One of the most popular actors of the Classical Hollywood period, Tyrone Power’s appeal was initially based around his outstanding beauty, his looks remaining key to his star persona throughout his 25-year career and almost 50 films. This book presents the first substantial academic study of Power and employs a range of approaches, including stardom and genre theory, to reappraise his career from various angles including gender, genre and image. Textual analysis coincides with discussions of Power’s multi-layered performances in a variety of genres while engaging with industry systems, specifically Twentieth Century-Fox, his home studio for almost two decades, and situates Power’s performances within the contexts of industry regulations, such as the Production Code, and industry technological advances, such as CinemaScope.
Автор: Brooks, Louise Название: Lulu in hollywood ISBN: 0816637318 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780816637317 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 2374.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The collected writings of this icon of the silent era, in a new, more complete edition. Introduction by Kenneth Tynan.
Название: Zola and film ISBN: 0786421150 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780786421152 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 6962.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This collection of essays, contributed by scholars of French literature and film, explores the dynamic relationship between Zola`s fiction and its film adaptations, examining critically significant cinematic adaptations of Zola`s novels from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives.
Название: New approaches to contemporary adaptation ISBN: 0814346251 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780814346259 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 4388.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Defiantly claims that ""all films are adaptations"". The wide-ranging chapters included in this book highlight the growing and evolving relevance of the field of adaptation studies and its many branding subfields.
Автор: Kaklamanidou Betty Название: New Approaches to Contemporary Adaptation ISBN: 0814346243 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780814346242 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 10658.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Defiantly claims that ""all films are adaptations"". The wide-ranging chapters included in this book highlight the growing and evolving relevance of the field of adaptation studies and its many branding subfields.
Описание: Introduction.- Part 1: Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Douglas Sirk.- Chapter 1: The Recreation of All that Heaven Allows as Angst Essen Seele Auf (Fear Eats the Soul, 1974).- Part 2: Derivations and Procedural Challenges.- Chapter 2. The Palimpsestuous Ghost of Rome Open City (1945) in The Lives of Others (2006).- Chapter 3. Clouds of Sils Maria and All about Eve: Adapting a Classic Paradigm.- Chapter 4. Leos Carax: Les Amants du Pont-Neuf and City Lights.- Part 3: Nostalgic Adventures and Aesthetic Complications.- Chapter 5. Chantal Akerman in the Labyrinth of Desire: La Captive, Marcel Proust, and Vertigo.- Chapter 6. The Coen Brothers' Retrospective Foreboding.- Chapter 7. Baz Luhrmann's Outsized Ambition: The Great Gatsby and Citizen Kane.- Chapter 8. Conclusion.
Автор: Guerric DeBona Название: Film Adaptation in the Hollywood Studio Era ISBN: 0252077377 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780252077371 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 3602.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
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In this exceptional contribution to literary adaptation studies, Guerric DeBona shifts the focus away from determining a film's allegiance to the original source and redirects the conversation to the industrial choices, audience responses, and socio-cultural factors that contribute to the construction of the cinematic text.
Film Adaptation in the Hollywood Studio Era analyzes the intertextuality, cultural value, and authorship of four films from the 1920s to the 1950s based on canonical British and American novels. This unique methodological alternative to formalist "fidelity" approaches to literary adaptations blends archival research with DeBona's own deft and culturally rich interpretations of David Copperfield (1935), Heart of Darkness (1939), The Long Voyage Home (1940), and The Red Badge of Courage (1951).
Emphasizing the historical and cultural contexts as well as political and economic filmmaking decisions, DeBona reveals how high-minded source material from literary luminaries Charles Dickens, Joseph Conrad, Eugene O'Neill, and Stephen Crane did not necessarily translate to prestigious or credible films during the studio era. He also considers how such films led to a new set of industry standards and audience expectations in film after World War II. Through this hermeneutic and historical approach, DeBona argues that the films are examples of what French film critic André Bazin termed "mixed cinema," and not solely the transformation of one work of art to another medium.
Building on the work of mid-twentieth-century French auteurs from Cahiers du Cinéma and incorporating contemporary film criticism, DeBona presents a fully realized methodological alternative to the formalist approach of "fidelity critics" and conclusively demonstrates the importance of historical context to adaptation studies.
