Author: Barry Monush
Publisher: Quigley Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780900610486
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
International Motion Picture Almanac
Author: Terry Ramsaye
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Motion picture producers and directors
Languages : en
Pages : 782
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Motion picture producers and directors
Languages : en
Pages : 782
Book Description
International Motion Picture Almanac
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 872
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 872
Book Description
International Motion Picture Almanac, 1993
Author: Barry Monush
Publisher: Quigley Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780900610486
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
Publisher: Quigley Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780900610486
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
International Motion Picture Almanac
Author: Quigley Publishing
Publisher: Quigley Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780900610820
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1240
Book Description
Publisher: Quigley Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780900610820
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1240
Book Description
When Hollywood Loved Britain
Author: Mark Glancy
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719048531
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
When Hollywood Loved Britain examines the Hollywood "British" film--American feature films that were set in Britain, based on British history or literature and included the work of British producers, directors, writers and actors. "British" films include many of the most popular and memorable films of the 1930s and 1940s, yet they have received little individual attention from film historians and even less attention as a body of films. While the book is centered on wartime "British" films, it also investigates wider issues: the influence of censorship and propaganda agencies during Hollywood’s studio era, studio finances, the isolationist campaign in the United States between 1939 and 1941, and American perceptions of Britain at war.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719048531
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
When Hollywood Loved Britain examines the Hollywood "British" film--American feature films that were set in Britain, based on British history or literature and included the work of British producers, directors, writers and actors. "British" films include many of the most popular and memorable films of the 1930s and 1940s, yet they have received little individual attention from film historians and even less attention as a body of films. While the book is centered on wartime "British" films, it also investigates wider issues: the influence of censorship and propaganda agencies during Hollywood’s studio era, studio finances, the isolationist campaign in the United States between 1939 and 1941, and American perceptions of Britain at war.
The Illustrated Guide to Film Directors
Author: David Quinlan
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780389204084
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780389204084
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.
Epics, Spectacles, and Blockbusters
Author: Sheldon Hall
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814336973
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Considers the history of the American blockbuster—the large-scale, high-cost film—as it evolved from the 1890s to today. The pantheon of big-budget, commercially successful films encompasses a range of genres, including biblical films, war films, romances, comic-book adaptations, animated features, and historical epics. In Epics, Spectacles, and Blockbusters: A Hollywood History authors Sheldon Hall and Steve Neale discuss the characteristics, history, and modes of distribution and exhibition that unite big-budget pictures, from their beginnings in the late nineteenth century to the present. Moving chronologically, the authors examine the roots of today's blockbuster in the "feature," "special," "superspecial," "roadshow," "epic," and "spectacle" of earlier eras, with special attention to the characteristics of each type of picture. In the first section, Hall and Neale consider the beginnings of features, specials, and superspecials in American cinema, as the terms came to define not the length of a film but its marketable stars or larger budget. The second section investigates roadshowing as a means of distributing specials and the changes to the roadshow that resulted from the introduction of synchronized sound in the 1920s. In the third section, the authors examine the phenomenon of epics and spectacles that arose from films like Gone with the Wind, Samson and Deliliah, and Spartacus and continues to evolve today in films like Spider-Man and Pearl Harbor. In this section, Hall and Neale consider advances in visual and sound technology and the effects and costs they introduced to the industry. Scholars of film and television studies as well as readers interested in the history of American moviemaking will enjoy Epics, Spectacles, and Blockbusters.
