“…He was the very first icon of the silver screen, and is one of the most recognisable faces in Hollywood, even a hundred years on from his first film. …”

“…Screen Tastes brings together Brunsdon's key writings on film and television criticism, with introductions which contextualize and update the arguments and new work on the "post-feminist girly" in recent Hollywood cinema. Brunsdon's focus is on the tastes and pleasures of the female consumer as she is produced by popular film and television--and by feminist criticism.Screen Tastes documents an important contribution to the development of a feminist cultural studies in the 1980s and 1990s with concerns ranging from "shopping films" to the deregulation of public service broadcasting, from feminist teachings to the aestetics of television…”

“…Each entry in this remarkable book, which represents a lifetime of teaching film, has already inspired and educated several generations of Hollywood's greatest filmmakers and writers. This book examines the patterns and principles that make films popular and memorable, and will be useful both for those who want to create films and for those who just want to understand them better. …”

“…"Studies the force of action, motion, and vision in the early cinema of Hollywood director Raoul Walsh"--…”

“…Tras cautivar a millones de lectores con Un caballero en Moscú, Amor Towles vuelve a seducirnos con su elegancia, humor e ingenio narrativo en Mesa para dos, seis relatos que transcurren en Nueva York al filo del cambio del milenio y una novela breve ambientada en la Edad de Oro de Hollywood…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…How you look -- Consider first impressions like first loves -- Take stage -- Channel the passion -- Translate your body language to credibility -- Don't disappear -- How you talk -- Be professional, not professorial -- Heed the highlighter principle -- Say the right thing at the right time and leave unsaid the wrong thing at the emotional moment -- Abandon chicken little, but stop sugarcoating -- Move the conversation forward -- How you think -- Think strategically -- Cut through the clutter -- Take a point of view -- Think like Hollywood -- Learn to think on your feet under pressure -- How you act -- Engage emotionally -- Master modesty and mind your manners -- Lighten up without letting down -- Commit to what you communicate -- Show up, own up, and straighten it up -- A final note -- The personal presence self-assessment -- Endnotes…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Lee's first month in command of the army of Northern Virginia / In your hands that musket means liberty : African American soldiers and the battle of Olustee / With malice toward both : Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis in caricature / Walt Whitman's real wars / Hollywood has it both ways : the rise, fall, and reappearance of the lost cause in American film / Battle over the bodies : burying and reburying the Civil War dead, 1865-1871 / Not a veteran in the poorhouse : Civil War pension and soldiers' homes / William T. …”

“…This book charts and analyses the work of Oliver Stone – arguably one of the foremost political filmmakers in Hollywood during the last thirty years. Drawing on previously unseen production files from Oliver Stone’s personal archives and hours of interviews both with Stone and a range of present and former associates within the industry, the book employs a thematic structure to explore Stone’s life and work in terms of war, politics, money, love and corporations. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction : The Urban Imaginary in Canadian Cinema -- The City of Faith : Navigating Piety in Arcand's Jésus de Montréal (1989) -- The City of Dreams : The Sexual Self in Lauzon's Léolo (1992) -- The Generderd City : Feminism in Rozema's Desperanto (1991), Pool's Rispondetemi (1991), and Villeneuve's Maelström (2000) -- The City Made Flesh : The Embodied Other in Lepage's Le Confessionnal (1995) and Egoyan's Exotica (1994) -- The Diasporic City : Postcolonialism, Hybridity, and Transnationality in Virgo's Rude (1995) and Mehta's Bollywood/Hollywood (2001) -- The City of Transgressive Desires : Melodramatic Absurdity in Maddin's The Saddest Music in the World (2003) and My Winnipeg (2007) -- The City of Eternal Youth : Capitalism, Consumerism, and Generation in Burns's waydowntown (2000) and Radiant City (2006) -- The City of Disfunction : Race and Relations in Vancouver from Shum's Double Happiness (1994) to Sweeney's Last Wedding (2001) and McDonald's The Love Crimes of Gillian Guess (2004) -- Conclusion : National Identity and the Urban Imagination…”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Music and sound in the silent era (1895-1929) ; The transition to sound film (1926-1932) ; Music and the sound track in the classical studio era ; The stereo sound track and the post-classical era (1950-1975) ; The new Hollywood, Dolby stereo, and the emergence of sound design (1975-2000) ; Music and film sound today…”

“…More grand mosaic than linear account, Bergman’s vignettes trace his life from a rural Swedish childhood through his work in theater to Hollywood’s golden age, and a tumultuous romantic history that includes five wives and more than a few mistresses. …”

“…This original and engaging work chronicles the social history of the perception of feminine beauty in America from the fashionable pallor (occasionally induced by doses of arsenic) of the antebellum years to the debut of bare limbs in Atlantic City in 1921 and the impact of Hollywood stars since the 1940s. With meticulous research Lois Banner charts the shifting models of American beauty: the Steel-Engraving Lady, ethereal and submissive with her oval face and heart-shaped mouth; the Voluptuous Woman; the boyish Soubrette; the Gibson Girls and the advance of naturalness; the great and small revolutions of taste and decorum that express not only changing ideals of beauty but the currents of American society itself…”

“…What happens when critical theory meets Hollywood cinema? What links posthumanism to science fiction. …”
Sumario

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Davis) -- Part 2: Snow White in HollywoodChapter Six -- With a Smile and a Song: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs as the first Integrated Film Musical (Sadeen Elyas) -- Chapter Seven -- Dwarfland: Marketing Disney's Folly (Pamela O'Brien) -- Chapter Eight -- Framing Snow White: Preservation, Nostalgia and the American Way in the 1930s (Jane Batkin) -- Chapter Nine -- Recasting Snow White: Parodic Animated Homages to the Disney Feature (Terry Lindvall) -- Part 3: International Legacies -- Chapter Ten -- The Indigenisation of Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) in China: From 'Snow Sister' and 'Dolly Girl' to Chinese Snow White (1940) and Princess Iron Fan (1941) (Yuanyuan Chen) -- Chapter Eleven -- Unearthing Blanche-Neige: the making of the first made-in-Hollywood French version of Snow White and its critical reception. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Un perro andaluz, La edad de oro, Hollywood abandonado, Las Hurdes. 1933-1926. Madrid. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…MAS MIRÓ -- 3. SURREALISMO EN HOLLYWOOD: TRES PESADILLAS DALINIANAS -- LA MECÁNICA DEL SUEÑO -- LA ESCENA AMERICANA -- CELULOIDE ALUCINATORIO -- PESADILLA UNO: MOONTIDE -- PESADILLA DOS: SPELLBOUND -- PESADILLA TRES: EL PADRE DE LA NOVIA -- RECAPITULACIÓN -- 4. …”
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