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    The Rise and Fall of a Silent Film Visionary

    Serien series Screen Classics
    Along with thousands of other girls who hoped to escape tedious employment and domesticity, June Mathis (1887–1927) started acting as a young teen. After more than a decade of stepping onto stages across the US, she moved into the burgeoning film business and behind the camera to begin a prolific career as a screenwriter and producer for profound movies like The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Lesen Sie mehr

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    The Story of Marlon Brando

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  • Mary Pickford

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    "Explains Pickford's roles as not only a talented actress, but also as a philanthropist and industry leader who managed to end up her own producer." — Time OutIn the early days of cinema, when actors were unbilled and unmentioned in credits, audiences immediately noticed Mary Pickford. Moviegoers everywhere were riveted by her magnetic talent and appeal as she rose to become cinema's first great Lesen Sie mehr

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    Hollywood’s Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness

    von Michael Koresky
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  • 'Have You Seen...?'

    a Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films including masterpieces, oddities and guilty pleasures (with just a few disasters)

    von David Thomson
    This is possibly the most entertaining, surprising and enjoyable film book ever written. Thomson set himself the near-foolhardy task of writing one page each on 1000 of the films that he has particularly liked – or in some cases, abhorred. Some half-million words of funny, vigorous, wayward prose later, we are all the happy beneficiaries of his deranged labour.Always unexpected, never repetitive, Lesen Sie mehr

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  • Beyond Paradise

    The Life of Ramon Novarro

    von André Soares
    Serien series Hollywood Legends Series
    The first Latin American actor to become a superstar, Ramon Novarro was for years one of Hollywood's top actors. Born Ram¢n Samaniego to a prominent Mexican family, he arrived in America in 1916, a refugee from civil wars. By the mid-1920s, he had become one of MGM's biggest box office attractions, starring in now-classic films, including The Student Prince, Mata Hari, and the original version of Lesen Sie mehr

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  • Hollywood Pride

    A Celebration of LGBTQ+ Representation and Perseverance in Film

    von Alonso Duralde
    For generations, members of the LGBTQ+ community in Hollywood needed to be discreet about their lives but—make no mistake—they were everywhere, both in front of and behind the camera.On the eve of the twentieth century, in Thomas Edison’s laboratory, one of the earliest attempts at a sound film depicted two men dancing together as a third plays the violin. It’s only a few minutes long, but this Lesen Sie mehr

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  • Twentieth Century–Fox

    The Zanuck-Skouras Years, 1935–1965

    von Peter Lev
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  • The Hollywood Studios

    von Ethan Mordden
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  • Truman Capote

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    The author of Queer Chivalry presents a biographical study of the celebrity writer "rich with insight into [his] literary and cinematic achievements" ( Publishers Weekly).Truman Capote's legacy is in many ways defined by his complex relationship with Hollywood. In Truman Capote: A Literary Life at the Movies, Tison Pugh explores the author and his literature through a cinematic lens, weaving Lesen Sie mehr

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  • The Beats

    A Very Short Introduction

    von David Sterritt
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    In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the writers of the Beat Generation revolutionized American literature with their iconoclastic approach to language and their angry assault on the conformity and conservatism of postwar society. They and their followers took aim at the hypocrisy and taboos of their time--particularly those involving sex, race, and class--in such provocative works as Jack Kerouac's Lesen Sie mehr

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