“…"The power of storytelling has long been used in Hollywood to engage viewers and generate billions of dollars in sales. …”

“…Mary Cybulski, one of Hollywood's premier script supervisors, imparts her sage wisdom as she walks you through the process of training and working as a professional script supervisor,, covering the basic skills of breaking down a script, taking notes on set, matching, cheating, determining screen direction, and knowing what the director, actors, and editor expect from a script supervisor. …”

“…In this volume, Kilbourn provides a comparative theorization of the representation of memory in both mainstream Hollywood and international art cinema within an increasingly transnational context of production and reception. …”

“…Chapman examines the issues of truthfulness and realism that arise in depictions of war, whether in the supposed truth telling of war documentaries or Hollywood battle scenes that are more realistic than the real thing'. …”

“…The sequence approach has its foundation in early Hollywood cinema (until the 1950s, most screenplays were formatted with sequences explicitly identified), and has been rediscovered and used effectively at an increasing number of film schools. …”

“…The book's focus is on fictional feature films produced within Spain and beyond its borders between the 1940s and the early years of the twenty-first century - including Hollywood blockbusters, East European films, the work of the avant garde in Paris and films produced under Franco's censorial dictatorship…”

“…Beginning with Garavani's initiation into the world of haute couture in 1950s Paris, progressing through the glittering social scene of 1970s New York and Valentino's domination of Hollywood from the 1980s to the present day, images of every dazzling era are beautifully reproduced alongside text exploring the significance of each stunning piece -- Amazon…”

“…Son un documento excepcional, en el que el enfant terrible de Hollywood, el genio postergado que sobrevive con lo que gana como actor, habla a calzón quitado de cine –considera a Hitchcock sobrevalorado, no soporta las películas «terapéuticas» de Woody Allen–, de literatura y de política. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…"Perverts" on the Potomac : homosexuals enter the news arena -- Stonewall rebellion : reporting on an epic event -- The boys in the band : homosexuality comes to the big screen -- Soap : a gay man comes to TV land -- Aids enters the news : reporting on the "gay plague" -- AIDS becomes major news : "now no one is safe" -- Gays in the military : the debate over lifting the ban -- Fleeting images of lesbians : killing, kissing, being chic -- Philadelphia : "a quantum leap for gays on film" -- A new gay man in town : Hollywood shifts to positive stereotypes -- Ellen : coming out, on screen and off -- Will & Grace : the biggest gay hit in TV history -- Queer as folk : "an unvarnished treatment of gay life" -- Queer eye for the straight guy : the "fab five" as gay reality TV -- Notes on gay visibility vs. lesbian visibility -- The L word : lesbians move into the spotlight -- Same-sex marriage : a journalistic love fest -- Brokeback Mountain : "a breakthrough gay romance" -- Conclusion: From "perverts" to "fab five" : progress in three stages-- and waiting for a fourth…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Michael Mangus -- A model of intuitive morality and exemplars / by Ron Tamborini -- Morality subcultures and media production: how Hollywood minds the morals of its audience / by Dana Mastro [and others] -- The experience of elevation: responses to media portrayals of moral beauty / by Mary Beth Oliver, Erin Ash, and Julia K. …”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Far from Heaven, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Hollywood melodrama and the retrospective prolepsis""; ""a. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction: The State of Asian Women -- Chapter 1 The Model Minority Myth and How That Affects Us -- History of the Term "Model Minority" -- The Danger of the Myth -- The Model Minority Myth and Mental Health -- Chapter 2 The Challenges Asian Women Still Face -- The "Submissive" Stereotype -- The Hypersexualized Stereotype -- The Yellow Peril Stereotype -- "Yellow Fever" Fetishization -- Representation of Asian Women in Hollywood -- The Representation of Asian Women in Mainstream Media -- Lack of Asian Women Leadership Representation in Other Industries -- The Pressure to Get Married -- The Need for Perfection -- Fear of Failure -- The Asian American Closet -- The Beauty Standards of Asian Women -- The Confidence Gap -- The Inequality Asian Women Face -- Chapter 3 Intergenerational Trauma and Why We Need to Talk About It -- How Intergenerational Trauma Shows Up for Asian Women -- The Centuries of Intergenerational Trauma for Asian Women -- Hollywood Representation Tackling Intergenerational Trauma -- Turning Red -- Umma -- The Joy Luck Club -- Chapter 4 How to Unlock Our Traumas -- What Is Trauma? …”

“…La historia del cine, sobre todo la que tiene a Hollywood como protagonista, es pródiga en rodajes conflictivos, verdaderas carreras de obstáculos cuya singladura es tan extraordinaria como las propias películas que acaban engendrando entre sangre, sudor y lágrimas. …”

“…From the evolutionary model of "Modern European Literature," through the geo-cultural insights of "Conjectures of World Literature" and "Planet Hollywood," to the quantitative findings of "Style, inc." and the abstract patterns of "Network Theory, Plot Analysis," the book follows two decades of conceptual development, organizing them around the metaphor of "distant reading," that has come to define-well beyond the wildest expectations of its author-a growing field of unorthodox literary studies…”