Daydream Sequences in Hollywood Cinema since 1947

Daydream Sequences in Hollywood Cinema since 1947
Author: Michael Cribbs
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2023-05-15
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1527510182

Daydream sequences provide viewers with important information regarding the desires, hopes, fears and psychological state of film protagonists. How, then, do cinematic daydreams stand with regard to classical Hollywood cinema? What do volitional fantasy sequences typically infer about the conscious mind? What do non-volitional cinematic daydreams commonly imply about the workings of the unconscious psyche and human will? Do filmed fantasies–intentionally or otherwise–reinforce cultural hegemony? Is daydreaming typically depicted as a detrimental or beneficial pastime in mainstream US cinema? Through investigating a corpus of Hollywood films containing fantasy scenes, this text answers these questions. This study uncovers the norms and key functions that daydreams serve in contemporary Hollywood films from cinematic, thematic, psychological and ideological perspectives. Whilst this text is aimed primarily at students and academics of film studies, it should also appeal to anyone with an interest in Hollywood cinema and/or daydreaming.

Biophysical and Biochemical Mechanisms of Organism Development in Norm and Pathology

Biophysical and Biochemical Mechanisms of Organism Development in Norm and Pathology
Author: M. R. Ponizovskiy
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 549
Release: 2023-05-09
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1527507122

This book advances the knowledge of the mechanism development of a lived organism during its lifetime through the normal stationary state and quasi-stationary pathologic state from the viewpoints of biochemistry, biophysics, and thermodynamics. It explores the possibility of estimating experimental results from the three points of view, giving a broad perspective on the interaction between an organism and its environment. The book also describes the biophysical and biochemical mechanisms’ maintenance stability of internal energy according to the First and Second Law of Thermodynamics.

Turner Classic Movies Presents Leonard Maltin's Classic Movie Guide

Turner Classic Movies Presents Leonard Maltin's Classic Movie Guide
Author: Leonard Maltin
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 866
Release: 2015-09-29
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0698197291

The definitive guide to classic films from one of America's most trusted film critics Thanks to Netflix and cable television, classic films are more accessible than ever. Now co-branded with Turner Classic Movies, Leonard Maltin’s Classic Movie Guide covers films from Hollywood and around the world, from the silent era through 1965, and from The Maltese Falcon to Singin’ in the Rain and Godzilla, King of the Monsters! Thoroughly revised and updated, and featuring expanded indexes, a list of Maltin’s personal recommendations, and three hundred new entries—including many offbeat and obscure films—this new edition is a must-have companion for every movie lover.

Artists in the Audience

Artists in the Audience
Author: Greg Taylor
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2018-06-05
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0691186278

Gone with the Wind an inspiration for the American avant-garde? Mickey Mouse a crucial source for the development of cutting-edge intellectual and aesthetic ideas? As Greg Taylor shows in this witty and provocative book, the idea is not so far-fetched. One of the first-ever studies of American film criticism, Artists in the Audience shows that film critics, beginning in the 1940s, turned to the movies as raw material to be molded into a more radical modernism than that offered by any other contemporary artists or thinkers. In doing so, they offered readers a vanguard alternative that reshaped postwar American culture: nonaesthetic mass culture reconceived and refashioned into rich, personally relevant art by the attuned, creative spectator.

Chaplin's War Trilogy

Chaplin's War Trilogy
Author: Wes D. Gehring
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2014-09-18
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0786474653

The book examines Charlie Chaplin's evolving perspective on dark comedy in his three war films, Shoulder Arms (1918), The Great Dictator (1940), and Monsieur Verdoux (1947). In the first he uses the genre in a groundbreaking manner but yet for a pro-war cause. In Dictator dark comedy is applied in an antiwar way. In Monsieur Verdoux Chaplin embraces the genre as an individual in defense against a society out to destroy him. All three are pivotal films in the development of the genre in film, with the latter two movies being very controversial for their time.

Screen World Presents the Encyclopedia of Hollywood Film Actors: From the silent era to 1965

Screen World Presents the Encyclopedia of Hollywood Film Actors: From the silent era to 1965
Author: Barry Monush
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 844
Release: 2003
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781557835512

(Applause Books). For decades, Screen World has been the film professional's, as well as the film buff's, favorite and indispensable annual screen resource, full of all the necessary statistics and facts. Now Screen World editor Barry Monush has compiled another comprehensive work for every film lover's library. In the first of two volumes, this book chronicles the careers of every significant film actor, from the earliest silent screen stars Chaplin, Pickford, Fairbanks to the mid-1960s, when the old studio and star systems came crashing down. Each listing includes: a brief biography, photos from the famed Screen World archives, with many rare shots; vital statistics; a comprehensive filmography; and an informed, entertaining assessment of each actor's contributions good or bad! In addition to every major player, Monush includes the legions of unjustly neglected troupers of yesteryear. The result is a rarity: an invaluable reference tool that's as much fun to read as a scandal sheet. It pulsates with all the scandal, glamour, oddity and glory that was the lifeblood of its subjects. Contains over 1,000 photos!

George Sidney

George Sidney
Author: Eric Monder
Publisher: Greenwood
Total Pages: 368
Release: 1994-08-23
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

George Sidney directed a number of popular Hollywood films, such as Anchors Aweigh, Show Boat, Kiss Me Kate, and Bye Bye Birdie. His revisions of traditional Hollywood product resulted in films that remain surprisingly modern, and his work continues to influence popular culture. But despite the popularity of his films, Sidney has been a largely unheralded figure in film history. This book is the first serious, full-length study of Sidney's life and work. A critical introduction to the volume explains how Sidney was given a minor place in film history, despite his many significant achievements. The book examines Sidney's canon in relation to the work of his contemporaries and reveals how he was both a Hollywood insider and an iconoclast who created mainstream films with strikingly modern sensibility. The detailed filmography provides thorough documentation for Sidney's many features, short subjects, screen tests, documentaries, and uncredited sequences in other directors' films. By drawing upon interviews with former coworkers, archival material, and rare stills and photographs, Monder reassesses Sidney's career.

Leonard Maltin's Classic Movie Guide

Leonard Maltin's Classic Movie Guide
Author: Leonard Maltin
Publisher: Plume
Total Pages: 844
Release: 2010-01-27
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN:

Covers thousands of films, from the silent era through 1965, including The Birth of a Nation, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Grand Illusion, The Maltese Falcon (all three versions: 1931, 1936, and 1941), Singin' in the Rain, and Godzilla, King of the Monsters! This comprehensive guide has expanded star and director indexes, more foreign films, and capsule reviews of little-known and forgotten films.

Contemporary Hollywood Cinema

Contemporary Hollywood Cinema
Author: STEVE NEALE
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2013-04-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1135108765

A comprehensive overview of the film industry in Hollywood today, Contemporary Hollywood Cinema brings together leading international cinema scholars to explore the technology, institutions, film makers and movies of contemporary American film making.