The Versatiles
Title | The Versatiles PDF eBook |
Author | Alfred E. Twomey |
Publisher | South Brunswick [N.J.] : A. S. Barnes |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
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A study of supporting character actors and actresses in the American motion picture, 1930-1955.
The Versatiles: a Study of Supporting Character Actors and Actresses in the American Motion Picture, 1930-1955
Title | The Versatiles: a Study of Supporting Character Actors and Actresses in the American Motion Picture, 1930-1955 PDF eBook |
Author | Alfred Eugene Twomey |
Publisher | |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | Motion picture actors and actresses |
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The Versatiles
Title | The Versatiles PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur Frederick McClure |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1970 |
Genre | |
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Beyond the Stars: Stock characters in American popular film
Title | Beyond the Stars: Stock characters in American popular film PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Loukides |
Publisher | Popular Press |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780879724795 |
Beyond the Stars contains 20 essays on stock characters, and character conventions which neatly divide into four categories: ethnic and racial stereotyping; social classis; professions; and the idiosyncratic type. Stock figures in American movies are part of our cultural heritage; they deserve an honored place in theliterature of film and popular culture.
A Real American Character
Title | A Real American Character PDF eBook |
Author | Carl Rollyson |
Publisher | Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Pages | 359 |
Release | 2015-09-10 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1628460482 |
Walter Brennan (1894-1974) was one of the greatest character actors in Hollywood history. He won three Academy Awards and became a national icon starring as Grandpa in The Real McCoys. He appeared in over two hundred motion pictures and became the subject of a Norman Rockwell painting, which celebrated the actor's unique role as the voice of the American Western. His life journey from Swampscott, Massachusetts, to Hollywood, to a twelve thousand-acre cattle ranch in Joseph, Oregon, is one of the great American stories. In the first biography of this epic figure, Carl Rollyson reveals Brennan's consummate mastery of virtually every kind of role while playing against and often stealing scenes from such stars as Gary Cooper, Humphrey Bogart, and John Wayne. Rollyson fully explores Brennan's work with Hollywood's greatest directors, such as Howard Hawks, John Ford, and Fritz Lang. As a father and grandfather, Brennan instilled generations of his family with an outlook on the American Dream that remains a sustaining feature of their lives today. His conservative politics, which grew out of his New England upbringing and his devout Catholicism, receive meticulous attention and a balanced assessment in A Real American Character. Written with the full cooperation of the Brennan family and drawing on material in archives from every region of the United States, this new biography presents an artist and family man who lived and breathed an American idealism that made him the Real McCoy.
The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films
Title | The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films PDF eBook |
Author | American Film Institute |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 1198 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Motion pictures |
ISBN | 9780520079083 |
"The entire field of film historians awaits the AFI volumes with eagerness."--Eileen Bowser, Museum of Modern Art Film Department Comments on previous volumes: "The source of last resort for finding socially valuable . . . films that received such scant attention that they seem 'lost' until discovered in the AFI Catalog."--Thomas Cripps "Endlessly absorbing as an excursion into cultural history and national memory."--Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
Movie Acting, the Film Reader
Title | Movie Acting, the Film Reader PDF eBook |
Author | Pamela Robertson Wojcik |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780415310246 |
Combining classic and recent essays and examining key issues such Movie Acting, the Film Reader explores one of the most central but often overlooked aspects of cinema: film acting.