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Movie Censorship and American Culture
| Author | : Francis G. Couvares |
| Publisher | : Univ of Massachusetts Press |
| Total Pages | : 356 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 9781558495753 |
From the earliest days of public outrage over "indecent" nickelodeon shows, Americans have worried about the power of the movies. The eleven essays in this book examine nearly a century of struggle over cinematic representations of sex, crime, violence, religion, race, and ethnicity, revealing that the effort to regulate the screen has reflected deep social and cultural schisms. In addition to the editor, contributors include Daniel Czitrom, Marybeth Hamilton, Garth Jowett, Charles Lyons, Richard Maltby, Charles Musser, Alison M. Parker, Charlene Regester, Ruth Vasey, and Stephen Vaughn. Together they make it clear that censoring the movies is more than just a reflex against "indecency," however defined. Whether censorship protects the vulnerable or suppresses the creative, it is part of a broader culture war that breaks out recurrently as Americans try to come to terms with the market, the state, and the plural society in which they live.
Without Lying Down
| Author | : Cari Beauchamp |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 491 |
| Release | : 1998-04-23 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 0520921380 |
Cari Beauchamp masterfully combines biography with social and cultural history to examine the lives of Frances Marion and her many female colleagues who shaped filmmaking from 1912 through the 1940s. Frances Marion was Hollywood's highest paid screenwriter—male or female—or almost three decades, wrote almost 200 produced films and won Academy Awards for writing "The Big House" and "The Champ."
Controlling Hollywood
| Author | : Matthew Bernstein |
| Publisher | : A&C Black |
| Total Pages | : 314 |
| Release | : 2000-01-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780485300925 |
Explaining the major forces at play behind the making of Hollywood films, this text assesses how changing values have influenced censorship in Hollywood. The text also analyses the major cultural, social, legal and religious changes and their effect on Hollywood.
Marie Dressler
| Author | : Matthew Kennedy |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 280 |
| Release | : 2006-07-05 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 0786428449 |
Early in the century, Marie Dressler was hailed as one of America's finest comics, with a 20-year string of Broadway and vaudeville successes including The Lady Slavey, Miss Prinnt, Higgledy Piggledy, The Man in the Moon, and Tillie's Nightmare. She starred with Charlie Chaplin in the first ever feature-length comedy Tillie's Punctured Romance and later in Min and Bill for which she won an Academy Award. A brilliant comedienne in body, timing, inflection and reactions, her talents far exceeded the expectations of slapstick, and her movies earned sums far greater than those of Garbo, or Harlow, or even Gable. This work examines Dressler's life from vaudeville to talkies. Based on extensive research and interviews with Dressler's surviving friends, co-stars and colleagues, including Maureen O'Sullivan, Jackie Cooper and Anita Page, it details her public and personal successes and failures. A listing of her stage appearances, vocal recordings and films is included.
A Great Big Girl Like Me
| Author | : Victoria Sturtevant |
| Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
| Total Pages | : 211 |
| Release | : 2010-10-01 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 0252092627 |
In this study of Marie Dressler, MGM's most profitable movie star in the early 1930s, Victoria Sturtevant analyzes Dressler's use of her body to challenge Hollywood's standards for leading ladies. At five feet seven inches tall and two hundred pounds, Dressler was never considered the popular "delicate beauty," often playing ugly ducklings, old maids, doting mothers, and imperious dowagers. However, Dressler's body, her fearless physicality, and her athletic slapstick routines commanded the screen. Although an unlikely movie star, Dressler represented for Depression-era audiences a sign of abundance and generosity in a time of scarcity. This premier analysis of her body of work explores how Dressler refocused the generic frame of her films beyond the shallow problems of the rich and beautiful, instead dignifying the marginalized, the elderly, women, and the poor. Sturtevant inteprets the meanings of Dressler's body through different genres, venues, and historical periods by looking at her vaudeville career, her transgressive representation of an "unruly" yet sexual body in Emma and Christopher Bean, ideas of the body politic in the films Politics and Prosperity, and Dressler as a mythic body in Min and Bill and Tugboat Annie.
Vaudeville old & new
| Author | : Frank Cullen |
| Publisher | : Psychology Press |
| Total Pages | : 1362 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Entertainers |
| ISBN | : 0415938538 |
The Literary Digest International Book Review
| Author | : Clifford Smyth |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 946 |
| Release | : 1924 |
| Genre | : American literature |
| ISBN | : |
Irving Thalberg
| Author | : Mark A. Vieira |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 526 |
| Release | : 2009-11-05 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 0520945115 |
Hollywood in the 1920s sparkled with talent, confidence, and opportunity. Enter Irving Thalberg of Brooklyn, who survived childhood illness to run Universal Pictures at twenty; co-found Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer at twenty-four; and make stars of Lon Chaney, Norma Shearer, Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, and Jean Harlow. Known as Hollywood's "Boy Wonder," Thalberg created classics such as Ben-Hur, Tarzan the Ape Man, Grand Hotel, Freaks, Mutiny on the Bounty, and The Good Earth, but died tragically at thirty-seven. His place in the pantheon should have been assured, yet his films were not reissued for thirty years, spurring critics to question his legend and diminish his achievements. In this definitive biography, illustrated with rare photographs, Mark A. Vieira sets the record straight, using unpublished production files, financial records, and correspondence to confirm the genius of Thalberg's methods. In addition, this is the first Thalberg biography to utilize both his recorded conversations and the unpublished memoirs of his wife, Norma Shearer. Irving Thalberg is a compelling narrative of power and idealism, revealing for the first time the human being behind the legend.