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814336973
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Considers the history of the American blockbuster—the large-scale, high-cost film—as it evolved from the 1890s to today. The pantheon of big-budget, commercially successful films encompasses a range of genres, including biblical films, war films, romances, comic-book adaptations, animated features, and historical epics. In Epics, Spectacles, and Blockbusters: A Hollywood History authors Sheldon Hall and Steve Neale discuss the characteristics, history, and modes of distribution and exhibition that unite big-budget pictures, from their beginnings in the late nineteenth century to the present. Moving chronologically, the authors examine the roots of today's blockbuster in the "feature," "special," "superspecial," "roadshow," "epic," and "spectacle" of earlier eras, with special attention to the characteristics of each type of picture. In the first section, Hall and Neale consider the beginnings of features, specials, and superspecials in American cinema, as the terms came to define not the length of a film but its marketable stars or larger budget. The second section investigates roadshowing as a means of distributing specials and the changes to the roadshow that resulted from the introduction of synchronized sound in the 1920s. In the third section, the authors examine the phenomenon of epics and spectacles that arose from films like Gone with the Wind, Samson and Deliliah, and Spartacus and continues to evolve today in films like Spider-Man and Pearl Harbor. In this section, Hall and Neale consider advances in visual and sound technology and the effects and costs they introduced to the industry. Scholars of film and television studies as well as readers interested in the history of American moviemaking will enjoy Epics, Spectacles, and Blockbusters.
A New Pot of Gold
Author: Stephen Prince
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520232662
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Facing an economic crisis in the 1980s, Hollywood moved to control the markets of videotape, pay-cable and pay-per-view. This volume examines the transformation that took the industry from the production of theatrical film to media software.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520232662
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Facing an economic crisis in the 1980s, Hollywood moved to control the markets of videotape, pay-cable and pay-per-view. This volume examines the transformation that took the industry from the production of theatrical film to media software.
Hollywood's Road to Riches
Author: David Waterman
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674044924
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Out-of-control costs. Box office bombs that should have been foreseen. A mania for sequels at the expense of innovation. Blockbusters of ever-diminishing merit. What other industry could continue like this--and succeed as spectacularly as Hollywood has? The American movie industry's extraordinary success at home and abroad--in the face of dire threats from broadcast television and a wealth of other entertainment media that have followed--is David Waterman's focus in this book, the first full-length economic study of the movie industry in over forty years. Combining historical and economic analysis, Hollywood's Road to Riches shows how, beginning in the 1950s, a largely predictable business has been transformed into a volatile and complex multimedia enterprise now commanding over 80 percent of the world's film business. At the same time, the book asks how the economic forces leading to this success--the forces of audience demand, technology, and high risk--have combined to change the kinds of movies Hollywood produces. Waterman argues that the movie studios have multiplied their revenues by effectively using pay television and home video media to extract the maximum amounts that individual consumers are willing to pay to watch the same movies in different venues. Along the way, the Hollywood studios have masterfully handled piracy and other economic challenges to the multimedia system they use to distribute movies. The author also looks ahead to what Internet file sharing and digital production and distribution technologies might mean for Hollywood's prosperity, as well as for the quality and variety of the movies it makes.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674044924
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Out-of-control costs. Box office bombs that should have been foreseen. A mania for sequels at the expense of innovation. Blockbusters of ever-diminishing merit. What other industry could continue like this--and succeed as spectacularly as Hollywood has? The American movie industry's extraordinary success at home and abroad--in the face of dire threats from broadcast television and a wealth of other entertainment media that have followed--is David Waterman's focus in this book, the first full-length economic study of the movie industry in over forty years. Combining historical and economic analysis, Hollywood's Road to Riches shows how, beginning in the 1950s, a largely predictable business has been transformed into a volatile and complex multimedia enterprise now commanding over 80 percent of the world's film business. At the same time, the book asks how the economic forces leading to this success--the forces of audience demand, technology, and high risk--have combined to change the kinds of movies Hollywood produces. Waterman argues that the movie studios have multiplied their revenues by effectively using pay television and home video media to extract the maximum amounts that individual consumers are willing to pay to watch the same movies in different venues. Along the way, the Hollywood studios have masterfully handled piracy and other economic challenges to the multimedia system they use to distribute movies. The author also looks ahead to what Internet file sharing and digital production and distribution technologies might mean for Hollywood's prosperity, as well as for the quality and variety of the movies it makes.
The Classical Hollywood Reader
Author: Stephen Neale
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0415576725
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
First Published in 2012. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0415576725
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
First Published in 2012. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.