wyszukanych pozycji: 47
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Incorrect Entertainment
ISBN: 9781593930936 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Cultural Historian Anthony Slide, who has been described by the Los Angeles Times as a one-man publishing phenomenon, strikes again with a book guaranteed to contain something OFFENSIVE for everyone.
Chapters on subjects as varied as CAMP, FASCISM in Hollywood, Hedda Hopper and the PORKYS movies. The latest topical jokes on Helen Keller, Eleanor Roosevelt and the Challenger disaster. Subjects such as ALCOHOL, DRUG and SPOUSAL ABUSE, COMMUNISM, ETHNICITY, GAYS and LESBIANS and RELIGION. Commentary on leading figures of the era, including Father Coughlin, Kinky Friedman, Tom Lehrer and John... Cultural Historian Anthony Slide, who has been described by the Los Angeles Times as a one-man publishing phenomenon, strikes again with a book guaran...
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119,53 |
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Wake Up At The Back There: It's Jimmy Edwards
ISBN: 9781629333205 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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85,17 |
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Some Joe You Don't Know: An American Biographical Guide to 100 British Television Personalities
ISBN: 9780313295508 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Americans have been watching and enjoying British television programming since the mid-1950s, but the information on the personalities involved is difficult, if not impossible, to find in the United States. This guide provides biographical essays, complete with bibliographies, on 100 of the best known and loved actors and actresses from Richard Greene (Robin Hood) and William Russell (Sir Lancelot) in the 1950s through stars of Masterpiece Theatre, including Robin Ellis and Jean Marsh, to the new generation of British comedy performers such as Alexei Sayle and Jennifer Saunders. Not only... Americans have been watching and enjoying British television programming since the mid-1950s, but the information on the personalities involved is ... |
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308,70 |
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D. W. Griffith: Interviews
ISBN: 9781496858016 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
cena:
117,25 |
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I Thank You: The Arthur Askey Story (hardback)
ISBN: 9781629335612 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
136,61 |
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The Silent Feminists: America's First Women Directors, Rowman & Littlefield Edition
ISBN: 9781538165522 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
cena:
122,20 |
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Hollywood Unknowns: A History of Extras, Bit Players, and Stand-Ins
ISBN: 9781617034749 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Extras, bit players, and stand-ins have been a part of the film industry almost from its conception. On a personal and a professional level, their stories are told in Hollywood Unknowns, the first history devoted to extras from the silent era through the present. Hollywood Unknowns discusses the relationship of the extra to the star, the lowly position in which extras were held, the poor working conditions and wages, and the sexual exploitation of many of the hardworking women striving for a place in Hollywood society. Though mainly anonymous, many are identified by name... Extras, bit players, and stand-ins have been a part of the film industry almost from its conception. On a personal and a professional level, their ... |
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166,18 |
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Actors on Red Alert: Career Interviews with Five Actors and Actresses Affected by the Blacklist
ISBN: 9780810836495 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The anti-Communist hysteria that began in the 1930s was further empowered in 1938 when the House of Representatives established the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities. Soon thereafter, the creation of the blacklist in the late 1940s brought the Hollywood film and television community into the fold. Provocatively capturing the controversy and sentiments surrounding this period of political imbalance, Actors on Red Alert explores the repercussions of the blacklist through career interviews with five prominent actors and actresses.
The anti-Communist hysteria that began in the 1930s was further empowered in 1938 when the House of Representatives established the House Committee on...
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298,16 |
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Incorrect Entertainment (hardback)
ISBN: 9798887713267 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
162,21 |
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A Return To Deep Joy
ISBN: 9798887716770 / Miękka / 2025 / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
93,91 |
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American Racist: The Life and Films of Thomas Dixon
ISBN: 9780813123288 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. " Thomas Dixon has a notorious reputation as the writer of the source material for D.W. Griffith's groundbreaking and controversial 1915 feature film The Birth of a Nation. Perhaps unfairly, Dixon has been branded an arch-conservative and a racist obsessed with what he viewed as "the Negro problem." As American Racist makes clear, however, Dixon was a complex, multitalented individual who, as well as writing some of the most popular novels of the early twentieth century, was involved in the production of some eighteen films. Dixon used the motion picture as a propaganda tool for his often... " Thomas Dixon has a notorious reputation as the writer of the source material for D.W. Griffith's groundbreaking and controversial 1915 feature fi... |
cena:
175,96 |
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A Special Relationship: Britain Comes to Hollywood and Hollywood Comes to Britain
ISBN: 9781628460872 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A Special Relationship provides not only a historical overview of the British in Hollywood, but also a detailed study of the contributions made by American individuals and companies to British cinema from the beginning of the twentieth century onwards. The story begins with Ohio-born Charles Urban who came to London in 1898 and deserves credit for major involvement in the creation of a British film industry. While Ireland was still a part of Britain, the New York-based Kalem Company made films there from 1910 to 1913. British producers realized the importance of American stars, and... A Special Relationship provides not only a historical overview of the British in Hollywood, but also a detailed study of the contributions m... |
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185,73 |
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The New Historical Dictionary of the American Film Industry
ISBN: 9781578860159 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This is a what's what of the history of filmmaking not only in Hollywood but throughout the United States. Over 750 entries document the history of studios, production companies and distributors, and provide complete information on technical innovations, genres, industry terms, and organizations.
