Author: Publisher: Editions Bréal
ISBN: 2749520118
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
The Star System
Author: Paul McDonaldPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231503245
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 141
Book Description
Looks at the development and changing organization of the star system in the American film industry. Tracing the popularity of star performers from the early "cinema of attractions" to the Internet universe, Paul McDonald explores the ways in which Hollywood has made and sold its stars. Through focusing on particular historical periods, case studies of Mary Pickford, Bette Davis, James Cagney, Julia Roberts, Tom Cruise, and Will Smith illustrate the key conditions influencing the star system in silent cinema, the studio era and the New Hollywood.
Author: Publisher: Editions Bréal
ISBN: 2749520118
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
The Origins of the Film Star System
Author: Andrew ShailPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350111422
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Drawing on a wide range of archival sources, Andrew Shail traces the emergence of film stardom in Europe and North America in the early 20th century. Modifying and supplementing Richard deCordova's account of the birth of the US star system, Shail describes the complex set of economic circumstances that led film studios and actors to consent to the adoption of a star system. He then explores the film industry's turn, from 1908, to making character-based series films. He details how these characters both prefigured and precipitated the star system, demonstrating that series characters and the 'firmament' of film stars are functionally equivalent, and shows how openly fictional characters still provide the model for 'real' film stars.
The Energy Principle
Author: StephenPublisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 1452530467
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Jennifer and Stephen Edwards share their knowledge of psychic principles and healing, working with angels, and the world of spirit. They provide helpful signposts to understanding the power of our environment and interfacing with energies from the landscape to the far-flung cosmos. Anecdotes and heartfelt stories enhance the wisdom they share with the reader, to assist the journey of the soul to decode the matrix of power and intuitive living.
Holding Company Act. Release
Author: United States. Securities and Exchange CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
The Exoplanet Handbook
Author: Michael PerrymanPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108329667
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 973
Book Description
With the discovery of planets beyond our solar system 25 years ago, exoplanet research has expanded dramatically, with new state-of-the-art ground-based and space-based missions dedicated to their discovery and characterisation. With more than 3,500 exoplanets now known, the complexity of the discovery techniques, observations and physical characterisation have grown exponentially. This Handbook ties all these avenues of research together across a broad range of exoplanet science. Planet formation, exoplanet interiors and atmospheres, and habitability are discussed, providing in-depth coverage of our knowledge to date. Comprehensively updated from the first edition, it includes instrumental and observational developments, in-depth treatment of the new Kepler mission results and hot Jupiter atmospheric studies, and major updates on models of exoplanet formation. With extensive references to the research literature and appendices covering all individual exoplanet discoveries, it is a valuable reference to this exciting field for both incoming and established researchers.
International Film Musical
Author: Corey K CreekmurPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748634789
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This is the first comparative consideration of the musical's role within national cinema traditions. While the musical is one cinema's few genuinely international genres, it has often functioned as an explicitly local or national form, drawing upon distinct traditions understood as 'native' rather than 'international'. Simultaneously, musicals from around the world have often imitated Hollywood models, resulting in their easy dismissal as culturally 'impure' and demonstrating the creative and ideological tension between promoting and abandoning traditional cultural forms and styles. This productive tension between local and global elements lies at the heart of international film musicals, which typically acknowledge the dominant Hollywood model while claiming their own cultural specificity.
Nationalism and Architecture
Author: Darren DeanePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351915797
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 597
Book Description
Unlike regionalism in architecture, which has been widely discussed in recent years, nationalism in architecture has not been so well explored and understood. However, the most powerful collective representation of a nation is through its architecture and how that architecture engages the global arena by expressing, defining and sometimes negating a sense of nation in order to participate in the international world. Bringing together case studies from Europe, North and South America, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Australia, this book provides a truly global exploration of the relationship between architecture and nationalism, via the themes of regionalism and representation, various national building projects, ethnic and trans-national expression, national identities and histories of nationalist architecture and the philosophies and sociological studies of nationalism. It argues that nationalism needs to be trans-national as a notion to be critically understood and the geographical scope of the proposed volume reflects the continuing relevance of the topic within current architectural scholarship as an overarching notion. The interdisciplinary essays are coherently grouped together in three thematic sections: Revisiting Nationalism, Interpreting Nationalism and Questioning Nationalism. These chapters, offer vignettes of the protean appearances of nationalism across nations, and offer a basis of developing wider knowledge and critically situated understanding of the question, beyond a singular nation's limited bounds.
Decisions and Reports
Author: United States. Securities and Exchange CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Securities
Languages : en
Pages : 1134
Book Description
Researches on the Evolution of the Stellar Systems ...: The capture theory of cosmical evolution, founded on dynamical principles and illustrated by phenomena observed in the spiral nebulae, the planetary system, the double and multiple stars and clusters and the star-clouds of the Milky way
Author: T. J. J. SeePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Double stars
Languages : en
Pages : 906
Book Description
