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Author
Series
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
xvi, 525 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Hollywoodcrossroads of filmmaking, mythmaking, and politicswas dominated by one man more than any other for most of its history. It was William Randolph Hearst who understood how to use cinema to exploit the public's desire for entertainment and to create film propaganda to further his own desire for power. From the start, Hearst saw his future and the future of Hollywood as one and the same. He pioneered and capitalized on the synergistic relationship...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 739 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The real story of Hollywood -- as told by such luminaries as Steven Spielberg, Frank Capra, Katharine Hepburn, Alfred Hitchcock, Harold Lloyd, Jordan Peele, and nearly four hundred others -- reveals a fresh history of the American movie industry from its beginnings to today." --
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
107 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Who HQ rolls out the red carpet for Where Is Hollywood?--the film capital of the world. Developed in the 1880s by Midwesterners looking for a sunny winter getaway, Hollywood was a small housing development outside still-small Los Angeles. But everything changed in the early 1900s when filmmakers from New York flocked to the area, where they could make movies without having to pay Thomas Edison's patent fee. It didn't hurt that the weather was perfect,...
Author
Publisher
Fitzroy Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
104 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"London, 1913. Fourteen-year-old Billy Bean is a thief. He's also a talented street performer, and he's picked up by Fred Karno's music hall company [that features Charlie Chaplin]. Then Charlie Chaplin leaves Karno for the movies, and Billy is sent to America to replace him. Billy also wants to work in movies, too, and it's not too long before he gets his lucky break. But his luck runs out and the movie career goes badly. Soon he's on the streets...
Author
Publisher
Mainstream Publishing
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
352 pages, [8] pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations ;l 20 cm
Language
English
Description
This book reveals the sinister true story of the Mafia in Hollywood. Crammed with legends, myths, murders, madness, mayhem, superstar tantrums, super-sexed starlets, power brokers and politics, it is an ambitious account of Hollywood's hidden history, from the rogue cops who took on the Mob on the streets of Los Angeles to the stars who became stars because Mafia Godfathers said they would. In The Dark Heart of Hollywood, seasoned crime and entertainment...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xxv, 278 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A chronicle of the massive transformation in Hollywood since the turn of the century and the huge changes yet to come, drawing on interviews with key players, as well as documents from the 2014 Sony hack"--
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"An unforgettable novel from an award-winning author about an ambitious young agent's daring fight to protect blacklisted writers in McCarthy-era Hollywood and her passionate relationship with an African American journalist. Outraged by her grandfather's illicit affair with Empire Pictures' latest femme fatale, Roxanne Granville forsakes her position as Hollywood royalty and rejects the man who raised her, determined to strike out on her own. Backed...
15) Babylon
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, Babylon traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of unbridled decadence and depravity in early Hollywood.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
324 p., [16] p. of plates : color ill. ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"From Top Gun to Howard the Duck, Hollywood was never more excessive than it was in the 1980s. In the Moneywood era, the purse strings were not controlled by adults, but by pop culture cowboys who couldn't balance their own checkbooks but could fast talk the talent, snowball the Japanese, and explain their way out of Dodge when the grosses came in. Their know-nothing raging narcissistic personalities make Sam Goldwyn look professorial and some of...
17) The star machine
Author
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiv, 586 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Film studies authority Basinger gives us an entertaining look into the "star machine," examining how, at the height of the studio system, from the 1930s to the 1950s, the studios manufactured star actors and actresses. She shows us how the machine worked when it worked, how it failed when it didn't, and how irrelevant it could sometimes be. She gives us the "human factor," case studies focusing on big stars groomed into the system: the "awesomely...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xi, 323 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
The Cold War and the Golden Age of Hollywood meet in this story of the remarkable career of Boris Morros, film producer and Russian double agent. Boris Morros was a major figure in the 1930s and '40s. The head of music at Paramount, nominated for Academy Awards, he then went on to produce his own films with Laurel and Hardy, Fred Astaire, Henry Fonda, and others. But as J. Edgar Hoover would discover, these successes were a cover for one of the most...
Author
Publisher
City Lights
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xv, 213 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Hailed by the New Yorker as "a crucial forebear of generations," award-winning director Joyce Chopra came of age in the 1950s, prior to the dawn of feminism, and long before the #MeToo movement. As a young woman, it seemed impossible that she might one day realize her dream of becoming a film director-she couldn't name a single woman in that role. But with her desire fueled by a stay in Paris during the heady beginnings of the French New Wave, she...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 415 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"As one of the most famous faces of silent cinema, Buster Keaton was and continues to be revered for his stoic expressions, clever visual gags, and acrobatic physicality in classics such as Sherlock Jr., The General, and The Cameraman. In this spirited biography, every aspect of Buster Keaton's astonishing life is explored, from his humble beginnings in vaudeville with his parents to his meteoric rise to Hollywood stardom during the silent era. Based...
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