Hollywood Hits and Misses
Author | : Brian Stewart |
Publisher | : Boat Angel Outreach Center |
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Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
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Author | : Brian Stewart |
Publisher | : Boat Angel Outreach Center |
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Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
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Author | : Simon Rich |
Publisher | : Serpent's Tail |
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Release | : 2018-07-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1782833862 |
WINNER OF THE 2019 THURBER PRIZE FOR AMERICAN HUMOR 'Genius ... Who could ask for more? You can give his books to people and just watch them laugh. Only after you've snorted through them yourself, though' Evening Standard From a bitter tell-all by a horse who made a man famous and then got left behind to a gushing magazine profile of one of your favorite World War II dictators, these stories trawl through history to skewer our obsession with fame and fortune - all the way from ancient Babylon to Hollywood. What father-to-be wouldn't feel a little jealous when his baby outstrips his success from the womb? And what happens when a film critic is forced to live in the movies he so cruelly damned? Loved in the UK by celebs, writers and readers alike, from Lauren Laverne to Matt Haig and Caitlin Moran, Simon Rich is back with his funniest and most personal collection of stories to date.
Author | : Susan Sackett |
Publisher | : Watson-Guptill Publications |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780823083244 |
A complete guide to Hollywood's top blockbuster films, from 1939 through 1995, details the five most successful movies of each year
Author | : Mark Glancy |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2013-10-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0857723057 |
For 100 years, Hollywood has provided both the majority and the most popular of films shown on British screens. For many Britons, Hollywood films are not foreign films. Whether seen in the cinema, on television or the internet, they are regarded as normal screen fare and a part of everyday life. Hollywood and the Americanization of Britain is the first book to take a wide ranging view of this phenomenon, exploring the tastes and preferences of British audiences from the silent era to the present. Mark Glancy investigates the British reception of Hollywood films, ranging from The Public Enemy through film history to The Patriot and Grease. Drawing on rich original sources, his carefully researched and lively book explores Hollywood's capacity to appeal to British audiences, as well as its ability to alienate, enrage and amuse them.
Author | : Mark Dunster |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 11 |
Release | : 1999-02-01 |
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ISBN | : 9780896426696 |
Author | : James D. Bloom |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2009-09-10 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0739140868 |
Hollywood Intellect takes off from the wide-spread hand-wringing over the fate or disappearance of so-called public intellectuals. An account of the title phenomenon, Hollywood Intellect challenges assumptions on which such discussions have rested. James D. Bloom argues that such assumptions are the result of misleading inattention to the intellectual work that mass culture performs. Much of America's influential intellectual work has come out of Hollywood, which has long helped shape America's intellectual agenda. Bloom shows how Hollywood movies often do intellectual work as ambitious as the intellectual work in 'art films,' poems and novels, museums and erudite quarterlies. Hollywood Intellect prompts its readers to reflect on the impact of a variety of Hollywood movies with some of the same assumptions, expectations, and questions customarily applied to literary writing. Hollywood Intellect also illustrates how, in examining the emergence of Hollywood and stardom in general as shapers of the public mind, some of our most renowned poets and novelists enriched our experience of mass entertainment and of elite culture. Drawing on a range of literary works and movies, as well as on the careers of both Hollywood and literary celebrities, Bloom documents how Hollywood regulates curiosity, arbitrates civilization, construes and probes stardom, polices genre, and shapes our language.
Author | : Stephen J. McParland |
Publisher | : |
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Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Rock musicians |
ISBN | : 9781876788926 |
Author | : Peter Bart |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780312253912 |
The Grossis an all-access pass to the movers, shakers, and fakers who make Hollywood run. Tinseltown is an edgy place where risk-taking is a way of lifeand the risks now run into the hundreds of millions of dollars. Summertime, when the studios unfurl their most expensive and effects-laden "tent-pole pictures," has become the only season in which Hollywood makes money, and so, as this book illustrates, the summer season provides an ideal microcosm for scrutinizing the mega-budget-driven revolution that has forever changed the movie business. Bart interviews all the key players, including studio executives, producers, directors, and stars, to show how creativity and commerce hang in a dangerous balance in the new Hollwood.