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Acting male : masculinities in the films of James Stewart, Jack Nicholson, and Clint Eastwood / Dennis Bingham New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1994.
Call No: 451-01 BINAuthor: Bingham, Dennis, 1954 Place: New Brunswick, N.J.Publisher: Rutgers University PressPubDate: 1994PhysDes: x, 271 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: MEN IN FILMS ; GENDER AND THE CINEMA ; WESTERNS ; SADISM / MASOCHISM IN FILMS ; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED ; Stewart, James ; NICHOLSON, JACK ; EASTWOOD, CLINT ; LAST DETAIL, THE (US, Hal Ashby, 1973) ; BEGUILED, THE (US, Don Siegel, 1971) ; CHINATOWN (US, Roman Polanski, 1974) ; DIRTY HARRY (US, Don Siegel, 1971) ; HARVEY (US, Henry Koster, 1950) ; HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER (US, Clint Eastwood, 1973) ; [MISTER] MR SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (US, Frank Capra, 1939) ; SHINING, THE (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1980) ; TIGHTROPE (US, Richard Tuggle, 1984) ; UNFORGIVEN (US, Clint Eastwood, 1992) ; WHITE HUNTER, BLACK HEART (US, Clint Eastwood, 1990) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-263) and indexISBN: 0813520738; 0813520746 (pbk.)LON: 10548892
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Close up : great cinematic performances. Volume 1, American / edited by Murray Pomerance and Kyle Stevens UK: Edinburgh University Press, 2018.
Call No: 227.01(73) CLOPlace: UKPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPubDate: 2018Series: International film starsSubject: ACTORS ; CHARACTER ACTORS ; STARS ; WOMEN IN FILMS. USA ; WATERS, ETHEL ; DUNNE, IRENE ; GRANT, CARY ; GAYNOR, JANET ; HEPBURN, KATHARINE ; DAVIS, BETTE ; CLIFT, MONTGOMERY ; CURTIS, TONY ; SELLERS, PETER ; Stewart, James ; Lombard, Carole ; MASON, JAMES ; BURTON, RICHARD ; LEWIS, JERRY ; POITIER, SIDNEY ; HACKMAN, GENE ; ROWLANDS, GENA ; NICHOLSON, JACK ; HOFFMAN, DUSTIN ; GOULD, ELLIOTT ; PACINO, AL ; GOLDBERG, WHOOPI ; BLANCHETT, CATE ; ISAAC, OSCAR ; STEWART, KRISTEN ; CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA (FR/SZ/GG/US/BE, Olivier Assayas, 2014) ; MOST VIOLENT YEAR, A (US, J. C. Chandor, 2014) ; BLUE JASMINE (US, Woody Allen, 2013) ; COLOR PURPLE, THE (US, Steven Spielberg, 1985) ; DONNIE BRASCO (US, Mike Newell, 1997) ; LONG GOOGBYE, THE (US, Robert Altman, 1973) ; RAIN MAN (US, Barry Levinson, 1988) ; PASSENGER, THE (IT/SP/FR, Michelangelo Antonioni, 1975) ; GLORIA (US, John Cassavetes, 1980) ; CONVERSATION, THE (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1974) ; IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT (US, Norman Jewison, 1967) ; KING OF COMEDY, THE (US, Martin Scorsese, 1983) ; SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD, THE (UK, Martin Ritt, 1965) ; PINK PANTHER, THE (US, Blake Edwards, 1964) ; SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS (US, Alexander Mackendrick, 1957) ; PLACE IN THE SUN, A (US, George Stevens, 1951) ; LOLITA (US, Stanley Kubrick, 1962) ; TO BE OR NOT TO BE (US, Ernst Lubitsch, 1942) ; VERTIGO (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1958) ; LION IN WINTER, THE (UK, Anthony Harvey, 1968) ; HIS GIRL FRIDAY (US, Howard Hawks, 1940) ; AWFUL TRUTH, THE (US, Leo McCarey, 1937) ; MEMBER OF THE WEDDING (US, Fred Zinnemann, 1952) ; DANGEROUS (US, Alfred E. Green, 1935) ; SUNRISE (US, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, 1927) Summary: "Examines the significance of women's participation in popular genres.