This is a what's what of the history of filmmaking not only in Hollywood but throughout the United States. Over 750 entries document the history of st...
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cena:
254,53 |
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Magnificent Obsession: The Outrageous History of Film Buffs, Collectors, Scholars, and Fanatics
ISBN: 9781496810533 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Looks at the way film has dominated the minds and lives of film buffs, film collectors, film academics, and just plain fans of past movies. Based on the author's more than fifty years in the field and his personal, up-front knowledge of the subject, chapters provide unique documentation on film buffs who once created a livelihood from their hobby.
Looks at the way film has dominated the minds and lives of film buffs, film collectors, film academics, and just plain fans of past movies. Based on t...
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cena:
141,70 |
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The Television Industry: A Historical Dictionary
ISBN: 9780313256349 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. As the title implies, the business of television rather than its programming is the focus of this historical dictionary. Its entries briefly relate the histories of production companies, networks, cable stations, industry associations, and public interest pressure groups. The focus is on the American television industry from its origins through early 1991, but it also selctively covers the industry worldwide. . . . Because entries relate only essential facts, many are amplified by brief bibliographies of books and articles, many of the latter from trade magazines. An appendix profiling... As the title implies, the business of television rather than its programming is the focus of this historical dictionary. Its entries briefly relate... |
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308,70 |
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Inside the Hollywood Fan Magazine: A History of Star Makers, Fabricators, and Gossip Mongers
ISBN: 9781604734133 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The fan magazine has often been viewed simply as a publicity tool, a fluffy exercise in self-promotion by the film industry. But as an arbiter of good and bad taste, as a source of knowledge, and as a gateway to the fabled land of Hollywood and its stars, the American fan magazine represents a fascinating and indispensable chapter in journalism and popular culture. Anthony Slide's Inside the Hollywood Fan Magazine provides the definitive history of this artifact. It charts the development of the fan magazine from the golden years when Motion Picture Story Magazine and... The fan magazine has often been viewed simply as a publicity tool, a fluffy exercise in self-promotion by the film industry. But as an arbiter of g... |
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166,18 |
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The Big V: A History of the Vitagraph Company, New and Revised Edition
ISBN: 9780810820302 / Angielski / Twarda / 1987 / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Documents the work of America's first major film company, Vitagraph, from its beginnings in the 1890s through its sale to Warner Bros. in 1925.
Documents the work of America's first major film company, Vitagraph, from its beginnings in the 1890s through its sale to Warner Bros. in 1925.
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619,52 |
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I Thank You: The Arthur Askey Story
ISBN: 9781629335605 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
93,91 |
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The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville
ISBN: 9781617032493 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 630 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville provides a unique record of what was once America's preeminent form of popular entertainment from the late 1800s through the early 1930s. It includes entries not only on the entertainers themselves, but also on those who worked behind the scenes, the theatres, genres, and historical terms. Entries on individual vaudevillians include biographical information, samplings of routines and, often, commentary by the performers. Many former vaudevillians were interviewed for the book, including Milton Berle, Block and Sully, Kitty Doner, Fifi D'Orsay, Nick... The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville provides a unique record of what was once America's preeminent form of popular entertainment from the late 18... |
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283,49 |
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On Actors and Acting: Essays by Alexander Knox
ISBN: 9780810834996 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Collects together Knox's writings, published and unpublished, on various performers with whom he worked or was familiar, and on the art and craft of acting.
Collects together Knox's writings, published and unpublished, on various performers with whom he worked or was familiar, and on the art and craft of a...
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cena:
278,61 |