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Motion Pictures From the Fabulous 1940's

Author : Terry Rowan

Publisher : Lulu.com

Page : 295 pages

File Size : 10,97 MB

Release : 2016-01-06

Category : Performing Arts

ISBN : 1329811410

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In Europe the war was already old, but while feeding nickels into roadhouse jukeboxes, the Presidential conventions, where the biggest question would be whether That Man in the White House would shatter yet another precedent and run for a third term. To many Americans, there seemed little else worth worrying about. As with all time periods, the 1940s had a set of specific fads that were popular around the country. Read this book and find out about the films of this decade and more...



Motion Pictures From the Fabulous 1950's

Author : Terry Rowan

Publisher : Lulu.com

Page : 200 pages

File Size : 20,9 MB

Release : 2015-12-22

Category : Performing Arts

ISBN : 1329760778

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The 1950s marked a decade of great fads - Hula-Hoops, Davy Crockett coonskin caps, Roy Rogers or Gene Audrey guns or Cowboy boots, and poodle skirts. It gave us Elvis Presley and rock and roll, crew cuts and sideburns, argyle sweaters, saddle shoes and white bucks. College kids on panty raids and sock hops. In the corner of every sitting room, was a small but ever-expanding eye fixed on an opening world - Television set. Films of the 1950s were wide variety and the stuidios sought to put audiences back in the seats of the theaters.



Motion Pictures from the Fabulous 1980's

Author : Terry Rowan

Publisher : Lulu.com

Page : 146 pages

File Size : 36,48 MB

Release : 2015-06-27

Category : Performing Arts

ISBN : 1329246500

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The decade of the 1980s and its movies and events that shape this Comeback decade. The Reagan Years. Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Cher, and Madonna. The Berlin Wall coming down..



Motion Pictures From the Fabulous 1960's

Author : Terry Rowan

Publisher : Lulu.com

Page : 182 pages

File Size : 49,25 MB

Release : 2015-08-15

Category : Performing Arts

ISBN : 1329436989

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A comprehensive film guide featuring films, directors, actors and actresses from the sixties.



Hollywood: The Movie Lover's Guide

Author : Richard Alleman

Publisher : Crown

Page : 514 pages

File Size : 46,10 MB

Release : 2013-03-06

Category : Performing Arts

ISBN : 0804137773

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The classic guide to who-did-what-where in Los Angeles, on- and off-screen, including: Film & TV locations: the Hollywood Hills house where Barbara Stanwyck seduced Fred MacMurray in Double Indemnity...the funky apartment building where William Holden lived in Sunset Boulevard...the exotic Frank Lloyd Wright mansion that's housed everyone from Harrison Ford in Blade Runner to David Boreanaz on TV's Buffy the Vampire Slayer....the landmark Art Deco former department store that has doubled for a glamorous hotel in Topper (1936) and an elegant nightclub in The Aviator (2004)... the Halloween and Nightmare on Elm Street houses... the Seinfeld and Alias apartment buildings... the Six Feet Under funeral home...The Brady Bunch and Happy Days houses...the Charlie's Angels office...the real Melrose Place...and many more VIP tours: from legendary studios like Warner Bros., MGM (now Sony Pictures), and Universal to movie-star homes like Barbra Streisand's former Malibu compound… Crime scenes and scandal spots: the driveway where Sal Mineo was murdered, the Nicole Brown Simpson condo, the Sharon Tate estate, Marilyn Monroe's last address, the Beverly Hills Mansion where Bugsy Siegal was rubbed out…the Hollywood hotel where Janice Joplin O.D.’d… Plus: Remarkable new museums...Superstar cemeteries...Historic hotels...Hip clubs and restaurants....Fabulous restored movie palaces… Spectacular movie star mansions and château apartments… Taking movie lovers behind the gates of the exclusive, often hidden world of Tinsel Town, Hollywood: The Movie Lover's Guide is the ultimate insider's guide to L.A.'s reel attractions.



Nostalgia Is What It Was

Author : Bob Cusack

Publisher : iUniverse

Page : 231 pages

File Size : 10,46 MB

Release : 2005-08

Category : Music

ISBN : 059536179X

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A nostalgic look at the decades; its music and the memories; as seen by veteran broadcaster Bob Cusack, who lived and worked through it all! A delightful trip down memory lane; remembering the music and entertainment of the century and how it affected our everyday lives. From the 1930s to the present, a glance at the world of entertainment and how it became a part of the way we lived.



Movie and Television Locations

Author : Leon Smith

Publisher : McFarland

Page : 297 pages

File Size : 36,78 MB

Release : 2015-09-03

Category : Performing Arts

ISBN : 0786489227

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It is often said that the greater Los Angeles area is the largest movie set in the world, and if a person lives there long enough their home or street will probably be featured in a film or television show. The tourism industry in Tinseltown is huge business, with thousands of devoted fans each day flocking to see just where their favorite star's blockbuster was filmed. This work documents locations used in more than 335 motion pictures and 86 television series filmed in Los Angeles and San Diego. The locations were identified and verified after an extensive review of films, video tapes, site photographs, and personal interviews with film industry personnel. Synopses of the motion pictures and television series cited are included. An index provides instant access to names, places, monuments, landmarks, film studios, film titles and television titles.



Movies of the 80s

Author : Jürgen Müller

Publisher : Taschen

Page : 878 pages

File Size : 25,90 MB

Release : 2002

Category : Motion picture actors and actresses

ISBN : 9783822817377

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Book Description

This book's 140 A-Z entries include synopses, film stills, and production photos.



Motion Picture Biographies

Author : John Cones

Publisher : Algora Publishing

Page : 202 pages

File Size : 41,97 MB

Release : 2015-04-01

Category : Art

ISBN : 1628941162

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Hollywood movies are famous for promoting negative stereotypes of all kinds, especially against minorities, women, Southerners, and Christians. To what extent are biographical films selected for production according to certain biases, conscious or unconscious, among the Hollywood elite? An expert on the U.S. film industry gives readers brief synopses of Hollywood biopics produced and/ or released from 1912 through 1994. This survey provides the basis for discussion and analysis. Tracking these one-sided depictions over a longer period of time, the patterns of bias - and the source of the problem - become more clear. The problem appears to be that most of the people who have green-light authority in the U.S. film industry - for either the production and/or distribution of a motion picture - share a common ethnic/religious/cultural background. Thus, the stories of their own cohort and those of all other ethnic, religious and/or cultural groups (whose members seldom achieve positions of power in Hollywood) are being filtered through the cultural sensibilities of a single group. John Cones suggests that the solution could lie in increasing diversity at the highest levels in the U.S. film industry.



Los Angeles Documentary and the Production of Public History, 1958-1977

Author : Joshua Glick

Publisher : Univ of California Press

Page : 292 pages

File Size : 11,55 MB

Release : 2018-01-19

Category : Performing Arts

ISBN : 0520966910

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Los Angeles Documentary and the Production of Public History, 1958–1977 explores how documentarians working between the election of John F. Kennedy and the Bicentennial created conflicting visions of the recent and more distant American past. Drawing on a wide range of primary documents, Joshua Glick analyzes the films of Hollywood documentarians such as David Wolper and Mel Stuart, along with lesser-known independents and activists such as Kent Mackenzie, Lynne Littman, and Jesús Salvador Treviño. While the former group reinvigorated a Cold War cultural liberalism, the latter group advocated for social justice in a city plagued by severe class stratification and racial segregation. Glick examines how mainstream and alternative filmmakers turned to the archives, civic institutions, and production facilities of Los Angeles in order to both change popular understandings of the city and shape the social consciousness of the nation.