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Beyond the looking glass : narcissism and female stardom in studio-era Hollywood New York : Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2014.
Call No: 451-02(73) SALAuthor: Salzberg, Ana Source: USPlace: New York : OxfordPublisher: Berghahn BooksPubDate: 2014PhysDes: viii, 197 pages ; illustrationsSubject: WOMEN IN FILMS ; STUDIOS, FILM. USA ; STARS. USA ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. USA ; FEMININITY IN FILMS Summary: "As living subjects rather than static icons, studio-era Hollywood actresses actively negotiated a balance between their public personas, film roles, and corporeal presence. The contemporary audience's engagement with the experience of these actresses unsettles the traditional model of narcissistic identification, which divides the off-screen spectator from his/her onscreen ideal. Exploring the fan's desire for a material connection to the performer - as well as the star's own dialogue between embodied experience and idealized image - this book traces on- and off-screen representations of narcissistic femininity in classical Hollywood through studies of stars like Greta Garbo, Ava Gardner, and Marilyn Monroe. Merging historical and theoretical concerns, with particular attention to the resonance of golden-age Hollywood in new media, this book explores the movie screen as a medium of shared experience between spectator and star." -- BOOK BLURBNotes: Includes bibliographical references and index -- Includes filmographyISBN: 9781782383994Donation: donated by Senses of Cinema, 2014Contents: Introduction: The Narcissistic Woman: Reflections and Projections -- 1. Garbo Talks: Expectation and Realization -- 2. Katharine Hepburn and a Hollywood Story -- 3. Vanishing Differences in Mildred Pierce (1945) and Leave Her to Heaven (1945) -- 4. One Touch of Venus: Ava Gardner, Rita Hayworth, and the Production Code -- 5. "Wherever There's Magic": Performance Time in Sunset Boulevard (1950) and All About Eve (1950) -- 6. Marilyn Monroe: "The Last Glimmering of the Sacred" -- 7. Neo-Screen Tests, Part One: Grace Kelly and Elizabeth Taylor -- 8. Neo-Screen Tests, Part Two: The Search for Scarlett Continues --
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Chasing the runaways : foreign film production and film studio development in Australia 1988-2002 / Nick Herd Sydney: Currency House, 2004.
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The cinema book / edited by Pam Cook and Mieke Bernink London: British Film Institute, 1999.
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Final cut : dreams and disaster in the making of Heaven's Gate / by Steven Bach New York: William Morrow & Co., Inc., c1985.
Call No: 79HEA BACAuthor: Bach, Steven Source: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: William Morrow & Co., Inc.PubDate: c1985PhysDes: 432 pages ; 25 cmSubject: BUDGETING ; FINANCING ; BOX OFFICE ; INDUSTRY, FILM. USA ; STUDIOS, FILM. USA ; UNITED ARTISTS ; ALLEN, WOODY ; CIMINO, MICHAEL ; FIELD, DAVID ; DEER HUNTER, THE (US, Michael Cimino, 1978) ; HEAVEN'S GATE (US, Michael Cimino, 1980) Summary: "HEAVEN'S GATE is probably the most discussed, least seen film in modern movie history. Its notoriety is so great that it has become a generic term for disaster, for ego run rampant, for epic mismanagement, for wanton extravagance. It was also the watershed film of the decade - not for its cinematic qualities, but for its effect on Hollywood and the way movies will and will not be made in the future. For Michael Cimino's HEAVEN'S GATE did not merely fail (failure is forgivable, sometimes even endorsed in the strange labyrinths of the Hollywood psyche), HEAVEN'S GATE did the unthinkable: it sank a studio. Less than a month after the picture's second release, United Artists - the company founded by Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, D.W. Griffith and Charlie Chaplin - for all practical purposes ceased to exist. Why? How?" [TAKEN FROM BOOK JACKET]Notes: Includes indexISBN: 0688043828Donation: Simon Wincer
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The gross : the hits, the flops - the summer that ate Hollywood / Peter Bart New York: St. Martin's Griffin, February 2000.
Call No: 210.31(73) BARAuthor: Bart, Peter Edition: First EditionSource: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: St. Martin's GriffinPubDate: February 2000PhysDes: 337 p. ; 24 cmSubject: BART, PETER ; INDUSTRY, FILM. USA ; BOX OFFICE. USA ; STUDIOS, FILM. USA ; PARAMOUNT STUDIOS ; TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX ; SONY CORPORATION ; WARNER BROS. ; UNIVERSAL PICTURES ; SPIELBERG, STEVEN ; ARMAGEDDON (US, Michael Bay, 1998) ; BULWORTH (US, Warren Beatty, 1998) ; DEEP IMPACT (US, Mimi Leder, 1997) ; HORSE WHISPERER, THE (US, Robert Redford, 1998) ; LETHAL WEAPON 4 (US, Richard Donner, 1998) ; MASK OF ZORRO (US, Martin Campbell, 1998) ; MULAN (US, Barry Cook & Tony Bancroft, 1998) ; OUT OF SIGHT (US, Steven Soderbergh, 1998) ; SMALL SOLDIERS (US, Joe Dante, 1998) ; SAVING PRIVATE RYAN (US, Steven Spielberg, 1998) ; SIX DAYS, SEVEN NIGHTS (US, Ivan Reitman, 1998) ; GODZILLA (US/JA, Roland Emmerich, 1998) ; THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY (US, Bobby Farrelly & Peter Farrelly, 1998) Notes: A behind-the-scenes tour of Hollywood during its busiest season - where big-budget blockbusters can make or break a studio, and summer sleepers sneak onto the radar.--BOOK BLURBISBN: 0312253915
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Hello, he lied : and other truths from the Hollywood trenches / Lynda Obst Pymble, N.S.W.: HarperCollins, 1997.
