Flying Through Hollywood by the Seat of My Pants

Flying Through Hollywood by the Seat of My Pants
Title Flying Through Hollywood by the Seat of My Pants PDF eBook
Author Samuel Z. Arkoff
Publisher Carol Publishing Corporation
Pages 334
Release 1992
Genre Arkoff, Sam
ISBN

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Flying Through Hollywood by the Seat of My Pants

Flying Through Hollywood by the Seat of My Pants
Title Flying Through Hollywood by the Seat of My Pants PDF eBook
Author Sam Arkoff
Publisher
Pages
Release 1994-09-01
Genre
ISBN 9780517131855

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"Twice the Thrills! Twice the Chills!"

Title "Twice the Thrills! Twice the Chills!" PDF eBook
Author Bryan Senn
Publisher McFarland
Pages 434
Release 2019-02-28
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 1476635714

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In the mid-1950s, to combat declining theater attendance, film distributors began releasing pre-packaged genre double-bills--including many horror and science fiction double features. Though many of these films were low-budget and low-end, others, such as Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Horror of Dracula and The Fly, became bona fide classics. Beginning with Universal-International's 1955 pairing of Revenge of the Creature and Cult of the Cobra, 147 officially sanctioned horror and sci-fi double-bills were released over a 20-year period. This book presents these double features year-by-year, and includes production details, historical notes, and critical commentary for each film.

Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2003

Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2003
Title Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2003 PDF eBook
Author Roger Ebert
Publisher Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pages 916
Release 2002-12-02
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 9780740726910

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Every single new Ebert review.

Trying to Get Over

Trying to Get Over
Title Trying to Get Over PDF eBook
Author Keith Corson
Publisher University of Texas Press
Pages 288
Release 2016-03-22
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 1477309101

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From 1972 to 1976, Hollywood made an unprecedented number of films targeted at black audiences. But following this era known as “blaxploitation,” the momentum suddenly reversed for black filmmakers, and a large void separates the end of blaxploitation from the black film explosion that followed the arrival of Spike Lee’s She's Gotta Have It in 1986. Illuminating an overlooked era in African American film history, Trying to Get Over is the first in-depth study of black directors working during the decade between 1977 and 1986. Keith Corson provides a fresh definition of blaxploitation, lays out a concrete reason for its end, and explains the major gap in African American representation during the years that followed. He focuses primarily on the work of eight directors—Michael Schultz, Sidney Poitier, Jamaa Fanaka, Fred Williamson, Gilbert Moses, Stan Lathan, Richard Pryor, and Prince—who were the only black directors making commercially distributed films in the decade following the blaxploitation cycle. Using the careers of each director and the twenty-four films they produced during this time to tell a larger story about Hollywood and the shifting dialogue about race, power, and access, Corson shows how these directors are a key part of the continuum of African American cinema and how they have shaped popular culture over the past quarter century.

Golden State, Golden Youth

Golden State, Golden Youth
Title Golden State, Golden Youth PDF eBook
Author Kirse Granat May
Publisher Univ of North Carolina Press
Pages 256
Release 2010-03-15
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0807898961

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Seen as a land of sunshine and opportunity, the Golden State was a mecca for the post-World War II generation, and dreams of the California good life came to dominate the imagination of many Americans in the 1950s and 1960s. Nowhere was this more evident than in the explosion of California youth images in popular culture. Disneyland, television shows such as The Mickey Mouse Club, Gidget and other beach movies, the music of the Beach Boys--all these broadcast nationwide a lifestyle of carefree, wholesome fun supposedly enjoyed by white, middle-class, suburban young people in California. Tracing the rise of the California teen as a national icon, Kirse May shows how idealized images of a suburban youth culture soothed the nation's postwar nerves while denying racial and urban realities. Unsettling challenges to this mass-mediated picture began to arise in the mid-1960s, however, with the Free Speech Movement's campus revolt in Berkeley and race riots in Watts. In his 1966 campaign for the governorship of California, Ronald Reagan transformed the backlash against the "dangerous" youths who fueled these actions into political triumph. As May notes, Reagan's victory presaged a rising conservatism across the nation.

The Lost One

The Lost One
Title The Lost One PDF eBook
Author Stephen D. Youngkin
Publisher University Press of Kentucky
Pages 696
Release 2005-09-30
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9780813123608

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The first full biography of this major actor draws upon more than 300 interviews, including conversations with directors Fritz Lang, Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, John Huston, Frank Capra, and Rouben Mamoulian, who speak candidly about Lorre, both the man and the actor.