Lights! Camera! Arkansas!: From Broncho Billy to Billy Bob Thornton

ISBN-13: 9781557286727 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 132 str.

Robert Cochran; Suzanne McCray

Opis

"Lights Camera Arkansas " traces the roles played by Arkansans in the first century of Hollywood s film industry, from the first cowboy star, Broncho Billy Anderson, to Mary Steenburgen, Billy Bob Thornton, and many others. The Arkansas landscape also plays a starring role: North Little Rock s cameo in "Gone with the Wind," Crittenden County as a setting for "Hallelujah" (1929), and various locations in the state s southeastern quadrant in 2012 s "Mud" are all given fascinating exploration.

Robert Cochran and Suzanne McCray screened close to two hundred films from laughable box-office bombs to laudable examples of filmmaking -- in their research for this book. They ve enhanced their spirited chronological narrative with an appendix on documentary films, a ratings section, and illustrations chosen by Jo Ellen Maack of the Old State House Museum, where "Lights Camera Arkansas " debuted as an exhibit curated by the authors in 2013. The result is a book sure to entertain and inform those interested in Arkansas and the movies for years to come."