about masculinity and femininity, not only in movies but in American culture at large. The first comprehensive overview of the history of gender theory in film, this book is an ideal text for courses and will serve as a foundation for further discussion among students and scholars alike.
Download or read book Volume 1 World Cinema The Greatest Actresses of All Time Goddesses Divas Femmes Fatales Legends Mega Stars written by Maximillien De Lafayette and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sex and Desire in Muslim Cultures written by Aymon Kreil and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What have different ideas about sex and gender meant for people throughout the history of the Middle East and North Africa? This book traces sex and desire in Muslim cultures through a collection of chapters that span the 9th to 21st centuries. Looking at spaces and periods where sexual norms and the categories underpinning them emerge out of multiple subjectivities, the book shows how people constantly negotiate the formulation of norms, their boundaries and their subversion. It demonstrates that the cultural and political meanings of sexualities in Muslim cultures - as elsewhere – emerge from very specific social and historical contexts. The first part of the book examines how people constructed, discussed and challenged sexual norms from the Abbasid to the Ottoman period. The second part looks at literary and cinematic Arab cultural production as a site for the construction and transgression of gender norms. The third part builds on feminist historiography and social anthropology to question simplistic dichotomies and binaries. Each of the contributions shows how understanding of sexualities and the subjectivities that evolve from them are rooted in the mutually-constitutive relationships between gender and political power. In identifying the plurality of discourses on desires, the book goes beyond the dichotomy of norm and transgression to glimpse what different sexual norms have meant at different times across the Middle East.
Download or read book Fuck Them Kids Get A Cat written by Dino Dhamphyr and published by Dino Dhamphyr . This book was released on 2023-08-21 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you tired of hearing, "Oh, you must start a family, have children?" Then "Fuck Them Kids, Get a Cat" is your sassy retort! Dive into this irreverent guide that celebrates cat parenting with an unparalleled wit, hilarity, and unabashed joy. If the traditional path just isn't for you, this book offers an entertaining escape into a world where feline companionship reigns supreme. With biting satire and riotous humor, it's more than just a read – it's a cat-tastic revolution. Get ready to roar with laughter and say unapologetically, "Fuck Them Kids, Get a Cat!" The claws are out, and they're beckoning you to join the fun!
Download or read book Willing Seduction written by Barbara Kosta and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Josef von Sternberg's 1930 film The Blue Angel (Der blaue Engel) is among the best known films of the Weimar Republic (1919-1933). A significant landmark as one of Germany's first major sound films, it is known primarily for launching Marlene Dietrich into Hollywood stardom and for initiating the mythic pairing of the Austrian-born American director von Sternberg with the star performer Dietrich. This fascinating cultural history of The Blue Angel provides a new interpretive framework with which to approach this classic Weimar film and suggests that discourses on mass and high culture are integral to the film's thematic and narrative structure. These discourses surface above all in the relationship between the two main characters, the cabaret entertainer Lola Lola (Marlene Dietrich) and the high school teacher Immanuel Rath (one-time Oscar winner Emil Jannings). In addition to offering insight into some of the major debates that informed the Weimar Republic, this book demonstrates that similar issues continue to shape the contemporary cultural landscape of Germany. Barbara Kosta thus also looks at Dietrich as a contemporary cultural icon and at her symbolic value since German unification and at Lola Lola's various "incarnations."
Download or read book Legendary Children written by Tom Fitzgerald and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A definitive deep-dive into queer history and culture with hit reality show RuPaul's Drag Race as a touchstone, by the creators of the pop culture blog Tom and Lorenzo NPR's Best Books of the Year 2020 pick A New York Times New & Noteworthy book One of Logo/NewNowNext's "11 Queer Books We Can't Wait to Read This Spring" From the singular voices behind Tom and Lorenzo comes the ultimate guide to all-things RuPaul's Drag Race and its influence on modern LGBTQ culture. Legendary Children centers itself around the idea that not only is RuPaul's Drag Race the queerest show in the history of television, but that RuPaul and company devised a show that serves as an actual museum of queer cultural and social history, drawing on queer traditions and the work of legendary figures going back nearly a century. In doing so, Drag Race became not only a repository of queer history and culture, but also an examination and illustration of queer life in the modern age. It is a snapshot of how LGBTQ folks live, struggle, work, and reach out to one another--and how they always have--and every bit of it is tied directly to Drag Race. Each chapter is an examination of a specific aspect of the show--the Werk Room, the Library, the Pit Crew, the runway, the Untucked lounge, the Snatch Game--that ties to a specific aspect of queer cultural history and/or the work of certain legendary figures in queer cultural history.
