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Radical Innocence: A Critical Study of the Hollywood Ten [Paperback]
Bernard F. Dick (Author)
£19.00ISBN: 9780813151342
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
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On October 30, 1947, the House Committee on Un-American Activities concluded the first round of hearings on the allege Communist infiltration of the motion picture industry. Hollywood was ordered to "clean its own house," and ten witnesses who had... .... Learn More -
Engulfed: The Death of Paramount Pictures and the Birth of Corporate Hollywood [Paperback]
Bernard F. Dick (Author)
£19.00ISBN: 9780813151359
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Not yet published - available for pre-order
From Double Indemnity to The Godfather, the stories behind some of the greatest films ever made pale beside the story of the studio that made them. In the golden age of Hollywood, Paramount was one of the Big Five studios. Gulf + Western's 1966 ta... .... Learn More -
Public Diplomacy in Global Communication: Theories and Models [Paperback]
Zhou Qing'an (Author)
£60.00ISBN: 9781626430709
Published by : Bridge 21 Publications
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The book believes that the formation of public diplomacy must be based on the background and ideological of global communication. Therefore, the impact of global political and cultural characteristics can be clearly seen on the policy behaviors of... .... Learn More -
Jayne Mansfield: The Girl Couldn't Help It [Hardback]
Eve Golden (Author)
£26.50ISBN: 9780813180953
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: Screen Classics
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The first definitive biography of tragicomic sex symbol Jayne Mansfield, one of the most colorful and eccentric movie stars of the 1950s-60s. The book examines both her life and her career, detailing her movie, TV and stage work, as well as her dr... .... Learn More -
Anna Held and the Birth of Ziegfeld's Broadway [Paperback]
Eve Golden (Author); Laurie Sanderson (Author)
£15.00ISBN: 9780813180755
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
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Anna Held (1870?-1918), a petite woman with an hourglass figure, was America's most popular musical comedy star during the two decades preceding World War I. In the colorful world of New York theater during La Belle Époque, she epitomized everythi... .... Learn More -
Mean...Moody...Magnificent!: Jane Russell and the Marketing of a Hollywood Legend [Hardback]
Christina Rice (Author)
£23.00ISBN: 9780813181080
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: Screen Classics
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Jane Russell's acting career was launched on one of the most notorious publicity campaigns in the history of cinema for The Outlaw, a film produced and ultimately directed by Howard Hughes. Russell should have quickly and quietly disappeared from ... .... Learn More -
Vitagraph: America's First Great Motion Picture Studio [Hardback]
Andrew A. Erish (Author)
£26.50ISBN: 9780813181196
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: Screen Classics
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Vitagraph: America's First Great Motion Picture Studio is the first comprehensive examination of the company most responsible for defining and popularizing the American movie. Vitagraph was among the five production companies established at the da... .... Learn More -
Patricia Neal: An Unquiet Life [Paperback]
Stephen Michael Shearer (Author)
£19.00ISBN: 9780813180717
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
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The internationally acclaimed actress Patricia Neal has been a star on stage, film, and television for nearly sixty years. On Broadway she appeared in such lauded productions as Lillian Hellman's Another Part of the Forest, for which she won the v... .... Learn More -
Experimental Women: Mapping Cinema and Video Practices from the Post-War Period up to Present [Paperback]
Sarah Keller (Editor); Elena Marcheschi (Editor); Giulia Simi (Author)
£33.99ISBN: 9788869773129
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Cinéma & Cie
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Experimental cinema, as well as experimental video practices, have always been art forms in which women have excelled. Yet, if cinema studies has devoted research – albeit only recently – to women involved in narrative and commercial films (as dir... .... Learn More -
Small Screen, Big Feels: Television and Cultural Anxiety in the Twenty-First Century [Hardback]
Melissa Ames (Author)
£38.00ISBN: 9780813180069
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
While television has always played a role in recording and curating history, shaping cultural memory, and influencing public sentiment, the changing nature of the medium in the post-network era finds viewers experiencing and participating in this ... .... Learn More