Analyses what makes an acting performance excellent, through a range of examples from world cinema. What actors do on-screen is a fascination for audiences all over the world. Indeed, the cultural visibility of movie stars is so pronounced that stardom has often been regarded as intrinsic to the medium's specificity. Yet not all great cinematic performances are star turns, and so, what really makes a cinematic performance good, interesting, or important has been a neglected topic in film criticism. This two-volume set presents detailed interpretations of singular performances by several of the most compelling actors in cinema history, asking in many different and complementary ways what makes performance meaningful, how it reflects a director's style, as well as how it contributes to the development of national cinemas and cultures. Whether noting the precise ways actors shape film narrative, achieve emotional effect, or move toward political subversion, the essays in these books innovate new approaches to studying screen performance as an art form and cultural force"--Page 4 of cover.Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.ISBN: 9781474417006Contents: Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Close-up: great American performances -- Chapter 1 Ethel Waters in The Member of the Wedding -- Chapter 2 Irene Dunne in The Awful Truth -- Chapter 3 Cary Grant in His Girl Friday -- Chapter 4 Janet Gaynor in Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans -- Chapter 5 Katharine Hepburn in The Lion in Winter -- Chapter 6 Bette Davis in Dangerous -- Chapter 7 James Stewart in Vertigo -- Chapter 8 Carole Lombard in To Be or Not to Be -- Chapter 9 James Mason in Lolita -- Chapter 10 Montgomery Clift in A Place in the Sun -- Chapter 11 Tony Curtis in Sweet Smell of Success.
Chapter 12 Peter Sellers in The Pink Panther -- Chapter 13 Richard Burton in The Spy Who Came in from the Cold -- Chapter 14 Jerry Lewis in The King of Comedy -- Chapter 15 Sidney Poitier in In the Heat of the Night -- Chapter 16 Gene Hackman in The Conversation -- Chapter 17 Gena Rowlands in Gloria -- Chapter 18 Jack Nicholson in The Passenger -- Chapter 19 Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man -- Chapter 20 Elliott Gould in The Long Goodbye -- Chapter 21 Al Pacino in Donnie Brasco -- Chapter 22 Whoopi Goldberg in The Color Purple -- Chapter 23 Cate Blanchett in Blue Jasmine -- Chapter 24 Oscar Isaac in A Most Violent Year -- Chapter 25 Kristen Stewart in Clouds of Sils Maria -- Index.
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Easy riders, raging bulls : how the sex-drugs-and-rock-'n'-roll generation saved Hollywood / Peter Biskind New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1998.
