Cinema's Conversion to Sound
Author: Charles O’Brien
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2005-01-18
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780253217202
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA groundbreaking look at the transition to sound in the French Cinema.
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The Pope's Body
Author: Agostino Paravicini-Bagliani
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2000-07
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780226034379
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn contrast to the role traditionally fulfilled by secular rulers, the pope has been perceived as an individual person existing in a body subject to decay and death, yet at the same time a corporeal representation of Christ and the Church, eternity and salvation. Using an array of evidence from the eleventh through the fifteenth centuries, Agostino Paravicini- Bagliani addresses this paradox. He studies the rituals, metaphors, and images of the pope's body as they developed over time and shows how they resulted in the expectation that the pope's body be simultaneously physical and metaphorical. Also included is a particular emphasis on the thirteenth century when, during the pontificate of Boniface VIII (1294-1303), the papal court became the focus of medicine and the natural sciences as physicians devised ways to protect the pope's health and prolong his life. Masterfully translated from the Italian, this engaging history of the pope's body provides a new perspective for readers to understand the papacy, both historically and in our own time.
French National Cinema
Author: Susan Hayward
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 0415307821
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis revised and updated edition of a successful and established text provides a much-needed historical overview of French cinema from its roots through to the political and social developments in the 1990s and beyond.
A History of Turin
Author: Anthony L. Cardoza
Publisher:
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9788806181246
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Classic French Cinema, 1930-1960
Author: C. G. Crisp
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 522
ISBN-13: 9780253315502
DOWNLOAD EBOOKColin Crisp re-evaluates the stylistic evolution of the classic French cinema, and represents the New Wave film-makers as its natural heirs rather than the mould-breakers they perceived themselves to be.
Queenship in Europe 1660-1815
Author: Clarissa Campbell Orr
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-08-12
Total Pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9780521814225
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Grand Design
Author: Tino Balio
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9780520203341
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe advent of color, big musicals, the studio system, and the beginning of institutionalized censorship made the thirties the defining decade for Hollywood. The year 1939, celebrated as "Hollywood's greatest year," saw the release of such memorable films as Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, and Stagecoach. It was a time when the studios exercised nearly absolute control over their product as well as over such stars as Bette Davis, Clark Gable, and Humphrey Bogart. In this fifth volume of the award-winning series History of the American Cinema, Tino Balio examines every aspect of the filmmaking and film exhibition system as it matured during the Depression era.
Inventing the Louvre
Author: Andrew McClellan
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1999-10-26
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780520221765
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA narrative history of the founding of the Louvre that also explores the ideological underpinnings, pedagogical aims, and aesthetic criteria of this, the first great national art museum.
To Desire Differently
Author: Sandy Flitterman-Lewis
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780231104975
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Irving Thalberg
Author: Mark A. Vieira
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2009-11-05
Total Pages: 526
ISBN-13: 0520945115
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHollywood in the 1920s sparkled with talent, confidence, and opportunity. Enter Irving Thalberg of Brooklyn, who survived childhood illness to run Universal Pictures at twenty; co-found Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer at twenty-four; and make stars of Lon Chaney, Norma Shearer, Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, and Jean Harlow. Known as Hollywood's "Boy Wonder," Thalberg created classics such as Ben-Hur, Tarzan the Ape Man, Grand Hotel, Freaks, Mutiny on the Bounty, and The Good Earth, but died tragically at thirty-seven. His place in the pantheon should have been assured, yet his films were not reissued for thirty years, spurring critics to question his legend and diminish his achievements. In this definitive biography, illustrated with rare photographs, Mark A. Vieira sets the record straight, using unpublished production files, financial records, and correspondence to confirm the genius of Thalberg's methods. In addition, this is the first Thalberg biography to utilize both his recorded conversations and the unpublished memoirs of his wife, Norma Shearer. Irving Thalberg is a compelling narrative of power and idealism, revealing for the first time the human being behind the legend.
