Movieland
Author: Jerome Charyn
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 1996-08
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780814715505
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn history of American cinema
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Menus for Movieland
Author: Richard Abel
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2015-09-01
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13: 0520286782
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt the turn of the past century, the main function of a newspaper was to offer “menus” by which readers could make sense of modern life and imagine how to order their daily lives. Among those menus in the mid-1910s were several that mediated the interests of movie manufacturers, distributors, exhibitors, and the rapidly expanding audience of fans. This writing about the movies arguably played a crucial role in the emergence of American popular film culture, negotiating among national, regional, and local interests to shape fans’ ephemeral experience of moviegoing, their repeated encounters with the fantasy worlds of “movieland,” and their attractions to certain stories and stars. Moreover, many of these weekend pages, daily columns, and film reviews were written and consumed by women, including one teenage girl who compiled a rare surviving set of scrapbooks. Based on extensive original research, Menus for Movieland substantially revises what moviegoing meant in the transition to what we now think of as Hollywood.
Alice in Movieland
Author: Alice Muriel Williamson
Publisher:
Published: 1928
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGossip about the movies stars of the early days of Hollywood by a writer who compares her visit to Hollywood to that of Alice's visit to Wonderland.
Movieland
Author: Lee Goldberg
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer
Published: 2022-06-21
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781662500657
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMalibu Creek State Park is a beautiful locale for campers, tourists, hikers, and Hollywood. For Detective Eve Ronin, it's a backdrop for murder in a riveting thriller by #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Goldberg. For decades Malibu Creek State Park was the spectacular natural setting where Hollywood fantasies were made. But when a female camper is gunned down, it becomes a real-life killing ground. Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department homicide detectives Eve Ronin and Duncan Pavone are assigned the case...which Duncan fears is the latest in a series of sniper attacks that began long before Eve came to Lost Hills. Seven victims over fourteen months...and top officials still refuse to see a connection. Eve and Duncan are stonewalled, threatened, and ordered to keep quiet. But Eve won't back down. She's no stranger to intimidation or corruption--she's had a target on her back from day one at Lost Hills station. Despite finding no evidentiary links between the shootings, Eve and Duncan follow their instincts into the shadows of Malibu Creek, where it's not enough to expose the secrets and break the conspiracy of silence. They also have to make it out alive.
Movieland
Author: Ramón Gómez de la Serna
Publisher:
Published: 1930
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Hollywood Stars
Author: Richard Beverage
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13: 9780738530567
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Hollywood Stars were created in 1926, when the Salt Lake City franchise of the Pacific Coast League was transferred to the greater Los Angeles area. To avoid confusion with the resident Los Angeles Angels, the new ballclub was called Hollywood. It was a wise choice of names. The movie capital had a glamour that was soon attached to the Stars and created an interest wherever they played. But the Hollywood story is actually one of two separate entities. The first operated from 1926 to 1935 and played at Wrigley Field as a tenant of the Angels. When a dispute arose in 1935 over a proposed increase in rent, owner Bill Lane moved his team to San Diego. After a hiatus of two years, the second incarnation was created in 1938 when the Mission Reds of San Francisco moved to Southern California. They moved into their new park, Gilmore Field, in 1939 and remained there through 1957, when the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles. Hollywood won pennants in 1949, 1952, and 1953 and was the team of choice for the movie world.
Yats in Movieland
Author: Michael F. Russo
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9781878044228
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn outrageous and irreverent novel dealing with the movie industry and the crescent city. --Loyola New Orleans Magazine.
Celebrity Culture and the American Dream
Author: Karen Sternheimer
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-12-12
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 1317689682
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCelebrity Culture and the American Dream, Second Edition considers how major economic and historical factors shaped the nature of celebrity culture as we know it today, retaining the first edition’s examples from the first celebrity fan magazines of 1911 to the present and expanding to include updated examples and additional discussion on the role of the internet and social media in today’s celebrity culture. Equally important, the book explains how and why the story of Hollywood celebrities matters, sociologically speaking, to an understanding of American society, to the changing nature of the American Dream, and to the relation between class and culture. This book is an ideal addition to courses on inequalities, celebrity culture, media, and cultural studies.
Hollywood Bohemians
Author: Brett L. Abrams
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2014-11-21
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0786482478
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBetween 1917 and 1941, Hollywood studios, gossip columnists and novelists featured an unprecedented number of homosexuals, cross-dressers, and adulterers in their depictions of the glamorous Hollywood lifestyle. Actress Greta Garbo defined herself as the ultimate serial bachelorette. Screenwriter Mercedes De Acosta engaged in numerous lesbian relationships with the Hollywood elite. And countless homosexual designers brazenly picked up men in the hottest Hollywood nightclubs. Hollywood's image grew as a place of sexual abandon. This book demonstrates how studios and the media used images of these sexually adventurous characters to promote the industry and appeal to the prurient interests of their audiences.
The Movieland Directory
Author:
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 538
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Los Angeles area feels almost alive with movie history. It is impossible to walk down any neighborhood block that didn't play host to movie history on some level. From Chaplin walking Hollywood sidewalks in 1915 to the Three Stooges running down Culver City streets in 1930 to westerns filmed in the Valley in the 1950's. The area has been the background for thousands of films and home to millions of movie people.Historical documents, census records, movie studio and institutional archives, and personal writings have all been scoured in order to compile the most exhaustive and complete Hollywood address listing ever compiled.