Call No: 71(73) BISAuthor: Biskind, Peter Place: New York, NYPublisher: Simon & SchusterPubDate: 1998PhysDes: 506 p. : ill. ; 25 cmSubject: HOLLYWOOD ; USA. 1970's ; COLUMBIA PICTURES ; PARAMOUNT STUDIOS ; TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX ; UNIVERSAL PICTURES ; WARNER BROS. ; ZOETROPE STUDIOS ; ALTMAN, ROBERT ; ASHBY, HAL ; BEATTY, WARREN ; BEGELMAN, DAVID ; BLATTY, WILLIAM PETER ; BOGDANOVICH, PETER ; BRANDO, MARLON ; BROWN, DAVID ; BURSTYN, ELLEN ; CALLEY, JOHN ; CHRISTIE, JULIE ; COPPOLA, ELEANOR ; COPPOLA, FRANCIS FORD ; DE NIRO, ROBERT ; DE PALMA, BRIAN ; DILLER, BARRY ; EVANS, ROBERT ; FONDA, PETER ; FRIEDKIN, WILLIAM ; GEFFEN, DAVID ; HAWKS, HOWARD ; HOPPER, DENNIS ; IRVING, AMY ; KAEL, PAULINE ; KIDDER, MARGOT ; LUCAS, GEORGE ; LUCAS, MARCIA ; MILIUS, JOHN ; NEWMAN, DAVID ; NICHOLSON, JACK ; PENN, ARTHUR ; PHILLIPS, JULIA ; PLATT, POLLY ; POLANSKI, ROMAN ; RAFELSON, BOB ; SCHNEIDER, BERT ; SCHRADER, LEONARD ; SCHRADER, PAUL ; SCORSESE, MARTIN ; SHEPHERD, CYBILL ; SIMPSON, DON ; SPIELBERG, STEVEN ; SYLBERT, RICHARD ; TANEN, NED ; TOWNE, ROBERT ; WEINTRAUB, SANDRA ; YABLANS, FRANK ; ZANUCK, RICHARD ; AMERICAN GRAFFITI (US, George Lucas, 1973) ; EASY RIDER (US, Dennis Hopper, 1969) ; APOCALYPSE NOW (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1979) ; BONNIE AND CLYDE (US, Arthur Penn, 1967) ; CHINATOWN (US, Roman Polanski, 1974) ; CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (US, Steven Spielberg, 1977) ; EXORCIST, THE (US, William Friedkin, 1973) ; GODFATHER, THE (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1972) ; HEAVEN'S GATE (US, Michael Cimino, 1980) ; JAWS (US, Steven Spielberg, 1975) ; LAST PICTURE SHOW, THE (US, Peter Bogdanovich, 1971) ; MCCABE AND MRS MILLER (US, Robert Altman, 1971) ; M*A*S*H (US, Robert Altman, 1969) ; MEAN STREETS (US, Martin Scorsese, 1973) ; PAPER MOON (US, Peter Bogdanovich, 1973) ; PERSONAL BEST (US, Robert Towne, 1982) ; RAGING BULL (US, Martin Scorsese, 1980) ; REDS (US, Warren Beatty, 1981) ; SHAMPOO (US, Hal Ashby, 1975) ; SORCERER (US, William Friedkin, 1977) ; STAR WARS (US, George Lucas, 1977) ; SUGARLAND EXPRESS, THE (US, Steven Spielberg, 1974) ; TAXI DRIVER (US, Martin Scorsese, 1976) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [449]-482) and index; Filmography: p. [447]-448ISBN: 0684809966LON: 98002919; 13698645
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Fade out : the calamitous final days of MGM / Peter Bart New York: Morrow, 1990.
Call No: 19MET BARAuthor: Bart, Peter Edition: 1st edPlace: New YorkPublisher: MorrowPubDate: 1990PhysDes: 304 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; UNITED ARTISTS ; PARAMOUNT STUDIOS ; AUBREY, JAMES T. ; YABLANS, FRANK ; KERKORIAN, KIRK ; ARMSTRONG, GILLIAN ; BROOKS, RICHARD ; CIMINO, MICHAEL ; FIELDS, FREDDIE ; GOLDBERG, LEONARD ; HUTTON, TIMOTHY ; LADD, ALAN, Jr. ; SKASE, CHRISTOPHER ; LOWE, ROB ; MELNICK, DANIEL ; MUDOCH, RUPERT ; NICHOLSON, JACK ; ROSENBERG, STUART ; STEENBURGEN, MARY ; WEINTRAUB, JERRY ; WARGAMES (US, John Badham, 1983) ; RED DAWN (US, John Milius, 1984) ; RAIN MAN (US, Barry Levinson, 1988) ; MRS. SOFFEL (US, Gillian Armstrong, 1984) Notes: Includes indexISBN: 0688084605 (acid-free paper)LON: 6934383
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Filmmakers on filmmaking : the American Film Institute seminars on motion pictures and television. volume 2 / edited by Joseph McBride Los Angeles Boston: J.P. Tarcher Distributed by Houghton Mifflin Co., c1983.