Call No: 81OBS OBSAuthor: Obst, Lynda Rosen Place: Pymble, N.S.W.Publisher: HarperCollinsPubDate: 1997PhysDes: x, 246 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: INDUSTRY, FILM. USA ; PRODUCERS ; PRODUCING ; STUDIOS, FILM. USA ; OBST, LYNDA ; BAD GIRLS (US, Jonathan Kaplan, 1994) ; CONTACT (US, Robert Zemeckis, 1997) ; FISHER KING, THE (US, Terry Gilliam, 1991) ; SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE (US, Nora Ephron, 1993) Summary: Welcome to the world of Hollywood - a constantly spinning cyclone of glamour, money, and gossip where there is no glossary and people play by rules discernible only to those on the inside. It is a world that Lynda Obst, one of the most successful producers in Hollywood today, entered two decades ago as a neophyte and where through resolve, determination, and quick wit, she has been able to produce some of today's biggest movies, including The Fisher King and Sleepless in Seattle.
Now in Hello, He Lied, Lynda Obst takes us on a behind-the-scenes tour of her world - onto sound stages with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, inside meetings with David Geffen and Peter Guber, on location in New York City with George Clooney and Michelle Pfeiffer, and into negotiations over The Hot Zones. She shares what she has learned in over twenty years in the business, about how to pitch an idea, impress a suit, win a bidding war over a hot script, and massage egos, as well as the all consuming issue of how to dress on location, what to say to skittish directors, where to eat lunch - whether in New York, LA, or a town you've never heard of - and most important, how to produce successful, critically acclaimed movies.Notes: First published: Boston : Little, Brown, c1996ISBN: 0732258618 : $16.95LON: abn97006410; 12942780
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Hollywood in the information age : beyond the silver screen / Janet Wasko Cambridge, U.K.: Polity Press, 1994.
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The Hollywood studio system : a history London: British Film Institute, 2005.
Call No: 210.31(73) GOMAuthor: Douglas Gomery CorpAuthor: British Film InstitutePlace: LondonPublisher: British Film InstitutePubDate: 2005PhysDes: 333 p. ; 23 cmSubject: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; WARNER BROS. ; COLUMBIA PICTURES ; UNITED ARTISTS ; RKO ; STUDIOS, FILM. USA ; PRODUCTION COMPANIES & STUDIOS. USA ; PARAMOUNT STUDIOS ; UNIVERSAL PICTURES ; ZUKOR, ADOLPH ; WASSERMAN, LEW ; HISTORY OF CINEMA Summary: Despite being one of the most influential industries in the United States, indeed the world, the internal workings of the “dream factory” that is Hollywood is little understood outside the business. The Hollywood Studio System: A History is the first book to describe and analyse the complete development, classic operation, and reinvention of the global corporate entities which produce and distribute most of the films we watch…Gomery’s history tells the story of a “tale of two systems” using primary materials from a score of archives using primary materials from a score of archives across the United States as well as a close reading of both the business and trade press of the time, together with a range of photographs never before published. [Taken from back cover.]ISBN: 1844570649
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Journeys of desire : European actors in Hollywood / a critical companion / Alastair Phillips and Ginette Vincendeau (eds) London: British Film Institute, 2006.
Call No: 802.27(4) JOUCorpAuthor: BFISource: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: British Film InstitutePubDate: 2006PhysDes: 512 p. ; 25 cmSubject: ACTORS ; ACTORS. FRANCE ; GLOBALISATION ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD ; EXTRAS ; STUDIOS, FILM. USA ; CHEVALIER, MAURICE ; PARAMOUNT STUDIOS ; JEWS AND THE CINEMA. USA ; NAZIS IN FILMS ; GABIN, JEAN ; ACTORS. UK ; TYPE CHARACTERS IN FILMS Summary: Journeys of Desire offers for the first time a comprehensive critical guide to European Actors in American film, bringing together 15 overview chapters and a-z entries on over 900 individuals in one accessible and scholarly volume. Since the early days of the US film industry, European actors have consistently been a major force in Hollywood. Screen idols such as Charlie Chaplin, Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Boyer, Audrey Hepburn, Maurice Chevalier, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Antonio Banderas, as well as scores of more modest players, have profoundly shaped ‘American’ cinema. They have also contributed to the propagation of European types and stereotypes such as the ‘Russian’ and Nordic queens played by Garbo and Dietrich, the French Roues popularized by Chevalier, the fiery Latinos depicted by Banderas and the British arch-villain played by Steven Berkoff, Anthony Hopkins and Tim Roth. Films such as Casablanca (1942), Gigi (1958), Green Card (1990) and Vanilla Sky (2001), among many others, would not be the same without them. Contributions from a team of 70 international experts provide ground-breaking case studies of prominent individuals and phenomena associated with the émigrés, such as the retired Russian officers who played crowds in silent films, the stereotyping of European actresses in ‘bad women’ roles, and the ultimate irony of Jewish actors playing Nazis. Individual entries chart the careers and performances of the European actors – from Victoria Abril to Mai Zetterling – who appeared in American movies. [Taken from back cover].ISBN: 1844571246
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Naked Hollywood : money, power, and the movies / Nicolas Kent London: BBC Books, 1991.
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