Stanley Kramer, Film Maker
Author | : Donald Spoto |
Publisher | : Putnam Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Donald Spoto |
Publisher | : Putnam Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Author | : Jennifer Frost |
Publisher | : University Press of Kansas |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2017-10-27 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0700624961 |
With films ranging from High Noon to Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, Stanley Kramer (1913–2001) was one of the most successful and prolific director-producers of his day. But even as critics praised his courage in taking on such issues as nuclear war, racism, fascism, and the battle between science and religion, others condemned his work as “emptily pretentious“ and “hollow, falsely sentimental, overproduced.” Whether Kramer was “one of the great filmmakers of all time” (Kevin Spacey at the Golden Globe Awards) or “one of Hollywood’s worst directors” (preeminent film critic Andrew Sarris in The Village Voice), he had a strong and undeniable influence on American culture during the Cold War. Producer of Controversy is the first book to take a close-up look at Kramer’s career, films, and liberal politics in an effort to explain his contributions and historical significance. Kramer learned filmmaking within the old studio system, but over a career spanning forty years he did much to shape the independent moviemaking that emerged after World War II. Jennifer Frost pays particular attention to four of his key “message movies”—The Defiant Ones, On the Beach, Inherit the Wind, and Judgment at Nuremberg—to show how Kramer’s controversial films opened up public debate about the most important issues of his time—among average filmgoers as well as professional critics, political commentators, and public figures. In this context, she for the first time fully documents the Hollywood Right’s attacks on Kramer in the 1950s; details his resistance to the anticommunist Red Scare and the Hollywood blacklist; exposes his role as a cultural diplomat with the Soviet Union; and reveals his important contribution to the liberal and radical politics of the 1960s. Her book is at once an absorbing work of cultural history and a thoroughgoing reassessment of Stanley Kramer’s place in the pantheon of American filmmakers.
Author | : Carson McCullers |
Publisher | : McClelland & Stewart |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 2019-12-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0735254125 |
A novel that became an award-winning play and a major film, and that has charmed generations of readers, The Member of the Wedding is a story of the inimitable twelve-year-old Frankie, who is utterly bored with her life until she hears about her older brother’s wedding. Bolstered by lively conversations with her house servant, Berenice, and her six-year-old cousin—and her own unbridled imagination—Frankie takes on an overly active role in the wedding, even hoping to go (uninvited) on the honeymoon. This story is a marvelous study of the agony of adolescence and of wanting to be part of something larger and more accepting than yourself. The Member of the Wedding showcases Carson McCullers at her most sensitive, astute, and lasting best. Penguin Random House Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in e-book form, with the highest quality production values. Find more today and rediscover books you never knew you loved.
Author | : Stanley Kramer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Motion picture producers and directors |
ISBN | : 9781854105660 |
Written in crisp prose, Kramer''s account of working as a producer in Hollywood is disarmingly honest abo ut the stars and people he has worked with during his many y ears in tinsel town. '
Author | : Donald Spoto |
Publisher | : Putnam Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Author | : David J. Williams |
Publisher | : Neptune Publishing |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : African American soldiers |
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Author | : Daniel Kremer |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 411 |
Release | : 2015-11-12 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0813165970 |
Known for his visual style as well as for his experimentation in virtually every genre of narrative cinema, award-winning director Sidney J. Furie also has the distinction of having made Canada's first ever feature-length fictional film in English, A Dangerous Age (1957). With a body of work that includes The Ipcress File (1965), Lady Sings the Blues (1972), and The Entity (1982), he has collaborated with major stars such as Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra, Robert Redford, and Michael Caine, and his films have inspired some of Hollywood's most celebrated directors, including Stanley Kubrick and Quentin Tarantino. In this first biography of the prolific filmmaker, author Daniel Kremer offers a comprehensive look at the director's unique career. Furie pioneered techniques such as improvisation in large-scale film productions, and sometimes shot his films in sequence to develop the characters from the ground up and improve the performers' in-the-moment spontaneity. Not only has Stanley Kubrick acknowledged that Furie's The Boys in Company C (1978) informed and influenced Full Metal Jacket (1987), but Martin Scorsese has said that he considers The Entity to be one of the scariest horror films of all time. However, Furie was often later criticized for accepting lowbrow work, and as a result, little serious study has been devoted to the director. Meticulously researched and enhanced by Kremer's close relationship with the filmmaker, this definitive biography captures the highs and lows of an exceptional but underexamined career, taking readers behind the scenes with a director who was often ahead of his time.
Author | : Glenn Frankel |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2017-02-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1620409488 |
From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Searchers, the revelatory story behind the classic movie High Noon and the toxic political climate in which it was created. It's one of the most revered movies of Hollywood's golden era. Starring screen legend Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly in her first significant film role, High Noon was shot on a lean budget over just thirty-two days but achieved instant box-office and critical success. It won four Academy Awards in 1953, including a best actor win for Cooper. And it became a cultural touchstone, often cited by politicians as a favorite film, celebrating moral fortitude. Yet what has been often overlooked is that High Noon was made during the height of the Hollywood blacklist, a time of political inquisition and personal betrayal. In the middle of the film shoot, screenwriter Carl Foreman was forced to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities about his former membership in the Communist Party. Refusing to name names, he was eventually blacklisted and fled the United States. (His co-authored screenplay for another classic, The Bridge on the River Kwai, went uncredited in 1957.) Examined in light of Foreman's testimony, High Noon's emphasis on courage and loyalty takes on deeper meaning and importance. In this book, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Frankel tells the story of the making of a great American Western, exploring how Carl Foreman's concept of High Noon evolved from idea to first draft to final script, taking on allegorical weight. Both the classic film and its turbulent political times emerge newly illuminated.
Author | : Morton Thompson |
Publisher | : Rare Treasure Editions |
Total Pages | : 1394 |
Release | : 2024-07-18T00:00:00Z |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1774648970 |
Powerful novel about a young doctor who lives for medicine and sacrifices everything for his career. Describes his years at medical school, his practice in a small town and his devoted self-sacrificing wife who works to make their marriage a success.
Author | : Philip R. Davey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Melbourne (Vic.) |
ISBN | : 9780646453637 |