Author: Jack SpearsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Hollywood: the Golden Era
Author: Jack SpearsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
This book is a revised and updated collection of articles which appeared in their original form in "Films in Review," official publication of the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures, Inc., between 1955 and 1968.
The Golden Era in St. Petersburg
Author: Jon WilsonPublisher: The History Press
ISBN: 9781609498375
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Between 1946 and 1963, St. Petersburg was the quintessential Sunbelt city experiencing a post-World War II boom and wrestling with the problems that accompanied rapid growth. The city's old-school techniques of promotion expanded the population from about 60,000 to more than 180,000 in eighteen years. The city developed a split personality--it aimed to be modern but retained a dated, rustic appearance. Follow St. Petersburg author and journalist Jon Wilson as he details how the city coped with relative isolation, an aging business district and cultural changes brought about by the coming of integration, the emergence of rock-and-roll, cookie-cutter subdivisions and the still-novel medium of television.
The Golden Age of the Newspaper
Author: George H. DouglasPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313371334
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
From the arrival of the penny papers in the 1830s to the coming of radio news around 1930, the American newspaper celebrated its Golden Age and years of greatest influence on society. Born in response to a thirst for news in large eastern cities such as New York, Boston, and Philadelphia, the mood of the modern metropolitan papers eventually spread throughout the nation. Douglas tells the story of the great innovators of the American press—men like Bennett, Greeley, Bryant, Dana, Pulitzer, Hearst, and Scripps. He details the development of the bond between newspapers and the citizens of a democratic republic and how the newspapers molded themselves into a distinctly American character to become an intimate part of daily life. Technological developments in papermaking, typesetting, and printing, as well as the growth of advertising, gradually made possible huge metropolitan dailies with circulations in the hundreds of thousands. Soon journalism became a way of life for a host of publishers, editors, and reporters, including the early presence of a significant number of women. Eventually, feature sections arose, including comics, sports, puzzles, cartoons, advice columns, and sections for women and children. The hometown daily gave way to larger and impersonal newspaper chains in the early twentieth century. This comprehensive and lively account tells the story of how newspapers have influenced public opinion and how public demand has in turn affected the presentation of the news.
The American Popular Ballad of the Golden Era, 1924-1950
Author: Allen FortePublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691043999
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
In this pathbreaking book, Allen Forte uses modern analytical procedures to explore the large repertoire of beautiful love songs written during the heyday of American musical theater, the Big Bands, and Tin Pan Alley. Covering the work of such songwriters as Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, and Harold Arlen, he seeks to illuminate this extraordinary music indigenous to America by revealing its deeper organizational characteristics. In so doing, he aims to establish it as a unique corpus of music that deserves more intensive study and appreciation by scholars and connoisseurs in the broader fields of American popular music and jazz. Expressing much of the traditional tonality associated with European music in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the love songs of the Golden Age are shown to draw on a rich variety of elements--popular harmony, idiomatic lyric-writing, and Afro-American dance rhythms. His analyses of such songs as "Embraceable You" or "Yesterdays" in particular exemplify his ability to convey the sublime, unpretentious simplicity of this great music.
British Moto-Cross
Author: Paul StephensPublisher: Osprey Publishing
ISBN: 9781855327054
Category : Motocross
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The author follows the rise of moto cross as a national and international sport, encapsulating the second great period of motorcycle production in Britain, with a full analysis of the men and machines and a complete record of results in both 500cc and 250cc at national, European, and world championship level.
Images of a Golden Era
Author: Ben AbrilPublisher: Arthur H. Clark Company
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
California Tile
Author: California Heritage MuseumPublisher: Schiffer Publishing
ISBN: 9780764319433
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
During the first half of the 20th century, California tile makers produced richly patterned tiles for building facades, interiors, garden ornamentation, furniture, and serving pieces. Arranged alphabetically, over 850 color images this volume capture the beauty of hundreds of tiles from Hispano-Moresque, Kraftile, Helen Greenleaf Lane, L.A. Pressed Brick, Malibu, Markoff, Muresque, Pacific, Pomona, Poxon, Rhead, S & S, Taylor, Tropico, Tudor, Walrich, West Coast, Woolenius, and tile furnishings and crafts from Cellini-Craft, Hillside Pottery, and Monterey Furniture, with a companion volume covering companies from Acme to Handcraft. Both volumes are enriched by rarely seen archival photographs including historical site installations. A useful guide gives to tile terminology and techniques.
West Coast Bodybuilding Scene
Author: Dick TylerPublisher: Ontarget Publications
ISBN: 9781931046299
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
West Coast Bodybuilding Scene is a trip through the most unforgettable years of bodybuilding following its humble beginning on the sands of Muscle Beach. The handful of restless musclemen lifting weights with enthuslasm and love catapulted the singular sport of biceps, muscle and might into the lives of admirers across the globe. The sport became a culture and these characters of amazing form and fortitude became its golden heroes. Author Dick Tyler chronicled the innocent years when a thing of beauty unaware of itself matured. The material set forth on these pages once appeared as beloved gossip columns and features in Joe Welder's Mr. America and Muscle Builder magazines throughout the Colden Era, 1965-1971. Packed with photos adorned with commentary captions by the Blond Bomber, Dave Draper, hardcore bodybuilding fans and new fitness enthusiasts alike will be inspired by this sweet look at iron and steel history. Book jacket.
Hollywood, the golden era
Author: Jack SpearsThe Golden Era: Winter Season
Author: Frank White IIIPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1329080580
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
