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Five for Hollywood / John Parker London: Macmillan London, 1989.
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Hollywood romantic comedy : states of the union 1934-65 Oxford Road, Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2006.
Call No: 732 HOLAuthor: Glitre, Kathrina Source: UKPlace: Oxford Road, Manchester, UKPublisher: Manchester University PressPubDate: 2006PhysDes: 199 p. : ill. ; 25 cmSubject: COMEDIES ; ROMANTIC FILMS ; LOY, MYRNA ; POWELL, WILLIAM ; HEPBURN, AUDREY ; TRACY, SPENCER ; DAY, DORIS ; HUDSON, ROCK Notes: Includes index and bibliographical references ([p.] 188-195).
Includes bibliographical references (p. [188]-195) and indexISBN: 0719070791Donation: Donated by Senses Of Cinema, 2009Contents: 1. Hollywood romantic comedy -- Genre, cycles and critical conditions --
2. Marriage -- The same but different: marriage, remarriage, and screwball comedy -- Making marriage fun: Myrna Loy and William Powell -- 3. Equality -- A little difference: equality and the career woman comedy -- Economy and excess: Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy -- 4. Desire -- Possess me: consuming desires in the sex comedy -- There must be a boy! Doris Day and Rock Hudson
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HUDSON, ROCK
Call No: PERSONALITY CLIPPINGS FILE; PERSONALITY MICROFILM COLLECTIONPhysDes: ClippingsSubject: HUDSON, ROCK
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Man's Favourite Sport? in Montage (June 1965) p.17-19
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BibliographySubject: HAWKS, HOWARD ; HUDSON, ROCK Summary: Review of "Man's Favourite Sport?", which examines the film in the context of Howard Hawk's style, and how the negative themes in the film can be viewed as a response to American society in the early 1960s. This article was based on a review by Michel Delahaye in "Cahiers du Cinema", translated from the French by Luc Petein.
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The man who invented Rock Hudson : the pretty boys and dirty deals of Henry Willson Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2014.
Call No: 81WIL HOFAuthor: Hofler, Robert Edition: 1st ed.Source: USPlace: Minneapolis, MNPublisher: University of Minnesota PressPubDate: 2014PhysDes: 468 p. : ill. ; 22 cmSubject: HOLLYWOOD ; GENDER AND THE CINEMA.USA ; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA ; AGENTS ; WILLSON, HENRY ; HUDSON, ROCK Summary: "Henry Willson was one of the quintessential power brokers in Hollywood during the late 1940s and 1950s when he launched the careers of Rock Hudson, Lana Turner, Tab Hunter, Natalie Wood, and many others. He was also a true casting couch agent, brokering sex for opportunity on the silver screen. While this practice was rampant across Hollywood, for gay actors and film professionals the casting couch was a dangerous cliff: a public revelation could and would ruin a career. The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson is an incredible biography as well as a harrowing look into Hollywood at a time of great sexual oppression, roaming vice squads searching for gay and/ or communist activity, and the impossibilities for gay actors of the era." -- BOOK BLURBNotes: Includes index and bibliographical references -- Originally published New York : Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2005.ISBN: 9780816691296Donation: donated by Senses of Cinema, 2014
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Masked men : masculinity and the movies in the fifties / Steven Cohan Bloomington: Indiana University Press, c1997.
Call No: 451-01 COHAuthor: Cohan, Steven Place: BloomingtonPublisher: Indiana University PressPubDate: c1997PhysDes: xxi, 346 p. : ill. ; 25 cmSeries: Arts and politics of the everydaySubject: MASCULINITY IN FILMS ; GENDER AND THE CINEMA ; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA ; BISEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA ; CLASS AND THE CINEMA ; COLD WAR AND THE CINEMA ; BOGART, HUMPHREY ; BRANDO, MARLON ; CLIFT, MONTGOMERY ; CURTIS, TONY ; GRANT, CARY ; HOLDEN, WILLIAM ; HESTON, CHARLTON ; HUDSON, ROCK ; PICNIC (US, Joshua Logan, 1955) ; PILLOW TALK (US, Michael Gordon, 1959) ; PLACE IN THE SUN, A (US, George Stevens, 1951) ; SOME LIKE IT HOT (US, Billy Wilder, 1959) ; TEN COMMANDMENTS, THE (US, Cecil B. DeMille, 1956) ; RED RIVER (US, Howard Hawks, 1948) Summary: When we think of the films of the 1950s, we inevitably remember the confident swagger of John Wayne, the suave sophistication of Cary Grant, and the emotional intensity of Marlon Brando. But today's culture critics see in the decade a period when heterosexual/homosexual dualism came to dominate the representation of American masculinity. Masked Men documents how movies of the 1950s represented masculinity as a multiple masquerade. Hollywood depicted the sexual anxieties of the domesticated breadwinner, the repudiation of wartime homoerotic male bonding, the exhibitionism of muscular bodies, the transvestic connotations of boyishness, and the playboy bachelor apartment. These presentations challenged the postwar ideal of the typical American male, that omnipresent and seemingly invisible Man in a Gray Flannel SuitNotes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-335) and index; Filmography: p. [321]-322ISBN: 0253211271 (pa : alk. paper); 0253332974 (cl : alk. paper)LON: 12951206
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Melodrama and meaning : history, culture, and the films of Douglas Sirk / Barbara Klinger Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994.
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Open secret : gay Hollywood, 1928-1998 / David Ehrenstein New York: William Morrow and Co., c1998.
Call No: 80(73) EHRAuthor: Ehrenstein, David Edition: 1st edPlace: New YorkPublisher: William Morrow and Co.PubDate: c1998PhysDes: x, 372 p. : ill. ; 25 cmSubject: HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA. USA ; STUDIO SYSTEM ; WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS ; BARKER, CLIVE ; CRUISE, TOM ; CUKOR, GEORGE ; DEGENERES, ELLEN ; FOSTER, JODIE ; HAINES, WILLIAM ; HARRINGTON, CURTIS ; HECHE, ANNE ; HUDSON, ROCK ; HUNTER, TAB ; MCKELLEN, IAN ; SELLECK, TOM ; SPACEY, KEVIN ; VAN SANT, GUS ; WHALE, JAMES ; COHEN, BRUCE ; FLEMING, ANDREW ; GEFFEN, DAVID ; THREESOME (US, Andrew Fleming, 1994) ; ELLEN [TV] (US, 1995-) Summary: How homosexual actors and actresses came to define straight America's sexual self-image is only one of the paradoxical and provocative questions explored in Open Secret, a revealing cultural chronicle of gay Hollywood. Part social history and part Tinseltown expose, this entertaining book spans seventy years, painting knowing and vivid portraits of many of Hollywood's foremost gays and lesbians, often in the words of eyewitnesses or the principals themselvesNotes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-356) and indexISBN: 0688153178 (alk. paper)LON: 14008751
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Sex Comedy : Or...Where Were You When the Lights Came On? in Melbourne Film Bulletin (October 1970) iss.14 p.22-30
Author: Finney, Alan PhysDes: Article
ReviewSubject: COMEDIES ; HOLLYWOOD ; SECRET LIFE OF AN AMERICAN WIFE, THE (US, George Axelrod, 1968) ; APARTMENT, THE (US, Billy Wilder, 1960) ; HAWKS, HOWARD ; HUDSON, ROCK Summary: Essay discusses the film products of the Hollywood industry, focusing on the "sex comedy" genre, and analysing it in terms of its setting, characterisation and motivations, and also its cinematic devices used to convey meaning.
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