University of Illinois Press, 2011. - 132 p. Steven Soderbergh's feature films present a diverse range of subject matter and formal styles: from the self-absorption of his breakthrough hit Sex, Lies, and Videotape to populist social problem films such as Erin Brockovich , and from the modernist discontinuity of Full Frontal and filmed performance art of Gray's Anatomy to a...
Facts on File, 2002. — 480 p. This is the third and final entry on a single director in Facts On File's Great Filmmakers series. Welles created what many consider the finest film of all time, Citizen Kane. Readers of the book's entry on it may be surprised to learn that it was his first feature film, made when he was only 26! He was also responsible for that "most notorious of...
Grove Press, 2012. — 288 p. Newly discharged from the Marines after World War II, Scotty Bowers arrived in Hollywood in 1946. Young, charismatic, and strikingly handsome, he quickly caught the eye of many of the town’s stars and starlets. He began sleeping with some himself, and connecting others with his coterie of young, attractive, and sexually free-spirited friends. His own...
University of Illinois Press, 2009. - 158 p. Well known for his slapstick comedic style, Jerry Lewis has also delighted worldwide movie audiences with a directing career spanning five decades. One of American cinema's great innovators, Lewis made unmistakably personal films that often focused on an ideal masculine image and an anarchic, manic acting out of the inability to...
Transit Publishing, Inc., 2009. — 271 p. Language: English Ian Halperin, New York Times bestselling author of Unmasked: The Final Years of Michael Jackson, explores the relationship of the world's most famous celebrity couple with exclusive revelations and personal anecdotes. This Supercouple, unlike any other, consistently turns heads, rolls cameras, and delivers action. The...
I. B. Tauris, 2009. — 304 p. Language: English Clint Eastwood is one of the world’s most popular action stars, who has matured into one of America’s finest producer-directors. Entertaining, illuminating and packed with information, Aim for the Heart is the first book to cover his full life in the movies, showing how as both actor and filmmaker Eastwood aims for the heart of the...
Henry Holt and Co., 2018. — 544 p. — ISBN10: 1627794247; ISBN13: 978-1627794244. From New York Times culture reporter Dave Itzkoff, the definitive biography of Robin Williams – a compelling portrait of one of America’s most beloved and misunderstood entertainers. From his rapid-fire stand-up comedy riffs to his breakout role in Mork & Mindy and his Academy Award-winning...
Henry Holt and Co., 2018. — 544 p. — ISBN10: 1627794247; ISBN13: 978-1627794244. From New York Times culture reporter Dave Itzkoff, the definitive biography of Robin Williams – a compelling portrait of one of America’s most beloved and misunderstood entertainers. From his rapid-fire stand-up comedy riffs to his breakout role in Mork & Mindy and his Academy Award-winning...
University Press of Kentucky, 2006. - 344 p. At the age of twenty-five, Orson Welles (1915-1985) directed, co-wrote, and starred in Citizen Kane , widely regarded as the greatest film ever made. But Welles was such a revolutionary filmmaker that he found himself at odds with the Hollywood studio system. His work was so far ahead of its time that he never regained the wide...
University Press of Kentucky, 2011. - 482 p. Raoul Walsh (1887-1980) was known as one of Hollywood's most adventurous, iconoclastic, and creative directors. He carved out an illustrious career and made films that transformed the Hollywood studio yarn into a thrilling art form. Walsh belonged to that early generation of directors - along with John Ford and Howard Hawks - who...
Vintage Books, 1996. — 596 p. — ISBN: 978-0-307-78813-9. A sympathetic biography of one of the greatest actors in the English Cinema by a film critic who also makes a defence of the hero and his controversial choices like "Dirty Harry". To be read and compared with other works, not to mention checking out Clintwood films again.
Riva, 2015. — 200 S. Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill, Death Proof, Inglourious Basterds und Django Unchained: Mit nur sieben Filmen verpasste Quentin Tarantino dem US-amerikanischen Popcorn-Kino einen Adrenalinstoß wie kein zweiter Filmemacher. Hollywoods wüstes Wunderkind schuf sein eigenes Genre, das auf einem unwiderstehlichen Mix aus Filmzitaten,...
Thomas Dunne Books, 2016. — 288 p. Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner first crossed paths as actors on the set of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Little did they know that their next roles, in a new science fiction television series, would shape their lives in ways no one could have anticipated. In seventy-nine television episodes and six feature films, they grew to know each other more...
University of Illinois Press, 2012. - 182 p. John Sayles is the very paradigm of the contemporary independent filmmaker. By raising much of the funding for his films himself, Sayles functions more independently than most directors, and he has used his freedom to write and produce films with a distinctive personal style and often clearly expressed political positions. From The...
Grosset & Dunlap, 2009. — 106 p. Walt Disney always loved to entertain people. Often it got him into trouble. Once he painted pictures with tar on the side of his family's white house. His family was poor, and the happiest time of his childhood was spent living on a farm in Missouri. His affection for small-town life is reflected in Disneyland Main Streets around the world....
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