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Soldiers' Bonus
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Iowa Official Register
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Category : Iowa
Languages : en
Pages : 900
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Category : Iowa
Languages : en
Pages : 900
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The Wonderful World of the Department Store in Historical Perspective
Author: Robert D. Tamilia
Publisher: École des hautes études commerciales, Chaire de commerce Omer DeSerres
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Category : Department stores
Languages : fr
Pages : 128
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Publisher: École des hautes études commerciales, Chaire de commerce Omer DeSerres
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Category : Department stores
Languages : fr
Pages : 128
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The Magic Mirror
Author: Denise Jeanne Youngblood
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299162344
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Youngblood provides a cultural perspective of an era traditionally viewed through a revolutionary lens, exploring how films and the film industry illuminate and reflect the popular attitudes of a turbulent time.
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299162344
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Youngblood provides a cultural perspective of an era traditionally viewed through a revolutionary lens, exploring how films and the film industry illuminate and reflect the popular attitudes of a turbulent time.
Still
Author: David S. Shields
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022601343X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
The success of movies like The Artist and Hugo recreated the wonder and magic of silent film for modern audiences, many of whom might never have experienced a movie without sound. But while the American silent movie was one of the most significant popular art forms of the modern age, it is also one that is largely lost to us, as more than eighty percent of silent films have disappeared, the victims of age, disaster, and neglect. We now know about many of these cinematic masterpieces only from the collections of still portraits and production photographs that were originally created for publicity and reference. Capturing the beauty, horror, and moodiness of silent motion pictures, these images are remarkable pieces of art in their own right. In the first history of still camera work generated by the American silent motion picture industry, David S. Shields chronicles the evolution of silent film aesthetics, glamour, and publicity, and provides unparalleled insight into this influential body of popular imagery. Exploring the work of over sixty camera artists, Still recovers the stories of the photographers who descended on early Hollywood and the stars and starlets who sat for them between 1908 and 1928. Focusing on the most culturally influential types of photographs—the performer portrait and the scene still—Shields follows photographers such as Albert Witzel and W. F. Seely as they devised the poses that newspapers and magazines would bring to Americans, who mimicked the sultry stares and dangerous glances of silent stars. He uncovers scene shots of unprecedented splendor—visions that would ignite the popular imagination. And he details how still photographs changed the film industry, whose growing preoccupation with artistry in imagery caused directors and stars to hire celebrated stage photographers and transformed cameramen into bankable names. Reproducing over one hundred and fifty of these gorgeous black-and-white photographs, Still brings to life an entire long-lost visual culture that a century later still has the power to enchant.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022601343X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
The success of movies like The Artist and Hugo recreated the wonder and magic of silent film for modern audiences, many of whom might never have experienced a movie without sound. But while the American silent movie was one of the most significant popular art forms of the modern age, it is also one that is largely lost to us, as more than eighty percent of silent films have disappeared, the victims of age, disaster, and neglect. We now know about many of these cinematic masterpieces only from the collections of still portraits and production photographs that were originally created for publicity and reference. Capturing the beauty, horror, and moodiness of silent motion pictures, these images are remarkable pieces of art in their own right. In the first history of still camera work generated by the American silent motion picture industry, David S. Shields chronicles the evolution of silent film aesthetics, glamour, and publicity, and provides unparalleled insight into this influential body of popular imagery. Exploring the work of over sixty camera artists, Still recovers the stories of the photographers who descended on early Hollywood and the stars and starlets who sat for them between 1908 and 1928. Focusing on the most culturally influential types of photographs—the performer portrait and the scene still—Shields follows photographers such as Albert Witzel and W. F. Seely as they devised the poses that newspapers and magazines would bring to Americans, who mimicked the sultry stares and dangerous glances of silent stars. He uncovers scene shots of unprecedented splendor—visions that would ignite the popular imagination. And he details how still photographs changed the film industry, whose growing preoccupation with artistry in imagery caused directors and stars to hire celebrated stage photographers and transformed cameramen into bankable names. Reproducing over one hundred and fifty of these gorgeous black-and-white photographs, Still brings to life an entire long-lost visual culture that a century later still has the power to enchant.
The Death and Life of Harry Goth
Author: D. Keith Mano
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Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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The Gospel Sound
Author: Anthony Heilbut
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 0879100346
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
Spotlights the careers of the gospel singers who have made a distinctive contribution to the world of music
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 0879100346
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 463
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Spotlights the careers of the gospel singers who have made a distinctive contribution to the world of music
Manitoba School Journal
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 870
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 870
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Iowa Educational Directory
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Hollywood Movie Stills
Author: Joel Waldo Finler
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe . . . it is through the eye of the stills camera that we experience and recall some of the cinema's most memorable events and faces. Still images are so powerful that they can easily pass for actual scenes from the movies they represent—rather than separately posed, lighted, and photographed shots that may not even find their way into the finished film. This classic study traces the origin of stills photography during the silent era and the early development of the star system, to the rise of the giant studios in the 1930s and their eventual decline. Finler focuses on the photographers, on the stars they photographed, and on many key films and filmmakers. Hollywood Movie Stills is illustrated by hundreds of rare and unusual stills from the author's own collection, including not only portraits and scene stills but production shots, behind-the-scenes photos, poster art, calendar art, leg shots, photo collages, and trick shots. There are also photos showing the stars' private lives and special events in Hollywood, all produced in vast numbers by the great studios in their heyday.
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe . . . it is through the eye of the stills camera that we experience and recall some of the cinema's most memorable events and faces. Still images are so powerful that they can easily pass for actual scenes from the movies they represent—rather than separately posed, lighted, and photographed shots that may not even find their way into the finished film. This classic study traces the origin of stills photography during the silent era and the early development of the star system, to the rise of the giant studios in the 1930s and their eventual decline. Finler focuses on the photographers, on the stars they photographed, and on many key films and filmmakers. Hollywood Movie Stills is illustrated by hundreds of rare and unusual stills from the author's own collection, including not only portraits and scene stills but production shots, behind-the-scenes photos, poster art, calendar art, leg shots, photo collages, and trick shots. There are also photos showing the stars' private lives and special events in Hollywood, all produced in vast numbers by the great studios in their heyday.