Call No: 802 FIL vol.2Author: McBride, Joseph CorpAuthor: American Film InstituteEdition: 1st edPlace: Los Angeles BostonPublisher: J.P. Tarcher Distributed by Houghton Mifflin Co.PubDate: c1983PhysDes: ports. ; 24 cmSubject: LEAR, NORMAN ; LEVINE, JOSEPH E. ; RENOIR, JEAN ; TOWNE, ROBERT ; HESTON, CHARLTON ; DAVIS, BETTE ; GOLDSMITH, JERRY ; HEAD, EDITH ; SELZNICK, DAVID O. ; BRAKHAGE, STAN ; DE HAVILLAND, OLIVIA ; MORRISSEY, PAUL ; NICHOLSON, JACK ; POLANSKI, ROMAN ; SCHAFFNER, FRANKLIN J. ; WYLER, WILLIAM ; ALONZO, JOHN A. ; HORNER, HARRY ; GOOD TIMES (US, William Friedkin, 1967) ; ALL ABOUT EVE (US, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950) ; CHINATOWN (US, Roman Polanski, 1974) ; GRANDE ILLUSION, LA (FR, Jean Renoir, 1937) ; HEIRESS, THE (US, William Wyler, 1949) ; HUSTLER, THE (US, Robert Rossen, 1961) ; TOUCH OF EVIL (US, Orson Welles, 1958) Notes: Includes bibliographies and indexesISBN: 0874772664 (v. 1) : $15.95 (per vol.); 0874772672 (v. 2); 0874772494 (pbk. : v. 1) : $7.95 (per vol.); 0874772508 (pbk. : v. 2)LON: 2606290
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The Fondas : a hollywood dynasty / Peter Collier New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, c1991.
Call No: 82FON COLAuthor: Collier, Peter Source: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: G.P. Putnam's SonsPubDate: c1991PhysDes: 336 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cmSubject: ACTORS. USA ; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; BARDOT, BRIGITTE ; BEATTY, WARREN ; FONDA, BRIDGET ; FONDA, HENRY ; FONDA, JANE ; FONDA, PETER ; HAYDON, TOM ; LANE, NATHAN ; NICHOLSON, JACK ; Stewart, James ; STRASBERG, LEE ; Sullavan, Margaret ; SELZNICK, DAVID O. ; SUTHERLAND, DONALD ; VADIM, ROGER ; WAYNE, JOHN ; ZANUCK, DARRYL F. ; BARBARELLA (FR/IT, Roger Vadim, 1967) ; CHINA SYNDROME, THE (US, James Bridges, 1979) ; EASY RIDER (US, Dennis Hopper, 1969) ; KLUTE (US, Alan J. Pakula, 1971) ; ON GOLDEN POND (US, Mark Rydell, 1981) ; SCANDAL (UK, Michael Caton-Jones, 1989) ; SHAG (UK, Zelda Barron, 1988) Notes: Includes index.ISBN: 0399135928Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006
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Hopper : a savage American journey / Tom Folsom New York: It Books, 2013.
Call No: 10667Author: Folsom, Tom Edition: 2013Place: New YorkPublisher: It BooksPubDate: 2013PhysDes: 306 pages : illustrated ; 23 cmSubject: HOPPER, DENNIS ; BRANDO, MARLON ; DEAN, JAMES ; FONDA, PETER ; NICHOLSON, JACK ; STOCKWELL, DEAN ; WOOD, NATALIE ; APOCALYPSE NOW (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1979) ; BLUE VELVET (US, David Lynch, 1986) ; EASY RIDER (US, Dennis Hopper, 1969) ; LAST MOVIE, THE (US, Dennis Hopper, 1971) ; REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (US, Nicholas Ray, 1955) Notes: Easy Rider. Apocalypse Now. Blue Velvet. Rebel Without a Cause.
An unflinching adventure through American pop culture, Hopper is a wild ride amid the many lives of Hollywood outlaw Dennis Hopper-mentored by James Dean, a collaborator with Andy Warhol, a confidant of Elvis Presley, a favorite of Charles Manson. Hopper races full speed ahead to the decadent heights of fame as the visionary director of Easy Rider crashes and burns in drug-addled madness in the desert . . . only to reemerge in one of the greatest Hollywood comebacks of all time. -- publisher's web siteISBN: 9780062206954Donation: Megan McMurchy
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The Hustons / Lawrence Grobel
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The joker's wild : the biography of Jack Nicholson / John Parker Chippendale [N.S.W.]: Pan Macmillan, 1991.
Call No: 81NIC PARAuthor: Parker, John, 1938 (Aug. 5) Place: Chippendale [N.S.W.]Publisher: Pan MacmillanPubDate: 1991PhysDes: 287 p. : ill, ports. ; 25 cmSubject: NICHOLSON, JACK Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 263ISBN: 0732907241 : $29.95LON: anb73290724; 7664090
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Michelangelo Antonioni's The Passenger : a film analysis / Michael Alan Scott Ann Arbor Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1981.
