poker-faced man and the unruffled woman echoed earlier cultural anxieties about “confidence men” and “painted women” in antebellum America. Much like the trickster figure of various folk cultures, the confidence man was the seducer who ...
However, the fact that films are made by a relatively small number of people, who, as the authors demonstrate, tend to share a common outlook, means that, over time, motion pictures have had an undeniable impact on the beliefs, lifestyles, ...
In this explosive book, one of the nation's best known film critics examines how Hollywood has broken faith with its public, creating movies, television, and popular music that exacerbate every serious social problem we face, from teenage ...
His cabinet are less than convinced by this about-face so he sacks them, Beekman suddenly and inexplicably becomes a military commander in a domestic army/police unit, and Hammond moves to suspend Congress because the threat to the ...
Fonda, Don't Tell Dad, 300; for more on Oates, see Susan Compo, Warren Oates:A Wild Life (Lexington: University Press ofKentucky, 2009). 29. On Peckinpah, see David Weddle, “If They Move. . . Kill 'Em!” The Life and Times ofSam ...
Most significantly, Hollywood Left and Right challenges the commonly held belief that Hollywood has always been a bastion of liberalism. The real story, as Ross demonstrates in this passionate and entertaining work, is far more complicated.
Stam, Robert. Introduction to Literature and Film: A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Film Adaptation, ed. Robert Stam and Alessandra Raengo. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004. Sterne, Stewart. No Tricks in My Pocket: Paul Newman Directs.
Here is history as only Gore Vidal can re-create it: brimming with intrigue and scandal, peopled by the greats of the silver screen and American politics.
5 See Jonathan Culler in Tony Bennett , ' Outside literature : Texts in History ' , in Keith Jeffries , ed . , The Postmodern History Reader ( Routledge : London and New York : 1997 ) , p . 219 . 6 John Shy , ' The Military Conflict as ...
Splendid vintage photographs from the renowned collections of the Hollywood Heritage Museum and Bison Archives illustrate Hollywood's businesses, homes, and residents during the silent-film era and immediately after, as the Great Depression ...