A good addition to a scant literature that includes Michael Pitts's Hollywood and American History (McFarland & Co., 1984) and George MacDonald Fraser's The Hollywood History of the World ( LJ 9/15/88). Movie Entertainment Book Club selection."Helps us to understand how Hollywood films shaped public consciousness about the past by cons
| Title | : | Bio/Pics: How Hollywood Constructed Public History (Studies) |
| Author | : | Professor George Custen |
| Rating | : | 4.87 (471 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0813517559 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 326Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-6-15 |
| Language | : | English |
A good addition to a scant literature that includes Michael Pitts's Hollywood and American History (McFarland & Co., 1984) and George MacDonald Fraser's The Hollywood History of the World ( LJ 9/15/88). Movie Entertainment Book Club selection.
"Helps us to understand how Hollywood films shaped public consciousness about the past by constructing a very specific, ideologically charged version of that past. Custen (communications, CUNY) explains why biographies of entertainers proliferated after World War II, how studio moguls fostered biographical narratives similar to their own rags-to-riches stories, and to what extent research departments affected veracity. Enhanced by charts, appendixes, notes, and references to approximately 300 movies from 1927 to 1960 (with additional material on the biopics' absorption by contemporary television), this volume analyzes biographical film production, distribution, and exhibition under the constraints of censorship, libel law, producer proclivities, and casting. His analysis of the roles played by star personae, legal considerations, censorship practices, and the producers' own ideologies brings the world of biopic alive, even into the age of the made-for-TV movie.. Essential for comprehensive film collections. A fresh and important contribution to film history and cultural studies.
The pictures are too small to make sense of, and the text too small to read, on my kindle screen. intelligence - it isn't angry or preachy. He asks me to read it nearly every night.. -Just wanted to add another five-star vote for this excellent anthology.-The NEJM review from 2002 does a fine job of summarizing the text so I won't add much here. And we have an opportunity as his readers to learn from his experiences, or at least to prepare ourselves for our own experiences.Seldom will you read a more honest, open, unabashedly human account of a person's journey toward spiritual maturity. So impenetrable, that the Wermacht just went around it! The mistake of the French, therefore, was not constructing the line (as many have argued), but assuming that it would ever be attacked. The book is now a bit dated, as it uses anti-tank defense in Western Europe as an exercise in the different levels of understanding war, but it remains an excellent treatise on how to think about war. Doable, affordable adventure is possible for the common person -- this is necessary, so start now -- and can well start on the top of your garage work bench. Field writes with such authority and conviction that at the end you are likely to be persuaded that human rights apply to the retarded in ways you never imagined. I love this story. The reason I'd think that way is because of top-down approach. Through advances in telemedicine technology the family phy
From Library Journal Enhanced by charts, appendixes, notes, and references to approximately 300 movies from 1927 to 1960 (with additional material on the biopics' absorption by contemporary television), this volume analyzes biographical film production, distribution, and exhibition under the constraints of censorship, libel law, producer proclivities, and casting. A good addition to a scant literature that includes Michael Pitts's Hollywood and American History (McFarland & Co., 1984) and George MacDonald Fraser's The Hollywood History of the World ( LJ 9/15/88). Essential for comprehensive film collections. Movie Entertainment Book Club selection.
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