Call No: 79PAS SCOAuthor: Scott, Michael Place: Ann Arbor Mich.Publisher: University Microfilms InternationalPubDate: 1981PhysDes: 3, viii, 258 leaves ; 22 cm.Subject: CRITICISM ; ANTONIONI, MICHELANGELO ; NICHOLSON, JACK ; SCHNEIDER, MARIA ; PASSENGER, THE (IT/SP/FR, Michelangelo Antonioni, 1975) Summary: A analysis of the formal and thematic elements within Antonioni's film The Passenger, with an appendix providing a shot-by-shot desciption of the film.Notes: Typescript; issued also on microfilm.
Thesis (Ed. D.)--Teachers College, Columbia University.
Bibliography: leaves 140-144.
Appendices: leaves 145-258.
Typescript (photocopy).
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Call No: PERSONALITY CLIPPINGS FILE; PERSONALITY MICROFILM COLLECTIONPhysDes: ClippingsSubject: NICHOLSON, JACK
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Rolling breaks and other movie business / by Aljean Harmetz New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983.
Call No: 62(04)(73) HARAuthor: Harmetz, Aljean Edition: First editionSource: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: Alfred A. KnopfPubDate: 1983PhysDes: xvii, 263 pages ; 22 cmSubject: BOX OFFICE. USA ; CABLE TV. USA ; COLUMBIA PICTURES ; INDUSTRY, FILM. USA ; RATING FOR FILMS. USA ; ARKOFF, SAMUEL ; ASTAIRE, FRED ; BURTT, BEN ; DANIELS, ANTHONY ; EASTWOOD, CLINT ; FONDA, JANE ; KASDAN, LAWRENCE ; LANGE, JESSICA ; LUCAS, GEORGE ; NICHOLSON, JACK ; Peckinpah, Sam ; PICKFORD, MARY ; RITT, MARTIN ; Stanwyck, Barbara ; WILDER, BILLY ; ZUKOR, ADOLPH ; STAR WARS (US, George Lucas, 1977) Summary: "From one of the most admired and enjoyed writers on the subject of Hollywood, author of The Making of The Wizard of Oz, and for six years Los Angeles correspondent to The New York Times - her first collection of inside-the-movie-business pieces: interviews (from Jessica Lange, Jack Nicholson, and our Miss Rona, to Mary Pickford and Clint Eastwood); profiles (of the true intergalactic hero of the Star Wars trilogy, George Lucas; the last of the old true larger-than-life producers, Ray Stark; and the genius of B pictures, Sam Arkoff); and piercing in-depth reportage, clarifying and unscrambling the shake-ups and shake-down of current movie business" -Book blurb.Notes: Many pages have rough edgesISBN: 0394528867Contents: Introduction -- Mary Pickford - America's (gothic) sweetheart -- Cocaine and Hollywood -- Ms. Rona: don't call her a gossip -- What price glory at Columbia -- Jack Nicholson - odd man out -- Hollywood's hot new screen writer -- Jessica Lange - film star whose future is here -- Rating the ratings -- Astaire at 80 -- The $110,000 blunder, or the man who couldn't work movie miracles -- ReCooping: the rise and fall and rise of a child star -- Peckinpah: "Man was a killer long before he served a god" -- The dime-store way to make movies -- How Hollywood decides if a film is a hit -- Reap the Wilder wind -- Fonda at Forty -- Video wars: Hollywood's corporate rollerderby -- The man with no name is a big name now -- How a Hollywood rumor was born, flourished, and died -- Barbara Stanwyck: still a golden girl -- Martin Ritt: survivor extraordinaire -- The anatomy of the sneak preview -- Today's hottest movie stars -- From A(dolph) to Z(ukor) -- The great and powerful wizard of Lucasfilm
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What happens next : a history of American screenwriting / Marc Norman London: Aurum, 2007.
