Halliwell's Film Guide, 1994

Halliwell's Film Guide, 1994
Author: Leslie Halliwell
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Total Pages: 1347
Release: 1994
Genre: Motion pictures
ISBN: 9780062732415

Now an annual publication, this guide is a must for movie fans and trivia buffs alike. The most up-to-date, comprehensive, and entertaining source of movie information available, Halliwell's contains thousands of entries--750 of them new to this edition--and detailed coverage of the entire industry.

The Ancient World in the Cinema

The Ancient World in the Cinema
Author: Jon Solomon
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2001-01-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780300083378

This entertaining and useful book provides a comprehensive survey of films about the ancient world, from The Last Days of Pompeii to Gladiator. Jon Solomon catalogues, describes, and evaluates films set in ancient Greece and Rome, films about Greek and Roman history and mythology, films of the Old and New Testaments, films set in ancient Egypt, Babylon, and Persia, films of ancient tragedies, comic films set in the ancient world, and more. The book has been updated to include feature films and made-for-television movies produced in the past two decades. More than two hundred photographs illustrate both the films themselves and the ancient sources from which their imagery derives.

Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood
Author: Shannon Hengen
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 455
Release: 2007-05-22
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0810866684

Authors Shannon Hengen and Ashley Thomson have assembled a reference guide that covers all of the works written by the acclaimed Canadian author Margaret Atwood since 1988, including her novels Cat's Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, and the 2000 Booker Prize winner, The Blind Assassin. Rather than just including Atwood's books, this guide includes all of Atwood's works, including articles, short stories, letters, and individual poetry. Adaptations of Atwood's works are also included, as are some of her more public quotations. Secondary entries (i.e. interviews, scholarly resources, and reviews) are first sorted by type, and then arranged alphabetically by author, to allow greater ease of navigation. The individual chapters are organized chronologically, with each subdivided into seven categories: Atwood's Works, Adaptations, Quotations, Interviews, Scholarly Resources, Reviews of Atwood's Works, and Reviews of Adaptations of Atwood's Works. The book also includes a chapter entitled 'Atwood on the Web,' as well as extensive author and subject indexes. This new bibliography significantly enhances access to Atwood material, a feature that will be welcomed by university, public, and school librarians. Margaret Atwood: A Reference Guide 1988-2005 will appeal not only to Atwood scholars, but to students and fans of one of Canada's greatest writers.

British Historical Cinema

British Historical Cinema
Author: Claire Monk
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2015-01-28
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1136366563

Films recreating or addressing 'the past' - recent or distant, actual or imagined - have been a mainstay of British cinema since the silent era. From Elizabeth to Carry On Up The Khyber, and from the heritage-film debate to issues of authenticity and questions of genre, British Historical Cinema explores the ways in which British films have represented the past on screen, the issues they raise and the debates they have provoked. Discussing films from biopics to literary adaptations, and from depictions of Britain's colonial past to the re-imagining of recent decades in retro films such as Velvet Goldmine, a range of contributors ask whose history is being represented, from whose perspective, and why.

Vitaphone Films

Vitaphone Films
Author: Roy Liebman
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2015-05-20
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1476609365

The headline of the Variety extra on October 27, 1926, proclaimed "Vitaphone1 Thrills L.A.!" Vitaphone, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. formed in association with Western Electric, was one of the major producers of talkies, even though its sound-on-disc technology barely lasted four years. The Vitaphone features and shorts that have survived intact, or that have been so carefully restored, preserve much of the show business history that might otherwise have been lost with the industry's fast-paced advances in movie making. This book is a catalogue of Vitaphone features and shorts. The first section lists the features and shorts by release number. The New York productions (1926-1940) are listed first, followed by the West Coast productions (1927-1970). For shorts, the following particulars, if known and if applicable, are given: title, alternate title(s), instrumental and vocal selections performed on screen, composer(s) and performers of instrumental and vocal selections, release date and synopsis of the film, names of major cast members and directors, set information if two or fewer sets were used, and the amount paid to early performers. For features, entries list release dates, genre, and major cast members. The section on performers includes only those who appeared in shorts, listing dates and places of birth when known.

World War II on the Big Screen

World War II on the Big Screen
Author: Doris Milberg
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2010-03-10
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0786455748

World War II has been an endlessly fertile film subject since the late 1930s-even before the United States entered combat. This sweeping study of Hollywood's depictions of the war, and of the motion picture industry during wartime, describes more than 450 films in roughly chronological order, while providing a historical perspective on the times and the events depicted. Included are such pictures as Casablanca, The Battle of Midway, Der Fuhrer's Face and Letters from Iwo Jima.

Masterful Stories

Masterful Stories
Author: John V Pavlik
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2017-02-24
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1315530759

The early eras of radio storytelling have entered and continue to enter the public domain in large quantities, offering unprecedented access to the Golden Age of Radio. Author and Professor John Pavlik mines the best this age of radio has to offer in Masterful Stories, an examination of the masterpieces of audio storytelling. This book provides a chronological history of the best of the best from radio’s Golden Age, outlining a core set of principles and techniques that made these radio plays enduring examples of storytelling. It suggests that, by using these techniques, stories can engage audiences emotionally and intellectually. Grounded in a historical and theoretical understanding of radio drama, this volume illuminates the foundational works that proceeded popular modern shows such as Radiolab, The Moth, and Serial. Masterful Stories will be a powerful resource in both media history courses and courses teaching audio storytelling for modern radio and other audio formats, such as podcasting. It will appeal to audio fans looking to learn about and understand the early days of radio drama.

The Holiday and British Film

The Holiday and British Film
Author: M. Kerry
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2011-10-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 0230349668

A refreshing insight into a previously neglected area of popular British cinema – the holiday film - including historical information about the British holiday and analyses of key films from the 1900s to the recent past.

The Great Movie Musical Trivia Book

The Great Movie Musical Trivia Book
Author:
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1996
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781557832221

How much did Munchkins get paid? What great cultural institution stands on the site where West Side Story was filmed? Who was first considered for the role of Mary Poppins? The Great Movie Musical Trivia Book spins out revelation after revelation with entertaining answers to intriguing questions that will test the wits of even the most die-hard musical fan.