Описание: Best known as the woman who "ran MGM," Ida R. Koverman (1876-1954) served as talent scout, mentor, executive secretary, and confidant to American movie mogul Louis B. Mayer for twenty-five years. She Damn Near Ran the Studio: The Extraordinary Lives of Ida R. Koverman is the first full account of Koverman's life and the true story of how she became a formidable politico and a creative powerhouse during Hollywood's Golden Era. For nearly a century, Koverman's legacy has largely rested on a mythical narrative while her more fascinating true-life story has remained an enduring mystery - until now. This story begins with Koverman's early years in Ohio and the sensational national scandal that forced her escape to New York where she created a new identity and became a leader among a community of women. Her second incarnation came in California where she established herself as a hardcore political operative challenging the state's progressive impulse. During the Roaring Twenties, she was a key architect of the Southland's conservative female-centric partisan network that refashioned the course of state and national politics and put Herbert Hoover in the White House. As ""the political boss of Los Angeles County,"" she was the premiere matchmaker in the courtship between Hollywood and national partisan politics, which, as Mayer's executive secretary, was epitomized by her third incarnation as ""one of the most formidable women in Hollywood,"" whose unparalleled power emanated from her unique perch inside the executive suite of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Free to adapt her managerial skills and political know-how on behalf of the studio, she quickly drew upon her artistic sensibilities as a talent scout, expanding MGM's catalog of stars and her own influence on American popular culture. Recognized as ""one of the invisible power centers in both MGM and the city of Los Angeles,"" she nurtured the city's burgeoning performing arts by fostering music and musicians and the public financing of them. As the ""lioness"" of MGM royalty, Ida Koverman was not just a naturalized citizen of the Hollywood kingdom; at times during her long reign, she ""damn near ran the studio.
Описание: The Hollywood Trust: Trade Associations and the Rise of the Studio System offers a rare look at the Hollywood trade organizations that rose during the early years of cinema. This book offers a detailed account of three successive trade organizations from 1915 to 1928: the Moti...
Автор: Sergi, Gianluca Название: Dolby era ISBN: 0719070678 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780719070679 Издательство: NBN International Рейтинг: Цена: 3377.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book tells the story of the arrival of Dolby onto the film scene in the early 70s, and its profound impact on Hollywood filmmakers and audiences worldwide. -- .
Описание: Introduced by a comprehensive account of the factors governing the adaptation of stage plays and musicals in Hollywood from the early 1910s to the mid-to-late 1950s, Screening the Stage consists of a series of chapter-length studies of feature-length films, the plays and musicals on which they were based, and their remakes where pertinent. Founded on an awareness of evolving technologies and industrial practices rather than the tenets of adaptation theory, particular attention is paid to the evolving practices of Hollywood as well as to the purport and structure of the plays and stage musicals on which the film versions were based. Each play or musical is contextualized and summarized in detail, and each film is analyzed so as to pinpoint the ways in which they articulate, modify, or rework the former. Examples range from dramas, comedies, melodramas, musicals, operettas, thrillers, westerns and war film, and include The Squaw Man, The Poor Little Rich Girl, The Merry Widow, 7th Heaven, The Cocoanuts, Waterloo Bridge, Stage Door, I Remember Mama, The Pirate, Dial M for Murder and Attack.
Автор: Jane M. Gaines Название: Classical Hollywood Narrative: The Paradigm Wars ISBN: 0822312999 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780822312994 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 4117.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Since the 1970s film studies has been dominated by a basic paradigm—the concept of classical Hollywood cinema—that is, the protagonist-driven narrative, valued for the way it achieves closure by neatly answering all of the enigmas it raises. It has been held to be a form so powerful that its aesthetic devices reinforce gender positions in society. In a variety of ways, the essays collected here—representing the work of some of the most innovative theorists writing today—challenge this paradigm. Significantly expanded from a special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly (Spring 1989), these essays confront the extent to which formalism has continued to dominate film theory, reexamine the role of melodrama in cinematic development, revise notions of "patriarchal cinema," and assert the importance of television and video to cinema studies. A range of topics are discussed, from the films of D. W. Griffith to sexuality in avant-garde film to television's Dynasty.
Contributors. Rick Altman, Richard Dienst, Jane Feuer, Jane Gaines, Christine Gledhill, Miriam Hansen, Norman N. Holland, Fredric Jameson, Bill Nichols, Janey Staiger, Chris Straayer, John O. Thompson
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