Call No: 802.24 NORAuthor: Marc Norman Edition: 2008Place: LondonPublisher: AurumPubDate: 2007PhysDes: 554 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmSubject: ACADEMY AWARDS ; BLACKLISTING. USA ; BEATTY, WARREN ; BOGART, HUMPHREY ; BRANDO, MARLON ; CHAYEFSKY, PADDY ; COLUMBIA PICTURES ; COPPOLA, FRANCIS FORD ; DEMILLE, CECIL B. ; EDISON, THOMAS ALVA ; FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT ; GOLDWYN, SAMUEL ; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK ; MOTION PICTURE PRODUCERS AND DISTRIBUTORS OF AMERICA ; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED ; HUSTON, JOHN ; JONZE, SPIKE ; KEITEL, HARVEY ; KOCH, HOWARD ; KUBRICK, STANLEY ; LARDNER, RING, Jr. ; LOOS, ANITA ; MANKIEWICZ, HERMAN J. ; MANKIEWICZ, JOSEPH L. ; MILIUS, JOHN ; NICHOLSON, JACK ; PENN, ARTHUR ; PORTER, EDWIN S. ; SCHRADER, PAUL ; SOUTHERN, TERRY ; SPIELBERG, STEVEN ; STEWART, DONALD OGDEN ; TARANTINO, QUENTIN ; WEINSTEIN, HARVEY ; ZANUCK, DARRYL F. ; ZUKOR, ADOLPH ; AMERICAN GRAFFITI (US, George Lucas, 1973) ; ALTERED STATES (US, Ken Russell, 1980) ; BIRTH OF A NATION, THE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1915) ; BONNIE AND CLYDE (US, Arthur Penn, 1967) ; CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (US, Steven Spielberg, 1977) ; EASY RIDER (US, Dennis Hopper, 1969) ; INFORMER, THE (US, John Ford, 1935) ; RAIN PEOPLE, THE (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1969) ; STAR WARS (US, George Lucas, 1977) ISBN: 9781845133245
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Who killed Hollywood? : - and put the tarnish on tinseltown / Peter Bart Los Angeles, CA: Renaissance Books, c1999.
Call No: 210.31(73) BARAuthor: Bart, Peter Edition: 1st edSource: USPlace: Los Angeles, CAPublisher: Renaissance BooksPubDate: c1999PhysDes: 399 p. ; 24 cmSubject: HOLLYWOOD ; INDUSTRY, FILM. USA ; DIRECTORS. USA ; PRODUCERS. USA ; SCRIPTWRITERS. USA ; ACTORS ; BASS, RON ; BEATTY, WARREN ; COPPOLA, FRANCIS FORD ; COSTNER, KEVIN ; EISNER, MICHAEL ; Gibson, Mel ; GODFATHER [...], THE (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1972-) ; KATZENBERG, JEFFREY ; NICHOLS, MIKE ; NICHOLSON, JACK ; OVITZ, MIKE ; POLANSKI, ROMAN ; REDFORD, ROBERT ; RIFKIN, ARNOLD ; SCHWARZENEGGER, ARNOLD ; SPIELBERG, STEVEN ; STALLONE, SYLVESTER ; WILDER, BILLY Summary: "Who killed hollywood? is a passionate love/hate letter to the film industry. In it, Peter Bart pulls together his best columns from Variety and GQ. He groups them, juxtaposes them, and interprets them, outlining in detail the history and inner workings of Hollywood. This could only be done by someone powerful enough to phone any star or head of studio and have his calls taken on the first ring. In story after story, Bart shows how the major studios haver diverted thie energies away from production of the shrewdly crafted pictures that once made the industry powerful. There isn't, for example, much range or innovation in the movies of salable objects- natural disasters, aliens, dinosaurs, ghosts, monsters, or any combination thereof. All are subjects easily parlayed into theme-park environments, action figures, video games, and clothing lines. Similarly, since Jaws twenty years ago, there's been a very short list of acceptable settings. The 1998 Academy Award nominations for best picture all went to films set in Elizabethian times or during World War II. A few years ago it looked as though Pulp Fiction and other independent films were going to save showbiz. Now independent producers like Miramax and New Line have been acquired by the conglomerates. Who and what will resurrect Hollywood? Peter Bart has the answers." - BOOK JACKETNotes: Includes indexISBN: 1580631169LON: 21362029
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