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Free Download Frank Sanello, "Reel V. Real: How Hollywood Turns Fact into Fiction"
English | 2002 | pages: 240 | ISBN: 0878332685 | EPUB | 9,3 mb
All too often, highly fictionalized cinematic depictions of the past are accepted as the unassailable truth by those unfamiliar with the "real" account. This book profiles sixty movies that portray actual moments in history, and compares the mythologized account of each event to what really happened. Movies chronicled include The Ten Commandments, Spartacus, A Man for All Seasons, Gladiator, Gandhi, Apollo 13, The Thin Red Line, Dances with Wolves, Braveheart, The Last Emperor, All the Presidents Men, Mutiny on the Bounty, Gone with the Wind, Bonnie & Clyde, Patton, and Elizabeth. Sanello also contrasts several historical figures with their filmed treatments, including Julius Caesar, Henry V, Christopher Columbus, Joan of Arc, Sir Thomas More, Jesus Christ, Catherine the Great, Sigmund Freud, and Harry Houdini. Lavishly illustrated with sixty film stills, Reel v. Real shows how a happening’s genuine details are frequently reshaped and distorted by Hollywood’s bottomless appetite for over-the-top flamboyance and melodrama.

Free Download Aaron Hunter, "Polly Platt: Hollywood Production Design and Creative Authorship"
English | ISBN: 3030821226 | 2021 | 240 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This book examines the career and creative labour of production designer Polly Platt. It focuses mainly on her contributions to 1970s Hollywood, but also considers her later work. Considering films such as The Last Picture Show, Paper Moon, The Bad News Bears, and The Witches of Eastwick, it argues that Platt’s construction of their visual palette and mise-en-scène was so creative and so comprehensive that it can be considered authorial. Chapters discuss Platt’s life and its influence on her work, her attention to detail, her role in location decisions and costume design, and her use of colour. An epilogue discusses her later career as a producer and her mentorship to young filmmakers like Cameron Crowe and Wes Anderson. This is the first full-length examination of the career of one of the women practitioners whose work was so important to 1970s cinema, and provides an alternative methodology to the auteur-driven framing that so regularly defines the era.

Free Download Melis Behlil, "Hollywood is Everywhere: Global Directors in the Blockbuster Era "
English | ISBN: 9089647392 | 2016 | 208 pages | PDF | 991 KB
Hollywood has a long tradition of bringing in emigre directors from around the world, dating back to the silent era. Today, as the film industry is ever more global, the people who make blockbuster movies seemingly reflect this tradition, hailing from many countries across the world. But that fact hides a fundamental difference, one that Melis Behlil examines in Hollywood is Everywhere: today’s Hollywood studios are themselves transnational, with ownership structures and financial arrangements that stretch far beyond the borders of the United States. Seen in that context, today’s international directors are less analogous to the emigre talent of the past than to ordinary transnational employees of other major global corporations.

Free Download Lara Herring, "Hollywood and China in the Post-postclassical Era "
English | ISBN: 1032506024 | 2024 | 244 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 4 MB
This book examines the contemporary relationship between Hollywood and China as case studies that help to define a new era in Hollywood film industry, style, and economics, which is termed the ‘post‑postclassical’ period.

Free Download Mark Masek, "Hollywood Forever Cemetery: The Unauthorized Guide"
English | 2011 | ASIN: B005AHNJ4M | EPUB | pages: 104 | 0.2 mb
For more than 100 years, Hollywood Forever Cemetery has been one of the premier burial locations for entertainment celebrities, studio executives and members of the Hollywood film community. Today, it’s one of the top tourist destinations for fans who want to pay their respects to their favorite stars. "Hollywood Forever Cemetery: The Unauthorized Guide" is the most complete and comprehensive directory to find the final burial locations for everyone from "The First Movie Star" to the most recent additions, along with detailed personal and professional biographies.

Free Download Virginia Luzón-Aguado, "Harrison Ford: Masculinity and Stardom in Hollywood"
English | ISBN: 1788310926 | 2020 | 328 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Harrison Ford is known for such iconic roles as Han Solo, Indiana Jones and Rick Deckard – but his career of 50 years (and counting) encompasses a plethora of other thought-provoking roles. His off-screen persona has been no less intriguing. Covering a wide timespan, this book assesses Harrison Ford as ‘star’ from the difficult Hollywood studio years where he began, his blockbusters of the 1980s, through to the impact of ageist culture on his artistry of recent years.

Free Download Will Scheibel, "Gene Tierney: Star of Hollywood’s Home Front "
English | ISBN: 0814348211 | 2022 | 267 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Gene Tierney may be one of the most recognizable faces of studio-era Hollywood: she starred in numerous classics, including Leave Her to Heaven, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, and Laura, with the latter featuring her most iconic role. While Tierney was considered one of the most beautiful women in Hollywood, she personified "ordinariness" both on- and off-screen. Tierney portrayed roles such as a pinup type, a wartime worker, a wife, a mother, and, finally, a psychiatric patient―the last of which may have hit close to home for her, as she would soon leave Hollywood to pursue treatment for mental illness and later attempted suicide in the 1950s. After her release from psychiatric clinics, Tierney sought a comeback as one of the first stars whose treatment for mental illness became public knowledge. In this book, Will Scheibel not only examines her promotion, publicity, and reception as a star but also offers an alternative history of the United States wartime efforts demonstrated through the arc of Tierney’s career as a star working on the home front. Scheibel’s analysis aims to showcase that Tierney was more than just "the most beautiful woman in movie history," as stated by the head of production at Twentieth Century Fox in the 1940s and 1950s. He does this through an examination of her making, unmaking, and remaking at Twentieth Century Fox, rediscovering what she means as a movie legend both in past and up to the present. Film studies scholars, film students, and those interested in Hollywood history and the legacy of Gene Tierney will be delighted by this read.

Free Download Doris Day confidential : Hollywood, sex and stardom By Day, Doris; Day, Doris; McDonald, Tamar Jeffers
2013 | 262 Pages | ISBN: 1848855826 | PDF | 28 MB
Doris Day was a major star during the 1950s and ’60s. Today, forty years after her last film, the star (who was ninety in April 2012) is often still invoked as shorthand for a kind of sexuality now felt outmoded, being typecast as ‘the forty year old virgin’. Close attention to the facts of Day’s own life (three times married) challenges this assumption and the majority of her film roles also prove otherwise, with Day most frequently portraying a woman of maturely sexual desires. How did such pejorative labeling arise, and why has it stuck so tenaciously to Day, even now?This book addresses these questions through closely examining Day’s characters and performances across her thirty-eight films and her TV work, as well as material from other popular media for the source of the virgin myth. It then focuses on contemporary popular culture contexts, using newspaper stories, articles from film, fan and lifestyle magazines, reviews and gossip to chart the developments in Day’s screen ‘persona’ are charted, highlighting the changes in public perception of the star of Calamity Jane, Love Me Or Leave Me and Pillow Talk as aided and abetted by the media.

Free Download Larry W. Poland PhD, "Chasm: Crossing the Divide Between Hollywood and People of Faith "
English | ISBN: 1630470643 | 2014 | 196 pages | EPUB | 1174 KB
Two different world-views. Two different sets of values. Hollywood and people of faith-two worlds in conflict and the chasm that exists between them.

Free Download Hollywood Hustle (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CP2TKB5M | 2024 | 8 hours and 1 minute | M4B@64 kbps | 226 MB
Author: Jon Lindstrom
Narrator: Jon Lindstrom